  
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.
To skip directly to a particular game, click on its title: |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| DavidW asks, "okay, another IntroComp perhaps?" | ||
| Roger says, "I think there's another one loaded in maybe" | ||
| DavidW says, "So I see ic15deprivation, ic15meld, and ic15voltagecafe uploaded." | ||
| DavidW says, "I know nothing about these, so I'll start the first of those" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask ic15deprivation" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/0 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Deprivation A Story of Obsession and Transferance by Michael Coorlim Floyd | IntroComp Floyd | distribution Floyd | Floyd | It's three A.M. on Monday the 12th, and you're still awake. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It... it wasn't a good weekend, in a way that doesn't really seem real Floyd | yet. Floyd | Like it's some nightmare you could wake up from if you could just get Floyd | to sleep. Floyd | But how can you sleep? There's got to be some way to fix things. Floyd | There has to Floyd | be. It can't end like this. You just have to, you know, figure out Floyd | what it Floyd | is, do that, and everything will be okay again. Like it used to be. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Then again you have to be at work in four hours, and you didn't really Floyd | get any Floyd | sleep last night, either. Maybe you should just try to get your mind Floyd | off Floyd | things? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Apartment Floyd | Floyd | Your studio apartment is lit by the soft ever-present glow of the city Floyd | lights Floyd | coming in through the window, flat-screen television set below the Floyd | sill to Floyd | avoid screen glare. For most of the year you've lived here, your Floyd | apartment has Floyd | [More] | Roger says, "Typo in the title is never a good sign" | |
| DavidW says, "I wonder why Floyd is formatting so oddly." | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [More] | ||
| Floyd says, "been little more than a place to store your things, so" | ||
Floyd | you don't have much in
Floyd | the way of furnishings... just the bed, a bookcase you found on the
Floyd | curb, and
Floyd | the scuffed coffee table next to it. North, past the door leading out
Floyd | to the
Floyd | building's hall, is the apartment's kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | On the coffee table you see your laptop, your coffee mug, and your
Floyd | cell phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Draconis says, "Ah, we start in Your Apartment..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/1 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are empty-handed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xme" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/2 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > XME Floyd | Floyd | (x me) Floyd | You're simply exhausted. You need sleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/3 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're simply exhausted. You need sleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So get on the bed? Sleep?" | |
| Roger says, "Sounds good to me" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get in bed" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment (on your bed) 0/4 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > GET IN BED Floyd | Floyd | You get on your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Yay" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment (on your bed) 0/5 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You toss and turn aimlessly. It's just no use, your mind is too Floyd | jumbled. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment (on your bed) 0/6 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | You think, therefore you are. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/7 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | Okay, you get off your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Some coffee would probably calm us down" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mug" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/8 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X MUG Floyd | Floyd | The mug's white ceramic is stained with coffee residue. It's been in Floyd | bad need Floyd | of a wash for a few days now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mug" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/9 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MUG Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/10 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your apartment's kitchen is fairly cramped. Your fridge is against Floyd | the north Floyd | wall next to the bathroom door, across from the counter containing the Floyd | sink Floyd | next to the oven. There's little under the counter, except for a Floyd | single Floyd | cramped cabinet. You'd probably cook more often if you had more Floyd | counterspace, Floyd | but you just get so frustrated when you try... there's barely enough Floyd | room for Floyd | the toaster and coffee machine. It's just easier to order out. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an overflowing trash bin here. Floyd | Floyd | In the kitchen sink you see some dishes. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter you see a coffee machine and a toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wash mug" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/11 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > WASH MUG Floyd | Floyd | You turn on the sink's faucet, turning the mug over in your hands as Floyd | the water Floyd | runs over it, scrubbing the insides with a sponge until the white Floyd | ceramic is Floyd | spotless. It makes you feel slightly better to have accomplished Floyd | something. Floyd | Briefly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wash dishes" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/12 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > WASH DISHES Floyd | Floyd | You clean your dirty dishes. It doesn't take very long, which was Floyd | more or less Floyd | the point of only having one of each dish. That, and making sure that Floyd | you Floyd | clean them regularly, though on that count it hasn't been quite as Floyd | successful. Floyd | When you're done, you put them neatly away in the cabinet under the Floyd | counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trash" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/13 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X TRASH Floyd | Floyd | Your trash bin is at that point where every time you throw something Floyd | away, Floyd | you're playing that delicate game where if you can balance it on top Floyd | of the Floyd | pile, you don't have to take it out yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take out trash" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/13 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE OUT TRASH Floyd | Floyd | You see no out trash here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take trash out" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/13 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TRASH OUT Floyd | Floyd | You see no trash out here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "compress trash" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/14 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > COMPRESS TRASH Floyd | Floyd | (press trash) Floyd | Pushing the overflowing trash bin has no effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I think it understands the 'bin'" | |
| DavidW says, "This game seems to have an autocorrect thing in it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/15 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Your fridge is an unappealing shade of lime green, and sounds like its Floyd | powered Floyd | by a lawn-mower engine. The door is closed, the way it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "If you don't like lime green fridges, WHY did you buy it?" | |
| Draconis says, "It was cheap, presumably." | ||
| DavidW says, "They offer choices at the fridge store. Honestly, they do." | ||
| Roger says, "Maybe it's a pre-furnished apartment" | ||
| Amber says, "I like the idea of lime green - can find it in near darkness." | ||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "oh right." | ||
| DavidW says, "I like green in a room in general, but perhaps other shades." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/16 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the fridge reveals a mostly empty mustard bottle, an empty egg Floyd | carton, Floyd | a wilted head of lettuce, an expired carton of milk, and a piece of Floyd | cake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cake" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/17 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X CAKE Floyd | Floyd | It's a piece of chocolate buttercream birthday cake wrapped in clear Floyd | plastic. Floyd | Just looking at it hits you with a pang of guilt and regret, which you Floyd | quickly Floyd | stuff down into a deep dark recess. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Yup, we suck" | |
| DavidW says, "Cake isn't supposed to make one unhappy." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat cake" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/18 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CAKE Floyd | Floyd | You hold the cake for a moment before deciding that no, you don't Floyd | deserve to Floyd | taste its chocolatey goodness. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "the heck we don't." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg carton" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/19 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X EGG CARTON Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the empty egg carton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg carton in trash bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/20 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PUT EGG CARTON IN TRASH BIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the empty egg carton) Floyd | You put the empty egg carton in the overflowing trash bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x milk" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/21 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X MILK Floyd | Floyd | The carton contains a thick sludge that may have once been milk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "empty milk" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/21 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > EMPTY MILK Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take milk" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/22 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MILK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour milk into sink" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/23 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > POUR MILK INTO SINK Floyd | Floyd | You can't pour the expired carton of milk anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put milk in trash bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/24 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MILK IN TRASH BIN Floyd | Floyd | You put the expired carton of milk in the overflowing trash bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lettuce" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/25 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X LETTUCE Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the wilted head of lettuce. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat lettuce" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/26 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > EAT LETTUCE Floyd | Floyd | You don't even care for lettuce when it's fresh. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm sure the lettuce didn't come with the apartment, player character." | |
| Roger says, "Maybe we killed the real owner and stuffed his body somewhere" | ||
| DavidW says, "If you don't like lettuce, you don't have to buy it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "yeah, maybe" | ||
| DavidW says, "We should definitely look under the bed" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put lettuce in trash bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/27 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LETTUCE IN TRASH BIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the wilted head of lettuce) Floyd | You put the wilted head of lettuce in the overflowing trash bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mustard" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/28 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X MUSTARD Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the mostly empty mustard bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mustard in trash bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/29 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MUSTARD IN TRASH BIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the mostly empty mustard bottle) Floyd | You put the mostly empty mustard bottle in the overflowing trash bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in fridge" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/30 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing interesting in the fridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat cake" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/31 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CAKE Floyd | Floyd | You hold the cake for a moment before deciding that no, you don't Floyd | deserve to Floyd | taste its chocolatey goodness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cake in fridge" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/32 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CAKE IN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You put the piece of cake in the fridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/33 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make coffee" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/33 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > MAKE COFFEE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the coffee machine or your coffee mug? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coffee machine" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/34 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X COFFEE MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | Your Keurig Vue V700 is about a foot tall, and almost as big around. Floyd | You like Floyd | it a lot better than your old coffee machine; it's capable of brewing Floyd | a much Floyd | stronger cup, has a wider temperature range, and best of all, the Vue Floyd | cups are Floyd | recyclable. Best birthday present ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mug in machine" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/35 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MUG IN MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | You can't put anything in the coffee machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toaster" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/36 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X TOASTER Floyd | Floyd | This is a simple two-slot toaster with a classic chrome design. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in toaster" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/37 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN TOASTER Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing interesting in the toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on coffee machine" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/38 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON COFFEE MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | The coffee machine can't be switched on and off. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What next? Check out the bathroom?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/39 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You have a cabinet under the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/40 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | Opening the cabinet reveals some dishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close cabinet" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/41 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE CABINET Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis heads back home. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/42 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the bathroom door) Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | Your bathroom is the smallest you've ever seen, as if its inclusion Floyd | was an Floyd | afterthought on the architect's part. The toilet is wedged in next to Floyd | the Floyd | shower stall in a space so small that you need to keep your legs Floyd | firmly Floyd | together when you sit on it. Oh, and get this: No sink. Floyd | Floyd | On the shower rod you see your towel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shower" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/42 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > X SHOWER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the shower drain, the shower rod, the shower stall, Floyd | or the Floyd | shower curtain? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stall" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/43 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > STALL Floyd | Floyd | The shower stall is built into the tiled bathroom corner. A clear Floyd | glass pane Floyd | forms the third wall, and the fourth, facing the door, is a shower Floyd | curtain. Floyd | There's a drain in the middle of the stall's floor, below the shower Floyd | head. Floyd | Controlling the water is a simple lever that you can turn towards the Floyd | temperature you desire, should you decide to take a shower. Sitting Floyd | on the Floyd | floor of the shower, in the back corner, are your shampoo, body wash, Floyd | and Floyd | loofah. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I suggest taking a shower?" | |
| DavidW says, "Might make us feel better." | ||
| Roger says, "With the toaster" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell shampoo" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/44 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL SHAMPOO Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of shampoo is not important. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Roger), "yeah, I noticed the lack of bread and pop tarts." | |
| Roger says, "Flail around a bit longer but I'm thinking we should abandon this unless something happens" | ||
| DavidW says, "And why isn't the smell of the shampoo important? I wanna know if my hair will smell like autumn or blueberries or coconut or tar or what." | ||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "I think we need to declutter our apartment as a metaphor for decluttering our mind. I might be reaching, but it's the only thing I can think of." | ||
| Roger says, "That may be so" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter stall" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom (in the shower stall) 0/45 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER STALL Floyd | Floyd | You get in the shower stall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom (in the shower stall) 0/46 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying your coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/47 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Okay, you get out of the shower stall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/48 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your apartment's kitchen is fairly cramped. Your fridge is against Floyd | the north Floyd | wall next to the bathroom door, across from the counter containing the Floyd | sink Floyd | next to the oven. There's little under the counter, except for a Floyd | single Floyd | cramped cabinet. You'd probably cook more often if you had more Floyd | counterspace, Floyd | but you just get so frustrated when you try... there's barely enough Floyd | room for Floyd | the toaster and coffee machine. It's just easier to order out. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an overflowing trash bin here. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter you see a coffee machine and a toaster. Floyd | Floyd | In the overflowing trash bin you see a wilted head of lettuce, a Floyd | mostly empty Floyd | mustard bottle, an expired carton of milk, and an empty egg carton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mug on counter" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/49 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MUG ON COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | You put your coffee mug on the kitchen counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/50 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | Your bathroom is the smallest you've ever seen, as if its inclusion Floyd | was an Floyd | afterthought on the architect's part. The toilet is wedged in next to Floyd | the Floyd | shower stall in a space so small that you need to keep your legs Floyd | firmly Floyd | together when you sit on it. Oh, and get this: No sink. Floyd | Floyd | On the shower rod you see your towel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shower" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom (in the shower stall) 0/51 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER SHOWER Floyd | Floyd | You get in the shower stall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close shower" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom (in the shower stall) 0/51 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE SHOWER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the shower drain, the shower rod, the shower stall, Floyd | or the Floyd | shower curtain? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stall" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom (in the shower stall) 0/52 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > STALL Floyd | Floyd | The shower stall is not something that can be closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drain" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom (in the shower stall) 0/53 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > X DRAIN Floyd | Floyd | It's a metal grate set into the shower's floor, about four or five Floyd | inches in Floyd | diameter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take shower" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom (in the shower stall) 0/54 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SHOWER Floyd | Floyd | You strip down, get into the shower, and turn the water on. It takes Floyd | a few Floyd | moments for the water to heat up and once it has you let the lukewarm Floyd | stream Floyd | run over your body, washing away the troubles and sweat of your Floyd | insomnia. For Floyd | a few minutes you just stand there, head resting against the wall, Floyd | washing the Floyd | water pool around your feet before going down the drain. When you're Floyd | able to Floyd | summon forth the motivation to continue, you use the shampoo to lather Floyd | up your Floyd | hair, then soap up your loofah and suds up the rest of your body. Floyd | Floyd | Somehow the rough texture of the loofah makes you feel cleaner, so you Floyd | scrub Floyd | hard until your flesh is red and raw. Then you rinse out your hair, Floyd | wash the Floyd | soap off your body, and turn off the water. You towel off and get Floyd | dressed Floyd | again, feeling somewhat better. Cleaner, at any rate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/55 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Okay, you get out of the shower stall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think that must've helped" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/56 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > X TOILET Floyd | Floyd | Your toilet is nudged into a very narrow alcove next to the shower Floyd | stall. It Floyd | was last cleaned not too long ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use toilet" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > USE TOILET Floyd | Floyd | I don't recognize the command USE, because it's a bit too vague; Floyd | please be more Floyd | specific about what you want to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on toilet" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom (on the toilet) 0/57 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON TOILET Floyd | Floyd | You get on the toilet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pee" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom (on the toilet) 0/58 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > PEE Floyd | Floyd | You don't have to go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/59 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | Okay, you get off the toilet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/60 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your apartment's kitchen is fairly cramped. Your fridge is against Floyd | the north Floyd | wall next to the bathroom door, across from the counter containing the Floyd | sink Floyd | next to the oven. There's little under the counter, except for a Floyd | single Floyd | cramped cabinet. You'd probably cook more often if you had more Floyd | counterspace, Floyd | but you just get so frustrated when you try... there's barely enough Floyd | room for Floyd | the toaster and coffee machine. It's just easier to order out. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an overflowing trash bin here. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter you see a coffee machine, your coffee mug, and Floyd | a Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | In the overflowing trash bin you see a wilted head of lettuce, a Floyd | mostly empty Floyd | mustard bottle, an expired carton of milk, and an empty egg carton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/61 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Your Apartment Floyd | Floyd | Your studio apartment is lit by the soft ever-present glow of the city Floyd | lights Floyd | coming in through the window, flat-screen television set below the Floyd | sill to Floyd | avoid screen glare. For most of the year you've lived here, your Floyd | apartment has Floyd | been little more than a place to store your things, so you don't have Floyd | much in Floyd | the way of furnishings... just the bed, a bookcase you found on the Floyd | curb, and Floyd | the scuffed coffee table next to it. North, past the door leading out Floyd | to the Floyd | building's hall, is the apartment's kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table you see your laptop and your cell phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/62 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest under your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No dead body there." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/63 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You feel fortunate that you have a window that looks out over some Floyd | greenery Floyd | rather than the same urban tableau your last place had. That greenery Floyd | happens Floyd | to be a municipal graveyard, but still. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on tv" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/64 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON TV Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch tv" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/65 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH TV Floyd | Floyd | An informercial is playing. Apparently some people are having extreme Floyd | difficulties with common household tasks. If only there were a better Floyd | way! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Robot butler!" | |
| DavidW says, "Monkey robot bulter!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Monkey pirate zombie robot butler!" | ||
| Roger says, "Sloth! The sin, not the mammal." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "change channel" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/66 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE CHANNEL Floyd | Floyd | You idly flip channels for awhile until you get to something that Floyd | looks Floyd | interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch tv" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/67 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH TV Floyd | Floyd | You've seen this movie before, but it's a good one, and you're tuning Floyd | in at one Floyd | of the more interesting parts. You follow the protagonists efforts to Floyd | resolve Floyd | his dramatic need with growing anticipation, forgetting some of your Floyd | own Floyd | problems in the process. It's like, it puts things into perspective Floyd | for you, Floyd | you know? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/68 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You've seen this movie before, but it's a good one, and you're tuning Floyd | in at one Floyd | of the more interesting parts. You follow the protagonists efforts to Floyd | resolve Floyd | his dramatic need with growing anticipation, forgetting some of your Floyd | own Floyd | problems in the process. It's like, it puts things into perspective Floyd | for you, Floyd | you know? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off tv" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/69 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF TV Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bookcase" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/70 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKCASE Floyd | Floyd | For a piece of furniture you found on the curb last trash-day, it's in Floyd | surprisingly good condition. In the bookcase you see Descent Floyd | Macabre, Ten Floyd | Thousand Devils, Grief, Follow Your Heart, Floyd | Heavy Cross, The Island on the Edge Floyd | of Forever, Tangled Temptations, and The Wind Floyd | Could Blow a Bug. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't like this choice of books." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read follow your heart" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/71 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > READ FOLLOW YOUR HEART Floyd | Floyd | Adrian straightened, his desire to leave evaporating despite the Floyd | awkward Floyd | situation. The glazenwright was beautiful, with a delicate oval Floyd | face, high Floyd | cheekbones and a small, straight nose. He knew he was staring, Floyd | but didn't want Floyd | to stop. There was something compelling about this woman aside Floyd | from her lovely Floyd | face, which was all he could see. Her heavy, serviceable black Floyd | cloak and Floyd | headdress concealed the rest. Floyd | Her expression captured him. Not the simpering moue of Floyd | court women, nor Floyd | the lustful gleam of barmaids or the respectful, downcast eyes of Floyd | servants. Floyd | She radiated a quiet confidence he found enticing. Floyd | Their gazes met and locked. Hers conveyed curiosity and Floyd | mayhap a Floyd | challenge. He couldn't tell if she recognized him or what she'd Floyd | gleaned of his Floyd | relationship with Lady Anne. Surely she'd be appalled if she Floyd | knew. After a Floyd | long moment, she looked away. Floyd | Floyd | You can't remember the last time someone looked at you like that. No Floyd | wait, you Floyd | can. And that makes it worse. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Mayhap if you had a front door, you'd get out more." | |
| DavidW says, "Unless that door is here." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/72 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | It's kinda late at night to go wandering the streets aimlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x graveyard" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/73 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X GRAVEYARD Floyd | Floyd | By day, St. Phillip's Cemetery is a landscape of beautiful green Floyd | lawns and Floyd | well-spaced headstones criss-crossed by neat gravel paths. At night, Floyd | it looks Floyd | far more dark and foreboding, lit only by sporadically spaced lights Floyd | that Floyd | illuminate only the paths immediately around them, leaving the Floyd | gravestones as Floyd | dark shapes lurking in darkness. They seem to do a better job Floyd | illuminating Floyd | your apartment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x laptop" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/74 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X LAPTOP Floyd | Floyd | Your laptop was a birthday present. More-so than your phone, it Floyd | serves as your Floyd | connection to the world outside your apartment. Mostly, you use it to Floyd | check Floyd | your email and browse the web. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on laptop" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/75 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LAPTOP Floyd | Floyd | Your laptop can't be switched on and off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read email" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/76 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > READ EMAIL Floyd | Floyd | Unable to stop yourself, you spend half an hour pouring over dozens of Floyd | increasingly passionate and disjointed emails, tracking the emotional Floyd | journey Floyd | from loving and hopeful to bitter and resented. They tell a story Floyd | within-a- Floyd | story, and you do your best to analyze each line, each phrase, each Floyd | word for Floyd | deeper meaning, for clues as to their sender's true mental state. You Floyd | hope to Floyd | find something that you missed, something to give you insight into the Floyd | writers' Floyd | current mental space, but in the end all you find is heart-wrenching Floyd | despair. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "This guy's got problems" | |
| DavidW says, "Or gal." | ||
| Roger says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't had a sense of gender from the protagonist yet." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "masturbate" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/76 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > MASTURBATE Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "There's the choice of novels, I guess" | |
| DavidW asks, "Are they real books?" | ||
| Roger says, "I really hope not" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "browse web" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/77 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > BROWSE WEB Floyd | Floyd | You bring up your browser and start visiting your favorite web-sites Floyd | and Floyd | forums. Floyd | Floyd | After a few clicks you find yourself reading an internet post: Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The most important thing you need to understand is that it's over. Floyd | You need to Floyd | remind yourself over and over again in the aftermath. This is the Floyd | most Floyd | difficult lesson to learn, yet is the foundation for your entire Floyd | recovery. You Floyd | cannot move on until you accept this basic fact. The best thing Floyd | you can do is Floyd | to try and live yourself normally, except for the parts that Floyd | aren't part of it Floyd | any more... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You know? This makes you feel a little better. Or, at least, a Floyd | little more Floyd | hopeful. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Maybe we're a visiting ghos" | |
| DavidW says, "oh. You mean we died, we" | ||
| DavidW says, "We're a ghost, and we gotta get to that cemetary." | ||
| DavidW says, "That's possible, I suppose." | ||
| DavidW says, "Although how a ghost can take a shower is beyond me." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm annoyed there's a coffee mug and a coffee maker and no obvious way to make coffee." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/78 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your apartment's kitchen is fairly cramped. Your fridge is against Floyd | the north Floyd | wall next to the bathroom door, across from the counter containing the Floyd | sink Floyd | next to the oven. There's little under the counter, except for a Floyd | single Floyd | cramped cabinet. You'd probably cook more often if you had more Floyd | counterspace, Floyd | but you just get so frustrated when you try... there's barely enough Floyd | room for Floyd | the toaster and coffee machine. It's just easier to order out. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an overflowing trash bin here. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter you see a coffee machine, your coffee mug, and Floyd | a Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | In the overflowing trash bin you see a wilted head of lettuce, a Floyd | mostly empty Floyd | mustard bottle, an expired carton of milk, and an empty egg carton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "brew coffee" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/78 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > BREW COFFEE Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill mug" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/79 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > FILL MUG Floyd | Floyd | (kill mug) Floyd | It's best to avoid pointless violence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take out the trash" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/79 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE OUT THE TRASH Floyd | Floyd | You see no out the trash here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take trash" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/80 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TRASH Floyd | Floyd | 'Don't spill the trash' may be a solitary game now, but you're not Floyd | ready to Floyd | admit defeat. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, what?" | |
| DavidW asks, "The trash has to spill over before we can take it? Is that the issue?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/81 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Your Apartment Floyd | Floyd | Your studio apartment is lit by the soft ever-present glow of the city Floyd | lights Floyd | coming in through the window, flat-screen television set below the Floyd | sill to Floyd | avoid screen glare. For most of the year you've lived here, your Floyd | apartment has Floyd | been little more than a place to store your things, so you don't have Floyd | much in Floyd | the way of furnishings... just the bed, a bookcase you found on the Floyd | curb, and Floyd | the scuffed coffee table next to it. North, past the door leading out Floyd | to the Floyd | building's hall, is the apartment's kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In the bookcase you see Descent Macabre, Ten Thousand Floyd | Devils, Grief, Follow Floyd | Your Heart, Heavy Cross, The Island on the Edge Floyd | of Forever, Tangled Floyd | Temptations, and The Wind Could Blow a Bug. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table you see your laptop and your cell phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/82 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It's so weird how in only a few years the expectation became one of Floyd | everybody Floyd | having a smart-phone. Well, you don't. Just an old clam-shell Floyd | without a Floyd | touchscreen or internet access. Then again, the battered casing is Floyd | testament Floyd | to how often you can drop the damn thing without it breaking. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Still, you can use it to send and read texts or call people, and what Floyd | more do Floyd | you really need? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call mom" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/82 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > CALL MOM Floyd | Floyd | You see no mom here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "phone home" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/82 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > PHONE HOME Floyd | Floyd | You see no home here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on phone" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/83 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Your cell phone can't be switched on and off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call people" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/83 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > CALL PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | You see no people here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call friend" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/83 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > CALL FRIEND Floyd | Floyd | You see no friend here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open phone" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/84 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Your cell phone is not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read texts" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/85 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > READ TEXTS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | STOP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | One word. Four letters. All caps. It says so much with so little. Floyd | A little Floyd | red-hot blade slipping right into your heart. You can't read any Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "never date an allcapser" | |
| Roger says, "Or someone who sends old-timey telegraphs" | ||
| Roger says, "err telegrams" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we could try reading more of these awful books. Or putting the books into the trash." | ||
| DavidW says, "This game is trying to make the PC suicidal, and I don't like that." | ||
| Roger says, "At least there might be an interesting puzzle in that" | ||
| DavidW says, "If we could just have coffee and cake and talk to a friend, we might be okay." | ||
| Amber says, "ClubFloyd makes IF like this more exciting." | ||
| Roger says, "As an Introcomp, it might not really have any ending" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wish this apartment had something for expressing creativity. The PC could draw, write, make music." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/85 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/85 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exercise" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/85 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > EXERCISE Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "do yoga" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/86 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > DO YOGA Floyd | Floyd | You're not talking to anyone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/87 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | (cogitate) Floyd | You think, therefore you are. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. Close enough." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/88 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | For a piece of furniture you found on the curb last trash-day, it's in Floyd | surprisingly good condition. In the bookcase you see Descent Floyd | Macabre, Ten Floyd | Thousand Devils, Grief, Follow Your Heart, Floyd | Heavy Cross, The Island on the Edge Floyd | of Forever, Tangled Temptations, and The Wind Floyd | Could Blow a Bug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read bug" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/89 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > READ BUG Floyd | Floyd | Wade's hand felt hot in Jane's as he guided her down the dirt path Floyd | behind the Floyd | bar that led into the woods. The moonless night gave no Floyd | indication of where Floyd | they were headed. She was alternating between fear and Floyd | excitement. She felt Floyd | the hard packed dirt beneath her shoes. If Wade Tucker was a Floyd | serial killer, Floyd | she was sure she would have heard about it by now. Floyd | Unless, of course, she hadn't because he had silenced all Floyd | his victims. Floyd | "Where are we going?" Floyd | "Like I told you, to cool off." Floyd | With that, they turned a corner, emerging from the woods. Floyd | A far off Floyd | yard light could be seen shining on the other end of the lake Floyd | before them. Floyd | "You ever been skinny dippin'?" The drop in his voice when Floyd | he said the Floyd | words sent a tremor down Jane's spine. Floyd | Floyd | You stop reading. You'd thought Shannon had taken all of her books Floyd | with her. Floyd | Looks like she missed this one. Maybe... maybe she'll have to come Floyd | back and Floyd | get it, once she notices its absence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call shannon" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/90 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > CALL SHANNON Floyd | Floyd | (first taking your cell phone) Floyd | You call your ex and leave a voicemail, immediately regretting it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read devils" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/91 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > READ DEVILS Floyd | Floyd | The sun was a blade of red on the western horizon and the sky was Floyd | magic purple Floyd | when he heard the distant slap of gunshots to the north-northeast, Floyd | about a mile Floyd | out. A cartwheel of stars peppered overhead, casting diamonds Floyd | from south to Floyd | north, almost drawing a line to his destination. Floyd | Sawyer threw down the fishbones he was sucking and wriggled Floyd | into the top Floyd | of his neosuit, strapping on his vest as he walked, carrying his Floyd | pistol in his Floyd | mouth. When he was fully kitted he ran full-tilt through the Floyd | marsh, the Floyd | revolver in one fist, sawgrass beating against his armored chest Floyd | and legs. Floyd | Floyd | A full hour slips away while you get lost in the engrossing book. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I can't see apartment-guy running through a marsh with a pistol in his mouth." | |
| escapecage goes home. | DavidW says, "(Or going north-northeast, for that matter.)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read grief" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/92 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > READ GRIEF Floyd | Floyd | The riot swept through the city, organic, driven by the carnal Floyd | urge to possess, Floyd | to control, to destroy. This was its third day of existence, its Floyd | third day of Floyd | life, scouring streets with the hunger of an ant colony. Those Floyd | who it swept Floyd | over either fell to its fury or succumbed to the rising anxiety, Floyd | the mounting Floyd | dread, the directionless frustration that fueled it, becoming part Floyd | of its Floyd | strength, replacing the parts of it that had worn out or had been Floyd | overcome by Floyd | futility. Floyd | Officer Lange braced herself against the mob, standing Floyd | side-by-side, Floyd | shield by shield with her fellow officers. Their high-impact Floyd | polymer barriers Floyd | held firm against the crush, the roiling beast buffing up against Floyd | the wall Floyd | created to channel it, to guide it. The police lacked the Floyd | manpower to stop it, Floyd | to even begin to contain it, so they did they best they could to Floyd | send it where Floyd | it could do the least amount of damage. Floyd | Again and again the shield-wall shuddered, threatening to Floyd | give. Lange Floyd | found herself gritting and leaning into each impact even as her Floyd | boots' traction Floyd | started to give against the asphalt. For a terrifying moment she Floyd | felt herself Floyd | slipping. A firm hand from behind shored her up, gripping her by Floyd | the elbows. Floyd | Floyd | It's a book about monumental loss on a planetary scale. Why did you Floyd | subject Floyd | yourself to that? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/93 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | For a piece of furniture you found on the curb last trash-day, it's in Floyd | surprisingly good condition. In the bookcase you see Descent Floyd | Macabre, Ten Floyd | Thousand Devils, Grief, Follow Your Heart, Floyd | Heavy Cross, The Island on the Edge Floyd | of Forever, Tangled Temptations, and The Wind Floyd | Could Blow a Bug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read forever" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/94 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > READ FOREVER Floyd | Floyd | Asha slipped off her thin shirt and took some time to admire the Floyd | sky, which was Floyd | growing clearer by the minute. Even though the constellations Floyd | were foreign to Floyd | her, they still comforted her somehow. And once she had removed Floyd | the last of Floyd | her clothes and placed her wristcomm safely under them, she Floyd | noticed how Floyd | comforting the warm breeze was. She had never been to a world Floyd | where the air Floyd | itself caressed her in a loving embrace, even in the middle of the Floyd | night. Floyd | She dipped her toe into the water and found it to be Floyd | remarkably warm. Floyd | With each step, her body went deeper into the womb-like Floyd | environment of the warm Floyd | pond, and soon the water was up to her shoulders. She wiped some Floyd | dirt off of Floyd | her wrist and hugged herself. Floyd | Floyd | A hug. When was the last time you got a hug? How long has it been Floyd | since Floyd | you've had any casual yet intimate human contact? A kiss? A slight Floyd | touch of Floyd | the hand? God, it hurts. Why do the most innocuous things hurt you Floyd | so? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hug me" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/94 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > HUG ME Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, there you go. You gotta be able to give hugs to get hugs." | |
| DavidW says, "Someone else play around with this. I need a coffee, even if mopey can't have one." | ||
| Roger says, "FINE" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/95 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Your Apartment Floyd | Floyd | Your studio apartment is lit by the soft ever-present glow of the city Floyd | lights Floyd | coming in through the window, flat-screen television set below the Floyd | sill to Floyd | avoid screen glare. For most of the year you've lived here, your Floyd | apartment has Floyd | been little more than a place to store your things, so you don't have Floyd | much in Floyd | the way of furnishings... just the bed, a bookcase you found on the Floyd | curb, and Floyd | the scuffed coffee table next to it. North, past the door leading out Floyd | to the Floyd | building's hall, is the apartment's kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In the bookcase you see Descent Macabre, Ten Thousand Floyd | Devils, Grief, Follow Floyd | Your Heart, Heavy Cross, The Island on the Edge Floyd | of Forever, Tangled Floyd | Temptations, and The Wind Could Blow a Bug. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table you see your laptop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/96 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Your front door is bevelled wood painted white, fairly plain, lacking Floyd | in a Floyd | peephole. It leads out out to the third floor landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/97 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open the front door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/98 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | It's kinda late at night to go wandering the streets aimlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/99 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Your Apartment Floyd | Floyd | Your studio apartment is lit by the soft ever-present glow of the city Floyd | lights Floyd | coming in through the window, flat-screen television set below the Floyd | sill to Floyd | avoid screen glare. For most of the year you've lived here, your Floyd | apartment has Floyd | been little more than a place to store your things, so you don't have Floyd | much in Floyd | the way of furnishings... just the bed, a bookcase you found on the Floyd | curb, and Floyd | the scuffed coffee table next to it. North, past the door leading out Floyd | to the Floyd | building's hall, is the apartment's kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In the bookcase you see Descent Macabre, Ten Thousand Floyd | Devils, Grief, Follow Floyd | Your Heart, Heavy Cross, The Island on the Edge Floyd | of Forever, Tangled Floyd | Temptations, and The Wind Could Blow a Bug. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table you see your laptop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/100 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Your front door is bevelled wood painted white, fairly plain, lacking Floyd | in a Floyd | peephole. It leads out out to the third floor landing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/101 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your apartment's kitchen is fairly cramped. Your fridge is against Floyd | the north Floyd | wall next to the bathroom door, across from the counter containing the Floyd | sink Floyd | next to the oven. There's little under the counter, except for a Floyd | single Floyd | cramped cabinet. You'd probably cook more often if you had more Floyd | counterspace, Floyd | but you just get so frustrated when you try... there's barely enough Floyd | room for Floyd | the toaster and coffee machine. It's just easier to order out. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an overflowing trash bin here. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter you see a coffee machine, your coffee mug, and Floyd | a Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | In the overflowing trash bin you see a wilted head of lettuce, a Floyd | mostly empty Floyd | mustard bottle, an expired carton of milk, and an empty egg carton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "empty bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/101 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > EMPTY BIN Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/102 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BIN Floyd | Floyd | 'Don't spill the trash' may be a solitary game now, but you're not Floyd | ready to Floyd | admit defeat. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to put more stuff into the bin." | |
| Roger says (to floyd), "x oven" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/103 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/104 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Your Apartment Floyd | Floyd | Your studio apartment is lit by the soft ever-present glow of the city Floyd | lights Floyd | coming in through the window, flat-screen television set below the Floyd | sill to Floyd | avoid screen glare. For most of the year you've lived here, your Floyd | apartment has Floyd | been little more than a place to store your things, so you don't have Floyd | much in Floyd | the way of furnishings... just the bed, a bookcase you found on the Floyd | curb, and Floyd | the scuffed coffee table next to it. North, past the door leading out Floyd | to the Floyd | building's hall, is the apartment's kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In the bookcase you see Descent Macabre, Ten Thousand Floyd | Devils, Grief, Follow Floyd | Your Heart, Heavy Cross, The Island on the Edge Floyd | of Forever, Tangled Floyd | Temptations, and The Wind Could Blow a Bug. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table you see your laptop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/105 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | You take Heavy Cross, Tangled Temptations, The Floyd | Wind Could Blow a Bug, The Floyd | Island on the Edge of Forever, Ten Thousand Devils, Floyd | Descent Macabre, Grief, Floyd | Follow Your Heart, and your laptop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take book" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/106 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The bookcase is too heavy to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take heavy" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/107 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HEAVY Floyd | Floyd | You're already holding Heavy Cross. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | Your Apartment 0/108 Floyd | Exits: north out Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying Descent Macabre, Ten Thousand Floyd | Devils, Grief, Follow Your Floyd | Heart, your laptop, Heavy Cross, your cell phone, Floyd | The Island on the Edge of Floyd | Forever, Tangled Temptations, and The Wind Could Floyd | Blow a Bug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/109 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your apartment's kitchen is fairly cramped. Your fridge is against Floyd | the north Floyd | wall next to the bathroom door, across from the counter containing the Floyd | sink Floyd | next to the oven. There's little under the counter, except for a Floyd | single Floyd | cramped cabinet. You'd probably cook more often if you had more Floyd | counterspace, Floyd | but you just get so frustrated when you try... there's barely enough Floyd | room for Floyd | the toaster and coffee machine. It's just easier to order out. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an overflowing trash bin here. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter you see a coffee machine, your coffee mug, and Floyd | a Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | In the overflowing trash bin you see a wilted head of lettuce, a Floyd | mostly empty Floyd | mustard bottle, an expired carton of milk, and an empty egg carton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "put all in bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/110 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ALL IN BIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't put anything in itself. Floyd | The empty egg carton is already in the overflowing trash bin. Floyd | The expired carton of milk is already in the overflowing trash bin. Floyd | The wilted head of lettuce is already in the overflowing trash bin. Floyd | The mostly empty mustard bottle is already in the overflowing trash Floyd | bin. Floyd | toaster: (first trying to take the toaster) Floyd | Leave the toaster where it is. Nine out of ten Feng Shui experts Floyd | agree that Floyd | the best place for a toaster is on the kitchen counter. The tenth has Floyd | been Floyd | going through a rough patch. Floyd | coffee machine: (first trying to take the coffee machine) Floyd | While the Keurig Vue V700 coffee machine is very portable at a mere 13 Floyd | pounds, Floyd | it does require to be plugged in to function. The counter is the best Floyd | place Floyd | for it. Floyd | (first taking your coffee mug) Floyd | You put your cell phone, Heavy Cross, Tangled Floyd | Temptations, The Wind Could Blow Floyd | a Bug, The Island on the Edge of Forever, Ten Floyd | Thousand Devils, Descent Macabre, Floyd | Grief, Follow Your Heart, your laptop, and your Floyd | coffee mug in the overflowing Floyd | trash bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Sweet" | |
| Roger says (to floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/111 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | Your bathroom is the smallest you've ever seen, as if its inclusion Floyd | was an Floyd | afterthought on the architect's part. The toilet is wedged in next to Floyd | the Floyd | shower stall in a space so small that you need to keep your legs Floyd | firmly Floyd | together when you sit on it. Oh, and get this: No sink. Floyd | Floyd | On the shower rod you see your towel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/112 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | Forget your towel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says, "..floyd" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/113 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your apartment's kitchen is fairly cramped. Your fridge is against Floyd | the north Floyd | wall next to the bathroom door, across from the counter containing the Floyd | sink Floyd | next to the oven. There's little under the counter, except for a Floyd | single Floyd | cramped cabinet. You'd probably cook more often if you had more Floyd | counterspace, Floyd | but you just get so frustrated when you try... there's barely enough Floyd | room for Floyd | the toaster and coffee machine. It's just easier to order out. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an overflowing trash bin here. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen counter you see a coffee machine and a toaster. Floyd | Floyd | In the overflowing trash bin you see Ten Thousand Devils, Floyd | Descent Macabre, The Floyd | Island on the Edge of Forever, The Wind Could Blow a Floyd | Bug, your laptop, Grief, Floyd | Follow Your Heart, your coffee mug, an expired carton of Floyd | milk, a wilted head of Floyd | lettuce, an empty egg carton, Tangled Temptations, Heavy Floyd | Cross, a mostly empty Floyd | mustard bottle, and your cell phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "can we take the bin now?" | |
| Roger says (to floyd), "take bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/114 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BIN Floyd | Floyd | 'Don't spill the trash' may be a solitary game now, but you're not Floyd | ready to Floyd | admit defeat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "close bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/115 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BIN Floyd | Floyd | The overflowing trash bin is not something that can be closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "push bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/116 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BIN Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the overflowing trash bin has no effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "enter bin" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/117 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER BIN Floyd | Floyd | The overflowing trash bin is not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's cake in the fridge and dishes in the counter." | |
| Roger says (to floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/118 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the fridge reveals a piece of cake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take the cake" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/119 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE THE CAKE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "dishes" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/119 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > DISHES Floyd | Floyd | I don't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take dishes" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/119 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DISHES Floyd | Floyd | You see no dishes here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x sink" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/120 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | It's a simple basin kitchen sink, shiny and chrome. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x counter" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/121 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | Your kitchen counters are a mess, stained with coffee, drabs of spilt Floyd | milk, and Floyd | various other food stains. It's been days since you | Roger says, "uh oh" | |
| Roger pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/122 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sorry, the dishes are in the cabinet." | |
| Roger says (to floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/123 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET | ||
| Roger pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/124 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take dishes" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/125 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DISHES | DavidW says, "uh-oh" | |
| Roger says (to floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/126 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > I | Roger says, "Sorry I think I broke it" | |
| Roger says, "OH WELL" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've never seen a game break like this before." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean counter" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/127 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN COUNTER | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x counter" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen 0/128 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X COUNTER | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom 0/129 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > N | DavidW says, "gee. I dunno what to do about this except quit and admit defeat." | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe sleepmask is doing bad things. We could restart without it." | ||
| Roger says, "I don't care too much in any direction" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > N Floyd | > QUIT | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd | cheaptads quit with exit status: 0
| ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW asks, "Do we? Want to play another? Or are we done?" | |
| Amber says, "I would enjoy more." | ||
| Roger says, "I could probably stand another" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "list i" | ||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "i-0 ic02atwitsendagain ic02deadman ic02genie ic02heyjingo ic02madrigal ic02maintenanceman ic02praxis ic02virus ic02waterhouse ic03agency ic03harlequin ic03harringtonhouse ic03realitysend ic03statue ic04audenseden ic04betsabet ic04gauss ic04jabberwocky ic04onthecross ic04passenger ic04runes ic05deadsville ic05foxdragonbread ic05griswold ic05hobbit ic05negotis ic05somewhen ic05weishauptscholars ic06artofdeception ic06childsplay ic06mechs ic06nothingbutmazes ic06sabotage ic06southerngothic ic06unyieldingfury ic07folkarstation ic07jackinthebox ic07jacobstravels ic07shredspatches ic07threeprinces ic07tin ic07trainstopping ic08bedtimestory ic08bloodyguns ic08fiendishzoo ic08ninetenths ic08phoenixslanding ic08stormcellar ic09gossip ic09obituary ic09selves ic10closedcircles ic10cryptozookeeper ic10fangvsclaw ic10flooby ic10mementomoratori ic10plan6 ic10touristtrap ic10waker ic13chickensexer ic13first ic13whathappened ic14cuckold ic14cuckolds ic14hornets ic14scrollthief ic14soulthief ic14terrible ic15beyonddivision ic15deprivation ic15meld ic15voltagecafe ifdb2beta ifdb2beta1 ifdb2beta2 ifwhispers5 immportal inamanorofspeaking inanimator indigo inerebus infidel informat inherit inhumane inmemory insight insomnia intangible intro14devil intro14scroll invisargo invisibleparties itseasterpeeps" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask ic15meld" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Ah, this must be Tiamont Plaza. And over there is Rowena's Coffee
Floyd | House. Hopefully you're not late.
Floyd |
Floyd | This morning you received a note (pushed under your door like your
Floyd | life has suddenly become a spy movie) asking you to come here
Floyd | regarding your sister. Who has been dead for four years as of today.
Floyd |
Floyd | Press any key...
| DavidW says, "Maybe we'll get coffee this time!" | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 1 Floyd | Floyd | Meld Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by David Whyld Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150730 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north (though blocked by a large gate) is Morring Row, south is Floyd | Belmont Avenue, southeast is a winding path between tall buildings, Floyd | west lies Rowena's Coffee House and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "We can dream a little dream" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 2 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUE Floyd | Floyd | A once impressive statue, though now rather worn, of the famed Floyd | historian Willem Wildemore, one hand raised as he delivers his classic Floyd | Believe My Words speech. The locals have defaced it with Floyd | graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 3 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRAFFITI Floyd | Floyd | Badly written and illegible in parts. You're probably better off not Floyd | wasting too much time on this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 4 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Your name is Arianah Charles, you're 25 years old and you can meld. Floyd | You used to work in finance but since you discovered what you are, Floyd | employment is no longer necessary. You're single and likely to remain Floyd | so for the foreseeable future; when you can do the things you can do, Floyd | it's not a good idea to get too close to people. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can 'meld'. That sounds odd." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 5 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a note Floyd | an ID card Floyd | some lipstick Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | This was pushed under your door this morning. It simply tells you to Floyd | go to Rowena's Coffee House on Tiamont Plaza, find an empty booth and Floyd | wait there. Someone will contact you then. Floyd | Floyd | Now, normally you'd have assumed this was some kind of practical joke Floyd | by the neighbourhood kids and just thrown it in the trash, but it also Floyd | mentioned your sister. Who has been dead for four years. And today, of Floyd | all days, is her birthday. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x id card" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 7 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ID CARD Floyd | Floyd | A piece of laminated card which fits neatly into your palm and lists Floyd | your name, age, sex, address and the fact that you are 'clean' (i.e. Floyd | not a wanted felon). Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "At least we're not named Imelda" | |
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I say we go into said coffee house and sit in a booth and enjoy the smell of brewed coffee." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 8 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I am in favour" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 9 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Cosy Booth Floyd | A cramped and not altogether pleasant booth, though you guess in this Floyd | kind of establishment you're not paying for quality so much as cheap Floyd | coffee. The booth has been defaced more times than you care to count, Floyd | though some of the graffiti is quite amusing. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave the booth to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 11 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRAFFITI Floyd | Floyd | It mainly involves the city council and the people in charge. It Floyd | features a goat, a nun's outfit and... well, you might be better off Floyd | not reading the rest of it. Floyd | Floyd | You hear footsteps from outside the booth and a man hurries in after Floyd | you, looks around nervously, and says, "I don't think I was followed Floyd | but it doesn't pay to be careless. The stakes are high, after all." Floyd | Floyd | "Are you the man who sent me the note?" Floyd | Floyd | "Me? Heavens no! That was my associate. I'm just a, um, intermediary Floyd | you might say. Miss Charles, I'm led to believe you are a most unusual Floyd | individual possessing an ability some believe to be impossible. My Floyd | associate wishes me to observe a demonstration of this ability so he Floyd | can note your... um... worth." Floyd | Floyd | "I don't do demonstrations, Mr...?" Floyd | Floyd | "Frobisher. Hans Frobisher. And I believe in this instance, Miss Floyd | Charles, you might be willing to make such a demonstration. It Floyd | involves your sister." Floyd | Floyd | Your breath catches in your throat. "My sister is dead." Floyd | Floyd | "Are you quite certain of that?" Floyd | Floyd | Which is a strange question because yes, you're very certain. You were Floyd | there when she died. It's not the sort of thing you'd be mistaken Floyd | about. "What do you know about my sister?" Floyd | Floyd | "First the demonstration, if you will. My associate was very firm on Floyd | that. Here." He hands you a ring. "See what you can make of this." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ring" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 12 Floyd | > Floyd | > X RING Floyd | Floyd | A plain brass ring, worn by the passage of many years. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld ring" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 13 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD RING Floyd | Floyd | Your head aches but nothing else seems to happen. You get the distinct Floyd | feeling you're doing it wrong. Something is missing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber says, "Maybe we need more coffee." | |
| DavidW asks, "I suppose we meld two things together?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lipstick" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 14 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | Shockingly red and not your thing at all. You must have bought it Floyd | without thinking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld ring to note" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 14 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD RING TO NOTE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to meld the ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I'm reminded of Shadowrun in a not-unpleasant way" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 14 Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not sure what to do." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ear" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 14 Floyd | > Floyd | > X EAR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub ring" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 15 Floyd | > Floyd | > RUB RING Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 16 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Cosy Booth Floyd | A cramped and not altogether pleasant booth, though you guess in this Floyd | kind of establishment you're not paying for quality so much as cheap Floyd | coffee. The booth has been defaced more times than you care to count, Floyd | though some of the graffiti is quite amusing. Frobisher sits in the Floyd | far corner of the booth. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave the booth to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask frobisher about ring" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 17 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FROBISHER ABOUT RING Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to frobisher" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 18 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FROBISHER Floyd | Floyd | "What can you make with the ring?" Frobisher asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make earring" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 18 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAKE EARRING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x booth" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 19 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOTH Floyd | Floyd | The cramped booth you're currently seated in. The sooner you're out of Floyd | here, the better. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "MAybe it's meld x with y" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld ring with note" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 20 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD RING WITH NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the ring and the note and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | "A good try," says Frobisher, "but that's not what I had in mind." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess that's the right syntax, at least." | |
| DavidW asks, "I suppose if there was a key, we could make a keyring. But what's here to make?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 21 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRAFFITI Floyd | Floyd | It mainly involves the city council and the people in charge. It Floyd | features a goat, a nun's outfit and... well, you might be better off Floyd | not reading the rest of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I dunno; just keep flailing away. There's not a lot of things" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x goat" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 21 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld ring with graffiti" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 22 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD RING WITH GRAFFITI Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, your meld ability is limited in that you are unable to Floyd | meld something that you are not physically holding. Also, the items in Floyd | question can only be of a certain size - no melding buildings or Floyd | aircraft for you! Floyd | Floyd | You have heard rumours of other people, whose gift is far more Floyd | advanced than your own, who can meld items simply by looking at them, Floyd | but perhaps they are simply rumours and nothing more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 23 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a ring Floyd | a note Floyd | an ID card Floyd | some lipstick Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld lipstick and ring" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 23 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD LIPSTICK AND RING Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "It's still 'with', honest" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld lipstick with ring" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 24 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD LIPSTICK WITH RING Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the lipstick and the ring and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | "A good try," says Frobisher, "but that's not what I had in mind." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lipstick" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 25 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | Shockingly red and not your thing at all. You must have bought it Floyd | without thinking. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Hunh. Weird. Maybe we should buy a coffee? A coffee ring is a thing." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy coffee" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 25 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY COFFEE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "order coffee" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 25 Floyd | > Floyd | > ORDER COFFEE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 26 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 27 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy coffee" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 28 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY COFFEE Floyd | Floyd | You order a drink and, indeed, it's every bit as bad as you expected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 29 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a ring Floyd | a note Floyd | an ID card Floyd | some lipstick Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "meld ring with waitress" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 30 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD RING WITH WAITRESS Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, your meld ability is limited in that you are unable to Floyd | meld something that you are not physically holding. Also, the items in Floyd | question can only be of a certain size - no melding buildings or Floyd | aircraft for you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x waitress" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 31 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WAITRESS Floyd | Floyd | Pretty, but looks rushed off her feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "wear lipstick, kiss the note, then meld ring with the smoochie mark?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 32 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Cosy Booth Floyd | A cramped and not altogether pleasant booth, though you guess in this Floyd | kind of establishment you're not paying for quality so much as cheap Floyd | coffee. The booth has been defaced more times than you care to count, Floyd | though some of the graffiti is quite amusing. Frobisher sits in the Floyd | far corner of the booth. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave the booth to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear lipstick" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 33 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR LIPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | No, it makes you look like you make a living dancing on tables. You Floyd | honestly don't know why you bought it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break lipstick" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 34 Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK LIPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | Violence won't solve this one, I'm afraid. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "Draw with it?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld lipstick" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 35 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD LIPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the lipstick and your meld ability takes hold, Floyd | tearing apart the molecules of the lipstick and reforming them into a Floyd | bracelet and a chisel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I would have never ever guessed that; good work" | |
| Amber exclaims, "Two for one!" | ||
| DavidW says, "That's so weird" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 36 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | A metal bracelet which feels very cold to the touch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 37 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | A rusted and somewhat battered chisel which you got when you demelded Floyd | the lipstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "I know some women who need a chisel instead of lipstick." | |
| Roger says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld ring" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 38 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD RING Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the ring and bring your meld ability to bear, but Floyd | nothing happens. It seems the ring hasn't been melded from anything Floyd | and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld ring with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 39 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD RING WITH BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the ring and the bracelet and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | "A good try," says Frobisher, "but that's not what I had in mind." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld ring with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 40 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD RING WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the ring and the chisel and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | "A good try," says Frobisher, "but that's not what I had in mind." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld note" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 41 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the note and bring your meld ability to bear, but Floyd | nothing happens. It seems the note hasn't been melded from anything Floyd | and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld id" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 42 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD ID Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the ID card and bring your meld ability to bear, Floyd | but nothing happens. It seems the ID card hasn't been melded from Floyd | anything and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld id with ring" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 43 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD ID WITH RING Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the ID card and note. You Floyd | watch as they become melded together... their molecules becoming Floyd | one... transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding a key. Floyd | Floyd | "Very good," says Frobisher, his eyes aglow. "You made a key, and not Floyd | just a normal key either. Tell me, can you guess what lock it might Floyd | open?" Floyd | Floyd | "The gate outside the cafe would be my first guess." Floyd | Floyd | "Why don't you try it and see?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. This a very weird ability. I can't predict how it'll work at all." | |
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 44 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 45 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north (though blocked by a large gate) is Morring Row, south is Floyd | Belmont Avenue, southeast is a winding path between tall buildings, Floyd | west lies Rowena's Coffee House and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock gate with key" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 46 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK GATE WITH KEY Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 47 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You need to do something about the locked gate first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 48 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GATE Floyd | Floyd | You slip the key into the lock and turn it. There is a click! Floyd | sound from the gate and the key literally sinks into the gate. You try Floyd | to grab hold of it before it can be absorbed - it's your ID card, Floyd | after all! - but it's gone. Floyd | Floyd | A moment later, the gate swings open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-oh. Losing the ID card sounds bad." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 49 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 50 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Cosy Booth Floyd | A cramped and not altogether pleasant booth, though you guess in this Floyd | kind of establishment you're not paying for quality so much as cheap Floyd | coffee. The booth has been defaced more times than you care to count, Floyd | though some of the graffiti is quite amusing. Frobisher sits in the Floyd | far corner of the booth. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave the booth to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to frobisher" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 51 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FROBISHER Floyd | Floyd | "The gate swallowed the key!" you say (which sounds worryingly weird Floyd | to you, like the gate came to life and literally ate the key). "My ID Floyd | card was part of that. How do I get it back?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'm merely here as a go-between for my associate," says Frobisher, Floyd | "so I'm afraid I don't know. However, my associate mentioned that once Floyd | the gate was open, you would be able to find an item on the other side Floyd | that would give you your ID card back." Floyd | Floyd | Your head is spinning. "That doesn't make any damn sense..." Floyd | Floyd | "Nevertheless, that is what my associate said. If you find this item - Floyd | whatever it may be, he didn't tell me - bring it to me and we will see Floyd | what can be done about it." Floyd | Floyd | "Or maybe I should just go home and leave you and your crazy associate Floyd | out of my life..." Floyd | Floyd | Frobisher frowns. "Without your ID card? I wouldn't advise that, Miss. Floyd | Charles. The council tend to frown on citizens who have 'lost' their Floyd | ID cards." Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber says, "What's my motivation? Oh, thank you." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, we've just been drafted." | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we find the whatever-it-is." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 52 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 53 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 54 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | Someone walking past mutters, "Who left that damn gate open? It's Floyd | locked for a reason, you know," and gives you a pointed look before Floyd | disappearing into the park. Floyd | Floyd | For more information on your melding ability, type 'Meld Floyd | Info'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld info" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 54 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD INFO Floyd | Floyd | No one really knows how melding works. Is it a genetic defect? The Floyd | result of shady experiments? Latent psychic powers? Even you don't Floyd | know and you've lived with it all your life. Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't run in the family because your mother didn't have it and Floyd | neither did your sister. You never met your father but he was a Floyd | low-life thief who died after being shot whilst robbing a jewellery Floyd | store. If he could meld, he'd have sold his ability to the highest Floyd | bidder and to hell with the risks involved or the morality of doing Floyd | such a thing. Floyd | Floyd | Melding has limits, though it tends to differ from person to person. Floyd | Some (like you) can only meld items they have physical hold of; some Floyd | (like you) can only meld one item with another; some (like you) can Floyd | only meld an item they've seen before (so no melding nuclear weapons Floyd | or futuristic laser guns!) Floyd | Floyd | Melding is random - something that has frustrated melders for years Floyd | now. While it would be the ultimate source of income if it could be Floyd | directed, melding unfortunately doesn't work that way. So while you Floyd | might want to meld together a cheese grater and an iron and have it Floyd | produce a cheque for a million credits, you can't. What you end up Floyd | with when you meld two items together is unknown until the melding Floyd | process is over and done with. Floyd | Floyd | Most melders can only meld. Some (like you) can also unmeld - or Floyd | demeld - items; i.e. meld two items together then unmeld them into Floyd | their base items. All melders are limited, however, in that they can Floyd | only demeld items they themselves have melded together. Floyd | Floyd | Except you. You can demeld anything that's previously been melded, no Floyd | matter who did the melding. Floyd | Floyd | Technically, melding isn't illegal but it's definitely not something Floyd | you want to go around advertising you can do. While no one can simply Floyd | meld a nuclear weapon out of two random items, the general public Floyd | believe all the terrible stories they've heard about melders over the Floyd | years: melding two people together (and no, you can't meld living Floyd | matter) to form a third person; melding harmless items into bombs; Floyd | melding killing random people close to the melder; and so on... Floyd | Floyd | You're sure the stories of melders being abducted by the guards and Floyd | held in secret government labs are just pure rumour, but it doesn't Floyd | pay to take risks. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "Frobisher is annoying: I hope we get to turn his ass into something horrible like in I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream--good story, great game." | |
| Roger says, "This has some elements of a good game, but some serious problems too" | ||
| escapecage says, "I like the unusual meld command, and if it is used well, this will probably be a good game." | ||
| DavidW says, "I say check out the alley first." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tavern" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 55 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TAVERN Floyd | Floyd | A little too grandiose for your liking, but there's no Floyd | denying it's an impressive site. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x park" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 56 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see much of it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x alley" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 57 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALLEY Floyd | Floyd | A grimy alley running along the side of the Emperor Tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 58 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alley Floyd | City alleys are supposed to be cleaned every day, but apparently the Floyd | crew responsible for this alley didn't get the memo. It's knee-deep in Floyd | trash and smells like an open sewer. Just being here makes you feel Floyd | queasy. Floyd | Floyd | A breath of fresh air flows from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trash" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 59 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRASH Floyd | Floyd | Some of it looks - and smells! - like it's been here for months, if Floyd | not years. The smell is enough to make your eyes water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search trash" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 60 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH TRASH Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take trash" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 61 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TRASH Floyd | Floyd | You wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Literally. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps something gets dumped here later." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 62 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 63 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 64 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 65 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | As you step inside the tavern, and before you've had time to properly Floyd | look around, a man almost walks into. Floyd | Floyd | "Terribly sorry," he says, not sounding it one bit, then walks away. Floyd | Floyd | Hmm... curious. You wonder why he pushed a slip of paper into your Floyd | hand...? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x slip" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 66 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SLIP Floyd | Floyd | It reads, simply, 'Another test. Let's see what you can Floyd | unmake of this'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 67 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmake slip" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 67 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMAKE SLIP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "It was funny in Randal's Monday when he got away with horrible unspecified crimes because his friend's girlfriend dumped his past self's corpse in a dumpster. I love that game." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld slip" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 68 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD SLIP Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the slip of paper and your meld ability takes hold, Floyd | tearing apart the molecules of the slip of paper and reforming them Floyd | into a mirror and a passcard. Floyd | Floyd | Is this what Frobisher wanted from you? Maybe you should go back and Floyd | speak to him about either the mirror or the passcard and see what he Floyd | has to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x passcard" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 69 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PASSCARD Floyd | Floyd | You don't tend to see many of these around nowadays (ID cards have Floyd | replaced them), but you know they were once used to access military Floyd | installations and the like. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 70 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Your own face peers back at you. You look tired. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber says, "This reminds me of my magic stapler, only I had not considered undoing it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 71 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 72 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Cosy Booth Floyd | A cramped and not altogether pleasant booth, though you guess in this Floyd | kind of establishment you're not paying for quality so much as cheap Floyd | coffee. The booth has been defaced more times than you care to count, Floyd | though some of the graffiti is quite amusing. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave the booth to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Gone. Frobisher is gone! Damn the man and whatever game he's playing Floyd | with you. First he encourages you to meld your ID card with the ring Floyd | he gave you, and now he disappears on you. Floyd | Floyd | This is bad. This is very bad. You need to get to the bottom of what Floyd | is going on here and, just as important, you need to get your ID card Floyd | back before you're stopped by the guard. You, of all people, can Floyd | ill-afford to have the council taking an interest in your background. Floyd | Floyd | You wonder if Frobisher left anything for you here in the booth... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "look at passcard in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK AT PASSCARD IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 74 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRAFFITI Floyd | Floyd | It mainly involves the city council and the people in charge. It Floyd | features a goat, a nun's outfit and... well, you might be better off Floyd | not reading the rest of it. Floyd | Floyd | Hmmm... what's that at the bottom? You peer closer and see this Floyd | written down: "apologies for leaving suddenly. called away on Floyd | business. left something for you in the shop on mawbury lane." Floyd | It's signed 'F'. Floyd | Floyd | Interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "potty break" | |
| escapecage says, "That goat is wearing the nnun's outfit." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok, I'm back" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know where Mawbury Lane is, but I suppose we should look for it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 74 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 75 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 76 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 77 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | That's back to your apartment and you can't leave without recovering Floyd | your ID card. It might be weeks till you're stopped and asked for it Floyd | but you can't risk that happening. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 78 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | Little sunlight reaches this winding path due to the tall buildings on Floyd | either side, buildings which seem to lean over, almost touching, above Floyd | you. This is an old part of the city, with nothing here having been Floyd | built in the last hundred years. Floyd | Floyd | Northwest you can see Tiamont Plaza, to the south is an abandoned Floyd | house and southeast is Mawbury Lane. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x house" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | One of the many ruins which populate the city. No sooner is one fixed Floyd | (or knocked down) than another needs working on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 80 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | As you make your way towards Mawbury Lane, a hulking man emerges Floyd | suddenly from the shadows and blocks the path. Down one side of his Floyd | face is a jagged scar and his eyes are mad and staring. Floyd | Floyd | "Going somewhere, sweetheart?" he grunts. "Oh, I don't think so, 'cos Floyd | this way-" He nods to the southeast. "I own it. Jacob's the name. So Floyd | if you want to go that way, you gotta pay the toll." Floyd | Floyd | "I never knew there was a toll on this road." Floyd | Floyd | "There ain't. Not officially. But unofficially? Oh yeah. Now, don't go Floyd | worrying about paying me in credits 'cos I know they can be traced Floyd | easily enough, but jewellery? Yeah, jewellery is fine. Easy to fence, Floyd | you know." Floyd | Floyd | "And if I don't pay you anything at all?" Floyd | Floyd | His eyes narrow. "Then you better just go back the way you came 'cos Floyd | you sure ain't passing through here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give bracelet to man" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 80 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BRACELET TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 80 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 81 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | Little sunlight reaches this winding path due to the tall buildings on Floyd | either side, buildings which seem to lean over, almost touching, above Floyd | you. This is an old part of the city, with nothing here having been Floyd | built in the last hundred years. Floyd | Floyd | Northwest you can see Tiamont Plaza, to the south is an abandoned Floyd | house and southeast is Mawbury Lane. Blocking the way to Mawbury Lane Floyd | is a hulking thug by the name of Jacob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give bracelet to jacob" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 82 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BRACELET TO JACOB Floyd | Floyd | He sneers at the bracelet. "That cheap piece of trash isn't buying you Floyd | anything, sweetheart." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 83 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a passcard Floyd | a mirror Floyd | a bracelet Floyd | a chisel Floyd | a note Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give mirror to jacob" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 84 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE MIRROR TO JACOB Floyd | Floyd | Jacob doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 85 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the mirror and the bracelet and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "meld jacob with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 86 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD JACOB WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, your meld ability is limited in that you are unable to Floyd | meld something that you are not physically holding. Also, the items in Floyd | question can only be of a certain size - no melding buildings or Floyd | aircraft for you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 87 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the mirror and the chisel and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 88 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a passcard Floyd | a mirror Floyd | a bracelet Floyd | a chisel Floyd | a note Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "chisel jacob" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 88 Floyd | > Floyd | > CHISEL JACOB Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show passcard to jacob" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 89 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW PASSCARD TO JACOB Floyd | Floyd | Jacob is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose we can check out the library, the abandoned house, and the park, and the tavern. Look for any inventory we can grab. Then experiment with melding." | |
| Roger says, "Sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 90 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned House Floyd | You're in the ruins of an abandoned house which looks to have been Floyd | uninhabited for longer than you've been alive. The walls are damp, the Floyd | ceiling has collapsed (in fact, most of it is on the floor) and the Floyd | floor creaks beneath you. One especially large gap to the north leads Floyd | out to the winding path. Clinging to one wall, though out of reach, is Floyd | the remnants of a staircase. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A ladder or chair, I guess is needed here." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x staircase" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 91 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAIRCASE Floyd | Floyd | Part of a staircase, clinging to the wall. It's quite a way out of Floyd | reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 92 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | Crumbly and damp. It's a wonder the place hasn't already collapsed. In Floyd | one wall is a jagged crack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 93 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRACK Floyd | Floyd | A crack a few inches wide. You could reach inside if you wanted, Floyd | though the thought of rats in the walls makes you somewhat reluctant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach in crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 93 Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach inside crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 93 Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH INSIDE CRACK Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 94 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CRACK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "The mirror?" | |
| DavidW says, "What about the mirror" | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "hit crack with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 94 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CRACK WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use chisel on crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 94 Floyd | > Floyd | > USE CHISEL ON CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "chisel crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 94 Floyd | > Floyd | > CHISEL CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "widen crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 94 Floyd | > Floyd | > WIDEN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Just thinking if we could get the mirror in there and look around" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 95 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mirror in crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 96 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT MIRROR IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 97 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | All things considered, the floor isn't very interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 98 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CEILING Floyd | Floyd | For ceiling read floor, as most of it has collapsed and is currently Floyd | underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 99 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned House Floyd | You're in the ruins of an abandoned house which looks to have been Floyd | uninhabited for longer than you've been alive. The walls are damp, the Floyd | ceiling has collapsed (in fact, most of it is on the floor) and the Floyd | floor creaks beneath you. One especially large gap to the north leads Floyd | out to the winding path. Clinging to one wall, though out of reach, is Floyd | the remnants of a staircase. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach in" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 99 Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH IN Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 99 Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH CRACK Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in crack" | ||
Floyd ] Abandoned House 100 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think we can do much here at the moment." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 101 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | Little sunlight reaches this winding path due to the tall buildings on Floyd | either side, buildings which seem to lean over, almost touching, above Floyd | you. This is an old part of the city, with nothing here having been Floyd | built in the last hundred years. Floyd | Floyd | Northwest you can see Tiamont Plaza, to the south is an abandoned Floyd | house and southeast is Mawbury Lane. Blocking the way to Mawbury Lane Floyd | is a hulking thug by the name of Jacob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 102 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber says, "It's a crack house." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 103 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | City Library Floyd | The smell of old books greets you: while hardly a pungent aroma, it's Floyd | certainly cloying. This is City Library: a sprawling array of Floyd | bookshelves as far as the eye can see, watched over by a scowling Floyd | librarian who seems to regard visitors to the library with the same Floyd | kind of contempt normally reserved for serial killers. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x librarian" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 104 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIBRARIAN Floyd | Floyd | An elderly fellow with papery skin who seems to treat the library as Floyd | his own personal domain. Something about his demeanour indicates he Floyd | takes slights very personally and knows how to bear a grudge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 105 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Without knowing exactly which book you're looking for - if indeed you Floyd | have a specific title in mind - you'll never find it here. The filing Floyd | system is positively archaic! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bookshelves" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 106 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOKSHELVES Floyd | Floyd | Without knowing exactly which book you're looking for - if indeed you Floyd | have a specific title in mind - you'll never find it here. The filing Floyd | system is positively archaic! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And we have no specific title in mind. This seems like a bust too." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 108 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 109 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Freemoor Park Floyd | It is surprisingly dark in Freemoor Park, though the trees, of which Floyd | admittedly there are many, aren't tall enough to block out the sun. At Floyd | the centre of the park is a pond of turgid, black water, from which Floyd | rises an odour foul enough to make your eyes water. Floyd | Floyd | To the southwest lies Morring Row. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 110 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREES Floyd | Floyd | Spindly trees with claw-like branches, dotted about the park in a Floyd | haphazard fashion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pond" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 111 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POND Floyd | Floyd | This isn't water in the pond, surely? It looks like some kind of Floyd | radioactive waste. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pond" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 112 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH POND Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 113 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB TREE Floyd | Floyd | You could, if you wanted to, but you aren't sure you see the point. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take branch" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 113 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BRANCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell pond" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 114 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL POND Floyd | Floyd | The stench is bad enough without you going out of your way to smell Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I see nothing to do here." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 115 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | There is a disturbance just outside the Emperor Tavern. You and Floyd | several other passers by stop to watch as an old man, clearly drunk, Floyd | is expelled from the premises by bouncers. He staggers, almost falls, Floyd | then spins on his heel (which almost causes him to fall over again) Floyd | and shakes his fist at the bouncers. Floyd | Floyd | "Lousy stinking tavern anyway!" he yells. "Wouldn't drink there if you Floyd | paid me!" Floyd | Floyd | "Go home, Talbot, you've had enough for day," one of the bouncer says. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't tell me what to do!" the man Talbot shouts. "You stole it from Floyd | me, didn't you? You and your lousy boss! You... you..." Floyd | Floyd | He yells a few more choice phrases, some of them very colourful, then Floyd | runs out of steam and staggers away in the direction of Freemoor Park. Floyd | You give him a wide berth - the odour of sour beer emanating from him Floyd | is quite pungent. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "follow him?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 116 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Freemoor Park Floyd | It is surprisingly dark in Freemoor Park, though the trees, of which Floyd | admittedly there are many, aren't tall enough to block out the sun. At Floyd | the centre of the park is a pond of turgid, black water, from which Floyd | rises an odour foul enough to make your eyes water. Slouched down by Floyd | the park is Talbot, looking drunker by the second. Floyd | Floyd | To the southwest lies Morring Row. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x talbot" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 117 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TALBOT Floyd | Floyd | He's so drunk he can barely stand upright, and the smell he's giving Floyd | off is enough to mask the odour coming from the pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to talbot" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 118 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TALBOT Floyd | Floyd | "Gerrawayfromme!" he snarls, drunkenly waving you away. "They stole Floyd | it... the swine... they stole it from me..." Floyd | Floyd | "Stole what?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | But Talbot is lost in drunken rantings and doesn't hear you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 119 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a passcard Floyd | a mirror Floyd | a bracelet Floyd | a chisel Floyd | a note Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "give bracelet to talbot" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 120 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BRACELET TO TALBOT Floyd | Floyd | "Don't try an' trick me with that cheap trash!" Talbot says. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Hey maybe this is how Jesus pulled that money out of a fish" | |
| Roger says, "Maybe we'll learn more inside the bar" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 121 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 122 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hey there, guys. I just realized that I hadn't made a bb post. We agreed last week to go into early hiatus, but I didn't post about it. It is, of course, fine if you all want to keep logging games while I'm moving. :)" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, I thought we were on hiatus too, but there was enough interest that we went ahead anyways." | ||
| Taleslinger says, "DavodW does not play by the rules" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Fair enough." | ||
| Roger says, "So far we've been depressed and confused" | ||
| Amber says, "I have not yet discovered how to read the posted messages." | ||
| escapecage says, "Time for some fun: Smoke crack and D.M.T, then gamble and fight people who may or may not exist." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Amber), "You mean on bulletin board?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Still, I'll post it to the main website and social media accounts. If you all get together now and then without me, please just log it. I'll catch up when I have fewer responsibilities, which will be in about 1.5-2 months, and we'll settle on a schedule after the comp. Anyway, enjoy the rest of your session." | ||
| Amber asks, "Are bulletin boards and channels the same thing?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Amber), "No. Each channel has its own bulletin board, but they are different items." | ||
| DavidW says, "'help bb' might help." | ||
| Amber says, "In any event, I have been here a few years now and have no real clue." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "thanks" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 123
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { North }
Floyd | Against the back wall of the tavern are a group of strange individuals
Floyd | engaged in some kind of staring contest at each other over a table. No
Floyd | one moves, no one says a word. All is deathly silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can leave to the south when you wish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "take all drugs" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 123
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL DRUGS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 124
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The table itself is ordinary, but there's a jewel of some kind in the
Floyd | centre of it which draws your attention. Is this what the staring
Floyd | contest is about?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jewel" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 125
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X JEWEL
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't know what kind of jewel this is, but it's certainly very
Floyd | pretty and likely worth a small fortune.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x individuals" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 126
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X INDIVIDUALS
Floyd |
Floyd | From the way they're dressed, you're guessing they're members of one
Floyd | of the strange cults you've heard talk about. According to news
Floyd | reports, they're supposed to be very dangerous and passersby are
Floyd | advised not to approach them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "take jewel" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 126
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE JEWEL
Floyd |
Floyd | The moment you reach out to take the jewel, it flickers, as if it
Floyd | wasn't there at all. The men at the table cease their staring contest
Floyd | and look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sacrilege!" shouts one.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Blasphemy!" shouts another.
Floyd |
Floyd | A third reaches into his robes for what you guess is a knife, so you
Floyd | decide it's time to go and-
Floyd |
Floyd | But you stop. One of the men has fixed his eyes onto yours and you
Floyd | find you can't move anywhere. He nods for you to sit down and you do.
Floyd | He indicates for you to place the jewel back on the table and you do.
Floyd |
Floyd | He looks deep into your eyes, peeling back every secret, every memory.
Floyd | He discovers your meld ability and realises how useful it can be.
Floyd |
Floyd | You spend a long, long time at the table staring into the eyes of the
Floyd | strange man...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
| ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "meld jewel with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 126
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MELD JEWEL WITH CHISEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "um" | |
| Roger says, "Ha" | ||
| escapecage says, "I was curious what would happen if we melded the jewel with the chisel, like a jeweler with a cutting instrument, but I guess that is impossible" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, we didn't get the jewel." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's not clear the jewel is actually there." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 126
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { North }
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "Unlikely, but imagine slipping the mirror in there, so they're each having a staring contest with themselves" | |
| DavidW says, "I suspect we're not ready to deal with this lot." | ||
| Roger says, "Sounds correct" | ||
| DavidW says, "The mirror idea is interesting, though." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 127 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gambling" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 127 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GAMBLING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 128
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { West }
Floyd | This area of the tavern seems a little more refined than the main area
Floyd | to the east. Here, the customers - or clientele - sit around sipping
Floyd | wine, talking in hushed voices and discussing the works of art
Floyd | adorning the walls. It's a welcome change after the noise just a short
Floyd | walk to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Every eye in the place, and there are quite a few, look at you and a
Floyd | deathly silence falls. You could literally hear a pin drop here.
Floyd |
Floyd | But when it becomes apparent that you aren't going to say or do
Floyd | anything dramatic, the clientele seem to lose interest in you and
Floyd | resume their quiet whisperings.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| escapecage asks, "He realizes my skills are useful, so he kills me?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x art" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 129
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ART
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not really a fan of modern art so most of this leaves you cold.
Floyd | However, there's one painting of a king staring into the sun which
Floyd | quite catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x king" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 130
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X KING
Floyd |
Floyd | As you stare at the painting, you find your attention being drawn to
Floyd | the sun, in the same way as the king's attention is drawn to it. It
Floyd | takes an effort to look away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sun" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 131
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SUN
Floyd |
Floyd | As you stare at the painting, you find your attention being drawn to
Floyd | the sun, in the same way as the king's attention is drawn to it. It
Floyd | takes an effort to look away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push sun" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 132
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH SUN
Floyd |
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "hmm. Is this painting a clue of some sort with the staring contest." | |
| DavidW asks, "Like, would they stare at anything bright?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x people" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 133
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PEOPLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Much more refined than the drunks in the rest of the tavern, these
Floyd | look the sort to actually appreciate the works of art on the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take painting" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 134
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | You doubt the people gathered here are simply going to let you walk
Floyd | away with this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cough" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 134
Floyd | >
Floyd | > COUGH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 135 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x people" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 136 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | A rowdy bunch for the most part, deep in their cups and likely to Floyd | remain that way for the foreseeable future. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { Northwest } 137
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { Northwest }
Floyd | Ahead of you, to the northwest is an archway which looks like it might
Floyd | have been removed from an ancient monastery or cathedral, beyond which
Floyd | you see... nothing. It must be a simple trick of the light but the
Floyd | area beyond the archway doesn't show up at all. You notice that you're
Floyd | the only one here - apparently all the other customers of the tavern
Floyd | prefer to give this area a wide berth. Returning to the rest of the
Floyd | tavern is possible by going southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "hmm. This looks ominous." | |
| DavidW asks, "An archway to anywhere? To nowhere?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfmeld" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { Northwest } 137
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { Northwest } 138
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the archway, you experience a strange buzzing
Floyd | sensation in your mind and when it passes you find you're facing
Floyd | away from the archway.
Floyd |
Floyd | How strange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 139 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 140 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a passcard Floyd | a mirror Floyd | a bracelet Floyd | a chisel Floyd | a note Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 141
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { West }
Floyd | This area of the tavern seems a little more refined than the main area
Floyd | to the east. Here, the customers - or clientele - sit around sipping
Floyd | wine, talking in hushed voices and discussing the works of art
Floyd | adorning the walls. It's a welcome change after the noise just a short
Floyd | walk to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to people" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 142
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO PEOPLE
Floyd |
Floyd | As you try to strike up a conversation with a well-dressed gentleman,
Floyd | his equally well-dressed wife quickly steps in and says to you, "Don't
Floyd | even think about speaking to my husband. He's horribly
Floyd | drunk."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Pish, darling," says the husband, "I've barely drinked a touch!"
Floyd |
Floyd | She arches an eyebrow at him. "Indeed. Take two of these." She shoves
Floyd | some tablets into his hand, one of which disappears into his mouth and
Floyd | the rest he drops. "They'll soon sober you up."
Floyd |
Floyd | The husband snorts, then coughs violently! "Egads! Someone called an
Floyd | ambulance! I believe she's only bally well tried to poison me!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The wife rolls her eyes. "They're anti-alcohol tablets, you fool." She
Floyd | takes him by the hand and leads him away. "If you're going to make a
Floyd | fool of yourself, at least do it where everyone can't see you."
Floyd |
Floyd | Silence descends following their departure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pills" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 142
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PILLS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pill" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 142
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PILL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 143
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { West }
Floyd | This area of the tavern seems a little more refined than the main area
Floyd | to the east. Here, the customers - or clientele - sit around sipping
Floyd | wine, talking in hushed voices and discussing the works of art
Floyd | adorning the walls. It's a welcome change after the noise just a short
Floyd | walk to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a tablet here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tablet" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 144
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE TABLET
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| * NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! Jacqueline has posted message 294, about 'Longer Hiatus This Year', to the bulletin board! That would go better with duck fat." | |
| DavidW says, "I suggest giving the tablet to Talbert." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 145 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 146 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 147 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Freemoor Park Floyd | It is surprisingly dark in Freemoor Park, though the trees, of which Floyd | admittedly there are many, aren't tall enough to block out the sun. At Floyd | the centre of the park is a pond of turgid, black water, from which Floyd | rises an odour foul enough to make your eyes water. Slouched down by Floyd | the park is Talbot, looking drunker by the second. Floyd | Floyd | To the southwest lies Morring Row. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give tablet to talbot" | ||
Floyd ] Freemoor Park 148 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TABLET TO TALBOT Floyd | Floyd | "This some kinda drug?" he asks blearily, but before you can answer he Floyd | takes it from you and swallows it in one go. Floyd | Floyd | And howls! Floyd | Floyd | "Yah, that packs a punch and then some!" He thumps himself on Floyd | the chest. "You trying to kill me?" Floyd | Floyd | "Just sober you up," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it certainly did that." He groans. "I need a drink after that." Floyd | At your expression, he quickly adds, "Just a soft drink. I think Floyd | there's a coffee house close by. I'll try that." Floyd | Floyd | He puts his hand out and you shake it. "Name's Oscar Talbot. You? Floyd | Floyd | You tell him. Floyd | Floyd | "Nice to meet you, lady. Come see me in the coffee house if you want Floyd | to talk." Floyd | Floyd | He wanders away from the park. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "good show" | |
| escapecage says, "You need bird fat? I have an annoying little source." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 149 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 150 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 151 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. You see Oscar Talbot sat close by. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Cosy Booth 152 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Cosy Booth Floyd | A cramped and not altogether pleasant booth, though you guess in this Floyd | kind of establishment you're not paying for quality so much as cheap Floyd | coffee. The booth has been defaced more times than you care to count, Floyd | though some of the graffiti is quite amusing. Floyd | Floyd | You can leave the booth to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 153 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. You see Oscar Talbot sat close by. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to oscar" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 154 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO OSCAR Floyd | Floyd | Talbot says, "Sure packed one hell of a punch that tablet you gave me. Floyd | My head is still throbbing." Floyd | Floyd | "No need to thank me. You needed it more than I did." Floyd | Floyd | He laughs, then groans. "Agh. Laughing's not a good idea when your Floyd | head's throbbing like mine is." He massages his forehead. "Unusual for Floyd | someone to help out a complete stranger like that, Miss. You ever need Floyd | a favour doing, just holler. I'll hear you." Floyd | Floyd | "You mentioned that something had been stolen from you in the Emperor Floyd | Tavern." Floyd | Floyd | "I did?" Talbot rubs his head again and his good cheer fades. "Yes, I Floyd | did. A photo of my daughter." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 155 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Talbot says, "She died. Her name was Annabel. She was young when it Floyd | happened, and it broke my wife's heart. She left me and I haven't seen Floyd | her since, though I've had my brain in the bottom of a bottle for a Floyd | long time now so I don't blame her for leaving." Floyd | Floyd | He goes quiet for a minute, staring into space, before finally saying, Floyd | "I gambled with some very dangerous people there. They took my money Floyd | off me, but that wasn't what they wanted. They wanted something Floyd | precious to me. The photo." Talbot sighs. "I kept it with me as a Floyd | reminder. After I'd lost all my money, they offered to double Floyd | everything if I put the photo up as collateral. And I lost. I lost the Floyd | last photo of my daughter." Floyd | Floyd | "Why would they want the photo?" Floyd | Floyd | "Because of who they are. What they are. Mind thieves. Human Floyd | suffering is like a drug to them. Oh, what a fool I was. Gambling away Floyd | something like that. But I'll get it back from them one day." Floyd | Floyd | "More gambling?" Floyd | Floyd | "No, I've learnt my lesson there. Anyway, they cheated. The game was Floyd | rigged. They switched the cards around when I wasn't looking and left Floyd | me with a useless hand. No, lady, when I get the photo back from them, Floyd | it won't be via gambling. And they won't be walking away from it to Floyd | suck up someone else's misery, I can tell you." Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "Someone who steals brains and loves human misery, like M. Night Shyamalan, David Cage, DarkSydePhil or Henry Kissinger." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 156 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Talbot says, "Sorry, I've told you too much. I'm just an old drunk and Floyd | fool, talking my mouth off. Forget I said anything." Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe I can help," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Against them? No, don't even think about it. They're dangerous. They Floyd | could have killed me, but I guess it amuses them to leave me alive Floyd | knowing how miserable I am now they've taken from me the one thing I Floyd | miss the most. Stay away from them." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 157 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Talbot says, "Just stay away from them, Miss. Please. I don't want Floyd | your death on my conscience on top of everything else." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not sure what to try next." | |
| Roger says, "Yeah I dunno" | ||
| DavidW asks, "We found no new objects, so maybe just exhaustively meld?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld passcard with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 158 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD PASSCARD WITH BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the passcard and the bracelet and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld passcard with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 159 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD PASSCARD WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the passcard and the chisel and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld passcard with note" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 160 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD PASSCARD WITH NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the passcard and the note and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld passcard" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 161 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD PASSCARD Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the passcard and your meld ability takes hold, Floyd | tearing apart the molecules of the shockter and reforming them into a Floyd | doll and some putty. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "I like this guy a lot more than that annoying Frobisher. I bet Frobisher is one of the mind thieves." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doll" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 162 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOLL Floyd | Floyd | An old-fashioned kind of doll, the sort of thing that was popular when Floyd | your mother was a child. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x putty" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 163 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | Soft to the touch, but something prevents it being pulled apart. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Isn't a doll considerably larger than any passcard?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld doll" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 164 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD DOLL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the doll and bring your meld ability to bear, but Floyd | nothing happens. It seems the doll hasn't been melded from anything Floyd | and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with putty" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 165 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the mirror and the putty and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 166 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the mirror and bring your meld ability to bear, but Floyd | nothing happens. It seems the mirror hasn't been melded from anything Floyd | and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "I was hoping to create something that would make everything look really weird." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 167 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the mirror and the bracelet and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 168 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the mirror and the chisel and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with note" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 169 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the mirror and note. You watch Floyd | as they become melded together... their molecules becoming one... Floyd | transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding a magnifying glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber says, "Noteworthy." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 170 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLASS Floyd | Floyd | Useful for reading remarkably small text, but it doesn't serve any Floyd | other purpose. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "This doesn't seem like it could be a good part of any good game" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 171 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the bracelet and bring your meld ability to bear, Floyd | but nothing happens. It seems the bracelet hasn't been melded from Floyd | anything and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The totally unpredicability of melding/unmelding makes this a frustrating exercise." | |
| escapecage says, "I theink there was a magnifying glass in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father: That was my favorite Sierra game, though the sequels were horrendous." | ||
| Amber says, "Limiting the permutations of items would be helpful in the game design." | ||
| DavidW says, "There was a magnifying glass in The King ofShreds and Patches." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld bracelet with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 172 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD BRACELET WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the bracelet and the chisel. Floyd | You watch as they become melded together... their molecules becoming Floyd | one... transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding some lipstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber says, "I like the meld/unmeld concept, though. It reminds me of my magic stapler in my desk drawer." | |
| DavidW says, "oh right" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld lipstick" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 173 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD LIPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the lipstick and your meld ability takes hold, Floyd | tearing apart the molecules of the lipstick and reforming them into a Floyd | bracelet and a chisel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 174 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the chisel and bring your meld ability to bear, but Floyd | nothing happens. It seems the chisel hasn't been melded from anything Floyd | and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld bracelet with doll" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 175 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD BRACELET WITH DOLL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the bracelet and the doll and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "Wear lipstick, go to illegal bar, cloud everyone's mind and see what you can do to get the jewel." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld bracelet with putty" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 176 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD BRACELET WITH PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the bracelet and the putty and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can't wear the lipstick." | |
| DavidW says, "And 'cloud everyone's mind' isn't our superpower." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld chisel with doll" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 177 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD CHISEL WITH DOLL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the chisel and the doll and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld chisel with putty" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 178 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD CHISEL WITH PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the chisel and the putty and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld putty" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 179 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the putty and bring your meld ability to bear, but Floyd | nothing happens. It seems the putty hasn't been melded from anything Floyd | and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld glass" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 180 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD GLASS Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the magnifying glass and your meld ability takes Floyd | hold, tearing apart the molecules of the magnifying glass and Floyd | reforming them into a mirror and a note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld note" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 181 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the note and bring your meld ability to bear, but Floyd | nothing happens. It seems the note hasn't been melded from anything Floyd | and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I think there needs to be a grammar for this" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with doll" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 182 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH DOLL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the mirror and the doll and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with putty" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 183 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the mirror and the putty and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld doll with note" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 184 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD DOLL WITH NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the doll and the note and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld putty with note" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 185 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD PUTTY WITH NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the putty and the note and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld note with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 186 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD NOTE WITH BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the note and the bracelet and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld note with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 187 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD NOTE WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the chisel and the note. You Floyd | watch as they become melded together... their molecules becoming Floyd | one... transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding a rock. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW) CharlieBrown says, "I have a rock" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 188 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROCK Floyd | Floyd | A lump of rock big enough to fit comfortably into your hand. It feels Floyd | unnaturally heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Hit Jacob with it?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld rock with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 189 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD ROCK WITH BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the rock and the bracelet and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 190 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 191 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | Little sunlight reaches this winding path due to the tall buildings on Floyd | either side, buildings which seem to lean over, almost touching, above Floyd | you. This is an old part of the city, with nothing here having been Floyd | built in the last hundred years. Floyd | Floyd | Northwest you can see Tiamont Plaza, to the south is an abandoned Floyd | house and southeast is Mawbury Lane. Blocking the way to Mawbury Lane Floyd | is a hulking thug by the name of Jacob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit jacob with rock" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 192 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT JACOB WITH ROCK Floyd | Floyd | Jacob knocks the rock out of your hand. Floyd | Floyd | "Nice try, sweetheart," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 193 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ROCK Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld rock" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 194 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD ROCK Floyd | Floyd | Your head aches but nothing else seems to happen. You get the distinct Floyd | feeling you're doing it wrong. Something is missing. Floyd | Floyd | Of course. You're forgetting the simplest, most basic rule of melding: Floyd | it needs to work with another item. You cannot meld something Floyd | on its own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 195 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 196 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRAFFITI Floyd | Floyd | Badly written and illegible in parts. You're probably better off not Floyd | wasting too much time on this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld rock and mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 196 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD ROCK AND MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld rock with mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 197 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD ROCK WITH MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the rock and the mirror and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld rock with putty" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 198 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD ROCK WITH PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the rock and the putty and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld rock with doll" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 199 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD ROCK WITH DOLL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the rock and the doll and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld doll with putty" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 200 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD DOLL WITH PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the doll and the putty. You Floyd | watch as they become melded together... their molecules becoming Floyd | one... transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding a passcard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld passcard with rock" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 201 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD PASSCARD WITH ROCK Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the passcard and the rock and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld bracelet with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 201 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD BRACELET WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld passcard with mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 202 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD PASSCARD WITH MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the mirror and the passcard. Floyd | You watch as they become melded together... their molecules becoming Floyd | one... transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you once more holding the slip of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld slip with rock" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 203 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD SLIP WITH ROCK Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the slip of paper and the rock and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld slip" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 204 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD SLIP Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the slip of paper and your meld ability takes hold, Floyd | tearing apart the molecules of the slip of paper and reforming them Floyd | into a mirror and a passcard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld passcard" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 205 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD PASSCARD Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the passcard and your meld ability takes hold, Floyd | tearing apart the molecules of the shockter and reforming them into a Floyd | doll and some putty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with note" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 205 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 206 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a putty Floyd | a doll Floyd | a mirror Floyd | a rock Floyd | a bracelet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror and bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 206 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR AND BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 207 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the mirror and the bracelet and bring your meld Floyd | ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with Floyd | each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber says, "It's good that our meld powers are not exhausting." | |
| DavidW says, "That's what you think." | ||
| Amber says, "My magic stapler does run out of staples." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm keeping a chart of what I've tried, though." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm gonna attempt to talk to the librarian. Maybe he has a story to tell." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 208 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | City Library Floyd | The smell of old books greets you: while hardly a pungent aroma, it's Floyd | certainly cloying. This is City Library: a sprawling array of Floyd | bookshelves as far as the eye can see, watched over by a scowling Floyd | librarian who seems to regard visitors to the library with the same Floyd | kind of contempt normally reserved for serial killers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to librarian" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 209 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LIBRARIAN Floyd | Floyd | He looks at you, sighs deeper, as if the very idea of talking to you Floyd | is a gargantuan effort, and says "Can I help you with anything?" Floyd | Floyd | "I was just-" Floyd | Floyd | "Feel free to browse the bookshelves if you like. We have an excellent Floyd | collection of Dromond's novels and a rare first by Edias. All very Floyd | interesting works." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I was-" Floyd | Floyd | "Or local history? Does that interest you? If so, have a look at some Floyd | of the bookshelves. I'm sure something will take your fancy." Floyd | Floyd | "I was-" Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, my apologies. Under new library rules, I am only allowed to spend Floyd | a certain amount of time with each customer, and your time is at an Floyd | end. Now, if you don't mind, I have other work to attend to." Floyd | Floyd | "But-" Floyd | Floyd | But you're wasting your breath. The librarian clearly has no interest Floyd | in talking to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dromond" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 209 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DROMOND Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x edias" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 209 Floyd | > Floyd | > X EDIAS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search books" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 210 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read books" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 211 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Without knowing exactly which book you're looking for - if indeed you Floyd | have a specific title in mind - you'll never find it here. The filing Floyd | system is positively archaic! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask librarian about art" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 212 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LIBRARIAN ABOUT ART Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 213 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a putty Floyd | a doll Floyd | a mirror Floyd | a rock Floyd | a bracelet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld rock" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 214 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD ROCK Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the rock and your meld ability takes hold, tearing Floyd | apart the molecules of the rock and reforming them into a chisel and a Floyd | note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld note with mirror" | ||
Floyd ] City Library 215 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD NOTE WITH MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the mirror and note. You watch Floyd | as they become melded together... their molecules becoming one... Floyd | transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding a magnifying glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 216 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 217 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 218 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alley Floyd | City alleys are supposed to be cleaned every day, but apparently the Floyd | crew responsible for this alley didn't get the memo. It's knee-deep in Floyd | trash and smells like an open sewer. Just being here makes you feel Floyd | queasy. Floyd | Floyd | A breath of fresh air flows from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 219 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 220 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 221
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { West }
Floyd | This area of the tavern seems a little more refined than the main area
Floyd | to the east. Here, the customers - or clientele - sit around sipping
Floyd | wine, talking in hushed voices and discussing the works of art
Floyd | adorning the walls. It's a welcome change after the noise just a short
Floyd | walk to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine sun through glass" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 221
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXAMINE SUN THROUGH GLASS
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look at painting through magnifying glass" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 221
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK AT PAINTING THROUGH MAGNIFYING GLASS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 222
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GLASS
Floyd |
Floyd | Useful for reading remarkably small text, but it doesn't serve any
Floyd | other purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| escapecage asks, "Have you tried the mirror?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 223
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | As you stare at the painting, you find your attention being drawn to
Floyd | the sun, in the same way as the king's attention is drawn to it. It
Floyd | takes an effort to look away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cover sun" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 224
Floyd | >
Floyd | > COVER SUN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can close.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to people" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 225
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO PEOPLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You chat to some of the other clientele, but no one has much useful to
Floyd | tell you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 226 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to people" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 227 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | You aren't likely to get much sense out of this lot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 228 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 229 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alley Floyd | City alleys are supposed to be cleaned every day, but apparently the Floyd | crew responsible for this alley didn't get the memo. It's knee-deep in Floyd | trash and smells like an open sewer. Just being here makes you feel Floyd | queasy. Floyd | Floyd | A breath of fresh air flows from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 230 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 231 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 232 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. You see Oscar Talbot sat close by. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to waitress" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 233 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WAITRESS Floyd | Floyd | "Be with you in a minute," she says, and rushes off to serve someone Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to oscar" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 234 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO OSCAR Floyd | Floyd | Talbot says, "Just stay away from them, Miss. Please. I don't want Floyd | your death on my conscience on top of everything else." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 235 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a magnifying glass Floyd | a chisel Floyd | a putty Floyd | a doll Floyd | a bracelet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "remove sun with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 235 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE SUN WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld painting" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 235 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh right. Wrong location." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 236 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 237 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "reflect sun on man with mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 238 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 238 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFLECT SUN ON MAN WITH MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 239
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { West }
Floyd | This area of the tavern seems a little more refined than the main area
Floyd | to the east. Here, the customers - or clientele - sit around sipping
Floyd | wine, talking in hushed voices and discussing the works of art
Floyd | adorning the walls. It's a welcome change after the noise just a short
Floyd | walk to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "The painting is here." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld painting" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 240
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNMELD PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | You concentrate on the painting and bring your meld ability to bear,
Floyd | but nothing happens. It seems the painting hasn't been melded from
Floyd | anything and therefore it can't be unmelded into something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "remove sun with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 240
Floyd | >
Floyd | > REMOVE SUN WITH CHISEL
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to remove the painting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld painting with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 241
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MELD PAINTING WITH BRACELET
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfortunately, your meld ability is limited in that you are unable to
Floyd | meld something that you are not physically holding. Also, the items in
Floyd | question can only be of a certain size - no melding buildings or
Floyd | aircraft for you!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "put bracelet on sun" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { West } 242
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT BRACELET ON SUN
Floyd |
Floyd | Putting things on the painting would achieve nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 243 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 244
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { North }
Floyd | Against the back wall of the tavern are a group of strange individuals
Floyd | engaged in some kind of staring contest at each other over a table. No
Floyd | one moves, no one says a word. All is deathly silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can leave to the south when you wish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to individuals" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 245
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO INDIVIDUALS
Floyd |
Floyd | No matter what you say to them, they don't answer. It's almost like
Floyd | they're so focused on their staring, they literally don't know you're
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 246
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd | a magnifying glass
Floyd | a chisel
Floyd | a putty
Floyd | a doll
Floyd | a bracelet
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stare at jewel" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 246
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STARE AT JEWEL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld glass" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 247
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNMELD GLASS
Floyd |
Floyd | You concentrate on the magnifying glass and your meld ability takes
Floyd | hold, tearing apart the molecules of the magnifying glass and
Floyd | reforming them into a mirror and a note.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mirror on table" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 248
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT MIRROR ON TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the mirror on the table.
Floyd |
Floyd | As soon as this happens, it blocks the view of the jewel from one of
Floyd | the men, and something very strange happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | The jewel flickers, as if it's not really there at all! Then it fades
Floyd | away altogether.
Floyd |
Floyd | "How dare you!" one of the men cries, springing to his feet. "You have
Floyd | disrupted a most important experiment!
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, pish, Pavlaroka," another of the men says. "If someone placing a
Floyd | mirror on the table can disrupt your mind jewel, you're nothing but a
Floyd | charlatan anyway. You ought to be ashamed."
Floyd |
Floyd | Pavlaroka goes pale. "But- but-" He glares daggers at you. "You'll be
Floyd | sorry for this, madam. Believe me, you'll be very, very
Floyd | sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | He storms away, pausing only to flash an angry glance back over his
Floyd | shoulder at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | One by one, the other men get up and leave, all save the one who
Floyd | dismissed Pavlaroka as a charlatan. He regards you coldly, but with
Floyd | some amusement in his eyes. "Well... that was an interesting turn of
Floyd | events. My name is Tobol. Tell me, did you deliberately do that to
Floyd | antagonise Pavlaroka or was it pure happenstance? No, don't answer the
Floyd | question. I'll just amuse myself with the knowledge that Pavlaroka has
Floyd | more enemies than I previously imagined."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "ok, that was interesting." | |
| DavidW says, "That was Roger's idea from earlier." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 249
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MIRROR
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Amber says, "Mind jewelry, such sparkles." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to tobol" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 250
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO TOBOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You explain about Oscar Talbot and the photo of his daughter that he
Floyd | lost gambling.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tobol shrugs. "He gambled. He lost. What more can I say?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You could give him the photo back."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I could, but I won't. He gambled fair and square and he lost fair and
Floyd | square. If he wishes to have the photo back, he can go to the guard
Floyd | and see how far that takes him. And why does it concern you anyway?
Floyd | Are you some kind of good samaritan to the drunken and worthless?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Would you take something else in exchange?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Tobol smiles. "Ah, now we're getting to the heart of the matter,
Floyd | aren't we? Very well. The photo by itself has no value to me. I would
Floyd | take money, but Talbot has none. However, there is a certain pearl I
Floyd | have seen, blue in colour, which rests in the display area of a
Floyd | jewellery shop on Mawbury Lane. It costs, I believe, 2 million
Floyd | credits. I will take that in exchange for the photo."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I hardly think Talbot has 2 million credits just lying around."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Then the photo is mine. Perhaps I will burn it, or cut it into small
Floyd | pieces and let the breeze carry it away."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| escapecage asks, "Tobol and Pavlaroka sound familiar: Was one of theem the name of the wife-beat in Crime and Punishemnt?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to tobol" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 251
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO TOBOL
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you do not have the pearl, we have nothing to discuss. If you do,
Floyd | give it to me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I don't know the story." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm not even sure what country this is supposed to be set in." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 252 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 253 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 254 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 255 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | Little sunlight reaches this winding path due to the tall buildings on Floyd | either side, buildings which seem to lean over, almost touching, above Floyd | you. This is an old part of the city, with nothing here having been Floyd | built in the last hundred years. Floyd | Floyd | Northwest you can see Tiamont Plaza, to the south is an abandoned Floyd | house and southeast is Mawbury Lane. Blocking the way to Mawbury Lane Floyd | is a hulking thug by the name of Jacob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to jacob" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 256 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JACOB Floyd | Floyd | "We've got nothing to discuss," says Jacob, "unless you're ready to Floyd | hand over any jewels you happen to be carrying." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x buildings" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 257 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUILDINGS Floyd | Floyd | It's really strange how they lean like that and seem to be on the Floyd | verge of toppling over. Some architectural flaw? Were they designed Floyd | like that? Floyd | Floyd | You don't feel especially safe on this path, like the buildings might Floyd | suddenly decide to fall on you at any moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 258 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 259 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. You see Oscar Talbot sat close by. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to oscar" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 260 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO OSCAR Floyd | Floyd | Talbot says, "Just stay away from them, Miss. Please. I don't want Floyd | your death on my conscience on top of everything else." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask oscar about tobol" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 261 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK OSCAR ABOUT TOBOL Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask oscar about photo" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 262 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK OSCAR ABOUT PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess 'talk to' and 'give to' are the only conversation options." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 263 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 264 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a mirror Floyd | a note Floyd | a chisel Floyd | a putty Floyd | a doll Floyd | a bracelet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror and note" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 264 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR AND NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with noe" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 264 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH NOE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld mirror with note" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 265 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD MIRROR WITH NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the mirror and note. You watch Floyd | as they become melded together... their molecules becoming one... Floyd | transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding a magnifying glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld glass with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 266 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD GLASS WITH BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the magnifying glass and the bracelet and bring Floyd | your meld ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be Floyd | melded with each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld glass with chisel" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 267 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD GLASS WITH CHISEL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the magnifying glass and the chisel and bring your Floyd | meld ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded Floyd | with each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld glass with doll" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 268 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD GLASS WITH DOLL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the magnifying glass and the doll and bring your Floyd | meld ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded Floyd | with each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld glass with putty" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 269 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD GLASS WITH PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the magnifying glass and the putty and bring your Floyd | meld ability to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded Floyd | with each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld chisel with bracelet" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 270 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD CHISEL WITH BRACELET Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the bracelet and the chisel. Floyd | You watch as they become melded together... their molecules becoming Floyd | one... transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding some lipstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld glass with lipstick" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 271 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD GLASS WITH LIPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the magnifying glass and the Floyd | lipstick and the note. You watch as they become melded together... Floyd | their molecules becoming one... transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding a gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "goodness" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gun" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 272 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GUN Floyd | Floyd | This is the kind of old-fashioned gun you remember seeing as a child Floyd | in black and white films. It fires bullets, of which it currently Floyd | none, instead of a laser beam like modern guns. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "Never tcomplain about a woman's appearance." | |
| DavidW says, "We have no bullets, of course." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point gun" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 272 Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT GUN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld gun with doll" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 273 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD GUN WITH DOLL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the gun and the doll and bring your meld ability to Floyd | bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld gun with putty" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 274 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD GUN WITH PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the gun and the putty and bring your meld ability Floyd | to bear, but nothing happens. The items cannot be melded with each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "Learning more about the world: This is set in the future, but some relics of the past, like black-and-white movies are still available." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot gun" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 274 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT GUN Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber asks, "The gun can not be made to shoot itself?" | |
| DavidW says, "The syntax seems to be 'shoot [someone]', not 'shoot [weapon]'." | ||
| Amber says, "I was making light of that in my own way." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show gun to oscar" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 275 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW GUN TO OSCAR Floyd | Floyd | Oscar Talbot is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give gun to oscar" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 276 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE GUN TO OSCAR Floyd | Floyd | Oscar Talbot doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 277 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 278 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | Little sunlight reaches this winding path due to the tall buildings on Floyd | either side, buildings which seem to lean over, almost touching, above Floyd | you. This is an old part of the city, with nothing here having been Floyd | built in the last hundred years. Floyd | Floyd | Northwest you can see Tiamont Plaza, to the south is an abandoned Floyd | house and southeast is Mawbury Lane. Blocking the way to Mawbury Lane Floyd | is a hulking thug by the name of Jacob. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show gun to jacob" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 279 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW GUN TO JACOB Floyd | Floyd | Jacob takes one look at the gun and hastily backs away. "Hey, Floyd | sweetheart! Take it easy now! I wasn't gonna hurt you, honest, I was Floyd | just- just-" Floyd | Floyd | Whatever he was just planning to do you never find out because he Floyd | turns on his heel and runs off as fast as he can. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | escapecage says, "Hunt him down and demand money and jewels." | |
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 280 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Mawbury Lane Floyd | The old part of the city, but quite charming in its own right. There's Floyd | a fountain here to drink from, though you're not entirely sure the Floyd | water is good for you. A street artist can be seen here, performing Floyd | for passersby. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Padgett's Jewellers, south is Thorobad Road, east lies Floyd | the exclusive Bagliatiers Club, southeast the Tower of Morning and Floyd | northwest is a winding path. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Where did Frobisher want us to go?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 281 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOUNTAIN Floyd | Floyd | An ancient stone fountain, likely built back in the days when people Floyd | rode around on horses. It's full of water, but you're not sure how Floyd | clean it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x artist" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 281 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 282 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Mawbury Lane Floyd | The old part of the city, but quite charming in its own right. There's Floyd | a fountain here to drink from, though you're not entirely sure the Floyd | water is good for you. A street artist can be seen here, performing Floyd | for passersby. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Padgett's Jewellers, south is Thorobad Road, east lies Floyd | the exclusive Bagliatiers Club, southeast the Tower of Morning and Floyd | northwest is a winding path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x street artist" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 282 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STREET ARTIST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x juggler" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 282 Floyd | > Floyd | > X JUGGLER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 282 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Padgett's Jewellers 283 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Padgett's Jewellers Floyd | The interior of the shop is a ruin: tumbled over displays, flickering Floyd | lights and the security system seems to be malfunctioning. There's a Floyd | pedestal in the centre of the store which seems to have survived the Floyd | worst of the damage. Floyd | Floyd | There is a small manager's office to the north and to the south is Floyd | Mawbury Lane. Floyd | Floyd | The disruption caused by the Angel's departure seems to have badly hit Floyd | Padgett's Jewellers. Most of the displays have fallen over and the Floyd | previous state-of-the-art security system appears to be Floyd | malfunctioning. Of the manager, Mr Kimble, you can see no sign. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Padgett's Jewellers 284 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to pay much attention to the pedestal with the blue pearl Floyd | atop it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Padgett's Jewellers 285 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEARL Floyd | Floyd | Beautiful and then some. Even for someone not overly impressed with Floyd | fancy jewels, this is very eye-catching. Unfortunately, the 2 million Floyd | credit price tag puts it roughly 2 million credits out of your price Floyd | range. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber exclaims, "The lovely blue pearl!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfmeld" | ||
Floyd ] Padgett's Jewellers 285
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Padgett's Jewellers 286 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PEARL Floyd | Floyd | Hoping the alarms have been disabled, you pick up the large blue Floyd | pearl. Floyd | Floyd | Which, the moment it leaves the pedestal, shimmers and shrinks to Floyd | about half its former size. Clearly the pedestal is fitted with some Floyd | kind of cloaking device designed to make the pearl look much grander Floyd | than it previously was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Padgett's Jewellers 287 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | It's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unmeld pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Padgett's Jewellers 288 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNMELD PEARL Floyd | Floyd | You concentrate on the small blue pearl and bring your meld ability to Floyd | bear, but nothing happens. It seems the small blue pearl hasn't been Floyd | melded from anything and therefore it can't be unmelded into something Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Still plugging away, eh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 289 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mawbury Lane Floyd | The old part of the city, but quite charming in its own right. There's Floyd | a fountain here to drink from, though you're not entirely sure the Floyd | water is good for you. A street artist can be seen here, performing Floyd | for passersby. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Padgett's Jewellers, south is Thorobad Road, east lies Floyd | the exclusive Bagliatiers Club, southeast the Tower of Morning and Floyd | northwest is a winding path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 290 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | Little sunlight reaches this winding path due to the tall buildings on Floyd | either side, buildings which seem to lean over, almost touching, above Floyd | you. This is an old part of the city, with nothing here having been Floyd | built in the last hundred years. Floyd | Floyd | Northwest you can see Tiamont Plaza, to the south is an abandoned Floyd | house and southeast is Mawbury Lane. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 291 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Roger), "Your mirror idea worked, btw." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 292 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Alley 293 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alley Floyd | City alleys are supposed to be cleaned every day, but apparently the Floyd | crew responsible for this alley didn't get the memo. It's knee-deep in Floyd | trash and smells like an open sewer. Just being here makes you feel Floyd | queasy. Floyd | Floyd | A breath of fresh air flows from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 294 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 295 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 296
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Emperor Tavern { North }
Floyd | Against the back wall of the tavern is a table. This was previously
Floyd | occupied by a group of strange individuals having a staring contest,
Floyd | but they have now all departed save for one man called Tobol.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can leave to the south when you wish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pearl to tobol" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 297
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE PEARL TO TOBOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Tobol's eyes narrow slightly. "Interesting. When I asked for the
Floyd | pearl, I did not believe you would be able to acquire it, however it
Floyd | seems you are more resourceful than I imagined."
Floyd |
Floyd | "We had a deal. Do you have the photo?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I do indeed." Tobol produces it from his pocket and casually tosses
Floyd | it to you. "Take it. A small thing. Trivial, of no account. But this,"
Floyd | he taps the pearl, "is worth a fortune. You are a strange person, to
Floyd | trade such obvious wealth for something of no value."
Floyd |
Floyd | "It means everything to Talbot."
Floyd |
Floyd | Tobol gives you a ghost of a smile. "Indeed."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take photo" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 298
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PHOTO
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern { North } 299
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PHOTO
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photo of a young girl, smiling prettily at the camera.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Emperor Tavern 300 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emperor Tavern Floyd | Before today, you'd only heard of the Emperor Tavern but never visited Floyd | it. It has a somewhat ominous reputation which might be all rumour and Floyd | no substance, but seeing it from here you can well imagine its Floyd | reputation is well-founded. Floyd | Floyd | What you see is a large room, massive in fact, in which literally Floyd | hundreds of people sit around circular tables, drinking beer, smoking Floyd | all manner of illegal substances, and gambling. Yes, gambling. Banned Floyd | within the city limits it might be, but here you see it in abundance. Floyd | Floyd | You can make your way deeper into the tavern to the north, west or Floyd | northwest or you can return to Morring Row to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Morring Row 301 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morring Row Floyd | To the northwest stands the grandly-titled Emperor Tavern, a massive Floyd | structure looming over the whole of Morring Row and putting everything Floyd | else into the shade. In truth, there's very little here aside from the Floyd | tavern, a park off to the northeast and Tiamont Plaza to the south. An Floyd | alley can be seen off to the west, running alongside the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 302 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 303 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | One of many coffee houses that have sprung up across the city offering Floyd | cheap, barely drinkable (in your opinion) coffee to people with more Floyd | money than common sense. This one is of fairly typical design: Floyd | numerous tables and booths, an harassed looking waitress (the only Floyd | employee that you can see) and an atmosphere thick with the smell of Floyd | burnt coffee beans. Only one booth is free at this moment, this being Floyd | due southwest. You see Oscar Talbot sat close by. Floyd | Floyd | To the east lies Tiamont Square. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give photo to oscar" | ||
Floyd ] Rowena's Coffee House 304 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PHOTO TO OSCAR Floyd | Floyd | Talbot's hand shakes as he reaches out to take the photo. "How did Floyd | you...?" Floyd | Floyd | "Don't ask. I'm just glad I could retrieve it for you." Floyd | Floyd | Talbot stares at the photo. His eyes fill with tears, but he quickly Floyd | wipes them away. "Oh, I'm an old fool, gambling with this... Floyd | But I'm done now. No more gambling for me. I'd die if I lost this Floyd | again. Tell me, please, how can I repay you?" Floyd | Floyd | You tell him there's no need, but he searches about his person for Floyd | something, anything, to give you by way of payment. Finally he reaches Floyd | into his pocket and pulls out a scarf. He holds it tightly then hands Floyd | it to you. "Accept this. Please. It's not much but... years ago, Floyd | before my daughter died, before my wife left me and I began drinking Floyd | myself to death, I was a member of a very important club on Mawbury Floyd | Lane. Bagliatiers. You may have heard of it. This scarf was something Floyd | we all wore as a badge of our membership. It's not worth much these Floyd | days - probably almost nothing in fact - but you might be able to sell Floyd | it for something, and if not just..." He laughs softly. "Just use it Floyd | to keep warm." Floyd | Floyd | He won't take no for an answer so you accept the scarf. Talbot thanks Floyd | you again, then rises slowly to his feet, still clutching the photo of Floyd | his daughter, and leaves the coffee house. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "Like the time I bought To The Moon, but much less of a loss." | |
| DavidW says, "I guess we go to the club next." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tiamont Plaza 305 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tiamont Plaza Floyd | This is Tiamont Plaza, the heart of the city's Upias District (named Floyd | after some long-dead scholar, you think). Few people are about, and Floyd | those you see hurry past quickly, as if unwilling to spend any more Floyd | time here than they really have to. A large stone statue has been Floyd | erected here and looks to have become a target for the locals and Floyd | their graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Morring Row, south is Belmont Avenue, southeast is a Floyd | winding path between tall buildings, west lies Rowena's Coffee House Floyd | and northwest is City Library. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Winding Path 306 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | Little sunlight reaches this winding path due to the tall buildings on Floyd | either side, buildings which seem to lean over, almost touching, above Floyd | you. This is an old part of the city, with nothing here having been Floyd | built in the last hundred years. Floyd | Floyd | Northwest you can see Tiamont Plaza, to the south is an abandoned Floyd | house and southeast is Mawbury Lane. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 307 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Mawbury Lane Floyd | The old part of the city, but quite charming in its own right. There's Floyd | a fountain here to drink from, though you're not entirely sure the Floyd | water is good for you. A street artist can be seen here, performing Floyd | for passersby. Floyd | Floyd | To the north is Padgett's Jewellers, south is Thorobad Road, east lies Floyd | the exclusive Bagliatiers Club, southeast the Tower of Morning and Floyd | northwest is a winding path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 308 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a scarf Floyd | a gun Floyd | a putty Floyd | a doll Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear scarf" | ||
Floyd ] Mawbury Lane 309 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR SCARF Floyd | Floyd | You put on the scarf. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 310 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Bagliatiers Club Floyd | This is the lobby area of a very exclusive club, the kind of place Floyd | that only people with earnings in the seven figure category ever get Floyd | to visit. The floor is all marble tiles and the walls fairly shimmer. Floyd | Steel doors are set into the east wall and look impervious to anything Floyd | less than a nuclear strike. A small slot to the side looks like the Floyd | means of access, assuming you have anything that might fit into it. Floyd | Due west lies Mawbury Lane. Floyd | Floyd | You hear footsteps from behind you and turn to see a tall, Floyd | heavily-built man stood in the doorway. He has the look of a bodyguard Floyd | or soldier. Floyd | Floyd | He notices the scarf you're wearing and offers a short nod. "Welcome Floyd | to Bagliatiers, madam. I am Farrah, head of security, at your Floyd | service." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| escapecage says (to Floyd), "meld scarf and doll" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 310 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD SCARF AND DOLL Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "Very obtuse reference to the kind of weird, disturbing dream you never describe to anyone." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 311 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | A pair of impressive steel doors set into the east wall, currently Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 312 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SLOT Floyd | Floyd | A slot about the size of a playing card. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to farrah" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 313 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FARRAH Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to Bagliatiers, madam," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 314 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Bagliatiers Club Floyd | This is the lobby area of a very exclusive club, the kind of place Floyd | that only people with earnings in the seven figure category ever get Floyd | to visit. The floor is all marble tiles and the walls fairly shimmer. Floyd | Steel doors are set into the east wall and look impervious to anything Floyd | less than a nuclear strike. A small slot to the side looks like the Floyd | means of access, assuming you have anything that might fit into it. Floyd | Farrah, the head of security at the club, is stood by the doors. Due Floyd | west lies Mawbury Lane. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose the passcard might fit in the slot." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "meld doll with putty" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 315 Floyd | > Floyd | > MELD DOLL WITH PUTTY Floyd | Floyd | You bring your meld ability to focus on the doll and the putty. You Floyd | watch as they become melded together... their molecules becoming Floyd | one... transforming into something else... Floyd | Floyd | Leaving you holding a passcard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put passcard in slot" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 316 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PASSCARD IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | The passcard slides into the slot and, a moment later, the steel doors Floyd | slide open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take passcard" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 316 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PASSCARD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Bagliatiers Club Floyd | Old leather chairs surround a central area where you see a large table Floyd | has been set up. Atop this table is a map of the city shown from an Floyd | aerial viewpoint. Gathered around the table are a group of elderly Floyd | men. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, so good of you come here, Miss Charles," says an elderly Floyd | gentleman seated in an armchair at the table. "We've been waiting for Floyd | you." Floyd | Floyd | You glance around uneasily. None of the people here can be younger Floyd | than eighty, but there's nothing frail about them. They have the look Floyd | of old money and old power. Floyd | Floyd | "Who are you are what do you want with me?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "My name is Carl Mountbatten. I meld." He gestures to the others in Floyd | the room. "We all meld, but none to quite the extent that you Floyd | do. We want to recruit you, Miss Charles, for a little job. We also Floyd | want to talk to you about Tanya." He smiles. "Yes, your sister. She Floyd | isn't dead and, with your help, we can rescue her." Floyd | Floyd | Press a key... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 317 Floyd | Press a key... Floyd | Floyd | The introduction to 'Meld' has finished. Feel free to check out how Floyd | well you did with the 'stats' command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stats" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 317 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATS Floyd | Floyd | Total items melded: 7/12 Floyd | Total items unmelded: 5/11 Floyd | Floyd | Melded: Floyd | Melded G (Gun) Floyd | Melded K (Key) Floyd | Melded L (Lipstick) Floyd | Melded M (Magnifying glass) Floyd | Melded P (slip of Paper & Passcard) Floyd | Melded R (Rock) Floyd | Floyd | Unmelded: Floyd | Unmelded L (Lipstick) Floyd | Unmelded M (Magnifying glass) Floyd | Unmelded P (slip of Paper & Passcard) Floyd | Unmelded R (Rock) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carl" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 318 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARL Floyd | Floyd | An elderly fellow. Floyd | Floyd | He looks quite miffed at having such a brief description but then you Floyd | only meet him at the very end of the introduction so he'll just have Floyd | to live with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess that's the end of the game, but it hasn't exactly stopped either." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to carl" | ||
Floyd ] Bagliatiers Club 319 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CARL Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, I don't have any proper dialogue," he says. "You'll have to Floyd | wait for the full game for that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Haha" | |
| Amber > | ||
| DavidW says, "anyway, are we done? I think I'm done." | ||
| Roger says, "Concur" | ||
| escapecage says, "Interesting little game. I hope the implied sequel is made." | ||
| DavidW says, "There were a few exits from Mewbury Lane that we never tried." | ||
| DavidW says (to escapecage), "It's an IntroComp entry. This was only meant to be the first part of a larger game to be written." | ||
| Roger asks, "Did Frobisher ever show up again?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "No." | ||
| Roger says, "Ha" | ||
| escapecage says, "A swuggestion: I just finished Randal's Monday today, and despite the mixed reviews, it was quite excellent, reminiscent of the old Lucasarts adventure games." | ||
| escapecage says, "You cannot play it here, because it is a graphic adventure.." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0
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| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "Anyway, thanks to everyone for showing up and playing and offering suggestions and comments." | |
| Roger asks, "Can we leave the transcript in your able hands?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We're officially on hiatus, but we can still play if we want to." | ||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "Jacqueline will process the transcript eventually. You might have to wait a month, though." | ||
| Roger says, "Yeah, I'm just wondering if someone here as any further work to do to make that happen" | ||
| DavidW says, "I start Perry to make the recording." | ||
| DavidW says, "And I should look up how to stop him." | ||
| Amber says, "I feel like I've snuck in today, but enjoyed it as always." | ||
| Taleslinger) 5 minutes later ... DavidW says, "Oh my god! He's unstoppable!" | ||
