  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Okay. No images, I guess. Let's begin. I'll load 'er up." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask brainguzzlers" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! Floyd | Presented in glorious bi-chromatic TEXT-O-RAMA by Steph Cherrywell Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 151017 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | HIP or DRIP? Floyd | Floyd | Are you a keen gal, or a dull dame? This ten-question Quiz-O-Matric Floyd | info-matrix--designed with the latest science in mind--will tell you Floyd | if you're on track for a fairy-tale ending, or if you need to make Floyd | some changes to keep your Prince Charming from riding right on by! Floyd | Floyd | Question 1: Most importantly, what color is your hair? Floyd | Floyd | 1) Blonde. Floyd | 2) Black. Floyd | 3) Red. Floyd | 4) Brown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| zarf arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Emily says, "I've tried red and brown before but I haven't seen blonde or black" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "I always wanted to be a goth. How about black?" | ||
| Emily says, "(if I fill out this quiz as me, it totally thinks I'm boring)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've seen blonde and brown, I think." | ||
| Emily says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "black is good." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | [Black.] Floyd | Floyd | You may not be at the top of the social pyramid, but this solid choice Floyd | won't hold you back, either--keep your raven tresses washed and Floyd | bobbed, and you'll still get plenty of attention! Just watch your Floyd | wardrobe, and stay away from dungarees and too-bright colors. You Floyd | don't want to look ethnic! Floyd | Floyd | Question 2: Worries may bring wrinkles, but from time to time, we all Floyd | get a little fretful--it's our feminine nature! What worries you the Floyd | most? Floyd | Floyd | 1) My clothes. Floyd | 2) My weight. Floyd | 3) Nuclear war. Floyd | 4) My makeup. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(This first part definitely needs a driver. So I'll drive.)" | |
| DavidW says, "I chose weight when I played." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I chose nuclear war when I was answering as me." | ||
| Emily says, "heh, likewise" | ||
| verbalK asks, "What's the difference between make up and clothes really ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One is about money, the other less so. (Clothes = money, cosmetics = less so)" | ||
| Emily asks, "depends on the cosmetics, maybe?" | ||
| Emily says, "but sure, let's pick cosmetics" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Among other things, such as how you want people to think of you.)" | ||
| Emily says, "our gothy eyeliner" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ooooh. Right." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | [My makeup.] Floyd | Floyd | Every girl worries about her makeup. Remember those old sayings from Floyd | 'when mother was a girl': "If you're in a rush, just a little blush" Floyd | but "it's worth half an hour to cover that glower!" Also, "girls who Floyd | eat off their lipstick soon find it makes hips thick." We hope those Floyd | help! Floyd | Floyd | Question 3: We've all got that one can't-live-without-it item we tuck Floyd | into our purses before leaving the house. What's yours? Floyd | Floyd | 1) A book of poems. Ah, Dickinson! Floyd | 2) A girl can't be too careful, so I always carry a switchblade. Floyd | 3) My collapsible hula hoop! Floyd | 4) Don't laugh, but...I still carry a teddy bear. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I chose teddy bear. I like hugs." | |
| Jacqueline chuckles. | ||
| verbalK says, "I went for the book of poems." | ||
| Emily says, "the first time I picked the poems" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let me guess. Emily -- right" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Called it, just not soon enough." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I chose the switchblade." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So let's choose 3?" | ||
| Emily says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "I have no idea where the hula hoop would be useful in game." | ||
| Emily says, "that sounds like a rich source of potential comedy" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | [My collapsible hula hoop!] Floyd | Floyd | You're a real party-girl, and your careful choice shows that you're a Floyd | fun date AND you like to keep fit. Just watch where you swing those Floyd | hips; a modest hooper is a popular hooper! Floyd | Floyd | Question 4: What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Floyd | Floyd | 1) Vanilla. Floyd | 2) Chocolate. Floyd | 3) Strawberry. Floyd | 4) Mint. Floyd | 5) Lime. Floyd | 6) Fudge ripple. Floyd | 7) Raspberry. Floyd | 8) Rocky road. Floyd | 9) Black Forest double fudge. Floyd | 10) Tutti-frutti. Floyd | 11) Death-by-chocolate triple fudge. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "I really wonder what the collapsible hula hoop might be for..." | |
| DavidW says, "I picked raspberry." | ||
| verbalK says, "Raspberry too." | ||
| verbalK says, "Didnt reach the part of the game where this might have an impact though ..." | ||
| DavidW says (to verbalK), "I think all four must-keep items are useful *somewhere* in game." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Ah, so these things come up later? I guess I should have anticipated that. I was thinking it was just a distracting way to start the game, but it's using the now pretty common in non-text computer games quiz-determines-your-destiny thing?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I picked vanilla. But I was tempted by rocky road." | ||
| Emily says, "I'm up for that" | ||
| Emily says, "also, realizing I'm kind of hungry right now" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Yeah ! Rocky road let's go !" | ||
| Emily says, "but NEVER MIND THAT" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's not a destiny thing this time. But it does give different options." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "If this matters later, though, maybe we should chose death-by-chocolate triple fudge?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| zarf says, "chocolate always matters later" | ||
| DavidW says (to zarf), "So I've heard." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Rocky road. Also, this reminds me that I have some espresso gelato in the freezer." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "8" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > 8 Floyd | Floyd | [Rocky road.] Floyd | Floyd | As you put your pencil to the page, Jimmy yanks the magazine away from Floyd | you. "Aw, come on, Bonnie! Whyagotta keep your nose stuck in that Floyd | magazine alla time? What are you doin', takin' a test? Gee whiz, you'd Floyd | think we were in class instead of at the Parking Spot!" He leans back Floyd | in the driver's seat and folds his muscular arms across his chest. Floyd | "Aren't we gonna... you know...park?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) Let's look this "Jimmy" customer over. Floyd | 2) "Steady girlfriend, huh? You mean you weren't just up here Floyd | with that German exchange student?" Floyd | 3) "We haven't even been dating that long. What will people say?" Floyd | 4) Your mind is made up--you're gonna kiss him! Floyd | 5) Your mind is made up--no way are you gonna kiss him! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I basically ran down these options and then decided not to ever kiss him and to cheer when he dies." | |
| Jacqueline says, "After that I have not played the game." | ||
| DavidW says, "btw, as far as I know, the game cannot be made unwinnable." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I... I didn't choose 3, actually." | ||
| Emily says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["We haven't even been dating that long. What will people Floyd | say?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Aw, we've been on five dates already. If I don't get kissed soon, the Floyd | fellas will start callin' me a yellow-belly!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) Let's look this "Jimmy" customer over. Floyd | 2) "Steady girlfriend, huh? You mean you weren't just up here Floyd | with that German exchange student?" Floyd | 3) Your mind is made up--you're gonna kiss him! Floyd | 4) Your mind is made up--no way are you gonna kiss him! Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I was pretty annoyed with him too, yeah" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, I kissed him." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "David!" | ||
| Emily says, "heehee" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why, because of the response to 1?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "uh... maybe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, he's dreamy, but... oh who am I kidding? I've kissed a few very attractive yet questionable people." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe we should kiss him, just to see how this all goes down." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That... was the wrong choice of words." | ||
| zarf asks, "an d what is the response to 1?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Let's look this "Jimmy" customer over.] Floyd | Floyd | He's a real dreamboat--tall, tan, his athlete's body wrapped in a Floyd | tight varsity jacket that shows off his broad chest and well-muscled Floyd | arms. He sees you looking and flashes his trademark gleaming grin, the Floyd | one that makes girls melt into puddles. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Steady girlfriend, huh? You mean you weren't just up here Floyd | with that German exchange student?" Floyd | 2) Your mind is made up--you're gonna kiss him! Floyd | 3) Your mind is made up--no way are you gonna kiss him! Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "I see" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| verbalK says, "THat's when I decided I wasnt going to kiss him." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Basically there was indeed a time where I was interested in that. I got over it, though." | ||
| verbalK says, "But it happened anyway so .." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So... let me run through the others." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Steady girlfriend, huh? You mean you weren't just up here Floyd | with that German exchange student?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Gosh, no! I mean, I was. But that was before I met you, and anyway, Floyd | she was awful, just awful. Her breath tasted like those weird Floyd | cigarettes she smokes and she wouldn't shut up about, gosh, I don't Floyd | know what-all it was about. And she had that gross hairy mole on her Floyd | rear end!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I guess I can expect you to blab to the next girl about MY hairy Floyd | mole..." Floyd | 2) Your mind is made up--you're gonna kiss him! Floyd | 3) Your mind is made up--no way are you gonna kiss him! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I guess I can expect you to blab to the next girl about MY hairy Floyd | mole..."] Floyd | Floyd | "Ha, ha" Jimmy snorts. He looks concerned. "Wait, Bonnie. That was a Floyd | joke, right?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) Your mind is made up--you're gonna kiss him! Floyd | 2) Your mind is made up--no way are you gonna kiss him! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is when I was firmly against kissing him. But I will, for you all, if you wish it." | |
| Emily says, "no kissing" | ||
| Emily says, "I really dislike Jimmy" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'll point out that Jimmy did *not* get his own character art." | ||
| Jacqueline sits back to see if anyone will take on Ms. Short. | ||
| DavidW says, "don't kiss him" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Having counted past ten and not heard from others..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | [Your mind is made up--no way are you gonna kiss him!] Floyd | Floyd | "Look," you say, "I'm sorry, but...I'm just not that sort of girl." Floyd | Jimmy frowns. "I'm starting to think you're not a girl at all--you're Floyd | more like a cold fish!" Floyd | "Well, better a cold fish than an overheated wolf!" you shoot back. Floyd | "Well, I'D rather be a wolf than a stuck-up cow!" Floyd | Floyd | The conversation goes steadily downhill from there. Floyd | Floyd | "Yak!" Floyd | "Skunk!" Floyd | "Crab!" Floyd | "Hippo!" Floyd | "Oooh, grow up you...you axolotl!" Floyd | "Well, you're a gazelle! Only, y'know, like an insult, as in 'That Floyd | Bonnie, she's dumb as a gazelle!' I'm not calling you graceful--" Floyd | "Wait, shh! What was that?" A sound outside the car has caught your Floyd | attention. | verbalK asks, "Hey how do you guys communicate with Floyd ?" | |
| zarf says, "hee" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And now we enter Press Any Key Land." | ||
| Emily asks, "wait, what would be wrong with being an axolotl?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to verbalK), "You type f command... but right now I'm driving so that we don't step on each other." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Emily), "I totally don't know. They're adorable." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | attention.It's a low gurgling noise, like the gentle babbling of a Floyd | brook. But that's impossible--The Parking Spot is at the top of a Floyd | cliff! There's nothing up here but pine trees and gravel roads. The Floyd | headlights throw the shadows of the trunks into sharp relief. Floyd | Floyd | A black shape appears right in front of you! You stifle a shriek. It's Floyd | only a deer. The doe ignores you, wandering off into the trees. Floyd | Floyd | The gurgling noise gets louder, than starts to die away. "It's Floyd | probably just Old Man McDillingfitty," Jimmy says. "That old busybody Floyd | is always trying to get us kids in trouble!" Floyd | Floyd | With a sickening thud, half of a deer carcass smashes into the front Floyd | of the car, splattering the windshield with intestines and Floyd | greenish-yellow ichor. The hindquarters are completely gone, ripped Floyd | cleanly off, or maybe melted by the glowing goo which is now burning Floyd | its way through the engine. Floyd | Floyd | "My car!" Jimmy cries. "That's it. Stay here, Bonnie. I'm going to Floyd | go give that dirty old man a piece of my mind!" | Emily says, "unless the idea is-- hm." | |
| Emily researches | ||
| verbalK asks, "Why is the space bar green ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Because the return key is yellow." | ||
| verbalK says, "Obviously... Why did I even ask :)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And the return key is yellow because the space bar is green." | ||
| Emily says, "ah, right, okay: so it goes with "grow up": axolotls are neotenic, and retain juvenile appearance into adulthood" | ||
| Emily says, "I HAVE LEARNED A THING thank you Steph" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's one to grow on." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I really did love this bit with the deer." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | go give that dirty old man a piece of my mind!"He gets out of the car Floyd | and walks towards the trees. "Hello? Mr. McDillingfitty? Is that Floyd | you?" Floyd | Floyd | The gurgling, slithering noise gets louder and louder. You can hear Floyd | noises, heavy but somehow soft, like garbage bags full of gelatin Floyd | dropping into a parking lot from an enormous height. A shadow rises Floyd | above the trees, visible only as an absense of stars. Floyd | Floyd | "Golly," Jimmy says. "McDillingfitty is taller than I remembered. He Floyd | was in the war, wasn't he? Uh--maybe--maybe we should just go--" Floyd | Floyd | A ropy tentacle as thick around as a tree trunk shoots out of the Floyd | woods and lifts Jimmy off of his feet. "Oh, heck!" he cries in alarm Floyd | as he's hoisted into the air. The headlights flicker and die. Abrupt Floyd | and near-total darkness is split by screams of agony. "My brain! Floyd | You're guzzling my brain! Y-you're not Old Man Floyd | McDilling--" Floyd | Floyd | His voice cuts off, and you can hear horrible sucking sounds. Oh gosh! Floyd | He's being devoured alive! Oh gosh! Oh gosh! That monster--that Floyd | horrible thing out there, whatever it is--is eating him! And Floyd | now it's going to eat you! Floyd | Floyd | Oh my gosh! Floyd | Floyd | Mercury Meteor Floyd | You're crouched in the front seat of Jimmy's car. Well, technically Floyd | now it's kind of your car, since he's dead and your were practically Floyd | almost sort of his girlfriend. It comes fully loaded with all the Floyd | latest options: a steering wheel, glove compartment, horn, parking Floyd | brake, headlights and so on. Floyd | Floyd | Outside is a sea of moonless black, but you know roughly where you Floyd | are--you're at The Parking Spot, with the front of the car pointing up Floyd | the steep incline towards the patch of scraggly pines growing on the Floyd | mountaintop. A short dirt path behind you leads back down to the main Floyd | road. Floyd | Floyd | You can't see a horrible monster here, but that doesn't mean there Floyd | isn't one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "meanwhile I've been reading wikipedia, Jimmy is getting eaten" | |
| zarf says, "'just a little, not a lot'll / satisfy an axolotl'" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can I just poing something out?" | ||
| zarf asks, "that rhyme sucked?" | ||
| Emily asks, "point?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I don't think anyone is capable of actually saying 'You're guzzling my brain!' Like, once it's happening, you can't talk anymore, can you?" | ||
| Emily says, "maybe if it's very slow, initially causing only limited damage" | ||
| Emily says, "but that would be more sipping" | ||
| Jacqueline realizes she will need to suspend her disbelief. | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't want to give spoilers about brain guzzling." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Emily), "Brain Sippers From Beyond... doesn't have quite the same ring to it." | ||
| Emily says, "also, I am reminded of that playground joke. "what is it doing? / starving!"" | ||
| Emily says (to Jacqueline), "not so much, no" | ||
| verbalK asks, "What if the brain guzzler, while guzzling, injected a specific poison into your brain that makes you say "You are guzzling my brain" ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. I am now Samwise, and if I take one more step, it'll be the farthest from home I've ever been. The rest of the game I've not yet seen," | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Emily), "Yeah. I used to tell that joke. I was a terrible little child." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to verbalK), "Perhaps it has a voice emulator that it plays while it's guzzling you. ANYWAY, WHAT DO WE DO NOW? THIS SEEMS SERIOUS." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Let's try to get out ? Can we drive ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The car's engine kind of melted, but let's try that, sure." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Question: is there a timing issue still, or could we all enter commands?" | ||
| DavidW says, "You should be fine here." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Cool" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're Bonnie Noodleman, a spunky eighteen-year-old with raven-black Floyd | hair. You're wearing a stylish pleated gray skirt and navy-blue Floyd | sweater. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The game is very forgiving." | |
| Jacqueline says, "What was Jimmy's last name? Maybe we should have married him just to get our name changed easily." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Then again, perhaps Bonnie Noodleman is a pastamancer." | ||
| Emily says, "mmmm pasta" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAR Floyd | Floyd | Wow, this is a real keen ride! It's got all sorts of features, like a Floyd | horn, and headlights, and a parking brake, and even a steering wheel, Floyd | and the whole thing is painted a real swell red that you could get out Floyd | and admire if it wasn't pitch dark, and if you could leave the car Floyd | without dying messily. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(Warning: I always suck at figuring out the commands for cars.)" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "start car" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > START CAR Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive car" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE CAR Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "the thing to note here is that it spells out the various car parts" | |
| Emily says, "and-- yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on ignition" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON IGNITION Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily says (to floyd), "x brake" | ||
Floyd ] Mercury Meteor Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRAKE Floyd | Floyd | It keeps the car from rolling away. It's on right now. You can PULL it Floyd | to take it off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull brake" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL BRAKE Floyd | Floyd | You yank hard on the brake. The car shudders, then begins rolling Floyd | backwards. Oh, goody--it's working! You feel happy butterflies in Floyd | your belly as the Meteor gently slides back onto the smooth asphalt of Floyd | the main road. Floyd | Floyd | The slithering, gibbering noises are fading. Whatever that Floyd | brain-guzzling monster is, every second that passes is taking you Floyd | farther away from it. And not only are you escaping, but as your Floyd | escape continues, it goes faster... Floyd | Floyd | ...and faster... Floyd | Floyd | ...and maybe you're escaping a little TOO much, because you've got to Floyd | be going about seventy or eighty miles now backwards down a mountain Floyd | road in a car that doesn't really work. | verbalK exclaims, "Let's roll !" | |
| zarf says, "SET RATIOCINATING INJECTOR TO MANDIBLE" | ||
| DavidW says, "goodness. It took me ages to pull the brake. I was methodically examining everything." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we pull it again to stop?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull break" | ||
Floyd | road in a car that doesn't really work.You grab the wheel and do your Floyd | best to at least steer, whipping around corners at high speed and Floyd | barely staying on the road. You're doing okay, though--and then you Floyd | see it in the rearview mirror! Dead Teenager's Curve, the most Floyd | dangerous patch of road in the state. Golly, don't tell me you Floyd | survived a monster attack only to die in an ordinary traffic accident! Floyd | Floyd | You wrestle with the wheel, but it's not enough. The Meteor bursts Floyd | through the guardrail and sails out into an ocean of cold air and Floyd | stars! Oh gosh! It's going end over end now, sky and ground switching Floyd | places in a dizzying whirl. "Jeepers, what a pickle!" you think as Floyd | your forehead smashes into the steering column. | DavidW says, "push space" | |
| verbalK says, "Well, we can still examine stuff later I guess, we are still IN the car." | ||
| DavidW says (to verbalK), "uhuh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "YAY" | ||
| DavidW says, "push space again" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Us saying 'Jeepers, what a pickle' just made this death worthwhile!" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | your forehead smashes into the steering column........... | verbalK says (to DavidW), "(Just trying to talk to someone)" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | your forehead smashes into the steering column..................... | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | your forehead smashes into the steering Floyd | column.....................Your eyelids flutter open. Holy moly, does Floyd | your head ever hurt! You drag yourself out from under the wreckage of Floyd | the Meteor, crawling on your belly into the light of a cool, gray Floyd | morning. You feel awful, but at least you're alive. Floyd | Floyd | The Drive-In Floyd | You're standing in the drive-in on the edge of town, where all the Floyd | coolest teens come to ignore movies. To the north is Make-Out Floyd | Mountain, and flanking it are a number of less controversial Floyd | mountains. Mist hangs in the cool air, clinging to the stunted pines Floyd | and making the screen slick with tiny droplets. A dirt road leads Floyd | south, and you can see buildings nestled in the low bowl of the Floyd | valley. Floyd | Floyd | A smoking wreck is parked here upside down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| verbalK asks, "Let's follow David's advice and check the wreck ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "please do." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wreck" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > X WRECK Floyd | Floyd | The remains of the Mercury Meteor -- well, technically, now that it's Floyd | hit the Earth's surface the correct term is "meteorite." Most of it's Floyd | destroyed, but the glove compartment survived. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YAY" | |
| zarf says, "ha (again)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh that makes me so happy." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in glove compartment" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN GLOVE COMPARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see inside, since the glove compartment is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open glove compartment" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE COMPARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | You open the glove compartment, revealing a Canyonville High yearbook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take yearbook" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE YEARBOOK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x yearbook" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > X YEARBOOK Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the Table of Contents) Floyd | Floyd | 1) Foreword: Advice for Today's Teen-Ager Floyd | 2) Our Students: Pioneers at the Dawn of Tomorrow Floyd | 3) Our Community: A Heritage of Superbness Floyd | 4) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline rolls her eyes, decides to read the thing. | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Foreword: Advice for Today's Teen-Ager] Floyd | Floyd | Words of Wisdom from your Beloved Principal, Oswald J. Dunkin. Floyd | Floyd | How times have changed! When I was a lad, a youth in Canyonville meant Floyd | summers helping dear old Dad on his pine nut plantation or cranking my Floyd | old Model T to take my sweetheart to the movies. The teens of today Floyd | can expect to spend their salad days soaring through space, trading in Floyd | the old shovel and hoe for a pair of rocket repair gloves and magnetic Floyd | astro-boots. Yet we dusty old fogies have, perhaps, picked up a thing Floyd | or two in our time on this Earth--so it would indeed behoove you to Floyd | listen up, because what I've got to say might just help you out some Floyd | day! Floyd | Floyd | Always remember the value of a friendly word. If you see someone, Floyd | friend or stranger, TALK TO them! This simple courtesy is sure to help Floyd | you get ahead in life. Floyd | Floyd | Also, try to keep in mind that whatever this old universe of ours Floyd | throws at you, there's always a way out, and you can never really die. Floyd | If you do happen upon some awkward patch of the universe that won't Floyd | allow you to proceed, simply UNDO to move a short distance backwards Floyd | in time! Truly, the modern age is filled with marvels! Floyd | Floyd | With warmest thanks to all my students, Oswald J. Dunkin, Principal. Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the Table of Contents) Floyd | Floyd | 1) Foreword: Advice for Today's Teen-Ager Floyd | 2) Our Students: Pioneers at the Dawn of Tomorrow Floyd | 3) Our Community: A Heritage of Superbness Floyd | 4) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You might check your own inventory too, at some point. After we're done with the yearbook, of course." | |
| verbalK says, "Advice is always good." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So seemless, these instructions." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | [Our Students: Pioneers at the Dawn of Tomorrow] Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of students) Floyd | Floyd | You can't throw a rock at Canyonville High without hitting one of Floyd | tomorrow's talented young leaders! (Principal's note: Please do not Floyd | throw rocks!) Let's learn a little more about these vibrant Floyd | up-and-coming minds! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Brandt, Traudl Floyd | 2) Finch, Renee Floyd | 3) Johnson, Jimmy Floyd | 4) Minsky, Mary Jane Floyd | 5) Noodleman, Bonnie Floyd | 6) Yoshida, Jenny Floyd | 7) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | [Noodleman, Bonnie] Floyd | Floyd | Winner, Miss Human Compass Junior Orienteer, 1956 Floyd | Winner, Pine Nut Days Girls' Grocery-Balancing Competition, 1958 Floyd | Floyd | Played the Widow Fobb, mother of Canyonville founder Charles Fobb, in Floyd | "Birth of a Town." Floyd | Floyd | "Go west. Take all."- from "Birth of a Town" Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of students) Floyd | Floyd | You can't throw a rock at Canyonville High without hitting one of Floyd | tomorrow's talented young leaders! (Principal's note: Please do not Floyd | throw rocks!) Let's learn a little more about these vibrant Floyd | up-and-coming minds! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Brandt, Traudl Floyd | 2) Finch, Renee Floyd | 3) Johnson, Jimmy Floyd | 4) Minsky, Mary Jane Floyd | 5) Noodleman, Bonnie Floyd | 6) Yoshida, Jenny Floyd | 7) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'Miss Human Compass'" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Indeed. Sounds useful." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | [Johnson, Jimmy] Floyd | Floyd | Fighting Conifers, quarterback, 1959 Floyd | Fighting Conifers, mascot, 1958, 1957 Floyd | Voted Most Likely To Live To A Hundred Floyd | Floyd | "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the Floyd | life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of students) Floyd | Floyd | You can't throw a rock at Canyonville High without hitting one of Floyd | tomorrow's talented young leaders! (Principal's note: Please do not Floyd | throw rocks!) Let's learn a little more about these vibrant Floyd | up-and-coming minds! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Brandt, Traudl Floyd | 2) Finch, Renee Floyd | 3) Johnson, Jimmy Floyd | 4) Minsky, Mary Jane Floyd | 5) Noodleman, Bonnie Floyd | 6) Yoshida, Jenny Floyd | 7) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hooray for the Fighting Conifers." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I want to dress up like their mascot." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Like a Christmas tree ?" | ||
| zarf asks, "like Jimmy?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Like a conifer." | ||
| DavidW says, "If there's one thing I'd change about the yearbook, I'd add an option to return to the index before the close the yearbook option." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also yay being voted most likely to live a long time." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "True" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Brandt, Traudl] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Poets of Tomorrow, founder Floyd | Junior Coffee Enthusiasts, participant Floyd | NOTE: Miss Brandt has been expelled for gross unseemliness. Floyd | Floyd | Regrettably, Miss Brandt also selected an unprintable quote. Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of students) Floyd | Floyd | You can't throw a rock at Canyonville High without hitting one of Floyd | tomorrow's talented young leaders! (Principal's note: Please do not Floyd | throw rocks!) Let's learn a little more about these vibrant Floyd | up-and-coming minds! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Brandt, Traudl Floyd | 2) Finch, Renee Floyd | 3) Johnson, Jimmy Floyd | 4) Minsky, Mary Jane Floyd | 5) Noodleman, Bonnie Floyd | 6) Yoshida, Jenny Floyd | 7) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I too, am a member of the Junior Coffee Enthusiasts. I am sipping some right now." | |
| DavidW says, "I'd like to point out that most of these characters appeared in a previous game by the author." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah" | ||
| verbalK asks (of DavidW), "What's that game's name ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | [Finch, Renee] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Canyonville High Sci-Fi Enthusiasts Club, president, vice president, Floyd | secretary, treasurer Floyd | Bake Sale Honorable Mention, 1959 Floyd | Floyd | "If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of students) Floyd | Floyd | You can't throw a rock at Canyonville High without hitting one of Floyd | tomorrow's talented young leaders! (Principal's note: Please do not Floyd | throw rocks!) Let's learn a little more about these vibrant Floyd | up-and-coming minds! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Brandt, Traudl Floyd | 2) Finch, Renee Floyd | 3) Johnson, Jimmy Floyd | 4) Minsky, Mary Jane Floyd | 5) Noodleman, Bonnie Floyd | 6) Yoshida, Jenny Floyd | 7) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft. It's a Quest game." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I will have to check it out." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Thanks !" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | [Minsky, Mary Jane] Floyd | Floyd | Canyonville Pine Nut Queen 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956 Floyd | Canyonville Junior Pine Nut Princess 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, Floyd | 1950, 1949, 1948, 1947, 1946, 1945, 1944, 1943 Floyd | Most Beautiful Baby, 1942 Floyd | Third Runner-Up, Miss Albuquerque Greater Metro Area and Surrounding Floyd | Counties, 1958 Floyd | Decoration Committee Floyd | Glee Club Floyd | Cheer Squad Floyd | Floyd | "Any girl can look glamorous." - Hedy Lamarr Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of students) Floyd | Floyd | You can't throw a rock at Canyonville High without hitting one of Floyd | tomorrow's talented young leaders! (Principal's note: Please do not Floyd | throw rocks!) Let's learn a little more about these vibrant Floyd | up-and-coming minds! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Brandt, Traudl Floyd | 2) Finch, Renee Floyd | 3) Johnson, Jimmy Floyd | 4) Minsky, Mary Jane Floyd | 5) Noodleman, Bonnie Floyd | 6) Yoshida, Jenny Floyd | 7) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Same characters, but they're all junior witches there." | |
| Jacqueline says, "wow" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | [Yoshida, Jenny] Floyd | Floyd | Blue Ribbon, Pine Nut Days Pie Competition, for "Etude in Sugar and Floyd | Green" Floyd | Floyd | "Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of students) Floyd | Floyd | You can't throw a rock at Canyonville High without hitting one of Floyd | tomorrow's talented young leaders! (Principal's note: Please do not Floyd | throw rocks!) Let's learn a little more about these vibrant Floyd | up-and-coming minds! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Brandt, Traudl Floyd | 2) Finch, Renee Floyd | 3) Johnson, Jimmy Floyd | 4) Minsky, Mary Jane Floyd | 5) Noodleman, Bonnie Floyd | 6) Yoshida, Jenny Floyd | 7) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(Jimmy is not in that game. Just the girls.)" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "7" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 7 Floyd | Floyd | [(Close the yearbook)] Floyd | Floyd | The Drive-In Floyd | You're standing in the drive-in on the edge of town, where all the Floyd | coolest teens come to ignore movies. To the north is Make-Out Floyd | Mountain, and flanking it are a number of less controversial Floyd | mountains. Mist hangs in the cool air, clinging to the stunted pines Floyd | and making the screen slick with tiny droplets. A dirt road leads Floyd | south, and you can see buildings nestled in the low bowl of the Floyd | valley. Floyd | Floyd | A smoking wreck is parked here upside down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read yearbook" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > READ YEARBOOK Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the Table of Contents) Floyd | Floyd | 1) Foreword: Advice for Today's Teen-Ager Floyd | 2) Our Students: Pioneers at the Dawn of Tomorrow Floyd | 3) Our Community: A Heritage of Superbness Floyd | 4) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | [Our Community: A Heritage of Superbness] Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of community sidebars) Floyd | Floyd | Canyonville, New Mexico: City on the Go! Our fair blossom in the Floyd | desert is known throughout the quad-county region for its many points Floyd | of civic pride. See any of the following convenient sidebars for Floyd | high-quality, school-approved information! Floyd | Floyd | 1) TOWN HISTORY: Our Shining Past Floyd | 2) PINE NUT DAYS: Our Pleasant Present Floyd | 3) MINSYSTEMS LABS: Our Forward-Looking Future Floyd | 4) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [TOWN HISTORY: Our Shining Past] Floyd | Floyd | Boston entrepreneur Charles Fobb came west in 1841 with a dream--a Floyd | dream of a rich, fertile paradise nestled in the heart of the New Floyd | Mexican desert. What he found was Canyonville. Floyd | Floyd | When Fobb arrived, the savage inhabitants of "Tuva", as they called Floyd | it, lived a stagnant life of sloth and indolence, grown fat and lazy Floyd | on the abundant pine nuts and other natural bounty. Saddened at this Floyd | wasted potential, the kind-hearted Fobb used his golden tongue to Floyd | convince them to leave the valley for a challenging, industrious life Floyd | of adventure in the surrounding desert -- except for a few fast Floyd | friends who were extended an invitation to stay on as Fobb's honored Floyd | guests. Tuva was rechristened Fobbville, and our city's history began. Floyd | Floyd | The little town prospered, founding a rich agricultural tradition. Floyd | Pine nuts were soon seen on tables from Fobb's native Boston to Floyd | Buckingham Palace. Then in 1863--tragedy! Changes to the US legal code Floyd | resulted in Fobb losing his beloved farmhands. An ill-advised attempt Floyd | at switching to polished-pine buggywhip handles devastated Fobbville's Floyd | food production potential for a decade. Fobb's son, Johnward Cable Floyd | Fobb, soundly defeated Charles in the mayoral election, ushering in a Floyd | new error of honest government which lasted until he was tragically Floyd | hanged for murder and horse theft in 1877. Floyd | Floyd | The town, now renamed Canyonville, was by now a popular crossroads of Floyd | commerce and ideas. In 1912, statehood came knocking, and our city Floyd | answered the call, boldly throwing its hat in the ring for Floyd | consideration as state capital. Sadly, the people of New Mexico Floyd | foolishly took pity on the poorly-run shantytown of Santa Fe instead. Floyd | Floyd | Never one to rest on its considerable laurels, Canyonville rebounded, Floyd | becoming a bustling tourist destination. The World's Largest Pine Nut, Floyd | a magnificent behemoth the size of a size four ladies' evening Floyd | slipper, stood in the town square from 1917 to 1933, when it was Floyd | devoured by a squirrel. The town took the loss in stride, playfully Floyd | holding a "trial" for the hungry beast before sentencing him to be Floyd | hanged by the neck until dead. The squirrel died of natural causes two Floyd | years later, and the warrant for whoever was sneaking him food remains Floyd | outstanding. By that time, a new world's largest pine nut had been Floyd | located and placed in a secure case in the city hall atrium, where it Floyd | remained until being cracked and rendered into nut butter for the war Floyd | effort in 1942. Floyd | Floyd | Truly, a history of triumph! What's next for Canyonville? Only you, Floyd | her treasured youth, can finish this story. Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of community sidebars) Floyd | Floyd | Canyonville, New Mexico: City on the Go! Our fair blossom in the Floyd | desert is known throughout the quad-county region for its many points Floyd | of civic pride. See any of the following convenient sidebars for Floyd | high-quality, school-approved information! Floyd | Floyd | 1) TOWN HISTORY: Our Shining Past Floyd | 2) PINE NUT DAYS: Our Pleasant Present Floyd | 3) MINSYSTEMS LABS: Our Forward-Looking Future Floyd | 4) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I just love love love the author's writing style. She's so good." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "a new error of honest government - I can't decide if that's a typo or not. I'm guessing not?" | ||
| Emily says, "ha" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | [PINE NUT DAYS: Our Pleasant Present] Floyd | Floyd | Canyonville: Area on the Go! From the beautiful southwestern Floyd | architectures of the Old West End to Main Street's bustling shops and Floyd | our lush town square, Canyonville today is known for its high quality Floyd | of life. Teens enjoy "keen" nights out at the "nifty" drive-in or have Floyd | a burger at Finch's. Undoubtedly the high point of the year, however, Floyd | is Pine Nut Days, our annual celebration of nature's glorious bounty. Floyd | Goggle at the parade, thrill to fairground extravagance, or try one of Floyd | the tasty treats on offer. And always keep in mind our motto-"Nothing Floyd | Bad Could Possibly Happen During Pine Nut Days." So, as Jughead might Floyd | say on Life With Archie--relaaaaaax! Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of community sidebars) Floyd | Floyd | Canyonville, New Mexico: City on the Go! Our fair blossom in the Floyd | desert is known throughout the quad-county region for its many points Floyd | of civic pride. See any of the following convenient sidebars for Floyd | high-quality, school-approved information! Floyd | Floyd | 1) TOWN HISTORY: Our Shining Past Floyd | 2) PINE NUT DAYS: Our Pleasant Present Floyd | 3) MINSYSTEMS LABS: Our Forward-Looking Future Floyd | 4) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, the writing is pretty amazing. I'm not sure how she maintains the energy to churn this out. It's all so upbeat and fifties." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | [MINSYSTEMS LABS: Our Forward-Looking Future] Floyd | Floyd | Space travel. Robotics. Transportation. All of these words and more Floyd | appear in the pamphlets for MinSystems Labs, our fair city's leading Floyd | source of non-agricultural income. Tours of the facility and the Floyd | techno-wizardry within are available twice weekly. Will you be the Floyd | first Canyonvillian in space? Floyd | Floyd | Don't forget to check out the fantastical Tomorrowdome, the exterior Floyd | of which is visible through many windows in public areas! Floyd | Floyd | (You turn to the index of community sidebars) Floyd | Floyd | Canyonville, New Mexico: City on the Go! Our fair blossom in the Floyd | desert is known throughout the quad-county region for its many points Floyd | of civic pride. See any of the following convenient sidebars for Floyd | high-quality, school-approved information! Floyd | Floyd | 1) TOWN HISTORY: Our Shining Past Floyd | 2) PINE NUT DAYS: Our Pleasant Present Floyd | 3) MINSYSTEMS LABS: Our Forward-Looking Future Floyd | 4) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Tomorrowdome, hm?" | |
| zarf says, "I suspect 'buried rage' is teh answer" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| zarf says, "just from the bit about 1863" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, that's all of the yearbook, non?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think so." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | [(Close the yearbook)] Floyd | Floyd | The Drive-In Floyd | You're standing in the drive-in on the edge of town, where all the Floyd | coolest teens come to ignore movies. To the north is Make-Out Floyd | Mountain, and flanking it are a number of less controversial Floyd | mountains. Mist hangs in the cool air, clinging to the stunted pines Floyd | and making the screen slick with tiny droplets. A dirt road leads Floyd | south, and you can see buildings nestled in the low bowl of the Floyd | valley. Floyd | Floyd | A smoking wreck is parked here upside down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hula hoop" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > X HULA HOOP Floyd | Floyd | It's a hula hoop. It folds up when you're not using it. It's only Floyd | useful for hula-ing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hula" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > HULA Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "use hula hoop" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > USE HULA HOOP Floyd | Floyd | You use the hula hoop. Fun! Then it falls down around your ankles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline glares. | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use hula" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > USE HULA Floyd | Floyd | You use the hula hoop. Fun! Then it falls down around your ankles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Totally shoulda said switchblade." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pamphlet" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAMPHLET Floyd | Floyd | A small pamphlet you picked up at the five and dime. READ it to learn Floyd | about the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | This pamphlet, a publication of the New Mexico Organization of Floyd | Sportsmen and Anglers, is full of information about the local game, Floyd | including the white-tailed deer, the red-tailed deer, and the giant Floyd | horned toad. Floyd | Floyd | Unbeknownst to you, the following information is also written on it in Floyd | invisible ink: Floyd | Floyd | Thanks for playing Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! Floyd | Floyd | Playtesters: Floyd | Sarah Adams Floyd | Agouti-Rex Floyd | Andrew Schultz Floyd | Hanon Ondricek Floyd | Floyd | If you enjoy this game, you may want to try "Chlorophyll","Jacqueline, Floyd | Jungle Queen!", and "Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft", all available Floyd | through the Interactive Fiction Database ([LINK]). Floyd | Floyd | The following commands are used in this game: Floyd | Directional commands (N, E, W, S, NW, NE, SE, SW, U, D, IN, OUT) Floyd | Numerical responses (Choice-based sections only) Floyd | INVENTORY/I Floyd | EXAMINE/X/LOOK AT (noun) Floyd | TAKE (object) Floyd | DROP (object) Floyd | TALK TO (person) Floyd | SHOW (object) to (person) Floyd | GIVE (object) to (person) Floyd | USE (object) Floyd | PUSH (object) Floyd | PULL (object) Floyd | TURN (object) Floyd | SHOOT (object) Floyd | READ (object) Floyd | ENTER (vehicle) Floyd | OPEN (container) Floyd | CLOSE (container) Floyd | PUT (object) IN (container) Floyd | Trying other commands may have fun or interesting results but these Floyd | are the only ones you need to complete the game. This game is not Floyd | intended to have any possible unwinnable states, so "undo" should Floyd | never be necessary, but the function is included in case of unforeseen Floyd | bugs or conversational dead ends. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm very curious what use the hoop will be for." | |
| verbalK says, "Same here ..." | ||
| Jacqueline has little hope for the hoop. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | The Drive-In Floyd | You're standing in the drive-in on the edge of town, where all the Floyd | coolest teens come to ignore movies. To the north is Make-Out Floyd | Mountain, and flanking it are a number of less controversial Floyd | mountains. Mist hangs in the cool air, clinging to the stunted pines Floyd | and making the screen slick with tiny droplets. A dirt road leads Floyd | south, and you can see buildings nestled in the low bowl of the Floyd | valley. Floyd | Floyd | A smoking wreck is parked here upside down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, we came from the north, I take it?" | |
| verbalK says, "Seems like it" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "We honestly went with a boy to a place called Make-Out Mountain when we weren't sure we wanted to kiss? Are we mentally competent to be the protagonist?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Let the NPCs question that for you." | ||
| Emily says, "heh" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Doesn't that happen to teenagers like... everyday ?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... south?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to verbalK), "Well, true." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "He was cute or something... so... You know, we just went !" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Fair enough." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think south is the only exit from the Drive-In." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x drive-in" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRIVE-IN Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "huh - is that a new default or one of hers?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | A sketchbook lies abandoned in the road. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "her default, I think." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | (the sketchbook) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | A thick pad of drawing paper. Some up-and-coming young artist must Floyd | have dropped this on their way out of the coffeehouse. You could READ Floyd | it to take a look at the sketches. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I love this book." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, is this the sketches we can't see?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | How strange! Instead of being filled with sunsets and chubby naked Floyd | ladies, like a normal artist's sketchbook, it's filled with nothing Floyd | but drawings of Campbell's soup cans! No wonder someone threw it Floyd | away. Nobody's going to pay for soup can drawings, even if they are Floyd | awful realistic looking! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oops" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | How strange! Instead of being filled with sunsets and chubby naked Floyd | ladies, like a normal artist's sketchbook, it's filled with nothing Floyd | but drawings of Campbell's soup cans! No wonder someone threw it Floyd | away. Nobody's going to pay for soup can drawings, even if they are Floyd | awful realistic looking! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So that is ... it. Okay." | |
| DavidW says, "For now." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Which way, folks?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I like the look of the junk yard." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Junk yards are useful." | ||
| DavidW says, "They can be, yes. Junk is so useful for a Human Compass." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | Generations of garbage have been piled here in haphazard stacks, Floyd | rusting and slowly sinking into the earth under the weight of tons of Floyd | scrap. The only way out is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | McDillingfitty's "house", a rusting metal silo, stands empty, slowly Floyd | falling apart under the weight of the ages. Floyd | Floyd | A goat is eyeing you suspiciously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "goat, hello" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > GOAT, HELLO Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | The goat suddenly takes it upon himself to butt his head into you, Floyd | causing you to drop the game pamphlet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I used to have a goat just like this one." | |
| DavidW says, "You had a goat? I never knew that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I eventually got him to quit headbutting me." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "A pygmy goat, yeah. He is sadly part of my bad pet karma." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh noes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I went out of town and I'm 99% sure that my chosen goat sitter ate him." | ||
| DavidW says, "You have good pet karma now, I hope." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But anyway, he 'escaped' and I never saw him again." | ||
| Emily says (to Jacqueline), "wow" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. It was ... argh. It was horrible." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Your goat sitter *ate* your goat?!?" | ||
| zarf says, "*somebody* got bad karma there but I don't think you." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I do have good pet karma now. I hope. Given that maga is about to move our cats 2600 miles to a place that doesn't like pets." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But anyway, we have a game to play." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pamphlet" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PAMPHLET Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pet goat" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > PET GOAT Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline frowns. | |
| DavidW says, "This goat doesn't get brain guzzled. I think I need to say that right now." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search garbage" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH GARBAGE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | The goat nibbles at some nonexistent grass. Floyd | Floyd | The goat suddenly takes it upon himself to butt his head into you, Floyd | causing you to drop the game pamphlet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pamphlet" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PAMPHLET Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The goat looks at you as if you were a plump, juicy tin can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x house" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | It's a little taller than a one-story house, but too narrow to have Floyd | much living space. There's an open hatch on the side where a door Floyd | probably used to be. You never noticed it before, but there are Floyd | numbers printed on the side: "X271 -- Minsystems Labs." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter house" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | The goat bleats menacingly at you as you get close to the silo, and Floyd | you hastily take several steps back. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Number is not important." | |
| verbalK asks, "I don't think we're welcome here ... Do we have some food for Goaty the goat?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe. Goats have a weird definition of 'food'" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a sketchbook Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims, "The sketchbook !" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Our sweater, for instance." | ||
| verbalK asks, "It has soup. Campbell soup. Maybe goats love soup ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "feed sketchbook to goat" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > FEED SKETCHBOOK TO GOAT Floyd | Floyd | The goat's mouth waters as he looks at the tastily realistic cans. Oh Floyd | my gosh! He sinks his teeth into the sketchbook and gobbles it up in Floyd | seconds! At least it was worth something to somebody. Floyd | Floyd | The goat looks much friendlier now. He's eyeing you as if you might Floyd | know where there's more food. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of verbalK), "The sketchbook of realistically drawn tin cans?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter house" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You poke your head in and look around. There's nothing inside except Floyd | a smell so dreadful it nearly makes your permanent wave go limp. Floyd | McDillingfitty is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | It smells pretty normal here. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "huh.... nothing ?" | |
| DavidW says, "You have a goat." | ||
| DavidW says, "A friendly goat." | ||
| verbalK asks, "So the goat is not protecting anything ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It was protecting the house of forbidden mysteries, but now it's not" | ||
| verbalK asks (of DavidW), "Will the goat follow us now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "It will follow us now!" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Yes ! We have a brave companion !" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So it smells dreadful (and not normal, I suspect that's a bug)." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is McDillingfitty's brain-guzzled corpse somewhere, or is it just trash?" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's possible that the author overlooked the SMELL command." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| Ghogg arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "I have no idea where McD is." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Is it worth poking around in here?" | ||
| DavidW says, "The goat is this room's prize." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | Generations of garbage have been piled here in haphazard stacks, Floyd | rusting and slowly sinking into the earth under the weight of tons of Floyd | scrap. The only way out is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | McDillingfitty's "house", a rusting metal silo, stands empty, slowly Floyd | falling apart under the weight of the ages. Floyd | Floyd | A goat is eyeing you hopefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims, "It's a great prize !" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The goat trots after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I know you really wanted a crowbar, but you don't need one." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You knock politely on the barn door. It opens just wide enough for a Floyd | man with a goatee and a beret to stick his pointy nose though. "Like, Floyd | beat it, chicky," he says. "We're, like, closedville until tonight, Floyd | you dig?" He shuts the door in your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Let's try again ?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Grr. Hipsters." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You rap sharply on the barn door, but nobody answers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "time" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > TIME Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh right. This game is divided into rough chapters/time-of-day." | |
| DavidW says, "This is basically morning, more or less." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So now we must engage in a puzzle of painting the windows dark to fake the beat poet into thinking it's time to open." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or we just come back later." | ||
| DavidW says, "Come back later is easier, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think you can go either ne or s from here." | ||
| DavidW says, "(or n back to the drive-in)" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "ne?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | From here, the road plunges northeast into the sheer cliffs and curves Floyd | gently southwest towards town. Twisted-looking pines frame the tunnel Floyd | entrance itself, which is pitch black and smells moist and alive. Far Floyd | above you, you can see the sleek modernist wedge of Minsystems Labs Floyd | perched at the edge of the cliffs. Floyd | Floyd | The goat trots after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "let's go S? NE is where we got the goat right?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing, no." | ||
| DavidW says, "The goat was west of the main road." | ||
| verbalK says (to DavidW), "Ok thanks" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do we want to come down here?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I guess the game can't be made unwinnable, so we might as well explore?" | ||
| DavidW says, "You can't lose the game." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "MiSystems is the future. We want the future !" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I dunno, I'm pretty taleneted sometimes." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Gosh, why? It's nearly a mile of damp, dark spookiness, and there's Floyd | not much on the other side except cattle ranches, and eventually Floyd | Albuquerque. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg goes home. | verbalK says, "Or we don't." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | What, straight up the cliffs? Better teen-agers than you have tried! Floyd | Well, not so much better as deader. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline nods. | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The goat trots after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | The pavement here is filled with cracks and potholes, but the shop Floyd | windows are neatly polished and more than one shabby building has been Floyd | given a fresh, bright coat of paint. Yoshida Floral is on the east Floyd | side of the street, and the sidewalk in front of it is scattered with Floyd | petals. A faint sickly yellow glow is emanating from inside the shop. Floyd | Saguaro Road runs north and south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Jenny Yoshida is sweeping up in front of her family's shop. Floyd | Floyd | The goat trots after you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's so cute to see 'teen-ager' with a hyphen." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Sickly yellow, huh?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to jenny" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JENNY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 3 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Hi, Bonnie!" Jenny says brightly. "Thanks for stopping by. Are you Floyd | on the way to the parade? Jeepers, Bons, you don't look too good. Is Floyd | everything okay? Floyd | Floyd | 1) "My boyfriend was just devoured by some kind of...of brain guzzling Floyd | monster!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think when you look at Jenny here the first time, we get our first character image. Yeah, there." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["My boyfriend was just devoured by some kind of...of brain Floyd | guzzling monster!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Ha, ha, real funny, Bons." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "No, really--this huge, hulking, slimy thing guzzled Jimmy's brain Floyd | right in front of me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["No, really--this huge, hulking, slimy thing guzzled Jimmy's Floyd | brain right in front of me!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Well--um--if you say so." Jenny bites her lip. "Look, uh, if Floyd | something bad happened to you, maybe you should tell the police about Floyd | it. The station is just down the street, just turn left when you hit Floyd | the parade." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Parade?" Floyd | 2) "I should get going." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Parade?"] Floyd | Floyd | "The Pine Nut Days parade, of course!" Jenny says. "Gosh, it's only Floyd | about the biggest event of the year. Why, Mary Jane Minsky is Miss Floyd | Canyonville Pine Nut Queen of 1959! How could you forget a thing like Floyd | that?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Oh, that's swell! I'm glad MJ won the pageant." Floyd | 2) "That airhead? Ugh, how embarrassing." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we think #2 but say #1?" | |
| Emily says, "ha ha yes" | ||
| DavidW says, "Up to you." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Oh, that's swell! I'm glad MJ won the pageant."] Floyd | Floyd | "Well, of course, isn't absolutely everybody? She makes such a pretty Floyd | Queen, and she's so passionate about pine nuts and their many Floyd | commercial uses!" Jenny sighs. "Gosh, I wish I could be there in the Floyd | crowd, cheering for her!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "You and Mary Jane must be best friends." Floyd | 2) "So why AREN'T you at the parade?" Floyd | 3) "I should get going." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "2" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["So why AREN'T you at the parade?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Don't you think I want to be?" Jenny says bitterly. "But it's my job Floyd | to sweep up all these petals and trimmings, and Granny says I have to Floyd | do my chores EVERY DAY, even if there's a parade. Plus she's worried Floyd | someone will break in if I don't guard the place. Even though there's Floyd | not even any merchandise! Floyd | Floyd | 1) "You and Mary Jane must be best friends." Floyd | 2) "If there's no merchandise, what's that glowing in the store?" Floyd | 3) "I should get going." Floyd | Floyd | > | Emily says, "I assume these people don't know about that pine nut blight" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["If there's no merchandise, what's that glowing in the Floyd | store?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, that's just a little plant I'm growing from a seed I found in the Floyd | woods. Well, it's still just a seed, so far, but, uh, any day now!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "You and Mary Jane must be best friends." Floyd | 2) "Can I take a look at your seed?" Floyd | 3) "I should get going." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Can I take a look at your seed?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Uh, Granny will pitch a fit if I let you in while we're supposed to Floyd | be closed. Sorry!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "You and Mary Jane must be best friends." Floyd | 2) "So, still sweeping?" Floyd | 3) "Hey, Jenny, how about I find someone else to do this for you? Then Floyd | you could go see the parade." Floyd | 4) "I should get going." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Hey, Jenny, how about I find someone else to do this for you? Floyd | Then you could go see the parade."] Floyd | Floyd | Jenny smiles. "That would be wonderful! Who do you have in mind?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'll do it!" Floyd | 2) "I bet this goat is hungry enough to eat these clippings. He's a Floyd | real rough customer, too!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hm. 1 or 2?" | |
| verbalK says, "2" | ||
| DavidW says, "If we had the teddy bear, it would be offered as a choice here, btw." | ||
| verbalK says, "A goat can also be seen as a convenient lawn mower." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I bet this goat is hungry enough to eat these clippings. He's a Floyd | real rough customer, too!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Wow, uh, you know, that could work!" Jenny is beaming ear to ear. She Floyd | grabs you in a sudden hug. "Which means I can go to the parade now! Floyd | Thank you, Bons! Thank you so much!" Floyd | Floyd | Jenny is practically skipping as she heads south toward the sounds of Floyd | marching band music. Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | The pavement here is filled with cracks and potholes, but the shop Floyd | windows are neatly polished and more than one shabby building has been Floyd | given a fresh, bright coat of paint. Yoshida Floral is on the east Floyd | side of the street, and the sidewalk in front of it is scattered with Floyd | petals. A faint sickly yellow glow is emanating from inside the shop. Floyd | Saguaro Road runs north and south from here. Floyd | Floyd | A goat is here, happily chomping away at the trimmings. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "The teddy bear? What for ?" | |
| DavidW says, "To guard the store." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Makes total sense." | ||
| verbalK asks, "What?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Not to Jenny." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter store" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER STORE Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x seed" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > X SEED Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | The pavement here is filled with cracks and potholes, but the shop Floyd | windows are neatly polished and more than one shabby building has been Floyd | given a fresh, bright coat of paint. Yoshida Floral is on the east Floyd | side of the street, and the sidewalk in front of it is scattered with Floyd | petals. A faint sickly yellow glow is emanating from inside the shop. Floyd | Saguaro Road runs north and south from here. Floyd | Floyd | A goat is here, happily chomping away at the trimmings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter shop" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER SHOP Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Because a teddy bear has no brains so no one will guzzle them ?" | |
| DavidW says, "The store's to the east." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Yoshida Floral Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yoshida Floral Floyd | A quaint little flower shop, minus the flowers. Even with the shelves Floyd | bare, it feels almost claustrophobic. The exit is west, and stairs Floyd | lead up to the Yoshidas' apartment. Floyd | Floyd | A seedling growth chart is tacked to the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glowing seed here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Thanks" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||
Floyd ] Yoshida Floral Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHART Floyd | Floyd | It looks like this is the chart Jenny's going to use to track the Floyd | growth of her mysterious "plant", Mary Jane Junior, once it hatches, Floyd | er, germinates. The chart itself hasn't been filled in yet, but Jenny Floyd | has typed a number of predictions in the "notes" section. "Of course, Floyd | it's impossible to know just how large my little 'Mary Jane' might Floyd | get, but with the nutrient saturation the subject is receiving now, I Floyd | wouldn't be surprised to see a tripling or even a quadrupling of size Floyd | within days, once growth begins in earnest!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear" | |
| verbalK says, "Seems like a rock to me..." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Let's take it !" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "So Steph Cherrywell has been watching a lot of MST3K, it would seem." | ||
Floyd ] Yoshida Floral Floyd | > Floyd | > SO STEPH CHERRYWELL HAS BEEN WATCHING A LOT OF MST3K, IT WOULD SEEM. Floyd | Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oops. heh" | |
| Emily says, "ha" | ||
| DavidW says, "Hands up everyone who's seen Little Shop of Horrors." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x seed" | ||
Floyd ] Yoshida Floral Floyd | > Floyd | > X SEED Floyd | Floyd | It's about the size of a tennis ball, lumpy and irregular, and covered Floyd | in spiny armor. It's also sweating a thick, glowing ooze. It's the Floyd | strangest-looking seed you've ever seen. If it wasn't half-buried in a Floyd | pot of earth, you'd swear it looked more like an egg or something! Floyd | "Mary Jane Junior" is written on the pot with magic marker. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to verbalK), "Honestly? I really don't want to take it." | |
| verbalK says, "DavidW What is that? Please teach me." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "My general rule is that if it's wet, sticky, and not mine, I don't touch it." | ||
| verbalK says (to Jacqueline), "Well we lost a goat." | ||
| DavidW says (to verbalK), "There's two films. Both good." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think it's also a stage play." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to verbalK), "There is also a musical. I think maybe that came first." | ||
| invisiwall arrives, ready to play with the toys. | verbalK says (to Jacqueline), "We need a return on investment." | |
| * Jacqueline has added invisiwall to the channel. | ||
| verbalK exclaims (at DavidW), "Thanks !" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hi, invisiwall. We're about an hour and a half into our game, I'm afraid." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "But it is a good one !" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, do you people want to take this gooey thing?" | ||
| invisiwall says, ""I realize!"" | DavidW says, "Maybe Bonnie doesn't want it either." | |
| Jacqueline says (to invisiwall), "To speak on the channel, preface your remarks with #clubfloyd" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Then, once you've done that, the channel you want is established, and you can thereafter preface your remarks with a semicolon." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, #CLUBFLOYD HI the first time, and ;HELLO AGAIN thereafter." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd ] Yoshida Floral Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE EGG Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||
Floyd ] Yoshida Floral Floyd | > Floyd | > X EGG Floyd | Floyd | It's about the size of a tennis ball, lumpy and irregular, and covered Floyd | in spiny armor. It's also sweating a thick, glowing ooze. It's the Floyd | strangest-looking seed you've ever seen. If it wasn't half-buried in a Floyd | pot of earth, you'd swear it looked more like an egg or something! Floyd | "Mary Jane Junior" is written on the pot with magic marker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Yoshida Floral Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a glowing seed Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We took it." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Along with its pot, thankfully." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Yoshida Floral Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You don't want to go poking around in Jenny's apartment when she's not Floyd | around. That's a good way to get a reputation as a Sally Snoopypants! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I may have to adopt that phrase." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | The pavement here is filled with cracks and potholes, but the shop Floyd | windows are neatly polished and more than one shabby building has been Floyd | given a fresh, bright coat of paint. Yoshida Floral is on the east Floyd | side of the street, and the sidewalk in front of it is scattered with Floyd | petals. Saguaro Road runs north and south from here. Floyd | Floyd | A goat is here, happily chomping away at the trimmings. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "I think we can go South ?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "S? Will our goat come with us?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 100 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 100 Block Floyd | Saguaro Road runs south into Main Street here. The town police station Floyd | is to the east. The Pine Nut Festival Parade fills Main Street, and Floyd | the sidewalks are crammed with parade-watchers in both directions. Floyd | Floyd | The Canyonville High marching band passes by in an enthusiastic mess Floyd | of oompah horns and bleating piccolos. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I suspected not." | ||
| DavidW says, "The goat's done its job. Or doing its job." | ||
| verbalK says, "It found food. It does not care about us anymore." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x parade" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 100 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARADE Floyd | Floyd | You stand on tip-toe and just watch for a while. Floyd | Floyd | The Canyonville High flag squad marches past, banners fluttering. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x parade-watchers" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 100 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARADE-WATCHERS Floyd | Floyd | A tightly-packed, sardinelike wall of human flesh. Floyd | Floyd | A float shaped like a pink Cadillac slides by. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Shall we visit the popo?" | |
| verbalK says, "Yeah let's go" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Police Station Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Police Station Floyd | Your sleepy little town doesn't have much need for active policing, so Floyd | the building is small and the police officers are large. It's really Floyd | not much more than a little office that also functions as an overnight Floyd | hotel for drunks and delinquents. Double doors open onto Saguaro Road Floyd | to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Officer Buck Wilcox is relaxing with his feet up on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |
| verbalK says, "(Not sure but I think here is one of the pictures we are missing)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No, it's been telling us when we miss a picture." | ||
| verbalK says, "Oh sorry ! Didn't notice." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to wilcox" | ||
Floyd ] Police Station Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WILCOX Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 4 here.] Floyd | Floyd | Buck Wilcox nods at you. "Something I can help you with, Miss?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "You've got to help me, Officer! My boyfriend Jimmy was just eaten Floyd | by some sort of horrible BRAIN GUZZLER!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think when you talk to him, you'll know." | |
| Jacqueline says, "There we missed an image, yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | invisiwall says, "Ooh, that's an interesting functionality" | |
Floyd ] Police Station Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["You've got to help me, Officer! My boyfriend Jimmy was just Floyd | eaten by some sort of horrible BRAIN GUZZLER!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Hold on. Let's hear that again, without the goofy teen-age Floyd | jibber-jabber." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "No, that wasn't slang, he was literally torn limb from limb and Floyd | guzzled down right in front of me by an awful gelatinous monstrosity!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Police Station Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["No, that wasn't slang, he was literally torn limb from limb and Floyd | guzzled down right in front of me by an awful gelatinous Floyd | monstrosity!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Suuure he was. Let me guess--this 'monstrosity', was it bright pink Floyd | with a loooong nose and, heh heh, big floppy ears?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'm not drunk, Officer, and I haven't gone mad--there really is Floyd | something out there! It's probably from space-or-or the bottom of the Floyd | ocean or something like that and golly, you've got to warn everyone, Floyd | or this town will be in deep soup!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Police Station Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm not drunk, Officer, and I haven't gone mad--there really is Floyd | something out there! It's probably from space-or-or the bottom of the Floyd | ocean or something like that and golly, you've got to warn everyone, Floyd | or this town will be in deep soup!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Look, little missy, I'd hate to have to throw a nice girl like you in Floyd | the drunk tank. Go home and sleep it off, all right?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'm telling the truth! Oh, how can I convince you?" Floyd | 2) "That gosh-darn parade is in the way! Can't you tell the crowd to Floyd | disperse a little so I can get past?" Floyd | 3) "Shouldn't you be out doing your job?" Floyd | 4) "You want proof--take a look at this! An alien egg!" Floyd | 5) "Forget I even brought this up." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Police Station Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm telling the truth! Oh, how can I convince you?"] Floyd | Floyd | "All right, missy," Buck says, laughing. "If you can show me an Floyd | example of one of these mysterious brain guzzlers of yours, something Floyd | really 'out of this world', THEN maybe I'll admit we have a problem. Floyd | Until then, why don't you scoot off and sober up a little, hmm?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What evidence was it you wanted me to find, again?" Floyd | 2) "That gosh-darn parade is in the way! Can't you tell the crowd to Floyd | disperse a little so I can get past?" Floyd | 3) "Shouldn't you be out doing your job?" Floyd | 4) "You want proof--take a look at this! An alien egg!" Floyd | 5) "Forget I even brought this up." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| zarf has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Police Station Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["You want proof--take a look at this! An alien egg!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm..." Buck frowns, taking the seed from you and peering at it. Floyd | "There IS somethin' mighty odd-looking about--" Floyd | Floyd | The phone rings, and Buck picks it up. "Police. Hmm? You say your cows Floyd | are dead? Something guzzled their brains? Yeah, I've heard of that Floyd | sort of thing--probably just some teen-age delinquents, but I'll come Floyd | and take a look. Mister? Mister, I sure can't hear you over all that Floyd | slithering." He pulls the phone away from his ear. "Now, there's no Floyd | need to scream at me. I'll be out as soon as I can." Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, missy. Sounds like your delinquent friends are causing trouble Floyd | at the old Bristlender place. I'll have to deal with you later." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jeepers, would you please listen to me. I'm telling you that Floyd | something dangerous is out there--I have the gosh darn evidence right Floyd | here in front of you. If you go up there, you could be killed!" Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "too many things to pay attention to, cannot watch floydscroll to" | |
| zarf says, "too" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Police Station Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Jeepers, would you please listen to me. I'm telling you that Floyd | something dangerous is out there--I have the gosh darn evidence right Floyd | here in front of you. If you go up there, you could be killed!"] Floyd | Floyd | Buck shakes you roughly. "Calm down! I don't have time to deal with a Floyd | hysterical girl right now. I'm going to have to lock you up until I Floyd | get back so you don't panic and hurt yourself." He drags you to the Floyd | drunk tank and shoves you inside. "There. I'm going to collar some Floyd | teen-aged troublemakers, and when I get back, I'll expect a full Floyd | apology for wasting valuable police time." Floyd | Floyd | He walks out, leaving you trapped. Somehow, though, between Floyd | adrenaline and the angry goat and the untreated concussion you've been Floyd | carrying around since the car accident, you're too exhausted to care Floyd | just at the moment. Collapsing onto the cot, you fall into uneasy Floyd | sleep. Floyd | Floyd | You wake to the sound of a key rattling in the door. It's Deputy Floyd | Wilcox, Buck's nephew. "Miss? I just can't be worryin' about you Floyd | right now, with all what's goin' on and me all by my lonesome with Unk Floyd | off doin' goodness knows what. You're free to go, I guess." Floyd | Floyd | He helps you out of the cell before leaving. You're sore, stiff, and Floyd | hungry, but free. Through the window, you can see the noonday sun Floyd | beating down. You must have been passed out for hours! Who knows what Floyd | sort of living heck the town has become in the meantime? Floyd | Floyd | Police Station Floyd | Your sleepy little town doesn't have much need for active policing, so Floyd | the building is small and the police officers are large. It's really Floyd | not much more than a little office that also functions as an overnight Floyd | hotel for drunks and delinquents. Double doors open onto Saguaro Road Floyd | to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks (of DavidW), "Are we changing chapter now ?" | |
| DavidW says, "Yes. This is now the afternoon." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I don't suppose the concussion is actually in your inventory, alas" | invisiwall says, "Bah, I shall slip up" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x concussion" | ||
Floyd ] Police Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X CONCUSSION Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to invisiwall), "No." | |
| verbalK asks, "Let's go check if the goat is done eating? Maybe it will follow us again ? Also, if the parade is over, we can visit the rest of town now ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I suspect the goat is gone to us forever, but sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 100 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 100 Block Floyd | Saguaro Road runs south into Main Street here. The town police station Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | The pavement here is filled with cracks and potholes, but the shop Floyd | windows are neatly polished and more than one shabby building has been Floyd | given a fresh, bright coat of paint. Yoshida Floral is on the east Floyd | side of the street, and the sidewalk in front of it is scattered with Floyd | petals. Saguaro Road runs north and south from here. Floyd | Floyd | A goat is here, happily chomping away at the trimmings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "goat, hello" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > GOAT, HELLO Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take goat" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 200 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GOAT Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to go into the ugly details, but you quickly learn Floyd | that the goat prefers not to be picked up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 100 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 100 Block Floyd | Saguaro Road runs south into Main Street here. The town police station Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But hey, the parade is over." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Saguaro and Main Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Saguaro and Main Floyd | The cracks and potholes of north-south Saguaro meet the fresh black Floyd | asphalt of east-west Main Street, which is littered with leftover Floyd | parade stuff. The only business that looks open is the corner diner to Floyd | the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Lunchtime?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Finch's Diner Floyd | The Finch family operates this shabby but comfortable burger joint, Floyd | where the food is cheap, the smiles are free, and the decor can be Floyd | summed up as "orange paint". A family photo and a daily specials Floyd | chalkboard are hanging up behind the counter. You can go northeast to Floyd | get back to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is wiping down tables. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You can get lunch, yes." | |
| DavidW says, "I recommend the burger." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Crap, now I'm hungry." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Me too !!!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I already had breakfast and it's hours to lunch." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I have no idea why we are trying to get the goat, but I wonder if goats like burgers" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I will wait it out." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x specials" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPECIALS Floyd | Floyd | "Today's special: "King's Breast" Owl Sandwich (actually chicken). Floyd | Comes with poooooisonous lead toy." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hee" | |
| DavidW says, "oo, I never saw that one!" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Toy? There's a toy?" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Let's get that !" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "order special" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > ORDER SPECIAL Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall exclaims, "Poison! That sounds useful!" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x phoot" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOOT Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | Renee with her parents. It was taken a few years ago after they moved Floyd | into town and bought the place. Her mom and dad had a wedding in the Floyd | diner on opening day, since mixed-race couples couldn't get married Floyd | where they lived before, and you remember her dad flipping burgers in Floyd | the back and her mom waiting tables in her dress. It looks a little Floyd | surreal in the photo, if you don't know the story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "you need to talk to Renee to order food." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to renee" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RENEE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 6 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Hey. Can I get you something?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Renee! You like all that space stuff, right? Little green men and Floyd | slime monsters and...and alien brain guzzlers and things?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Renee! You like all that space stuff, right? Little green men Floyd | and slime monsters and...and alien brain guzzlers and things?"] Floyd | Floyd | Renee puts her hands on her hips. "So I like science fiction. What's Floyd | wrong with having a little imagination, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "It's kind of empty in here. Where is everybody?" Floyd | 2) "Where did you get that unusual-looking gun?" Floyd | 3) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 4) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["I want to order something, please."] Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, what?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'll have the special!" Floyd | 2) "I'll have a burger!" Floyd | 3) "One free smile, please!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'll have the special!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, sorry about that. The parade crowd cleaned us out pretty good. Floyd | I've got some burger supplies, but that's about it." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "It's kind of empty in here. Where is everybody?" Floyd | 2) "Where did you get that unusual-looking gun?" Floyd | 3) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 4) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["I want to order something, please."] Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, what?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'll have a burger!" Floyd | 2) "One free smile, please!" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Aww" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'll have a burger!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Sure thing. I'll stick it on your tab." Renee grills up a Finch's Floyd | Famous Depth Charge Deluxe, a steaming monument to hot peppers and Floyd | grease, wraps it in paper, and slides it over to you. "Here ya go! Our Floyd | motto is, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger! Or at least, Floyd | you know, bigger." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "It's kind of empty in here. Where is everybody?" Floyd | 2) "Where did you get that unusual-looking gun?" Floyd | 3) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 4) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "So no toys? No poison?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Seems like no." | ||
| verbalK says, "Let's get a gun then ! 2" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Where did you get that unusual-looking gun?"] Floyd | Floyd | Renee grins and pulls out the weapon. "Pretty cool, huh? I found it on Floyd | that mountain where the white kids go to make out. I went there last Floyd | night to watch for unindentified flying... birds. I Floyd | didn't...see...anything, but I found this...toy...near the...near Floyd | nowhere." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Does it work?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, if you examine Renee, you'll see she's carrying a ray gun." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Does it work?"] Floyd | Floyd | "How would I know?" Renee says defensively. "I mean, it's just a toy. Floyd | Of course it doesn't 'work'! Why do you care, anyway?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Renee, if you saw something, you can tell me. I've seen it too! It Floyd | was some sort of huge, horrible THING and it ate my Floyd | boyfriend's brains right out of his gosh darn head!" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "sounds suspicious..." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Renee, if you saw something, you can tell me. I've seen it too! Floyd | It was some sort of huge, horrible THING and it ate my Floyd | boyfriend's brains right out of his gosh darn head!"] Floyd | Floyd | Renee narrows her eyes. "You'll excuse me if I'm a little skeptical." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Okay, so we went on five dates. But he was PRACTICALLY my Floyd | boyfriend. Sort of." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Slick maneuvering, Renee" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Okay, so we went on five dates. But he was PRACTICALLY my Floyd | boyfriend. Sort of."] Floyd | Floyd | "No, I mean, you'll excuse me if I don't fall for the latest game of Floyd | ooh, let's have some fun with the crazy girl. No matter what Floyd | you say about it, I'm going to keep ignoring you, so you can just go Floyd | back and tell your friends I'm done giving them things to laugh at Floyd | over their cucumber sandwiches. Got it?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "It's kind of empty in here. Where is everybody?" Floyd | 2) "I like sci-fi just as much as you do, you know!" Floyd | 3) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 4) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I like sci-fi just as much as you do, you know!"] Floyd | Floyd | Renee looks you up and down. "Yeah, the odds of that are about a Floyd | billion to one." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I think the model spaceships are really neat!" Floyd | 2) "I don't read all the comics, but I look at the covers. That's as Floyd | good as reading them, right?" Floyd | 3) "Why, I'd have a Martian for a pet, if I could!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I think the model spaceships are really neat!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Science fiction's about ideas, not special effects--no matter how Floyd | cutting edge they are!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "It's kind of empty in here. Where is everybody?" Floyd | 2) "I do so like science fiction!" Floyd | 3) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 4) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I do so like science fiction!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh really?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I think the model spaceships are really neat!" Floyd | 2) "I don't read all the comics, but I look at the covers. That's as Floyd | good as reading them, right?" Floyd | 3) "Why, I'd have a Martian for a pet, if I could!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I don't read all the comics, but I look at the covers. That's as Floyd | good as reading them, right?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Those covers never have anything to do with the stories! You'd know Floyd | that if you read any of them!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "It's kind of empty in here. Where is everybody?" Floyd | 2) "I do so like science fiction!" Floyd | 3) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 4) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I do so like science fiction!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh really?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I think the model spaceships are really neat!" Floyd | 2) "I don't read all the comics, but I look at the covers. That's as Floyd | good as reading them, right?" Floyd | 3) "Why, I'd have a Martian for a pet, if I could!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Why, I'd have a Martian for a pet, if I could!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Ha! The Tharks would kick your skinny behind and the tripods would Floyd | just death-ray you to death. Everybody knows there's no such thing as Floyd | a nice Martian." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "It's kind of empty in here. Where is everybody?" Floyd | 2) "I do so like science fiction!" Floyd | 3) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 4) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Bonnie Noodleman should be ashamed of herself..." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I want to show her our seed." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "We don't have it anymore!" | |
| DavidW asks, "You gave seed to Officer Wilcox, remember?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "The cop took it?" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Great idea ! What?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Gave it to the lazy policeman" | ||
| Jacqueline goes to Sadville. | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Which cardinal direction is Sadville in, eh?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["It's kind of empty in here. Where is everybody?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Most of 'em headed over to the fairgrounds once the parade ended." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Why aren't you at the fairgrounds with everyone else? Am I going Floyd | to have to find another goat?" Floyd | 2) "I do so like science fiction!" Floyd | 3) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 4) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "So we stole if from nothing... First we got a goat, then thanks to the goat we got the seed, and now we have nothing.... I feel that the policeman owes us something...." | |
| DavidW says, "Tomorrowville should cheer you up." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Why aren't you at the fairgrounds with everyone else? Am I going Floyd | to have to find another goat?"] Floyd | Floyd | Renee rolls her eyes. "Dad's so overprotective. He doesn't like me Floyd | hanging out on that side of town." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "But MY dad says THIS is the dangerous side of town." Floyd | 2) "Has your dad been reading your comic books again?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to verbalK), "Game's not over yet." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["But MY dad says THIS is the dangerous side of town."] Floyd | Floyd | Renee chuckles. "Yeah... funny how that works, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I do so like science fiction!" Floyd | 2) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 3) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Guess that's it for now."] Floyd | Floyd | "See ya 'round." Floyd | Floyd | Finch's Diner Floyd | The Finch family operates this shabby but comfortable burger joint, Floyd | where the food is cheap, the smiles are free, and the decor can be Floyd | summed up as "orange paint". A family photo and a daily specials Floyd | chalkboard are hanging up behind the counter. You can go northeast to Floyd | get back to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is wiping down tables. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis heads back home. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat burger" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT BURGER Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Did we eat it when she made it?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take burger" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BURGER Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "a Depth Charge Deluxe." | |
| invisiwall asks, "Inventory check?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "OH" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat depth charge deluxe" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT DEPTH CHARGE DELUXE Floyd | Floyd | It would probably have been both easier and healthier to eat an actual Floyd | depth charge, but it's down and it's most likely staying there! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know why 'burger' isn't a synonym for it." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Silly me for thinking 'burger' would be --yeah" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Yes, that is unexpected" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Finch's Diner Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x depth charge deluxe" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > X DEPTH CHARGE DELUXE Floyd | Floyd | Wow, it's really big and heavy! It's more like a bowling ball wearing Floyd | bread earmuffs than a hamburger. It smells delicious, though! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm thinking we hold on to it, not eat it." | |
| DavidW says, "Whatevs." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Can we lure the goat here? Sort of kidding. Sort of not kidding." | ||
| verbalK says, "Or we can lure something else...." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know. I never tried to lure the goat again." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Maybe the hipster ?" | ||
| verbalK asks, "How do you lure a hipster ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "You'll find out." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Very philosophical question" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, but regardless, sounds like we keep the non-burger." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What now? Do I go to the kitchen and make a snack while someone else drives?" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Do we have a very old film camera, round glasses and a beard ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Because I am having trouble shaking the hungries." | ||
| DavidW says, "I could use a bathroom break regardless." | ||
| verbalK says, "Can anyone drive ? I've never done that ..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, hipsters and beat poets aren't really the same thing, are they? Hipsters don't eat. It's how they fit into their skinny jeans." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, anyone can drive." | ||
| verbalK says (to Jacqueline), "That was nice :)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Someone else drive a sec, yeah. Preface your command with f" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "If you guys help me drive, you can have a snack and use the bathroom !" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Finch's Diner Floyd | The Finch family operates this shabby but comfortable burger joint, Floyd | where the food is cheap, the smiles are free, and the decor can be Floyd | summed up as "orange paint". A family photo and a daily specials Floyd | chalkboard are hanging up behind the counter. You can go northeast to Floyd | get back to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is wiping down tables. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims, "Ok, we're in business !" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x tables" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLES Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You can also use > instead of f if you like." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The f is short for Floyd." | |
| DavidW says, "the exit is ne." | ||
| verbalK says, "Guessed that one thanks" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), " i" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I DID NOT KNOW YOU COULD USE >" | |
| DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "no?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "How long have I been using Floyd? Wild." | ||
| verbalK says (to DavidW's), "interventions are very well timed. Sometimes, it makes me feel that DavidW is a bot..." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Saguaro and Main Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Saguaro and Main Floyd | The cracks and potholes of north-south Saguaro meet the fresh black Floyd | asphalt of east-west Main Street, which is littered with leftover Floyd | parade stuff. The only business that looks open is the corner diner to Floyd | the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I mean, makes sense." | |
| invisiwall says, "Floyd was sick of being used without any consideration for their feelings and wants a more genuine friendship" | ||
| DavidW says, "I found out by accident a couple years ago, I think." | ||
| verbalK asks, "We didn't go E-W yet right ?" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Saguaro and Main Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | There's not much west of here except for a few of the town's poorer Floyd | residential neighborhoods and, gosh, they're not really very pleasant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Saguaro and Main Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | There's not much west of here except for a few of the town's poorer Floyd | residential neighborhoods and, gosh, they're not really very pleasant. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "anyway, heading to the bathroom. I'll be back soon. Check out the drug store." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Saguaro and Main Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | There's not much west of here except for a few of the town's poorer Floyd | residential neighborhoods and, gosh, they're not really very pleasant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Street Floyd | A broad, pleasant thoroughfare running east and west through town. The Floyd | street's quaint charm is only slightly lessened by the scattered Floyd | parade garbage and oodles of horse apples. Nobody's around right now, Floyd | but the door of the five and dime to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "five and dime, sorry" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Five and Dime Floyd | This small mom-and-pop store has almost everything, except Mom and Floyd | Pop, who seem to be out at the moment. There are all sorts of other Floyd | handy-dandy sundries, though, including a rack full of comic books. Floyd | There's also a pair of eye-catching promotional displays, one green, Floyd | one blue. Floyd | Floyd | A friendly note is lying on the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "I have the feeling that the comic books are linked to Renee somehow.." | |
| invisiwall says, "My instinct was "Comic books!" but perhaps the note should be read" | ||
| invisiwall says, "in case it says something like "PS the comic books are booby-trapped"" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | It's a handwritten note. "We're At The Fair! If you want to buy Floyd | something--just leave money on the counter. We Trust You! Signed, Mom Floyd | and Pop. P.S. Thieves will be pumped full of rock salt." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "AHA" | |
| verbalK exclaims, "Fair enough!" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Let's take a look at the comic books !" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm guessing we get a comic book and visit renee" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x comic books" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMIC BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | Your parents say these are trash, but you've always wanted to READ Floyd | some. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "read comic books" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > READ COMIC BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | There sure are a lot of comics here! You spend a few minutes leafing Floyd | through them. Most of them are pretty ridiculous scenarios with none Floyd | of the realism of a good Hollywood movie. Jungle Tales has a Floyd | story about a reporter who crashes in the jungle and finds a magic Floyd | idol. Weird Sci-Fi is all about some space explorers being Floyd | menaced by a monster, but the surprise twist is they were alien plants Floyd | the whole time and the monster is a big cow. Gosh, they're not kidding Floyd | when they say this stuff is trash! Still, you find one that's not Floyd | bad--a little volume called Poppy, Girl of the Galaxy, about Floyd | a girl starship captain and her loyal robot dog RF-RF. You read on, Floyd | and are pulled into a rollicking tale of action and suspense as Poppy Floyd | and RF-RF face off against "The Stellar Smugglers". Before you know Floyd | it, you've reached the final page... Floyd | Floyd | POPPY: Jeepers, RF! That sure was a close call! Floyd | RF-RF: You said it, Poppy! You know, I thought for sure that space Floyd | worm was a bad egg. But in the end, he saved us from the smugglers. Floyd | Sorta funny! Floyd | POPPY: It makes you think, doesn't it, chum? How much life have we Floyd | rejected--how many wars have been started--by those two little words Floyd | "I assume"? A true Girl of the Galaxy doesn't reject someone just Floyd | because they're slimy or a little different. Scrape away that slime Floyd | and you might find a friend coccooned underneath! Floyd | Floyd | Gosh, what a story! You even got a little misty-eyed at that moving Floyd | ending. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Hark at that verb hint" | |
| invisiwall exclaims, "Oh my goodness, are those references to her other games?!" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Should we take it back to Renee or reading is now enough to convince her that we are now part of the "crazy people"?" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "take comic books" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE COMIC BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | You're not carrying any money! Better just read them here and then put Floyd | them back on the rack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Five and Dime Floyd | This small mom-and-pop store has almost everything, except Mom and Floyd | Pop, who seem to be out at the moment. There are all sorts of other Floyd | handy-dandy sundries, though, including a rack full of comic books. Floyd | There's also a pair of eye-catching promotional displays, one green, Floyd | one blue. Floyd | Floyd | A friendly note is lying on the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm back" | |
| verbalK asks, "What else should we take a look at?" | ||
| invisiwall asks, "What are the displays for?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Look and see." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x displays" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISPLAYS Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x green display" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > X GREEN DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | A color photo depicts a beach scene. Several good-looking boys are Floyd | sneering at a distraught-looking girl. The copy under the picture Floyd | reads: "'PHOOEY! SHE'S TOO FAT FOR ME!' Floyd | Floyd | Are you sick of hearing that from all the fellows? Tired of having Floyd | them pass you by because you're too plump? Want the slender shape that Floyd | turns heads? SLIM-U is your solution! SLIM-U uses a zero-calorie Floyd | stomach sponge to fill you up without need of food and is guaranteed Floyd | to take off pounds, inches, where you don't want them. No-body loves a Floyd | blimp--pick up a free sample canister and try SLIM-U today!" Floyd | Floyd | On the green display is a green canister. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I think reading it is probably enough." | |
| DavidW asks, "Did you note how the preface to the comic books was a self-dig at her previous games?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| invisiwall says, "I wonder if that's a deliberate pun on green slime monsters in Japanese games" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "open green canister" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GREEN CANISTER Floyd | Floyd | You open the green canister, revealing a whole bunch of green pills. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "And yeah, DavidW, that was delightful" | |
| DavidW says, "The green canister is a sample, so you can take it for free." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "take green canister" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GREEN CANISTER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's a blue display too." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x blue display" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLUE DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | A color photo depicts a beach scene. Several good-looking boys are Floyd | sneering at a distraught-looking girl. The copy under the picture Floyd | reads: "'NO SKINNY SCARE-CROW FOR ME!' Floyd | Floyd | Are you tired of hearing that from all the boys? Sick of being Floyd | ignored because you're too skinny? Want the lush curves that turn Floyd | heads? WATE-ON is your solution! WATE-ON is scientifically formulated Floyd | using a high-energy sucrose extract that's guaranteed to quickly add Floyd | pounds, inches, where you need them. No-body loves a scrawny Floyd | stick--pick up a free sample box and try WATE-ON today!" Floyd | Floyd | On the blue display is a blue box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "open blue box" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BLUE BOX Floyd | Floyd | You open the blue box, revealing a whole bunch of blue pills. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "I don't really understand what these pills might be for..." | |
| verbalK asks, "Will we instantly shrink or get fatter ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "One puts on weight; the other removes weight." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I can think of many things of varying degrees of plausibility" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "take blue box" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BLUE BOX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Five and Dime Floyd | This small mom-and-pop store has almost everything, except Mom and Floyd | Pop, who seem to be out at the moment. There are all sorts of other Floyd | handy-dandy sundries, though, including a rack full of comic books. Floyd | There's also a pair of eye-catching promotional displays, one green, Floyd | one blue. Floyd | Floyd | A friendly note is lying on the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x sundries" | ||
Floyd ] Five and Dime Floyd | > Floyd | > X SUNDRIES Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Should we go back to Renne? I guess that is how we get th egun" | |
| verbalK says, "the gun *" | ||
| DavidW says, "Sundries, they ain't what they used to be." | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "Let's!" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Street Floyd | A broad, pleasant thoroughfare running east and west through town. The Floyd | street's quaint charm is only slightly lessened by the scattered Floyd | parade garbage and oodles of horse apples. Nobody's around right now, Floyd | but the door of the five and dime to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Saguaro and Main Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Saguaro and Main Floyd | The cracks and potholes of north-south Saguaro meet the fresh black Floyd | asphalt of east-west Main Street, which is littered with leftover Floyd | parade stuff. The only business that looks open is the corner diner to Floyd | the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Finch's Diner Floyd | The Finch family operates this shabby but comfortable burger joint, Floyd | where the food is cheap, the smiles are free, and the decor can be Floyd | summed up as "orange paint". A family photo and a daily specials Floyd | chalkboard are hanging up behind the counter. You can go northeast to Floyd | get back to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is wiping down tables. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Now that you've read an actual comic book?" | |
| invisiwall says, "I mean, since it's in the past, we could justifiably say sundries aren't what they're going to be" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "hello, renee" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > HELLO, RENEE Floyd | Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Talk to Renee." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "Talk to Renee" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RENEE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 6 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, back again?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I do so like science fiction!" Floyd | 2) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 3) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I do so like science fiction!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh really?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I think the model spaceships are really neat!" Floyd | 2) "I don't read all the comics, but I look at the covers. That's as Floyd | good as reading them, right?" Floyd | 3) "Why, I'd have a Martian for a pet, if I could!" Floyd | 4) "But Renee! A true Girl of the Galaxy doesn't reject someone just Floyd | because they're slimy or a little different. Scrape away that slime Floyd | and you might find a friend coccooned underneath!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "4!" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["But Renee! A true Girl of the Galaxy doesn't reject someone just Floyd | because they're slimy or a little different. Scrape away that slime Floyd | and you might find a friend coccooned underneath!"] Floyd | Floyd | Renee squeals. "You read Poppy, Girl of the Galaxy too? I Floyd | never knew!" She drops her voice. "Look, I'm sorry I doubted you. I Floyd | did see something. It was like a...a flying saucer! We can't Floyd | tell the others, they'll never believe it, but I went up the Floyd | mountains, near where I saw it flying over, and I found this! Isn't Floyd | this amazing?" Floyd | Floyd | Renee pulls the ray gun out of her apron pocket and hands it to you. Floyd | "Here, go ahead and borrow it for a while, if you want." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I want to order something, please." Floyd | 2) "Guess that's it for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Guess that's it for now."] Floyd | Floyd | "See ya 'round." Floyd | Floyd | Finch's Diner Floyd | The Finch family operates this shabby but comfortable burger joint, Floyd | where the food is cheap, the smiles are free, and the decor can be Floyd | summed up as "orange paint". A family photo and a daily specials Floyd | chalkboard are hanging up behind the counter. You can go northeast to Floyd | get back to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is wiping down tables. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and yay, ray gun acquired. Good job." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Finch's Diner Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cosmic ray gun Floyd | a blue box (open) Floyd | a whole bunch of blue pills Floyd | a green canister (open) Floyd | a whole bunch of green pills Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "I guess we didn't visit the eastern part of town, should we go there ?" | |
| DavidW says, "we should!" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Saguaro and Main Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Saguaro and Main Floyd | The cracks and potholes of north-south Saguaro meet the fresh black Floyd | asphalt of east-west Main Street, which is littered with leftover Floyd | parade stuff. The only business that looks open is the corner diner to Floyd | the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Is this game as linear a series of fetch puzzles as it seems? I'm not complaining, of course. The writing is engaging and worth the ride." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Main Street Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main Street Floyd | A broad, pleasant thoroughfare running east and west through town. The Floyd | street's quaint charm is only slightly lessened by the scattered Floyd | parade garbage and oodles of horse apples. Nobody's around right now, Floyd | but the door of the five and dime to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Main and Oppenheimer Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main and Oppenheimer Floyd | Main Street comes from the west, ending here at its intersection with Floyd | the north-south Oppenheimer Road. To the east is the town square, Floyd | currently decorated for Pine Nut Days with a number of tents and Floyd | attractions. It looks like most of the town has gathered there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Main and Oppenheimer. Nice." | |
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "uhh... I guess it is a lot of fetch puzzles, yes. Hadn't thought of that." | ||
| Emily says, "there are some bits where you can pick the order of puzzle solutions" | ||
| Emily says, "but essentially yes" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Should we try Main/Oppenheimer first ? or the tents ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, they're just not telegraphed as such, but they're fetch quests." | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "Good writing can be quite effective in disguising that I suppose!" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Tents sound festive" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fairgrounds Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fairgrounds Entrance Floyd | You're standing at the entrance to Canyonville Pine Nut Days. The Floyd | scent of fresh-baked pies wafts from a covered area to the northeast, Floyd | the sleek Tomorrow Pavilion is to the southeast, and straight east Floyd | takes you to the center of the town square. You can exit the fair onto Floyd | Main Street to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman walks by, looking distinctly green around the gills and Floyd | holding her stomach as if she's regretting the last several helpings Floyd | of cotton candy. Suddenly, she claps a hand over her mouth and flees Floyd | towards the nearest ladies' room. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Pies, Tomorrow's pavilion or town square ?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Where are the fried oreos?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Maybe there's a fried oreo pie" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "uhhh.. Texas?" | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Have Oreos been invented yet, actually?" | ||
| verbalK says, "Maybe we could even go to the ladies' room, but it'd a weird feeling for me to be driving." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of vK), "Do you still want to drive? Or do you want me to take it back?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm guessing we can't actually go into the ladies' room, but maybe I'm wrong." | ||
| verbalK says, "I can still drive for sometime if you are still having a snack" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I ate the snack." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | This tent is filled with the absolutely scrumptious scent of freshly Floyd | baked pies. Several long tables are laden with dozens of entries Floyd | competing for the blue-ribbon prize. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky, the Pine Nut Queen, is here, surrounded by her Pine Floyd | Nut Ladies-In-Waiting. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a gruesome glowing pie, a row of delicious pies and a Floyd | pink purse (closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane cuts a slice from the pie in front of her. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Is this the appropriate spot to make a hashtag jacquelinetakethewheel joke" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I am now snack-free. Or it is perhaps more accurate to say that I contain a snack." | ||
| verbalK says, "We were talking about snacks, seen pie, so I went there" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wish I had pie." | ||
| verbalK says (to Jacqueline,), "please start driving whenever you feel like it" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Eminently sensible." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to mary jane" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 5 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, hello, Bonnie. My, don't you look--disheveled today." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I don't guess you care that your kingdom is being attacked by Floyd | killer brain guzzlers, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I don't guess you care that your kingdom is being attacked by Floyd | killer brain guzzlers, Your Majesty."] Floyd | Floyd | "Not really, Your Peasantiness." Mary Jane giggles. "Sorry. I just Floyd | have to stay in character, you know!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Gosh, you sure do love pie." Floyd | 2) "Have you seen Jenny? I thought she would be with you." Floyd | 3) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "1 or 2, folks?" | |
| verbalK says, "2" | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Um.... 2?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Have you seen Jenny? I thought she would be with you."] Floyd | Floyd | "She was here earlier. She's...not feeling well." Mary Jane lowers her Floyd | voice. "She wants to be alone. Someone stole the plant she was Floyd | raising right out of her shop earlier, can you believe it? Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Gosh, you sure do love pie." Floyd | 2) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Awkward." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Totes awkward." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I really want to say 1." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Gosh, you sure do love pie."] Floyd | Floyd | "I'm the judge, silly! It's one of my duties as the Pine Nut Queen. I Floyd | get to sample every pie here and decide whose is yummiest!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Have you noticed that, uh, unusual pie at the end of the table?" Floyd | 2) "Why don't you stop now and declare Jenny's pie the winner? You two Floyd | are best friends, right?" Floyd | 3) "Aren't you worried about what stuffing yourself with pie will do Floyd | to your figure?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Aren't you worried about what stuffing yourself with pie will do Floyd | to your figure?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Not in the least!" Mary Jane says brightly. "I had a complete Floyd | physical before my coronation to insure I was fit for my royal duties. Floyd | Here, have a look!" Mary Jane leads you over to her purse and spins Floyd | the combination lock until it opens. Rifling inside, she pulls out a Floyd | sheet of paper. "See? It says here I have the metabolism of a Floyd | hummingbird. I won't gain an ounce!" She stuffs the paper back into Floyd | her purse, drops the purse back on the table without bothering to Floyd | close and lock it, and returns to her entourage. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Have you noticed that, uh, unusual pie at the end of the table?" Floyd | 2) "Why don't you stop now and declare Jenny's pie the winner? You two Floyd | are best friends, right?" Floyd | 3) "I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "It is a pretty unusual pie" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Did we look at it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty."] Floyd | Floyd | "Have fun at the fair!" Floyd | Floyd | Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | This tent is filled with the absolutely scrumptious scent of freshly Floyd | baked pies. Several long tables are laden with dozens of entries Floyd | competing for the blue-ribbon prize. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky, the Pine Nut Queen, is here, surrounded by her Pine Floyd | Nut Ladies-In-Waiting. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a gruesome glowing pie, a row of delicious pies and a Floyd | pink purse (in which is a physical results chart) here. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane puts a forkful of pie in her mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pies" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIES Floyd | Floyd | They all look extremely delicious! Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane frowns and makes a face. She quickly sets the piece of pie Floyd | down. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "I feel that we can rob her, but I dont know why we would do that ...." | |
| invisiwall says, "It was singled out in the room description" | ||
| DavidW says, "> x gruesome pie" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x glowing pie" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLOWING PIE Floyd | Floyd | Someone left this pie at the end of the pie-tasting table. It's at Floyd | least five times bigger than the other pies, it's glowing like a Floyd | lighthouse, and you can see things moving around under the crust. The Floyd | smell of decay hovers around it. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane murmurs something to one of her Pine Nut Ladies-In-Waiting, Floyd | who writes it down on a clipboard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Dang" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am kind of wishing I hadn't just had that snack." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to Mary Jane" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 5 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, hello again, Bonnie." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Have you noticed that, uh, unusual pie at the end of the table?" Floyd | 2) "Why don't you stop now and declare Jenny's pie the winner? You two Floyd | are best friends, right?" Floyd | 3) "I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Have you noticed that, uh, unusual pie at the end of the Floyd | table?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, that. It was just sitting on the table when I got here. It looks Floyd | a little, ummm..." Mary Jane drops her voice. "I'm putting that one Floyd | off 'til last." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I don't think you should taste that strange pie at all. It might Floyd | be, er, poisoned?" Floyd | 2) "Why don't you stop now and declare Jenny's pie the winner? You two Floyd | are best friends, right?" Floyd | 3) "I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Credit where credit's due, she's determined to fulfill her duty to the fullest" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "1 or 2?" | ||
| verbalK says, "True that." | ||
| verbalK says, "2" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Why don't you stop now and declare Jenny's pie the winner? You Floyd | two are best friends, right?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Why, Bonstance Noodleman, I'm surprised at you!" Mary Jane says. Floyd | "That would be cheating! Plus I couldn't figure out which one was Floyd | hers." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I don't think you should taste that strange pie at all. It might Floyd | be, er, poisoned?" Floyd | 2) "Are you sure you don't want to just give Jenny the blue ribbon?" Floyd | 3) "I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hee" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I don't think you should taste that strange pie at all. It might Floyd | be, er, poisoned?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I know it's not the nicest-looking pie, but I only have to take Floyd | one teeny little bite. It's my duty." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Seriously, I think that weird pie might kill you." Floyd | 2) "Are you sure you don't want to just give Jenny the blue ribbon?" Floyd | 3) "I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "BONSTANCE NOODLEMAN" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. That's pretty awesome." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Seriously, I think that weird pie might kill you."] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, don't be silly. It can't be THAT bad!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Seriously, I think that weird pie might kill you." Floyd | 2) "Are you sure you don't want to just give Jenny the blue ribbon?" Floyd | 3) "I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Are you sure you don't want to just give Jenny the blue Floyd | ribbon?"] Floyd | Floyd | "No way! I told you, that wouldn't be fair!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Seriously, I think that weird pie might kill you." Floyd | 2) "Are you sure you don't want to just give Jenny the blue ribbon?" Floyd | 3) "I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Should we say 3 or should we say 4 then poke around in her purse (somehow, with all these people here)" | |
| invisiwall says, "Let's try three first, I suppose" | ||
| DavidW says, "She left the purse unlocked." | ||
| DavidW says, "After the first check." | ||
| verbalK says, "Let's poke in the purse" | ||
| verbalK says, "The ask her about her medical paper again" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, I noticed that." | ||
| verbalK says, "Then*" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty."] Floyd | Floyd | "Have fun at the fair!" Floyd | Floyd | Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | This tent is filled with the absolutely scrumptious scent of freshly Floyd | baked pies. Several long tables are laden with dozens of entries Floyd | competing for the blue-ribbon prize. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky, the Pine Nut Queen, is here, surrounded by her Pine Floyd | Nut Ladies-In-Waiting. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a gruesome glowing pie, a row of delicious pies and a Floyd | pink purse (in which is a physical results chart) here. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane and her retinue move down to the next pie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x purse" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > X PURSE Floyd | Floyd | It matches her dress. Floyd | Floyd | In the pink purse is a physical results chart. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane cuts a slice from the pie in front of her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take chart" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CHART Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane puts a forkful of pie in her mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims, "Without physical results, no pie !" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to jane" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JANE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 5 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, hello again, Bonnie." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Seriously, I think that weird pie might kill you." Floyd | 2) "Are you sure you don't want to just give Jenny the blue ribbon?" Floyd | 3) "I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?"] Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane shrugs and walks over to her purse to check the results Floyd | again. She digs around inside. "Huh," she says. "I can't seem to Floyd | find it in there. But I remember what it said, and it said I'd be Floyd | fine." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Seriously, I think that weird pie might kill you." Floyd | 2) "Are you sure you don't want to just give Jenny the blue ribbon?" Floyd | 3) "I still don't believe all these calories won't do anything. Are Floyd | you SURE you read those physical results right?" Floyd | 4) "Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "bah" | |
| verbalK asks, "If we retry 1... ?" | ||
| invisiwall asks, "What _does_ the chart say?" | ||
| verbalK says, "That she is as healthy as a humming bird." | ||
| DavidW says, "There's actually two different solutions to this puzzle." | ||
| verbalK says, "And she can eat loads of pie." | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "Oh my goodness, then we should give her extra food!" | ||
| verbalK says, "It seems that we dont want her to eat the weird looking pie." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Great idea !!!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHART Floyd | Floyd | That command isn't available in choice mode. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Er... I must take my leave, Your Majesty."] Floyd | Floyd | "Have fun at the fair!" Floyd | Floyd | Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | This tent is filled with the absolutely scrumptious scent of freshly Floyd | baked pies. Several long tables are laden with dozens of entries Floyd | competing for the blue-ribbon prize. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky, the Pine Nut Queen, is here, surrounded by her Pine Floyd | Nut Ladies-In-Waiting. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a gruesome glowing pie, a row of delicious pies and a Floyd | pink purse (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane rolls her eyes in pleasure and finishes off the piece of pie Floyd | in a few healthy bites. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chart" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHART Floyd | Floyd | These are notes from a recent physical for "Minsky, Mary Jane Floyd | Minerva". Among other things, the doctors remark that her metabolism Floyd | seems excellent. "Miss Minsky is near-perfectly fit. It is this Floyd | doctor's opinion that the various culinary duties of the Pine Nut Floyd | Queen--including the judging of the pie competition--should pose Floyd | little damage to her royal figure." Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane murmurs something to one of her Pine Nut Ladies-In-Waiting, Floyd | who writes it down on a clipboard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pies" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIES Floyd | Floyd | They all look extremely delicious! Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane and her retinue move down to the next pie. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Should we give her the Deluxe hamburger we've been carrying around ?" | |
| invisiwall says, "Oh, okay, not quite a hummingbird." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give burger to Mary Jane" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BURGER TO MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Damn. Right." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a physical results chart Floyd | a cosmic ray gun Floyd | a blue box (open) Floyd | a whole bunch of blue pills Floyd | a green canister (open) Floyd | a whole bunch of green pills Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane cuts a slice from the pie in front of her. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's a depth charge" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give depth charge to mary jane" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE DEPTH CHARGE TO MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | "No, thank you!" Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane puts a forkful of pie in her mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "It's a posthamburgic food item" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Can we alter her medical results? Seems like a stretch." | ||
| DavidW says, "(not saying)" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Maybe if we show her the chart again but upside down ?" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Does that cound as altering her medical results?" | ||
| verbalK says, "count*" | ||
| DavidW says, "[]-=-=-=-=-=-=-" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure how we'd phrase that, vk, but DW's zipped mouth ascii emoji leads me to believe we're on the right track." | ||
| verbalK says (to DavidW), "Public whisper: (What does that mean?)" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "oooooooh ! I see !" | ||
| DavidW says, "My mouth is zipped." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Looking at the inventory stuff... shoot the pie? Bribe with pills? Embarrass with yearbook? Distract with... thrown hula hoop?" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Pills !" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Let's make her fat !!!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "OH RIGHT" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Like so fat her results will be meaningless !" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Fill her stomach with a sponge" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to vk), "I don't think it makes her fat, it makes her full." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put pill in pie" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PILL IN PIE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the whole bunch of blue pills or the whole bunch of Floyd | green pills? Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "The blue pills, in a the next pie she's going to taste." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Is it the blue pills? I forget what the others do." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "There's a sucrose pill too though, isn't there?" | ||
| verbalK says (to Jacq), "I am not sure I understood everything about those pills..." | ||
| DavidW says, "Try one. If it's wrong, try the other." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x blue pills" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLUE PILLS Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the whole bunch of blue pills. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane looks throughtful. Slowly, she takes another bite of pie and Floyd | chews it carefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Not sure if that would have the same effect (extra food = now you're full?)" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put blue pill in pie" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BLUE PILL IN PIE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the gruesome glowing pie or the row of delicious Floyd | pies? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "delicious pies" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > DELICIOUS PIES Floyd | Floyd | You shake a blue pill into your hand. Floyd | Floyd | You discreetly tuck the blue pill beneath the crust of the next pie Floyd | down from Mary Jane. Soon enough, she's picking it up, cutting a Floyd | slice, and stuffing it cheerfully into her face. Nothing much happens, Floyd | though. If you're trying to fatten her up, the pie is probably already Floyd | doing a good enough job on its own. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane murmurs something to one of her Pine Nut Ladies-In-Waiting, Floyd | who writes it down on a clipboard. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "She wont eat pies anymore. But why are we trying to stop her from eating pies ?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I thought it was green." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of vk), "Because she's going to eat an alien pie and spit out alien babies?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Because the gruesome pie might kill her" | ||
| DavidW says (to verbalK), "You haven't found out yet." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "That will guzzle our brains?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That is my prediction." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put green pill in delicious pie" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GREEN PILL IN DELICIOUS PIE Floyd | Floyd | You shake a green pill into your hand. Floyd | Floyd | You discreetly tuck the green pill beneath the crust of the next pie Floyd | down from Mary Jane. Soon enough, she's picking it up, cutting a Floyd | slice, and stuffing it cheerfully into her face. A moment later, you Floyd | hear the muffled whumpf of a giant SLIM-U sponge blowing up Floyd | in her stomach like a life raft trapped in a coffee can. Mary Jane Floyd | grimaces and puts a hand to her abdomen. "Oof..." she moans, "I Floyd | think...maybe...that's enough pie for today." Floyd | Floyd | Surrounded by her ladies-in-waiting, Mary Jane rushes off, looking Floyd | pale. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall exclaims, "I feel that preventing the guzzlement of human brains is a pretty good reason!" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take glowing pie" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GLOWING PIE Floyd | Floyd | You heft the gruesome glowing pie. Not only have you saved Mary Jane Floyd | from biting into a major yuckaroo, you've now got a piece of evidence Floyd | about the creatures! Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall exclaims, "Although.... someone baked that pie. Someone human, presumably. We have a traitor?!" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Back to the popo?" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Evidence? Does that mean we should go back to the police station ?" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Let's try that ?" | ||
| Emily goes home. | ||
| Emily has disconnected. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | This tent is filled with the absolutely scrumptious scent of freshly Floyd | baked pies. Several long tables are laden with dozens of entries Floyd | competing for the blue-ribbon prize. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a row of delicious pies and a pink purse (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Blue Ribbon Pie Tasting Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The way the tables are set up prevents you from leaving in any Floyd | direction but southwest or south. Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Center Floyd | All paths lead here, to the paved center of the town square. A large Floyd | bronze statue of Canyonville's founder, Charles Fobb, towers over you. Floyd | The festival surrounds you on all sides--east to the midway, west to Floyd | the exit, south to the Tomorrow Pavilion, and north to the annual Floyd | Judging of the Pies. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Deputy Wilcox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Well, that's handy" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "e?" | ||
| DavidW says, "This is Officer Wilcox's son." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Does he still think we are a "hysteric" girl ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh! I was so busy looking at directions...." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to deputy" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DEPUTY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 8 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Well, hi there", the young deputy says. "Hope we can put all that Floyd | business this morning behind us. As long as you're here for good clean Floyd | fun, you're welcome at Pine Nut Days. Miss...Noodleman, wasn't it? Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Deputy Wilcox! The town is in terrible danger Floyd | from...from...bears? Big, nasty, plausible bears!" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Yeah let's try bears this time ..." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Deputy Wilcox! The town is in terrible danger Floyd | from...from...bears? Big, nasty, plausible bears!"] Floyd | Floyd | "First it's monsters, now it's bears?" The deputy shakes his head. Floyd | "Look, I can't get my uncle on the radio, and now mysterious gigantic, Floyd | jiggling folks in trenchcoats have been spotted in the area! They Floyd | could be spies for Khrushchev, or for rival towns with competing pine Floyd | nut-based festivals. So you've just gotta excuse me, but I've got Floyd | bigger fish to fry." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Please! Your uncle wouldn't listen to me, but I know you're the Floyd | better man. I know you won't ignore your duty!" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "snrk" | |
| DavidW says, "probably should've looked at him first." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Please! Your uncle wouldn't listen to me, but I know you're the Floyd | better man. I know you won't ignore your duty!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it's true Unk could be a little lazy on days ending with 'y'. I Floyd | tell you what--I'll investigate this, and I'll do it nice and Floyd | thorough." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Oh, thank goodness! All your uncle did was sit around and wait for Floyd | me to bring him a piece of evidence." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, nephew, not son. Sorry." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Oh, thank goodness! All your uncle did was sit around and wait Floyd | for me to bring him a piece of evidence."] Floyd | Floyd | The deputy shakes his head. "I love the man, but he doesn't exactly Floyd | like to sweat. I'd never sit around and wait for just one piece of Floyd | evidence. I'm gonna need to look at at least three good ones before Floyd | taking action. You find me three things that demonstrate that Floyd | something weird and out of the ordinary is going on, I'll have no Floyd | choice but to believe you." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Look at this pie. It's unnatural!" Floyd | 2) "That's all I've got right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Three?" | |
| verbalK says, "We have the gun too" | ||
| DavidW says, "Three." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Look at this pie. It's unnatural!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm. That certainly is an unpleasant looking pie." Deputy Wilcox Floyd | looks more closely at the pulsating pastry. "I don't think any woman Floyd | in this town could or would bake such a monstrosity!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "That's all I've got right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["That's all I've got right now."] Floyd | Floyd | He tips his hat. "Later, Miss." Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Center Floyd | All paths lead here, to the paved center of the town square. A large Floyd | bronze statue of Canyonville's founder, Charles Fobb, towers over you. Floyd | The festival surrounds you on all sides--east to the midway, west to Floyd | the exit, south to the Tomorrow Pavilion, and north to the annual Floyd | Judging of the Pies. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Deputy Wilcox here. Floyd | Floyd | A sudden eruption of ear-splitting demands for candy is followed, Floyd | moments later, by an exhausted-looking woman towing a red-faced, Floyd | shrieking little boy. The noise persists for some time as she drags Floyd | him off in the direction of the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x deputy" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > X DEPUTY Floyd | Floyd | Buck Wilcox's nephew, a slim, brown-haired kid no more than twenty. He Floyd | really cares about upholding the law, and more than that, making sure Floyd | Canyonville is a nice place to live. His hobbies include planting Floyd | trees and then getting cats out of them. Floyd | Floyd | An unattended dog thumps into your shin as it runs past, panting in Floyd | the warm weather. It disappears into a forest of legs. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Aww." | |
| Jacqueline says, "That is adorable." | ||
| DavidW says, "I live Buck Wilcox a lot more than Jimmy." | ||
| DavidW says, "er like" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, crap. I have not fed my Neko Atsume cats yet this morning." | ||
| verbalK asks, "What is a Neko Atusme ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Everyone's favourite cat game on mobile, I think." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| DavidW says, "My Twitter feed has various pictures from it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, they are fed now." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, did the seed count as 1?" | ||
| DavidW says, "No." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or do we still have two things to find?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The ray gun appears to not count." | ||
| DavidW says, "You need 2 more things, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "And the gun doesn't count, correct." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I don't think the gun counts either, cos it didn't show up as a talk option" | ||
| verbalK is trying to find this Neko Atsume app. Cats and smartphones, how could it go wrong ? | ||
| Jacqueline says (to invisiwall), "Right" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Center Floyd | All paths lead here, to the paved center of the town square. A large Floyd | bronze statue of Canyonville's founder, Charles Fobb, towers over you. Floyd | The festival surrounds you on all sides--east to the midway, west to Floyd | the exit, south to the Tomorrow Pavilion, and north to the annual Floyd | Judging of the Pies. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Deputy Wilcox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fobb" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOBB Floyd | Floyd | A large bronze statue of the town's founder. He's got some swell Floyd | muttonchops! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Midway Games Floyd | Rows of games line the midway here, creating a noisy, colorful passage Floyd | between the town square center to the west and a gloomy-looking Floyd | haunted house ride to the south. The most prominent booth is a Floyd | shooting gallery containing several rows of ducks and a BB gun. Floyd | Floyd | A carny slouches against the booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x carny" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARNY Floyd | Floyd | Gosh, he sure looks like an awful shady customer! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to carny" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CARNY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 7 here.] Floyd | Floyd | The carny looks you over. "Well, who's this raven-haired beauty? Looks Floyd | a little like me at that age. Better hope that don't work the other Floyd | way around, huh? Look, I'm kiddin', kid, relax, that's a joke. But Floyd | seriously, you gonna give my games a shot or ain't ya? Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Who are you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Who are you?"] Floyd | Floyd | "I'm Barney. Barney the Carny. Who are you, Quizzy the Question Girl? Floyd | C'mon, I got prizes here. Broads dig prizes." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's your game, Barney?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["What's your game, Barney?"] Floyd | Floyd | "I gotta shooting gallery, mostly. You shoot BBs at ducks usin' that Floyd | gun. If you win, you pick up this beauty!" He holds up a trophy. It's Floyd | made of some kind of strange metal that radiates a sickly yellow-green Floyd | glow. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "That glow! That metal--that can help me prove what's going on! Floyd | Please! I really, really need that!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["That glow! That metal--that can help me prove what's going on! Floyd | Please! I really, really need that!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Well", the carny laughs, "then you'd better hope you're good at Floyd | shootin' ducks." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "How does your shooting gallery work?" Floyd | 2) "I'm done talking!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm done talking!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, yeah. See ya in the funny pages, toots." Floyd | Floyd | Midway Games Floyd | Rows of games line the midway here, creating a noisy, colorful passage Floyd | between the town square center to the west and a gloomy-looking Floyd | haunted house ride to the south. The most prominent booth is a Floyd | shooting gallery containing several rows of ducks and a BB gun. Floyd | Floyd | A carny slouches against the booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "play game" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY GAME Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take bb gun" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BB GUN Floyd | Floyd | As you pick up the gun, a cheery tune begins playing, and the booth is Floyd | awash in light. With a grinding kachunk the ducks begin moving. Floyd | Floyd | 1) Get ready... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Get ready...] Floyd | Floyd | A tin duck zips across the gallery! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Shoot it with the BB gun. Floyd | 2) Shoot it with the cosmic ray gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Shoot it with the BB gun.] Floyd | Floyd | You fire the gun at the ducks. Pow! Plink! Pop! You miss them all as Floyd | the shots veer widely off course from anywhere you aimed. Why, you're Floyd | lucky you didn't put somebody's eye out! The carny laughs at you. Floyd | "Hey, better luck next time, kid". Floyd | Floyd | Midway Games Floyd | Rows of games line the midway here, creating a noisy, colorful passage Floyd | between the town square center to the west and a gloomy-looking Floyd | haunted house ride to the south. The most prominent booth is a Floyd | shooting gallery containing several rows of ducks and a BB gun. Floyd | Floyd | A carny slouches against the booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Well, okay" | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, it's rigged." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Jerk." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I think we know what we do now." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Use the other gun. The other gun can,t be rigged right?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take bb gun" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BB GUN Floyd | Floyd | As you pick up the gun, a cheery tune begins playing, and the booth is Floyd | awash in light. With a grinding kachunk the ducks begin moving. Floyd | Floyd | 1) Get ready... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Get ready...] Floyd | Floyd | A tin duck zips across the gallery! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Shoot it with the BB gun. Floyd | 2) Shoot it with the cosmic ray gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | [Shoot it with the cosmic ray gun.] Floyd | Floyd | The ray shoots straight and true, melting the ducks into little piles Floyd | of molten slag. The carny grumbles a bit, but a deal's a deal. He Floyd | presses the trophy into your hot little hands. Floyd | Floyd | Midway Games Floyd | Rows of games line the midway here, creating a noisy, colorful passage Floyd | between the town square center to the west and a gloomy-looking Floyd | haunted house ride to the south. The most prominent booth is a Floyd | shooting gallery containing several rows of ducks and a BB gun. Floyd | Floyd | A carny slouches against the booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Maybe it has auto-aim...." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x trophy" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > X TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | It's warm and softly glowing in an unearthly sort of way. Other than Floyd | that, it looks like an ordinary trophy which appears to actually be Floyd | for bowling. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "congrats on evidence #2." | |
| invisiwall says, "Well, you certainly BOWLED the carny over" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Center Floyd | All paths lead here, to the paved center of the town square. A large Floyd | bronze statue of Canyonville's founder, Charles Fobb, towers over you. Floyd | The festival surrounds you on all sides--east to the midway, west to Floyd | the exit, south to the Tomorrow Pavilion, and north to the annual Floyd | Judging of the Pies. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Deputy Wilcox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "How can the gun not be evidence number 3?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to deputy" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DEPUTY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 8 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Back again, huh? How're you're enjoyin' the fair, Miss Noodleman?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Look at this trophy. This is no normal metal!" Floyd | 2) "That's all I've got right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Look at this trophy. This is no normal metal!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Why, you're right! It's like nothing I've ever seen before--almost as Floyd | if it came from--from another world!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "That's all I've got right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["That's all I've got right now."] Floyd | Floyd | He tips his hat. "Later, Miss." Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Center Floyd | All paths lead here, to the paved center of the town square. A large Floyd | bronze statue of Canyonville's founder, Charles Fobb, towers over you. Floyd | The festival surrounds you on all sides--east to the midway, west to Floyd | the exit, south to the Tomorrow Pavilion, and north to the annual Floyd | Judging of the Pies. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Deputy Wilcox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Cause the ray gun looks like a toy." | |
| verbalK asks, "oh ... Even when it shoots rays and melts stuff ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Should we do the haunted house ride? I want to do the haunted house ride." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Scary lines of texts ! Let's go !" | ||
| Jacqueline likes haunted house rides. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Midway Games Floyd | Rows of games line the midway here, creating a noisy, colorful passage Floyd | between the town square center to the west and a gloomy-looking Floyd | haunted house ride to the south. The most prominent booth is a Floyd | shooting gallery containing several rows of ducks and a BB gun. Floyd | Floyd | A carny slouches against the booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "Haunted house?" | |
| invisiwall says, "Oh, I see" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Haunted Porch Floyd | You're standing on the porch of a creepy haunted house. From inside, Floyd | you can hear tinny recordings of booming laughter and creaking hinges. Floyd | A small car rests on a track. A noisy midway lies to the north, and a Floyd | glittering, futuristic pavilion to the west. Floyd | Floyd | An elegantly lettered sign has been nailed to the front door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glass case (closed) (in which is a tombstone) and a Floyd | small car here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | This crisply painted black and white sign bears the following text: Floyd | Floyd | "NOTICE: Floyd | Floyd | Due to the high levels of bone-chilling fear generated by this Floyd | terrifying ride, management is pleased to offer this complimentary Floyd | tombstone to any fairgoer who dies of fright while within the haunted Floyd | house." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Ok that's funny." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tombstone" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOMBSTONE Floyd | Floyd | It's made out of some kind of yellow-green crystalline substance Floyd | that's glowing faintly. You've never seen a gem that looks quite like Floyd | it. The rough, primal surface has been marred with a crude carving Floyd | reading "Your Name Here? MWA HA HA" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Yellow-green, eh?" | |
| invisiwall says, "Top-notch artisanry" | ||
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot glass" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT GLASS Floyd | Floyd | The ray passes right through it. Darn glass! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open case" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CASE Floyd | Floyd | There doesn't seem to be any way to cheat and open it yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So we have to die to get it? That seems like a lose-lose." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You hop into the car, which rolls forward into the haunted house. A Floyd | metal cuff snaps shut around your wrist. What an experience! The Floyd | laziness and lack of attention to detail on the part of the staff is Floyd | truly TERRIFYING! The implications of this shoddy workmanship, when Floyd | you consider the importance of the American work ethic to beating the Floyd | Russians, are enough to fill you with BONE-CHILLING FRIGHT! However, Floyd | you don't actually die. As the car creaks its way past the last Floyd | cardboard tombstone and into the light, the cuff on your wrist Floyd | squeezes and a hidden heart monitor beeps. "Ah, a heartbeat! You've Floyd | managed to survive!" a recorded voice chortles tinnily, "...THIS Floyd | TIME!" Floyd | Floyd | The car reaches the end of the track and stops with a jolt before Floyd | letting you back out onto the porch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aha" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a glowing trophy Floyd | a gruesome glowing pie Floyd | a physical results chart Floyd | a cosmic ray gun Floyd | a blue box (open) Floyd | a whole bunch of blue pills Floyd | a green canister (open) Floyd | a whole bunch of green pills Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Maybe the hula hoop will finally be useful?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "What do the blue pills do? Do they lower our heartbeat?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "No, IIRC they were the sucrose pills" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Cos the other ones were the sponge pills" | ||
| verbalK says, "Sorry I did not get everything about these pills ..." | ||
| DavidW says, "The blue pills make you gain weight." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Enough weight to make it difficult to find our pulse?" | ||
| Ghogg arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "I am guessing not." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm reasonably sure the pills are only useful for the pies puzzle." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "When this is all over, I want to try to eat the glowing pie." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "And then shooting it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I feel like we need to put something around our arm or find something to put in the cuff. And I'm not sure we've seen that thing yet." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Where else do we need to go?" | ||
| DavidW says, "You better try eating it now; you might not have it later." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat glowing pie" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT GLOWING PIE Floyd | Floyd | YOU'RE not eating that just to save Mary Jane from it! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat glowing pie" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT GLOWING PIE Floyd | Floyd | YOU'RE not eating that just to save Mary Jane from it! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Fine." | |
| DavidW says, "Bonstance has standards." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I still can't get over 'BONSTANCE'" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | The Haunted Porch Floyd | You're standing on the porch of a creepy haunted house. From inside, Floyd | you can hear tinny recordings of booming laughter and creaking hinges. Floyd | A small car rests on a track. A noisy midway lies to the north, and a Floyd | glittering, futuristic pavilion to the west. Floyd | Floyd | An elegantly lettered sign has been nailed to the front door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glass case (closed) (in which is a tombstone) and a Floyd | small car here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Midway Games Floyd | Rows of games line the midway here, creating a noisy, colorful passage Floyd | between the town square center to the west and a gloomy-looking Floyd | haunted house ride to the south. The most prominent booth is a Floyd | shooting gallery containing several rows of ducks and a BB gun. Floyd | Floyd | A carny slouches against the booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Haunted Porch Floyd | You're standing on the porch of a creepy haunted house. From inside, Floyd | you can hear tinny recordings of booming laughter and creaking hinges. Floyd | A small car rests on a track. A noisy midway lies to the north, and a Floyd | glittering, futuristic pavilion to the west. Floyd | Floyd | An elegantly lettered sign has been nailed to the front door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glass case (closed) (in which is a tombstone) and a Floyd | small car here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | A spacious plaza glittering with the promise of tomorrow. The center Floyd | of the town square is to the north, and a spooky-looking haunted house Floyd | lies to the east. The Car of Tomorrow gleams enticingly from on top of Floyd | a raised dais. There is also a small kiosk distributing the Ice Cream Floyd | of Tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | The Wife of Tomorrow is standing here, looking pretty and waiting for Floyd | someone to talk to her. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'Hi, Bob.'" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wife of tomorrow" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > X WIFE OF TOMORROW Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine The Wife of Floyd | Tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "um, yes?" | |
| verbalK says, "Yes that is what we want to do." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to wife of tomorrow" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WIFE OF TOMORROW Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to talk to The Wife of Floyd | Tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "just X WIFE" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wife" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > X WIFE Floyd | Floyd | Her face is molded into a friendly simper, and below that she's made Floyd | of shiny, snow-white plastic with a one-inch waist. This must be what Floyd | wives are going to look like tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ah" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to wife" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WIFE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 9 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Hello I am W.I.F.E. (Wireless Intelligent Female, Electronic), Floyd | another fine product of Minsystems Labs and your guide to the Wonders Floyd | of Tomorrow! You can ask me about any part of the pavilion to learn Floyd | more. As this prototype lacks a number of our exciting upcoming Floyd | features such as social analysis and reaction diodes, for purposes of Floyd | this demonstration I will be assuming that you are an affluent Floyd | middle-aged man named Dave Johnson who is interested in purchasing me Floyd | to impress the clients of his medium-sized ad agency. What would you Floyd | like to know, Dave?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Can you tell me about the Car of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 2) "Can you tell me about the Ice Cream of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 3) "Can you tell me a little more about yourself?" Floyd | 4) "Can I take you for a test, er, walk?" Floyd | 5) "Let's stop talking for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "snrkk" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I think I see the usefulness of W.I.F.E." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But let's chat first." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Can you tell me about the Car of Tomorrow?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, Dave! The Car of Tomorrow is a sleek, state-of-the-art driving Floyd | machine. It contains over two tons of steel and can reach speeds of Floyd | one-hundred-forty miles per hour when dragged at high speed along a Floyd | magnetic track by specially designed robots. The Car of Tomorrow is Floyd | capable of running on unrefined oil and blocks of shale, has Floyd | high-quality Texture-Tronic plastic seating for up to ten people, Floyd | boasts Drive-Rite Suspension and foot-powered Auto-Stop braking Floyd | technology, and is a delightful shade of cherry red. The Car of Floyd | Tomorrow will be available to consumers by mid-1961, by which time it Floyd | may also fly. Until then, enjoy this inert plywood prototype...and Floyd | remember, tomorrow is calling! Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Can you tell me about the Car of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 2) "Can you tell me about the Ice Cream of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 3) "Can you tell me a little more about yourself?" Floyd | 4) "Can I take you for a test, er, walk?" Floyd | 5) "Let's stop talking for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |
| Jacqueline says, "This is excellent." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Can you tell me about the Ice Cream of Tomorrow?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, Dave! The Ice Cream of Tomorrow is a polymolecular Floyd | bovine-emission based organic substance displaying hyperminimal atomic Floyd | vibration. It's also absolutely scrumptious!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Can you tell me about the Car of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 2) "Can you tell me about the Ice Cream of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 3) "Can you tell me a little more about yourself?" Floyd | 4) "Can I take you for a test, er, walk?" Floyd | 5) "Let's stop talking for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Isn't this good? I love this stuff." | |
| verbalK says, "I want to be born in the fifties...." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Oh my god" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "This is cool !" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Can you tell me a little more about yourself?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, Dave! I am a state-of-the-art, fully operational artificial Floyd | wife, capable of completing all necessary functions at the fraction of Floyd | the power use of a standard wife. I can cook a wide variety of dishes, Floyd | clean and fold laundry, and laugh when I detect jokes made within my Floyd | amusement radius. Best of all, my chest cavity--wastefully stocked Floyd | with nothing more than a heart and lungs in those other Floyd | wives--contains an ice machine, tumbler dispenser, and a bottle of the Floyd | finest aged Scotch!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Can you tell me about the Car of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 2) "Can you tell me about the Ice Cream of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 3) "Can you tell me a little more about yourself?" Floyd | 4) "Gee, can I have some of that fancy Scotch?" Floyd | 5) "Can I take you for a test, er, walk?" Floyd | 6) "Let's stop talking for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man. Now I want to marry her." | |
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | ["Can I take you for a test, er, walk?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Right away, Dave!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Can you tell me about the Car of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 2) "Can you tell me about the Ice Cream of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 3) "Can you tell me a little more about yourself?" Floyd | 4) "Gee, can I have some of that fancy Scotch?" Floyd | 5) "Wait here for a moment." Floyd | 6) "Let's stop talking for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | > Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | ["Let's stop talking for now."] Floyd | Floyd | "You know best, dear!" Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrow Pavilion Floyd | A spacious plaza glittering with the promise of tomorrow. The center Floyd | of the town square is to the north, and a spooky-looking haunted house Floyd | lies to the east. The Car of Tomorrow gleams enticingly from on top of Floyd | a raised dais. There is also a small kiosk distributing the Ice Cream Floyd | of Tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | The Wife of Tomorrow is standing here, looking pretty and waiting for Floyd | someone to talk to her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Haunted Porch Floyd | You're standing on the porch of a creepy haunted house. From inside, Floyd | you can hear tinny recordings of booming laughter and creaking hinges. Floyd | A small car rests on a track. A noisy midway lies to the north, and a Floyd | glittering, futuristic pavilion to the west. Floyd | Floyd | An elegantly lettered sign has been nailed to the front door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glass case (closed) (in which is a tombstone) and a Floyd | small car here. Floyd | Floyd | The Wife of Tomorrow rolls dutifully up behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "That's a fair description of what a great wife must have been expected to do in the fifties...." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put wife in car" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WIFE IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | (first taking The Wife of Tomorrow) Floyd | The Wife of Tomorrow is too heavy for your fragile little arms to Floyd | lift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wife, get in car" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > WIFE, GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | Nice girls start up a conversation with people if they want to talk Floyd | about something, instead of just spitting out orders like some kind of Floyd | drill sergeant! If you can't find a way to bring it up in Floyd | conversation, well, then it's probably not something you need to talk Floyd | about anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to wife" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WIFE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 9 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Hello again, Dave. How was your day?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Can you tell me about the Car of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 2) "Can you tell me about the Ice Cream of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 3) "Can you tell me a little more about yourself?" Floyd | 4) "Gee, can I have some of that fancy Scotch?" Floyd | 5) "Wait here for a moment." Floyd | 6) "Let's stop talking for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "She'll follow you in." | |
| verbalK says, "4" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Gee, can I have some of that fancy Scotch?"] Floyd | Floyd | "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." The Wife of Tomorrow winks Floyd | saucily. "Why buy the cow if she gives away the Scotch for free?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Can you tell me about the Car of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 2) "Can you tell me about the Ice Cream of Tomorrow?" Floyd | 3) "Can you tell me a little more about yourself?" Floyd | 4) "Wait here for a moment." Floyd | 5) "Let's stop talking for now." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| verbalK says, "I can't do that Dave." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Can't type. Too busy laughing." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | ["Let's stop talking for now."] Floyd | Floyd | "You know best, dear!" Floyd | Floyd | The Haunted Porch Floyd | You're standing on the porch of a creepy haunted house. From inside, Floyd | you can hear tinny recordings of booming laughter and creaking hinges. Floyd | A small car rests on a track. A noisy midway lies to the north, and a Floyd | glittering, futuristic pavilion to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The Wife of Tomorrow is standing here, looking pretty and waiting for Floyd | someone to talk to her. Floyd | Floyd | An elegantly lettered sign has been nailed to the front door. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glass case (closed) (in which is a tombstone) and a Floyd | small car here. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Yeah this is good :)" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You hop into the car. "Well, if you say so, dear," says the Wife of Floyd | Tomorrow, following you in. Metal cuffs snap shut around both your Floyd | wrists as the car rolls forward into the haunted house. The Wife of Floyd | Tomorrow emits eeks at regular intervals every time a rubber bat or Floyd | bored teenager in a mummy costume appears. Floyd | Floyd | At the end of the ride, the cuffs squeeze tight around both your wrist Floyd | and that of the Wife of Tomorrow, and a hidden heart monitor beeps. Floyd | "What's this?" a recorded voice says with an oily air of triumph. "It Floyd | appears that the terror was too much for someone's poor old heart. Floyd | Why, there's not a hint of a beat left! A promise is a Floyd | promise...." Floyd | Floyd | The glass case slides open. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Oh yeah, I didn't catch that reference haha" | |
| verbalK exclaims, "Nice !" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take tombstone" | ||
Floyd ] The Haunted Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TOMBSTONE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Midway Games Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Midway Games Floyd | Rows of games line the midway here, creating a noisy, colorful passage Floyd | between the town square center to the west and a gloomy-looking Floyd | haunted house ride to the south. The most prominent booth is a Floyd | shooting gallery containing several rows of ducks and a BB gun. Floyd | Floyd | A carny slouches against the booth. Floyd | Floyd | The Wife of Tomorrow rolls dutifully up behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oops. I keep thinking the 'midway' is the center." | |
| DavidW says, "w of midway" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Center Floyd | All paths lead here, to the paved center of the town square. A large Floyd | bronze statue of Canyonville's founder, Charles Fobb, towers over you. Floyd | The festival surrounds you on all sides--east to the midway, west to Floyd | the exit, south to the Tomorrow Pavilion, and north to the annual Floyd | Judging of the Pies. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Deputy Wilcox here. Floyd | Floyd | The Wife of Tomorrow rolls dutifully up behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show tombstone to deputy" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW TOMBSTONE TO DEPUTY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 8 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Back again, huh? How're you're enjoyin' the fair, Miss Noodleman?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Look at this glowing tombstone. It's freakish! Freakish, I tell Floyd | you!" Floyd | 2) "That's all I've got right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Look at this glowing tombstone. It's freakish! Freakish, I tell Floyd | you!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Freakish--that's the word for it, all right. It's certainly not good Floyd | old Canyonville rock. Why, I don't think it's even American!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) Confront the deputy about all three pieces of evidence. You're done Floyd | poking around this festival--it's time to get justice for Jimmy and Floyd | his poor brain, no matter what the consequences! Floyd | 2) "That's all I've got right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Confront the deputy about all three pieces of evidence. You're Floyd | done poking around this festival--it's time to get justice for Jimmy Floyd | and his poor brain, no matter what the consequences!] Floyd | Floyd | "I...I just can't deny it anymore," the deputy says, taking the Floyd | objects to examine. "There's something mighty strange going on. I Floyd | don't know if it's brain guzzlers or regular guzzlers, and I certainly Floyd | ain't convinced they hail from space, but I aim to find out." Floyd | Floyd | The Deputy pulls his gun and checks the bullets. "Just so happens, Floyd | I've got an idea. As long as everyone stays calm, we should have the Floyd | situation cleared up in a few minutes. Now, first thing we're gonna Floyd | do--" Floyd | Floyd | A piercing scream rings out across the fairgrounds! A moment later, Floyd | Mary Jane appears, her dress torn and her tattered sash streaming out Floyd | behind her. "Aliens!" she screams. "Aliens are attacking the Floyd | festival!" You look in the direction she came from. It's true! Huge, Floyd | jiggling shapes are oozing their way through the crowd. They look a Floyd | little like gelatin molds being held up close to a camera and shaken Floyd | vigorously, except for the tentacles, long and thick like pythons and Floyd | dripping with glowing goop. More screams. Festival-goers are starting Floyd | to panic. The calm before the storm is over--the Brain Guzzlers are Floyd | making their move! Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Deputy Wilcox! You're the law here. Do something!" Floyd | 2) "Mary Jane! Your people need you now more than ever. It's time to Floyd | show you're a real Pine Nut Queen!" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Aliens? Didnt hey use to call them martians in the fifties ?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "1 or 2" | ||
| DavidW says, "We already talked about Martians with Renee." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I like them both, but suspect we have to do the shooting." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Martians just means from Mars, I dunno" | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "Mary Jane, you can do it!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to vK), "C'mon dude, could you please think more clearly? We have no idea if these things are Moon Men or Martians, so it's best to use the more inclusive term of alien." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "She is great shape, we have the chart to prove it, she should try to do something instead of eating pies the whoel day !" | ||
| DavidW says, "We're gonna be in choice mode for several turns here." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Mary Jane! Your people need you now more than ever. It's time Floyd | to show you're a real Pine Nut Queen!"] Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane looks at you with wild eyes. "Are you bonkers?" she Floyd | screeches. "I abdicate!" Floyd | Floyd | The lead Brain Guzzler--at least, it's the one in front--stretches one Floyd | tentacle over to the Tomorrow Pavilion, picks up the Car of Tomorrow, Floyd | and pitches it at you like a javelin. Deputy Wilcox drops backwards Floyd | into the dirt, knocking you and Mary Jane down next to him. You watch Floyd | the Undercarriage of Tomorrow sail overhead and hear the car smash Floyd | into the midway with a sound of splintering wood and the clang of Floyd | steel on tin. Floyd | Floyd | "Huh," the deputy says. "Bit ornery. Just ta be safe, I think you Floyd | ladies oughtta make for the designated shelter area in Harding Tunnel. Floyd | I'll come and get ya once these fellas an' I--" He ducks as an I-beam Floyd | nearly decapitates him. "--have had a bit of a palaver." Floyd | Floyd | 1) Run away! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Abdicate?! Who made her queen?" | |
| DavidW asks, "The Pine Nut Festival Committee?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hooray for the Undercarriage of Tomorrow" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Traditionally, I believe it is your mum and da that make you a queen" | ||
| DavidW says, "And you totes missed the ice cream." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Run away!] Floyd | Floyd | You pelt down Main Street at top speed as Mary Jane struggles to keep Floyd | up barefoot, having lost her high heels back at the fair. The screams Floyd | of the festivalgoers echo down the empty street like water gurgling Floyd | down a pipe. Wait and observe--set a few traps--then wait for everyone Floyd | to gather in one place...those aliens have got to be smarter than the Floyd | mindless blobs they look like. No wonder they're so fond of brains. Floyd | Floyd | As you reach the Saguaro Road intersection, you stop short. Mary Jane Floyd | lets out another ear-splitting shriek. It looks like the monsters Floyd | weren't counting on everyone being at the fair after all. One of them Floyd | is oozing in from the north, two more from the west, and the biggest Floyd | one yet is slobbering in from the south like a tidal wave of Floyd | yellow-green goop. You're surrounded! You back away as the guzzlers Floyd | close in. Floyd | Floyd | "Gotcha!" hisses a voice, and something warm and slimy closes around Floyd | your wrist. Floyd | Floyd | 1) Swing around and punch that monster square in the snoot! Floyd | 2) Scream for help and try to pull away. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Honestly, I am not sure what use it would be to punch ooze-monsters" | |
| invisiwall says, "Imagine punching Oobleck, I'm just saying" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I would like to shoot them with our ray gun, please and thank you." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Swing around and punch that monster square in the snoot!] Floyd | Floyd | You whirl around, swinging your free hand in a wide arc, and end up Floyd | punching Renee on the side of her head. "Ow!" she grunts, more Floyd | startled than hurt--nobody ever accused you of being overly Floyd | strong--and staggers back, just in time for you to lose your balance Floyd | and topple forward into the diner, dragging Renee down with you. You Floyd | both end up splayed on the linoleum. She shoves you off and struggles Floyd | to her feet long enough to drag Mary Jane through the door, slam it Floyd | shut, and throw the deadbolt. Floyd | Floyd | "You see them too, right?" she says, turning to you. "I'm not crazy? Floyd | They're really here?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Yes, and golly, are they ever dangerous, and they're no dummies, Floyd | either! We're in such a deep pickle right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 | DavidW says, "pickles of deepness" | |
Floyd | Floyd | ["Yes, and golly, are they ever dangerous, and they're no dummies, Floyd | either! We're in such a deep pickle right now!"] Floyd | Floyd | Renee sighs. "Be careful what you wish for, I guess. Listen--I don't Floyd | think they know I'm in here. We can hole up for a while if we have to. Floyd | Might get pretty sick of burgers, but as long as we don't alert Floyd | them--" Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane lets out an ear-splitting shriek that nearly snaps your last Floyd | nerve. You can't see anything in the diner, but Mary Jane just keeps Floyd | screaming and bawling. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Shhh!" Floyd | 2) Grab her and put your hand over her mouth. Floyd | 3) Give her a good hard slap! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | [Give her a good hard slap!] Floyd | Floyd | Crakk! Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane blinks. "You--you hit me!" she says, looking more Floyd | surprised than hurt. Floyd | Floyd | "We'll all get a lot worse than a baby slap from flipping Bonnie Floyd | Noodleman if you don't cut that out!" Renee hisses. "What on Earth is Floyd | wrong with you?" Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane holds out her arm, which is smeared with red. "I'm bleeding. Floyd | I think--I think I'm dying!" Floyd | Floyd | Renee rolls her eyes. "That's beef juice, you dip. I was in Floyd | the middle of making patties when I grabbed you. Now quiet down and Floyd | hope to God that they didn't just hear--" Floyd | Floyd | A tentacle smashes through the front window, covering the diner in Floyd | broken glass and goo. Mary Jane lets out another piercing scream. Even Floyd | Renee makes a strangled squeak. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Run for it!" Floyd | 2) "We have to fight!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "2?" | |
| verbalK asks, "Can we use the gun if we fight?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That is my jope." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "HOPE, even" | ||
| verbalK says, "joy/hope I get it" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Maybe, though we can't check our inv right now" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to vK), "Exactly" | ||
| DavidW says, "Your inventory is in the wash." | ||
| DavidW says, "Contents may settle." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of i), "Do you think we may no longer have the ray gun?" | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "Depends on how realistic we're being I guess!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I see now why you'd want to take inventory, invisiwall - why, you're first initial is i." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["We have to fight!"] Floyd | Floyd | Renee nods at you. "Right," she says, "help me pull up these stools. Floyd | We'll go back to back." Floyd | Floyd | "Wh-what about me?" Mary Jane sniffles. Floyd | Floyd | "Just try not to knock either of us down when you faint." Floyd | Floyd | Waves of ooze begin slopping over the broken windowsill and slithering Floyd | purposefully across the floor towards you. Renee kicks at one, but Floyd | it's like stepping in a mud puddle--she almost loses a sneaker. Floyd | Floyd | "We can't fight this stuff!" she moans. "We've gotta retreat. Out the Floyd | back on three?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) (nod) "One..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Town Square Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [(nod) "One..."] Floyd | Floyd | The fryer suddenly explodes in a shower of grease and goo as a Floyd | half-fried tentacle forces its way through the wall, reaching for you Floyd | with ropy strands of sizzling, popping slime. "Twothreegogogo!" Renee Floyd | shouts as the three of you scurry to the backdoor. The diner roof Floyd | collapses behind you under several tons of hungry brain guzzler, Floyd | sending up a cloud of plaster dust. Floyd | Floyd | You crash through the back door and sprint desperately for the Floyd | sidewalk. The monsters are everywhere now, tentacles questing in every Floyd | direction, but you somehow avoid them, ducking, dodging, even hurdling Floyd | one of the smaller ones. You head north. There don't seem to be as Floyd | many along Saguaro. You can hear the girls breathing heavily on either Floyd | side of you. You all made it! Now if you can just reach the tunnel-- Floyd | Floyd | Like a green landslide, a brain guzzler the size of a house slides Floyd | down the slope of Make-Out Mountain, its surface a forest of Floyd | tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Oh my gosh!" Floyd | 2) "Holy cow!" Floyd | 3) "Jeepers jipes!" Floyd | 4) You're so shocked, you actually say the f-word. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "FOUR" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | [You're so shocked, you actually say the f-word.] Floyd | Floyd | "FIDDLESTICKS!" Floyd | Floyd | You're petrified. It's huge. It's horrible. It's got to be the mother Floyd | of all brain guzzlers. It's probably the one that ate Jimmy! Your feet Floyd | feel like they're glued to the spot as a deep, primal fear bubbles up Floyd | in your gut. Before you lies a sea of undulating goo, and the tide is Floyd | coming in. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane passes you. She's screaming her head off, yes, but she's Floyd | also actually moving instead of standing like a statue. It's Floyd | like having an ambulance drive past your ear, and somehow it breaks Floyd | the spell. You run. Floyd | Floyd | The three of you stagger through the entrance of the tunnel, a tidal Floyd | wave of slime following you. A tentacle the size of a redwood slams Floyd | into the cliffside. You can hear rock shattering and falling. Another Floyd | tentacle. Another crash. The tunnel is collapsing! Floyd | Floyd | You run forward into the darkness until you can no longer hear the Floyd | sound of tumbling rocks. "Everyone--okay?" Renee gasps. Mary Jane Floyd | whimpers. You check yourself over. You might have dropped a few of the Floyd | things you were carrying back there somewhere, but you're not bleeding Floyd | and nothing seems to be broken. Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. Tons of rocks block the road to the southwest. To the Floyd | northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the darkness. Floyd | You can see a heavy steel grate set into the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is lying flat on her back, recovering. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is sitting with her knees against her forehead, Floyd | looking miserable. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims, "Jimmy!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I knew it wouldn't be that f-word." | ||
| DavidW says, "New and last chapter: Evening." | ||
| invisiwall says, "FIDDLESTICKS" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Evening? You know what evening means..." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Let's check INV to see what we lost ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "BEAT POETRY" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You lost a lot of stuff." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh. Fiddlesticks. So we did." | ||
| verbalK says, "Everything is OK, we still have th ehula hoop." | ||
| DavidW says, "All the evidence, the pills, the ray gun." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I want to know why we still have the yearbook and the nonburger, haha" | ||
| verbalK says, "But we have our hula hoop." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. Tons of rocks block the road to the southwest. To the Floyd | northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the darkness. Floyd | You can see a heavy steel grate set into the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is lying flat on her back, recovering. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is sitting with her knees against her forehead, Floyd | looking miserable. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "I'm giving the hula hoop a pass if it collapses real tiny" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to renee" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RENEE Floyd | Floyd | She's too out of breath to talk right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to mary jane" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane looks up at you, her eyes ringed with red. "I can't believe Floyd | I just ran off and left Jenny back at the fair. What if those Floyd | things got her?" She puts her face in her hands and weeps. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I thought of a possible use for the hula hoop, but not here." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say to Mary Jane, "I hate to tell you this but Jenny is dead because you abandoned her and you'll have that guilt for the rest of your life, long after your good looks and amazing metabolism have left you. I hope you are able to handle it and not turn to drugs."" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY TO MARY JANE, "I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS BUT JENNY IS DEAD BECAUSE Floyd | YOU ABANDONED HER AND YOU'LL HAVE THAT GUILT FOR THE REST OF YOUR Floyd | LIFE, LONG AFTER YOUR GOOD LOOKS AND AMAZING METABOLISM HAVE LEFT YOU. Floyd | I HOPE YOU ARE ABLE TO HANDLE IT AND NOT TURN TO D Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Damn. I was just a little too long on my speech." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, to the poet?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Wow Jacqueline, don't hold back or anything" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to invisiwall), "Don't worry. I won't." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "...what poet?" | ||
| DavidW says, "There's a wee collapsed tunnel of rock between us and the beatniks." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pool of Light Floyd | A police car has skidded and crashed into the side of the tunnel here, Floyd | its lights filling the surrounding blackness with harsh flashes of red Floyd | and blue. You can see the dimly-lit tunnel continuing to the Floyd | southwest. Northeast and further in is nothing but pitch darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, I just realized that." | |
| invisiwall says, "That's some intense poetry" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Jeepers, there could be anything down there! Wandering off into the Floyd | darkness is just how they got Jimmy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAR Floyd | Floyd | It looks like the driver lost control of the vehicle. The front end is Floyd | completely smashed, but you can probably still get the car open if you Floyd | want to. About all you can make out inside is a vaguely human shape Floyd | slumped over the wheel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open car" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You grab the handle and pull as hard as you can. At first it seems to Floyd | be jammed, but with a little effort and a few terribly unladylike Floyd | grunts that you're glad nobody heard, you manage to swing it open. Floyd | Flopped across the steering wheel like a boneless goose is the body of Floyd | Buck Wilcox. That is...most of it. His brain is gone. It's Floyd | been taken! No...guzzled!! Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I hope they make this movie one day, and that MST3K takes it on." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search wilcox" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH WILCOX Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "haha" | |
| DavidW says, "x him" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The guzzlers took his gun." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wilcox" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > X WILCOX Floyd | Floyd | Even Officer Wilcox didn't deserve to die like this! The one Floyd | consolation is that his brain appears to have been pulled out through Floyd | his ear before the car hit the wall, so at least he didn't Floyd | suffer. He's been splattered by that greenish-yellow goo the Brain Floyd | Guzzlers leave everywhere, and you spot a few flecks of something Floyd | solid in it. On closer inspection, they appear to be fragments of Floyd | eggshell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I don't know why, but I almost typed >LICK GOO" | |
| invisiwall says, "Through his ear... how Animorphs" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. Tons of rocks block the road to the southwest. To the Floyd | northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the darkness. Floyd | You can see a heavy steel grate set into the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is back on her feet, sweaty but more-or-less recovered. Floyd | She's examining the grate. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is sitting with her knees against her forehead, Floyd | looking miserable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | All those darn rocks are going to keep you from going out that way! Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "What's behind the grate?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "oh yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x grate" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRATE Floyd | Floyd | The grate is covering the entrance to some kind of tunnel. Tiny Floyd | engraved letters read "Minsystems Labs Exhaust Vent C. No sneaking in Floyd | through." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "what indeed?" | |
| verbalK says, "(I have to for for 10 minutes or so)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to vK), "If you must for, go for." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I would be okay with a 10 minute break." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Let's come back at half past? 16 minutes?" | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "See you all then!" | ||
| DavidW says, "fine with me. I'll be here." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "I'm back !" | ||
| Firion arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Firion asks, "We're doing ClubFloyd today?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Yes. We're just taking a short break." | ||
| invisiwall says, "We are, there was a water break" | ||
| Ghogg says, "IF playing requires hydration" | ||
| Ghogg goes home. | Jacqueline says, "Back" | |
| Firion says, "Welcome back." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "invisiwall?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah. I see invisiwall said something." | ||
| verbalK asks, "This game is pretty cool. It came first right?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think so, yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Firion), "Yes, we're playing. It's on the bb. We've been playing 3.5 hours now, though, and are nearly done." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You know, I really didn't like her last game, so I'm very pleased to be loving this one." | ||
| verbalK asks, "The quest game DavidW told us about ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No, Jacqueline, Jungle Queen" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I plan to go try the one David told us about." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Her last game was Chlorophyll, wasn't it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah, I guess so. I liked Chlorophyll too. It was J,JQ I didn't like." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Though I realize I am in the extreme minority there." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "You didn't like J,JQ? Awwwww." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope" | ||
| Jacqueline shrugs. | ||
| Firion says (to Jacqueline), "I figured as much, I just got home from work that's the thing, so I was surprised to see it going on." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I confess I actually still haven't played JJQ" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, hrm. What now?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Though I did quite like Chlorophyll" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Was the beat poet a red herring?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "We saw a sign in the grate, I think" | ||
| invisiwall says, "also there is a dead policeman" | ||
| verbalK asks, "What happened to the hipster poets ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "JJQ has a pirate ship, monkeys, flying squirrels, a parrot, and magical idols." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I think we did what we could with the dead policeperson, didn't we?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, aside from lick the goo from his ear, but that seemed unseemly." | ||
| invisiwall says, "yes, I don't suppose it would be very productive to show that disaster to the other two" | ||
| DavidW says, "Officer Wilcox and his eggshell killer will rest in pieces." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open grate" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GRATE Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter grate" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER GRATE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x grate" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRATE Floyd | Floyd | The grate is covering the entrance to some kind of tunnel. Tiny Floyd | engraved letters read "Minsystems Labs Exhaust Vent C. No sneaking in Floyd | through." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take grate" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GRATE Floyd | Floyd | You grunt and strain, but it's really in there! It would probably take Floyd | at least three people working together to pull it out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| invisiwall says, "Hmmm I wonder who those could be" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to mary jane" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | She's too upset to pay attention to you right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "mary jane, help" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > MARY JANE, HELP Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Renee is the other girl." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smack mary jane" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SMACK MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to renee" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RENEE Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, Bonnie. I think we can get this grate off if we all pull Floyd | together. Give me a hand, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Let me look around a little more first." Floyd | 2) "Sure! Let's do it!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Sure! Let's do it!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Great! Okay, on three. One. Two. THREE!" You and Renee pull on the Floyd | grate as hard as you can, but it doesn't come loose. "We could use a Floyd | little help here, your highness," Renee hisses through Floyd | clenched teeth. Mary Jane stands up, a little sullenly, and grips the Floyd | bars. Between the three of you, the grate shifts a little, then pulls Floyd | free in a shower of loose pebbles and concrete dust, sending you Floyd | sprawling across the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | "Great," Renee says, standing up. "Okay, Miss Sharp Elbows, since I Floyd | had the honor of cushioning your fall, you can have the honor of going Floyd | up first." Floyd | Floyd | 1) Up you go! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Up you go!] Floyd | Floyd | You scramble up the narrow vent. It's dark, hot, and a tight squeeze, Floyd | but you can smell tobacco smoke from somewhere above you, and hear a Floyd | scratchy Perry Como record playing, so at least they've got the basics Floyd | of civilization up there. The others follow you in. After more Floyd | climbing than you want to think about, you come to another grate in Floyd | the side of the vent. Floyd | Floyd | 1) Take a little peek through the grate. Floyd | 2) Push the grate open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Take a little peek through the grate.] Floyd | Floyd | Through the slats of the grate, you can see a pleasant modernist Floyd | living room. The music is coming from a Hi-Fi set next to a Floyd | comfortable-looking leather easy chair. Floyd | Floyd | Renee taps your foot. "Um, Bonnie? Why are we stopping?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I think we're about to break into someone's house." Floyd | 2) Push the grate open. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "Look before you leap?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "yep" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Oh dear" | ||
| Firion exclaims, "Oh grate!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I think we're about to break into someone's house."] Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, well, unless you want to go back to just sitting on our butts Floyd | being buried alive until we're starving, and then arm-wrestle me to Floyd | find out which of us gets to eat Mary Jane, I think we're gonna have Floyd | to live with it." Floyd | Floyd | 1) Push the grate open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Push the grate open.] Floyd | Floyd | You push the grate out into the room and slide out into a Floyd | comfortable-looking living room lined with bookshelves and lit by a Floyd | collection of Tiffany lamps. Renee emerges next, and whistles. "Nice Floyd | place. Especially for the inside of a mountain." Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane slides out of the hole. "Thank you," she says politely, her Floyd | voice cracking. "I p-picked the lamps myself. Now if you'll excuse Floyd | me...I-think...I need some time alone. I'll just hop off t-to my Floyd | room!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Wait, Mary Jane, is this your house?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Wait, Mary Jane, is this your house?"] Floyd | Floyd | She nods. "H-help yourself to anything in the ki--ki--kitchen!" Floyd | Floyd | With a wail, Mary Jane rushes off to the northwest, her eyes wet and Floyd | her face white as a sheet. You see a brief glimpse of a room festooned Floyd | with ruffles and pink before the door slams behind her. Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east, but the southwest and east exits are Floyd | currently blocked by heavy-duty security shutters. A spiral staircase Floyd | leads up, and a gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| invisiwall says, "Ultramodern indeed" | ||
| verbalK says, "Nice future..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Man, avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow (technically I think it was called 'harvest gold'" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "My kitchen was harvest gold when I was a kid, with avocado appliances." | ||
| DavidW says, "Those were popular colours back then." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yep" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | (the Canyonville High yearbook) Floyd | (You turn to the Table of Contents) Floyd | Floyd | 1) Foreword: Advice for Today's Teen-Ager Floyd | 2) Our Students: Pioneers at the Dawn of Tomorrow Floyd | 3) Our Community: A Heritage of Superbness Floyd | 4) (Close the yearbook) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I had an orange carpet in my room." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | [(Close the yearbook)] Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east, but the southwest and east exits are Floyd | currently blocked by heavy-duty security shutters. A spiral staircase Floyd | leads up, and a gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x leather-bound book" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X LEATHER-BOUND BOOK Floyd | Floyd | A thick book with raised embossing and gold corners around a rather Floyd | lewd-looking tableau of a well-endowed peasant girl. Goodness! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read leather-bound book" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LEATHER-BOUND BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Renee probaby wouldn't want you reading over her shoulder. It's not Floyd | that important, anyway! Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Renee has her priorities in order" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | There's no way you're getting through while those shutters are down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | There's no way you're getting through while those shutters are down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath the oranges and pinks of an evening sky. In the Floyd | center of the room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is Floyd | a cluttered desk. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | On the cluttered desk is an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The aforementioned Tomorrowdome. Huzzah." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mug" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > X MUG Floyd | Floyd | A huge coffee mug brimming with steaming, fresh-roasted coffee. It's Floyd | gigantic! You could probably keep fish in here without them feeling Floyd | cramped in the least, although they might have other problems. "The Floyd | Doctor Said I Had To Cut Down To One Cup A Day" is printed on the Floyd | side, so maybe it started off as a gag gift. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "The professor is either very oblivious or very confident" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to professor" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PROFESSOR Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 10 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "My word!" the professor says, looking up. "A survivor! So the Floyd | townsfolk haven't been entirely wiped out after all. Mary Jane will be Floyd | thrilled one of you made it. She's always been more at ease with the Floyd | hoi polloi." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'm not the only survivor." Floyd | 2) "Are you Mary Jane's father?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Oblivious is my guess." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm not the only survivor."] Floyd | Floyd | "Gee, Professor, I'm not the only one who made it past the Brain Floyd | Guzzlers. There's me, Bonnie Noodleman--and my friend Renee--and Mary Floyd | Jane is back, too, safe and sound!" Floyd | Floyd | The professor blinks. "Back? What do you mean?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well, wasn't she at the festival? As the Pine Nut Queen?" Floyd | Floyd | "Nonsense!" he scoffs. "I've devoted my life to the pursuit of Floyd | science, as has my daughter. I've strictly forbidden her to waste her Floyd | intellect on all this populist fiddle-faddle. Go ahead; check her room Floyd | if you don't believe me." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Sure, she's in her room now..." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Is Science the bad guy again ?" | |
| DavidW says, "oh no, Science is good." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Sure, she's in her room now..."] Floyd | Floyd | "You see? Right where she should be." The professor peers at you. Floyd | "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm a very busy man. This Brain-Utilizing Floyd | Brain-Unguzzler isn't going to finish inventing itself!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're building?" Floyd | 2) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers."] Floyd | Floyd | "Unfortunately, Miss Noodleman, I have more questions than answers Floyd | myself. But I will endeavor to enlighten you in any way I can." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Where did these awful things come from?" Floyd | 2) "Why do they guzzle brains, anyway?" Floyd | 3) "Once we defeat them--what happens next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Her last protagonist was a baby scientist, so I wouldn't expect it" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Where did these awful things come from?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Fascinating question! Our best guess, based on the approach vector of Floyd | several unidentified flying objects detected over the past 24 hours, Floyd | is that they originate somewhere in the vicinity of Pluto. Though of Floyd | course it's theoretically possible that they came from elsewhere and Floyd | simply passed Pluto on the way. As I said, there's much we don't Floyd | know." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're building?" Floyd | 2) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers."] Floyd | Floyd | "Unfortunately, Miss Noodleman, I have more questions than answers Floyd | myself. But I will endeavor to enlighten you in any way I can." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Where did these awful things come from?" Floyd | 2) "Why do they guzzle brains, anyway?" Floyd | 3) "Once we defeat them--what happens next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Why do they guzzle brains, anyway?"] Floyd | Floyd | "A scientific mystery! Perhaps it's some crude form of communication. Floyd | Perhaps they seek to guzzle some vital chemical, found within our Floyd | brains, and only incidentally guzzle the entire organ. Perhaps this is Floyd | all some sort of intelligence test--they may, in truth, be as far Floyd | above us as we are above common laboratory rats or the indolent Floyd | Swede." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're building?" Floyd | 2) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers."] Floyd | Floyd | "Unfortunately, Miss Noodleman, I have more questions than answers Floyd | myself. But I will endeavor to enlighten you in any way I can." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Where did these awful things come from?" Floyd | 2) "Why do they guzzle brains, anyway?" Floyd | 3) "Once we defeat them--what happens next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Once we defeat them--what happens next?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Difficult to say. Much of the planet is likely already unrecoverable. Floyd | This impenetrable lab may act as an ark of technology and biological Floyd | material, keeping us and our precious brains safely unguzzled until we Floyd | may exit to rebuild the world in our own image. Or perhaps the Floyd | military will succeed in driving the creatures off, and we'll simply Floyd | have a great deal of mopping to do." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're building?" Floyd | 2) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Unpenetrable. He really said that out lound." | |
| DavidW says, "He did. He doesn't know his tropes." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["What's that you're building?"] Floyd | Floyd | "The Brain-Utilizing Brain-Unguzzler, or 'BUBU', also known as our Floyd | planet's last, best hope for survival in the face of this Brain Floyd | Guzzler onslaught." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "And just how does this 'BUBU' thingamajig work?" Floyd | 2) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Firion says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["And just how does this 'BUBU' thingamajig work?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Perspicacious question, Miss Noodleman. The BUBU, or 'Brain-Utilizing Floyd | Brain-Unguzzler', is an atomically powered device which uses radiation Floyd | waves to reverse the magnetic flux of any material which originates Floyd | from outer space, essentially using the Brain Guzzlers' own biological Floyd | energy against them. Of course, every child has done the simple Floyd | experiment in which water is slowly heated until a frog is boiled Floyd | alive without even thinking to hop out of the pan. Now imagine the Floyd | frog and the pan were on opposite ends of a table, and yet by making Floyd | folds in the fabric, we could bring them together without the frog Floyd | needing to pass over the entire tablecloth. That's essentially the Floyd | principle the BUBU uses, minus the frog, of course." He sighs. "Or Floyd | rather, it's the principle that it would use if I had all the Floyd | parts I needed." Floyd | Floyd | He wheels out a blackboard. "The components listed here are...the bulk Floyd | of what's required. Feel free to take a look at it when we're done Floyd | talking." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "Is that as nonsensical an explanation as it seems?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"] Floyd | Floyd | "I appreciate that, young lady." Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath the oranges and pinks of an evening sky. In the Floyd | center of the room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is Floyd | a cluttered desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | On the cluttered desk is an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to invisiwall), "It's as nonsensical as is typical of sci-fi movies in this trope, if that's what you mean." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read blackborad" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BLACKBORAD Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read blackboard" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BLACKBOARD Floyd | Floyd | The blackboard is covered with chalk diagrams and chicken-scratch Floyd | writing. One whole section of it is taken up with a checklist of Floyd | components, reading as follows: Floyd | Floyd | Perforated Silver Membrane Floyd | Micro-Mini Computer Floyd | Brain Guzzler DNA Sample Floyd | Purified Fructonium Floyd | 20,000-Ton Impenetrable Steel Chassis Floyd | Spork Floyd | Floyd | You carefully jot down the components on a sheet of loose-leaf paper. Floyd | Now you can keep track of what you've got and what you need to find. Floyd | It sure does feel swell to be neat and organized! Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent!" the Professor notes. "I suppose I'll have to risk opening Floyd | the internal security shutters so you can search the house. Floyd | Fortunately this facility remains completely impregnable from the Floyd | outside, so it shouldn't be an issue." Floyd | Floyd | He fiddles with something or other, and you hear the sound of heavy Floyd | shutters clattering open on the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Yep" | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, the DNA sample is down in the cop car, I'm assuming." | ||
| DavidW says, "Fair assumption." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Twenty-thousand tons of steel sound very easy to lug around" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fork and a spoon here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Firion says (to floyd), "x spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPOON Floyd | Floyd | It's a completely average spoon. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Maybe the junkyard where the goat was will have 20000 tons steel" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think we'll see that junkyard or our goat even again." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Unless she has a trans-matter ray, though, what's she gonna do with it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x telepad" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X TELEPAD Floyd | Floyd | A flat, smooth sheet of tempered glass built into the counter. A Floyd | large yellow button next to it is labeled "TELEPORT". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| Firion goes home. | Jacqueline says, "I mean, maybe I'm wrong, maybe we teleport somewhere." | |
| DavidW says, "It might not be a trans-matter ray, but it might do." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, must we somehow utilize the magic of science to combine this spoon and this fork?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Must be" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Maybe if we teleport the spoon at the same position the fork is, they will somehow merge?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | fork: Taken. Floyd | spoon: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put fork on telepad" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT FORK ON TELEPAD Floyd | Floyd | You put the fork on the telepad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put spoon on telepad" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SPOON ON TELEPAD Floyd | Floyd | You put the spoon on the telepad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push yellow" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH YELLOW Floyd | Floyd | The telepad buzzes. "ERROR. MULTIPLE OBJECTS DETECTED. ATTEMPTING Floyd | FUSION." The fork and spoon seem to twist and ripple before vanishing Floyd | from the telepad in a shimmer of light. "FUSION SUCCESSFUL." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push yellow" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH YELLOW Floyd | Floyd | The telepad blinks a pleasant green, but otherwise nothing happens. Floyd | Maybe you need to put something on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so we need to go find the other one." | |
| invisiwall asks, "So they've been fused AND teleported?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Probably in the dining room." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x town" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOWN Floyd | Floyd | This room must be the part of the building that hangs out over the Floyd | cliff, because all you can see is a magnificent aerial overlook of Floyd | Canyonville. The sun is setting over the mountains to the west, Floyd | giving the houses long shadows. You can see a column of army tanks Floyd | rolling down Saguaro Road, flanked by rows of jeeps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You jiggle the handle. It's locked! You can hear Mary Jane playing Floyd | marching band music at high volume on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | A long arched hallway of frosted glass running east and west. The Floyd | light of sunset tinges the serene blue of the carpet with orange and Floyd | gold. The room is lined with displays, each featuring another Floyd | brilliant MinSystems invention--two especially impressive ones are the Floyd | weapons display and the transportation display. Heavy glass doors lead Floyd | into the main MinSystems offices to the east, while a cozy foyer at Floyd | the other end of the hall leads to the Minskys' private home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x transportation display" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRANSPORTATION DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | This display details "a brilliant advance in remote delivery Floyd | technology." It contains a white pod which looks something like a Floyd | giant egg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x weapons display" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > X WEAPONS DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | The display concerns a "multi-target disintegration device" designed Floyd | for a "wide range of military and civilian uses" known as the "RPS Floyd | Cannon." A prototype of the cannon is propped up, aiming at a paper Floyd | target hanging from the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Is this actually a museum ?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take prototype" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PROTOTYPE Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "cannon" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take canon" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CANON Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take cannon" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CANNON Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "I think the professor and/or his employees is just really proud of their inventions" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pod" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POD Floyd | Floyd | (the telepod) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pod" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > X POD Floyd | Floyd | (the telepod) Floyd | A large, egg-shaped pod about the size of a garbage can, but Floyd | lightweight enough for you to lift. There's a closed hatch in the Floyd | side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open pod" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN POD Floyd | Floyd | (the telepod) Floyd | You open the telepod, revealing a spork. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take spork" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SPORK Floyd | Floyd | Hooray! Once you give this to the professor, you'll be one Floyd | spork's-length closer to your very own superweapon! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a spork Floyd | a telepod (open but empty) Floyd | a RPS cannon Floyd | a checklist Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims, "Nice !" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read checklist" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > READ CHECKLIST Floyd | Floyd | A neat little copy of the checklist on the blackboard, which you can Floyd | use to keep track of the BUBU components you still need to give to the Floyd | Professor. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Perforated Silver Membrane Floyd | Micro-Mini Computer Floyd | Brain Guzzler DNA Sample Floyd | Purified Fructonium Floyd | 20,000-Ton Impenetrable Steel Chassis Floyd | Spork Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm tempted to go get the DNA with the spork" | |
| DavidW says, "I think the checklist items are checked after you deliver them." | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "Why not!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You brace your legs against the sides of the vent and descend in a Floyd | controlled slide. Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. Tons of rocks block the road to the southwest. To the Floyd | northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the darkness. Floyd | There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pool of Light Floyd | A police car has skidded and crashed into the side of the tunnel here, Floyd | its lights filling the surrounding blackness with harsh flashes of red Floyd | and blue. You can see the dimly-lit tunnel continuing to the Floyd | southwest. Northeast and further in is nothing but pitch darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in car" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | In the police car are some fragments of eggshell and a body. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take eggshell" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE EGGSHELL Floyd | Floyd | You pick them off of his clothing. There's a big clump of them near Floyd | his feet, too. You've got almost the whole shell, now. Good for you, Floyd | Bonnie! Helping Mother in the kitchen really paid off! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Is the shell the DNA, or the goo?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > X BODY Floyd | Floyd | Even Officer Wilcox didn't deserve to die like this! The one Floyd | consolation is that his brain appears to have been pulled out through Floyd | his ear before the car hit the wall, so at least he didn't Floyd | suffer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "both" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wilcox" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > X WILCOX Floyd | Floyd | Even Officer Wilcox didn't deserve to die like this! The one Floyd | consolation is that his brain appears to have been pulled out through Floyd | his ear before the car hit the wall, so at least he didn't Floyd | suffer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take goo" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GOO Floyd | Floyd | It's corrosive and poisonous and honest-to-gosh, you really just don't Floyd | want to touch that! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er, you take the shell, not the goo" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Maybe it dried out" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Pool of Light Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. Tons of rocks block the road to the southwest. To the Floyd | northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the darkness. Floyd | There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You scrabble back up the dark exhaust vent. Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Oh, nvm" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So... into the actual labs?" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Let's go !" | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "That might have more suff!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | A long arched hallway of frosted glass running east and west. The Floyd | light of sunset tinges the serene blue of the carpet with orange and Floyd | gold. The room is lined with displays, each featuring another Floyd | brilliant MinSystems invention--two especially impressive ones are the Floyd | weapons display and the transportation display. Heavy glass doors lead Floyd | into the main MinSystems offices to the east, while a cozy foyer at Floyd | the other end of the hall leads to the Minskys' private home. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a paper target here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You open the doors a crack. An oozing tentacle shoots towards you! You Floyd | quickly slam the door and throw the emergency lock. Your brief Floyd | glimpses of the offices were enough to tell you they're totally Floyd | overrun with Brain Guzzlers--you're not getting out that way! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, um, no." | |
| DavidW says, "Sorry" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "How about no, then." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Shoot them with the cannon?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. Yes, no." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to invisiwall), "We don't get a turn to shoot." | ||
| DavidW says, "also, that ain't an ordinary cannon." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cannon" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > X CANNON Floyd | Floyd | A sleek, futuristic gun with three brass barrels. It's bulky and looks Floyd | powerful, but it's light enough to hold in one hand. There's a dial Floyd | you can turn on the side under a display. Currently the display is Floyd | showing an image of a hand with the index and middle fingers extended, Floyd | like a sideways peace sign. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Well, it said disintegration" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > X DIAL Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the dial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x display" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the weapons display or the transportation display? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x weapons display" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > X WEAPONS DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | The display concerns a "multi-target disintegration device" designed Floyd | for a "wide range of military and civilian uses" known as the "RPS Floyd | Cannon." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial until you hear a click. Now the display shows a hand Floyd | curled into a fist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial until you hear a click. Now the display shows a hand Floyd | with the palm and all five fingers lying flat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Amazing Advances Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial until you hear a click. Now the display shows a hand Floyd | with the index and middle fingers extended. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm such a dork that I understood this cannon instantly from the name." | |
| verbalK says, "I don't get it..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One would think it disintegrates multiple targets..." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Ohhh" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Oh that's great" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Can someone please explain how this dial work ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think invisiwall should explain." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Rock paper scissors" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "oh !" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, is there some place we've not been?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "MJ's room" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess we could knock." | ||
| invisiwall says, "But I can't think how to get in" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "...politeness, there's that, true" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You jiggle the handle. It's locked! You can hear Mary Jane playing Floyd | marching band music at high volume on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have a suggestion to make if you need it." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "knock" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm" | |
| invisiwall asks, "The door's not made of rock, paper, or scissors, is it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to renee" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RENEE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 11 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, Bonnie." Renee smiles tiredly. "That was a heck of a thing. Now Floyd | what are we supposed to do?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "We need to rescue more people!" Floyd | 2) "We need to destroy those things!" Floyd | 3) "It doesn't matter. We're safe now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["We need to rescue more people!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, no kidding." Renee bites her lip. "Dad was at that festival. At Floyd | least Mom was out of town--gosh, you don't think this is happening in Floyd | other places, too, do you? It was just so...I was...I was at the Floyd | diner, like always. I was in the middle of making hamburgers for Floyd | crying out loud!" Floyd | Floyd | She wipes a smudge of dirt off of her cheek. "That diner was--I lived Floyd | there. I worked there every--every day. And now it's just--it didn't Floyd | even take them two minutes to tear that place up. Like it was Floyd | nothing." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "That must have hurt. I know how much you loved that place." Floyd | 2) "Shouldn't you be happy? I thought you hated working there." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["That must have hurt. I know how much you loved that Floyd | place."] Floyd | Floyd | "It should have hurt. It was scary as heck, that's for sure. But Floyd | I--I--this is horrible, but part of me sort of enjoyed it. I won't Floyd | ever have to stand over that stupid grill again. I won't just have to Floyd | stand there and take it when kids from school show up. There's a Floyd | million little things that--I might be dead tomorrow, but at least I Floyd | know those things are over, y'know?" She swallows. Floyd | "It's sick, but I just feel free now." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What happened wasn't your fault." Floyd | 2) (hug Renee) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | [(hug Renee)] Floyd | Floyd | Renee seems surprised, but after a moment, she hugs you back. "Thanks, Floyd | Bonnie. I don't know why I'm worrying about a stupid building when my Floyd | parents could be... could be dead." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "They're probably somewhere safe right now, just as worried about Floyd | you." Floyd | 2) "Your parents have been through so much! They're tough as nails." Floyd | 3) "I guess any of us might get some bad news about our families when Floyd | this is over, but there isn't much to be done about it right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "3?" | |
| verbalK says, "3" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["I guess any of us might get some bad news about our families Floyd | when this is over, but there isn't much to be done about it right Floyd | now."] Floyd | Floyd | "I guess," Renee says. "Can we talk about something else now?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're reading? Does the professor have an eye for Floyd | good science fiction?" Floyd | 2) "Okay, I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Yeah, sure" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["What's that you're reading? Does the professor have an eye for Floyd | good science fiction?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Somehow, science fiction doesn't seem so fun anymore. Not right now, Floyd | at least." Renee holds up the book. "Period literature--Ye Floyd | Goodwyfe's Bodice Overfloweth." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're reading? Does the professor have an eye for Floyd | good science fiction?" Floyd | 2) "Okay, I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Okay, I should go!"] Floyd | Floyd | "See ya!" Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was kind of hoping Renee would help us, but I guess I overestimated." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I have a plan." | ||
| DavidW asks, "yes?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Yeah, the kids are all kinda shell shocked" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "My plan is to crowd-source a plan." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What should we do?" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Isn't that from Archer ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to verbalK), "It is, yes." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Also, what is the hula hoop for ?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Does this crowd-sourcing include me?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It is my favorite Archer line ever." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Anything else in the kitchen?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hrm. Not yet it doesn't, no. Not yet." | ||
| verbalK says, "Everybody is included in the crowd-sourcing except Cyril." | ||
| DavidW says (to invisiwall), "yes, there's more in there." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x garden" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Water-filled tubes cover the south wall of the kitchen. Lush Floyd | fruit-bearing plants of every description practically drip from them, Floyd | green and bursting with life. It doesn't look like there's any ripe Floyd | fruit ready to pick at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x checklist" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHECKLIST Floyd | Floyd | A neat little copy of the checklist on the blackboard, which you can Floyd | use to keep track of the BUBU components you still need to give to the Floyd | Professor. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Perforated Silver Membrane Floyd | Micro-Mini Computer Floyd | Brain Guzzler DNA Sample Floyd | Purified Fructonium Floyd | 20,000-Ton Impenetrable Steel Chassis Floyd | Spork Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take fruit" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FRUIT Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take plant" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PLANT Floyd | Floyd | (That's just part of the set.) Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "No fruits at the momen" | |
| Jacqueline says, "No. But we need fruit. Hrm." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Don't suppose there's a growth accelerator" | ||
| invisiwall says, "And no fridge! How crass." | ||
| verbalK says (to Jacqueline), "Mine is: I learned that flammable and inflammable means the same thing." | ||
| DavidW says, "Let me know when you want a tip." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to vK), "heh. Yeah" | ||
| invisiwall asks, "I don't suppose there's anything left up in the dome?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it would be worth checking and we could give him some stuff." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath the oranges and pinks of an evening sky. In the Floyd | center of the room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is Floyd | a cluttered desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | On the cluttered desk is an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to prof" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PROF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 10 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, greetings again, my young chum." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find a micro-mini computer?" Floyd | 4) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 5) "Gosh, professor, how am I supposed to get a 20,000-ton chassis Floyd | back here?" Floyd | 6) "These eggshells have got to be chock full of Deanna!" Floyd | 7) "Got your spork, Professor!" Floyd | 8) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | ["These eggshells have got to be chock full of Deanna!"] Floyd | Floyd | "That's 'DNA', but thank you, young chum! These are just what I was Floyd | looking for." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find a micro-mini computer?" Floyd | 4) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 5) "Gosh, professor, how am I supposed to get a 20,000-ton chassis Floyd | back here?" Floyd | 6) "Got your spork, Professor!" Floyd | 7) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh good. You didn't need the tip." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | ["Got your spork, Professor!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Perfect!" The professor tosses the spork carelessly into the BUBU's Floyd | inner workings. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find a micro-mini computer?" Floyd | 4) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 5) "Gosh, professor, how am I supposed to get a 20,000-ton chassis Floyd | back here?" Floyd | 6) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "DEANNA" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?"] Floyd | Floyd | "If it helps, the perforation doesn't have to be neat. You can even do Floyd | the job yourself if necessary. But the membrane must be quite large." Floyd | The professor holds out his hands. "Imagine this, but much, much Floyd | larger. At least the size of a wall, or the side of a house." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find a micro-mini computer?" Floyd | 4) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 5) "Gosh, professor, how am I supposed to get a 20,000-ton chassis Floyd | back here?" Floyd | 6) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Where can I find a micro-mini computer?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Why, use one of mine! You may not believe this, Miss Noodleman, but Floyd | my latest design packs almost a full bit of processing power into an Floyd | iron-plastic shell no heavier than twelve ordinary bowling balls! Floyd | Sadly, I used the only working prototype as a brain for my Floyd | revolutionary Wife of Tomorrow, and goodness knows where she is since Floyd | the attack--off eating bon-bons, I expect." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find a micro-mini computer?" Floyd | 4) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 5) "Gosh, professor, how am I supposed to get a 20,000-ton chassis Floyd | back here?" Floyd | 6) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims, "A full bit !" | |
| invisiwall says, "These are all good questions, but I'm glad Bonnie is also wondering about the 20 thousand ton thing" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Where can I find fructonium?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Why, that's the atomic element which makes up fruit! Of course, we Floyd | would need it in highly purified form, broken down to its most basic Floyd | elemental state--difficult for all but the most talented botanical Floyd | chemists. Good luck!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find a micro-mini computer?" Floyd | 4) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 5) "Gosh, professor, how am I supposed to get a 20,000-ton chassis Floyd | back here?" Floyd | 6) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | ["Gosh, professor, how am I supposed to get a 20,000-ton chassis Floyd | back here?"] Floyd | Floyd | "The professor chuckles paternally. "Well, of course I wouldn't expect Floyd | a mere girl to be able to lift so many thousands of tons. No, no, I've Floyd | got a suitable chassis prepared, as a matter of fact--all I need from Floyd | you is a nice design to use as a pattern. Something creative and Floyd | pretty, anything you want, with one caveat--the BUBU will be Floyd | vulnerable during the warm-up process, so in order to avoid suspicion, Floyd | it must look exactly like a genuine Brain Guzzler spaceship. Floyd | Shouldn't be hard for a teen-ager like yourself, with your science Floyd | fiction and your high schools and what not." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find a micro-mini computer?" Floyd | 4) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 5) "Gosh, professor, how am I supposed to get a 20,000-ton chassis Floyd | back here?" Floyd | 6) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Canon on fruit." | |
| Jacqueline says, "oh? okay" | ||
| invisiwall says, "We need to find fruit, though" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, renee for the chassis?" | ||
| verbalK says, "Renee will design the space ship I guess" | ||
| verbalK says, "I mean the steel chassis" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Yes, that makes more sense" | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "What a relief!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | That command isn't available in choice mode. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | ["I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"] Floyd | Floyd | "I appreciate that, young lady." Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath the oranges and pinks of an evening sky. In the Floyd | center of the room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is Floyd | a cluttered desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | On the cluttered desk is an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline wonders if the coffee mug is good for anything | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to renee" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RENEE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 11 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Hey there." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're reading? Does the professor have an eye for Floyd | good science fiction?" Floyd | 2) "Renee, you're good with space things, right? Could you design a Floyd | spaceship that would fool the Brain Guzzlers?" Floyd | 3) "Okay, I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Same" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Renee, you're good with space things, right? Could you design a Floyd | spaceship that would fool the Brain Guzzlers?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Well, they're basically just balls of gelatin that move towards food Floyd | sources, so, yeah, probably. Here, try something like this." Renee Floyd | rips a page out of the book and doodles a slick looking spaceship on Floyd | it. It's perfect! Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're reading? Does the professor have an eye for Floyd | good science fiction?" Floyd | 2) "Okay, I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "...that was easy." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Okay, I should go!"] Floyd | Floyd | "See ya!" Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath the oranges and pinks of an evening sky. In the Floyd | center of the room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is Floyd | a cluttered desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | On the cluttered desk is an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to prof" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PROF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 10 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, greetings again, my young chum." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find a micro-mini computer?" Floyd | 4) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 5) "Professor, Renee drew this ship design..." Floyd | 6) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | ["Professor, Renee drew this ship design..."] Floyd | Floyd | "That's just what we need!" the professor says. "Those slimy fiends Floyd | will never see it coming, now!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find a micro-mini computer?" Floyd | 4) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 5) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | ["I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"] Floyd | Floyd | "I appreciate that, young lady." Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath the oranges and pinks of an evening sky. In the Floyd | center of the room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is Floyd | a cluttered desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | On the cluttered desk is an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "That was the easy one. Now what?" | |
| invisiwall says, "Membrane, computer, fructonium" | ||
| invisiwall says, "If we're to get the Wife's computer, I think we need to get out" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I will be right back. Can someone else drive a sec?" | ||
| verbalK says, "We need fruits decomposed to their most basic form. The canon disintegrates stuff." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "verbalK, you want to take the wheel?" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Yes ! If you guys help me with the map !" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath the oranges and pinks of an evening sky. In the Floyd | center of the room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is Floyd | a cluttered desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | On the cluttered desk is an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a telepod (open but empty) Floyd | a RPS cannon Floyd | a checklist Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "se to kitchen, I think." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er sw" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sorry" | |
| invisiwall says, "We're still in the top floor" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Need to go down" | |
| DavidW says, "oh drat" | ||
| DavidW says, "I thought we were down." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "We're all very down about how the town's been destroyed" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x garden" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Water-filled tubes cover the south wall of the kitchen. Lush Floyd | fruit-bearing plants of every description practically drip from them, Floyd | green and bursting with life. It doesn't look like there's any ripe Floyd | fruit ready to pick at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "take fruit" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FRUIT Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "We can disintegrate stuff, but there's nothing to disintegrate" | |
| DavidW says, "Anyway, you've played Rock-Paper-Scissors? Fruit isn't one of the three." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Ok, so what's our best move now ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I liked the getting out part." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Could you guide me ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "ne. d." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Two thoughts" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You brace your legs against the sides of the vent and descend in a Floyd | controlled slide. Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. Tons of rocks block the road to the southwest. To the Floyd | northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the darkness. Floyd | There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "One, how big is the telepod?" | |
| invisiwall asks, "Two, what does the tunnel blockage look like?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rocks" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROCKS Floyd | Floyd | They're big and heavy, and oh boy, are there ever a lot of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Let's try to disintegrate these" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure we can fit in the transport pod, if that's what you're thinking." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "I think the telepad can't be any bigger than the telepod it connects to." | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > I THINK THE TELEPAD CAN'T BE ANY BIGGER THAN THE TELEPOD IT CONNECTS Floyd | TO. Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take inventory. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah. Disintegrate the rocks with the paper setting." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a telepod (open but empty) Floyd | a RPS cannon Floyd | a checklist Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "use cannon" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > USE CANNON Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "use cannon on rock" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > USE CANNON ON ROCK Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to use the RPS cannon. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "How do I change the rock paper setings ?" | |
| invisiwall asks, "Fire/shoot?" | ||
| Doug arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | invisiwall says, "Oh. Turn the dial, I think" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "shoot cannon" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT CANNON Floyd | Floyd | The gun makes a clicking noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "turn dial to change the setting. Shoot a target." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial until you hear a click. Now the display shows a hand Floyd | curled into a fist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL Floyd | Floyd | You turn the dial until you hear a click. Now the display shows a hand Floyd | with the palm and all five fingers lying flat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "shoot cannon" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT CANNON Floyd | Floyd | The gun makes a clicking noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "shoot cannon at rocks" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT CANNON AT ROCKS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to shoot the RPS cannon. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "shoot the rocks" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "shoot the rocks" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT THE ROCKS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | BA-THOOOM! Floyd | Floyd | The RPS cannon emits a powerful lance of pure anti-rock, blasting the Floyd | rockslide into vapor. For a moment, you think it didn't fully clear Floyd | the hole. Then you breathe in the cool, fresh desert air and realize Floyd | that night has fallen. The open road before you leads into darkness. Floyd | What could be out there? Can Canyonville still be saved? Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims, "Ok got it thanks !" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. The roads continues, exiting the tunnel to the southwest. To Floyd | the northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the Floyd | darkness. There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall exclaims, "We now have immense power over rocks, papers, and scissors!" | |
| verbalK says, "Scissors might be the most useful one" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | From here, the road plunges northeast into the sheer cliffs and curves Floyd | gently southwest towards town. Twisted-looking pines frame the tunnel Floyd | entrance itself, which is pitch black and smells moist and alive. Far Floyd | above you, you can see the sleek modernist wedge of Minsystems Labs Floyd | perched at the edge of the cliffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Yeah, if those guzzlers try to attack us with scissors, they've got another think coming" | |
| verbalK asks, "Am I on the right way ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes. sw again" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The doorman turns up his pointy nose at the obvious square, but waves Floyd | you inside anyway, muttering something about quail hunting. Floyd | Floyd | The Beat Barn Floyd | A smoky little hole in the wall filled with customers dressed in black Floyd | and sipping coffee from tiny cups. Scratchy jazz is playing softly in Floyd | the background. A low stage is along one wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the stage is Traudl Brandt. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a beatnik bodyguard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am back, but enjoying someone else driving. So thank you." | |
| DavidW says, "This is almost where we started. Junkyard west, Drive-In north, Beat Barn east," | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, we moved already." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Who's Traudl Brandt?" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x Traudl" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRAUDL Floyd | Floyd | You've heard of her. She has a reputation, and not even a normal Floyd | reputation, like girls who just park a little, but a really, really Floyd | bad one--as in, she's European, and she's not even shy about Floyd | it! She's your age, but looks older, probably from fast living and a Floyd | steady diet of coffee and funny-smelling cigarettes. She's wearing a Floyd | clingy black leotard than matches her unkempt hair. In her lap rests a Floyd | lump of white plastic you recognize as the head of the Wife of Floyd | Tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "She's the goth/emo chick. Mentioned in the yearbook." | |
| invisiwall says, "Ah, being European. Very scandalous." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "She has the brain" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x talk to Traudl" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > X TALK TO TRAUDL Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Oh yeah, I got so distracted by the European thing haa" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, so she does." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x head of the wife" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > X HEAD OF THE WIFE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the Head of the Floyd | Wife of Tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "In general, 'of' is a bad word to use in commands." | |
| invisiwall says, "I feel like the game has trouble with leaving out the "the"" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x head wife" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > X HEAD WIFE Floyd | Floyd | It looks slightly melted, but still in one piece. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "Remember how it kept asking back at the pavilion?" | |
| DavidW says, "It was 'of' again there too, that was the problem." | ||
| verbalK asks, "How do I talk with Traudl ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen to traudl" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN TO TRAUDL Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "That's true." | |
| Emily arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to traudel" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TRAUDEL Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to traudl" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TRAUDL Floyd | Floyd | She probably won't be able to hear you over all these deep Floyd | philosophical conversations unless you get up on the stage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aha" | |
| DavidW says, "there we go. You need to get up on stage, Bonnie." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x stage" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAGE Floyd | Floyd | Long and low and mostly bare, the stage is the only brightly lit part Floyd | of the room. Floyd | Floyd | On the stage is Traudl Brandt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "get on stage" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON STAGE Floyd | Floyd | The beatnik bodyguard pulls you away from the stage. "Like, no Floyd | hassling the talent, dig?" It doesn't look like you'll be able to get Floyd | up there while he's watching the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "i" | |
| verbalK exclaims, "HULA HOOP !" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a telepod (open but empty) Floyd | a RPS cannon Floyd | a checklist Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(If you do get up there, I'm curious to see if the hula hoop works)" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "use hula hoop" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > USE HULA HOOP Floyd | Floyd | You use the hula hoop. Fun! Then it falls down around your ankles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "show hula hoop to bodyguard" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW HULA HOOP TO BODYGUARD Floyd | Floyd | The beatnik bodyguard is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "on stage. Not here." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "get on stage" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON STAGE Floyd | Floyd | The beatnik bodyguard pulls you away from the stage. "Like, no Floyd | hassling the talent, dig?" It doesn't look like you'll be able to get Floyd | up there while he's watching the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "We need to get him away though" | |
| verbalK asks, "Yes ... any ideas ?" | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Bribe him with the nonburger?" | ||
| DavidW says, "examine him" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Bodyguarding must be... er... hungry business" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x bodyguard" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > X BODYGUARD Floyd | Floyd | The rough customer could be the doorman's burlier brother. He's Floyd | peering at you with a suspicious squint, probably watching to make Floyd | sure you don't square up the place. His immense hands grip a teeny Floyd | tiny itty bitty little cup of coffee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x cup" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUP Floyd | Floyd | The beatnik sees you eyeing the thimble-sized cup and puts a hand over Floyd | it. "Like, no sharing, you dig? This has to last me all night and once Floyd | it's gone it's like real gone, man." He yawns. "Like, they don't dig a Floyd | man needs the bounty of the brown goddess poured out upon him just to Floyd | stay in awake in this red onion of a coffeehouse. So what if it runs Floyd | through me like a cool cat's lead sled through Squaresville, man? Floyd | That's, like, what the porcelain birdbath is for, dig?" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "How.... evocative" | |
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "You said earlier they aren't into solid food." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Let's get the big mug of coffee then" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a telepod (open but empty) Floyd | a RPS cannon Floyd | a checklist Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "OH RIGHT" | |
| Jacqueline says, "COFFEE" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That is totes it." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | The Beat Barn Floyd | A smoky little hole in the wall filled with customers dressed in black Floyd | and sipping coffee from tiny cups. Scratchy jazz is playing softly in Floyd | the background. A low stage is along one wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the stage is Traudl Brandt. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a beatnik bodyguard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes please, I'd love some." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | From here, the road plunges northeast into the sheer cliffs and curves Floyd | gently southwest towards town. Twisted-looking pines frame the tunnel Floyd | entrance itself, which is pitch black and smells moist and alive. Far Floyd | above you, you can see the sleek modernist wedge of Minsystems Labs Floyd | perched at the edge of the cliffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. The roads continues, exiting the tunnel to the southwest. To Floyd | the northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the Floyd | darkness. There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You scrabble back up the dark exhaust vent. Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and up again" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | On the cluttered desk is an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "take mug" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MUG Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You brace your legs against the sides of the vent and descend in a Floyd | controlled slide. Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. The roads continues, exiting the tunnel to the southwest. To Floyd | the northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the Floyd | darkness. There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | From here, the road plunges northeast into the sheer cliffs and curves Floyd | gently southwest towards town. Twisted-looking pines frame the tunnel Floyd | entrance itself, which is pitch black and smells moist and alive. Far Floyd | above you, you can see the sleek modernist wedge of Minsystems Labs Floyd | perched at the edge of the cliffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you push the door open, the goatee-wearing doorman stops you, Floyd | sniffing the air. "Coffee!" he declares. "You've got coffee! Thought Floyd | you'd sneak in your own bourgeoisie slop, huh? You leave that paint Floyd | thinner out here, square sister, because there's no way I'm letting Floyd | outside coffee through this door!" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Hmmmm..." | |
| invisiwall says, "Rude" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| DavidW says, "doorman and bodyguard. They look alike, but they ain't the same person." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x doorman" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOORMAN Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall exclaims, "Well of course not, he's not a prop. Rude!" | |
| DavidW says, "I think the description of the bodyguard mentions the resemblance." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x goatee" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOATEE Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Doug says, "I like how Midnight. Swordfight. has a playscript and this game has props" | ||
| verbalK says, "So I cant get the mug inside, but I need it in order to get tge bodyguard away from the stage ...." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Maybe he's just inside the door" | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Well, is there another source of coffee inside?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Everything is funnier when it involves a goatee.)" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Maybe you can just dump out the ""bourgeoisie slop"" and give the bodyguard a big mug for refills" | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Or eviller." | ||
| Amber arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "empty mug" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > EMPTY MUG Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "True" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x mug" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > X MUG Floyd | Floyd | A huge coffee mug brimming with steaming, fresh-roasted coffee. It's Floyd | gigantic! You could probably keep fish in here without them feeling Floyd | cramped in the least, although they might have other problems. "The Floyd | Doctor Said I Had To Cut Down To One Cup A Day" is printed on the Floyd | side, so maybe it started off as a gag gift. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I hate to think what this coffee tastes like now that it's been sitting out this whole time." | |
| verbalK says, "Maybe we need to get the doorman away from the door too..." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I mean, it's still steaming and "fresh-roasted", so maybe it's like... science-enhanced coffee" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Any ideas ?" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "poor coffee" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > POOR COFFEE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or maybe hide it in a thermos or prop coffin." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an enormous coffee mug Floyd | a telepod (open but empty) Floyd | a RPS cannon Floyd | a checklist Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "telepod?" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x telepod" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > X TELEPOD Floyd | Floyd | A large, egg-shaped pod about the size of a garbage can, but Floyd | lightweight enough for you to lift. There's an open hatch in the Floyd | side. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Good idea" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "put mug in telepod" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT MUG IN TELEPOD Floyd | Floyd | You put the enormous coffee mug into the telepod. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Could hide inside that" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The doorman sniffs. "So, trying to sneak coffee in by hiding it! Nice Floyd | try, but it won't work. That coffee doesn't come through this door, Floyd | end of story! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "close it" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "close telepod" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE TELEPOD Floyd | Floyd | You close the telepod. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The doorman sniffs. "So, trying to sneak coffee in by hiding it! Nice Floyd | try, but it won't work. That coffee doesn't come through this door, Floyd | end of story! Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims, "He's good !" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, then do it the hard way" | ||
| Amber:>Amber:> | invisiwall says, "Damn your hound's nose" | |
| verbalK asks (of Jacqueline), "Which is ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am happy to drive that bit if you want." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Go ahead !" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take mug" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MUG Floyd | Floyd | (That's not one of the available props in this scene.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suggest dropping the coffee here as first step" | |
| verbalK asks, "Can we drink it ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "the mug, I mean." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I have a (non-crowd-sourced) plan." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open pod" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN POD Floyd | Floyd | (the telepod) Floyd | You open the telepod, revealing an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take mug" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MUG Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop mug" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP MUG Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The doorman turns up his pointy nose at the obvious square, but waves Floyd | you inside anyway, muttering something about quail hunting. Floyd | Floyd | The Beat Barn Floyd | A smoky little hole in the wall filled with customers dressed in black Floyd | and sipping coffee from tiny cups. Scratchy jazz is playing softly in Floyd | the background. A low stage is along one wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the stage is Traudl Brandt. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a beatnik bodyguard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Or we drop the telepod in the house, go back to the kitchen, teleport the mug in the telepod" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close pod" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE POD Floyd | Floyd | (the telepod) Floyd | You close the telepod. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to vK), "yes" | |
| Jacqueline says, "That is my plan." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop pod" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP POD Floyd | Floyd | (the telepod) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an enormous coffee mug here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take mug" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MUG Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK exclaims (at Jacqueline), "Hey it's much easier to come up with ideas when you're watching someone else drive !" | |
| invisiwall says, "That's cos driver's gotta keep an eye on the road eh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f ne" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > F NE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | From here, the road plunges northeast into the sheer cliffs and curves Floyd | gently southwest towards town. Twisted-looking pines frame the tunnel Floyd | entrance itself, which is pitch black and smells moist and alive. Far Floyd | above you, you can see the sleek modernist wedge of Minsystems Labs Floyd | perched at the edge of the cliffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. The roads continues, exiting the tunnel to the southwest. To Floyd | the northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the Floyd | darkness. There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You scrabble back up the dark exhaust vent. Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "(I'm out in like five to run some errands btw)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "We are so close I don't think we'll postpone, we'll try to finish today. Sorry, I realize we've been playing a long time." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put mug on telepad" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT MUG ON TELEPAD Floyd | Floyd | You put the enormous coffee mug on the telepad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push yellow" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH YELLOW Floyd | Floyd | The object on the telepad shimmers and vanishes. "TELEPORTATION Floyd | SUCCESSFUL." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You brace your legs against the sides of the vent and descend in a Floyd | controlled slide. Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. The roads continues, exiting the tunnel to the southwest. To Floyd | the northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the Floyd | darkness. There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | From here, the road plunges northeast into the sheer cliffs and curves Floyd | gently southwest towards town. Twisted-looking pines frame the tunnel Floyd | entrance itself, which is pitch black and smells moist and alive. Far Floyd | above you, you can see the sleek modernist wedge of Minsystems Labs Floyd | perched at the edge of the cliffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The doorman turns up his pointy nose at the obvious square, but waves Floyd | you inside anyway, muttering something about quail hunting. Floyd | Floyd | The Beat Barn Floyd | A smoky little hole in the wall filled with customers dressed in black Floyd | and sipping coffee from tiny cups. Scratchy jazz is playing softly in Floyd | the background. A low stage is along one wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the stage is Traudl Brandt. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a telepod and a beatnik bodyguard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pod" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POD Floyd | Floyd | (the telepod) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open pod" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN POD Floyd | Floyd | (the telepod) Floyd | You open the telepod, revealing an enormous coffee mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Sometime I want to play with fusing stuff using the teleportation device" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take mug" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MUG Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "The bodyguard wants it?" | |
| verbalK says, "Yes" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to bodyguard" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BODYGUARD Floyd | Floyd | You try to strike up a casual conversation, using every single pointer Floyd | you can remember from The Polite and Cheerful Girl's Guide To Floyd | Awkward Conversations with Unsavory Strangers: Fifty Perfect Floyd | Pointers. Unfortunately, it quickly becomes apparent that all he Floyd | cares about is coffee, keeping you away from Traudl, and geopolitics, Floyd | in that order. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give mug to bodyguard" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE MUG TO BODYGUARD Floyd | Floyd | The beatnik eagerly takes the huge mug of coffee. "Now that's where Floyd | it's at! Maybe you're not such a square after all." He guzzles down Floyd | the coffee thirstily. "Like that really hit the spot, doll--I--" He Floyd | looks sudden distressed. "Like, gotta beat the gravel, like, Floyd | quicksville, you dig?" Floyd | Floyd | The desperate beatnik runs off in the direction of, like, the Floyd | bathroomsville, leaving the stage unguarded. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get on stage" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON STAGE Floyd | Floyd | You clamber up onto the stage to the sound of a few scattered boos. Floyd | Hmph! As if there was even really a show to interrupt. She's just Floyd | sitting there! Floyd | Floyd | The Beat Barn (on the stage) Floyd | A smoky little hole in the wall filled with customers dressed in black Floyd | and sipping coffee from tiny cups. Scratchy jazz is playing softly in Floyd | the background. A low stage is along one wall. Floyd | Floyd | Traudl Brandt is sitting cross-legged in the middle of the stage. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Wasn't necessarily expecting that reaction...." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "use hula" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > USE HULA Floyd | Floyd | You use the hula hoop. Fun! Then it falls down around your ankles. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "He did mention it" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sadly, no one cares about our performance." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to traudl" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TRAUDL Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 13 here.] Floyd | Floyd | Traudl Brandt sits before you like a smoke-wreathed goddess. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Um, Miss Brandt...?" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "That is seriously disappointing." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Um, Miss Brandt...?"] Floyd | Floyd | Traudl gives you an amused half-smile. "Well, what brings you flying Floyd | my way, little bird?" she asks, with just a trace of a German accent. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "'Little bird' is building a weapon to fight the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to vK), "I know." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["'Little bird' is building a weapon to fight the Brain Floyd | Guzzlers."] Floyd | Floyd | "Good on little bird--or maybe I should say little hawk. We need more Floyd | people like you willing to stand up against the pigs and their masters Floyd | and everybody else trying to keep this country ignorant." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "No, they're literally--look, have you even been outside today--oh, Floyd | close enough." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "Wow, is she flirting with Bonnie?" | |
| invisiwall says, "Or is this just how beatniks talk" | ||
| Jacqueline says, ".i Nah. I think she's just being stereotypical. But who knows, maybe we'll get to kiss someone worthwhile afterall." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["No, they're literally--look, have you even been outside Floyd | today--oh, close enough."] Floyd | Floyd | "Well, then you're in the right place. We have a weapon here that's Floyd | more powerful than any gun, more explosive than any bomb. We call it Floyd | Art." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Actually I was more interested in that lovely robot head you're Floyd | holding! Wherever did you get it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Actually I was more interested in that lovely robot head you're Floyd | holding! Wherever did you get it?"] Floyd | Floyd | "What, this? It came crashing through the bathroom window about an Floyd | hour ago. I figured the morally upright citizens of this perfect Floyd | little burg were showing us their small-town hospitality in brick form Floyd | again, but this one's different. Some kind of sculpture--I like it. I Floyd | think I'll keep it." She laughs. "But tell you what. If I knew Floyd | you'd appreciate it as much as I do, I might let you borrow it. Why Floyd | not? Let's write a piece together. Awaken the poet's soul that dwells Floyd | within you, and it's yours." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Uh--b-but I'm not really any kind of poet. Can't I just find you a Floyd | helpful goat, or something?" Floyd | 2) "I'll do my best. Mother always did say my soul was my best Floyd | feature!" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "A helpful goat :)" | |
| Jacqueline chuckles at the mention of the helpful goat. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'll do my best. Mother always did say my soul was my best Floyd | feature!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Good girl. Now, this isn't hard. Everyone's got poetry in their heart Floyd | somewhere. I'll whip up a batch of fresh words and images and all Floyd | you've got to do is dig in. Capiche?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Let's write some poetry!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Let's write some poetry!"] Floyd | Floyd | "All right, let's start with something simple." Traudl clears her Floyd | throat and recites. "The sky, darkness, graves, grave, glamour!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Ghosts! Pumpkins! Witches! Boo!" Floyd | 2) "My soul aches as it's devoured by a thousand mouths of sadness." Floyd | 3) "The thunder's like drums, and it pounds like a hammer!" Floyd | 4) "Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "I'd say, judging from what we know about Traudl, the more depressing, the more points we get." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I like 2 but feel we should say 3, depending on whether or not this should rhyme." | ||
| verbalK says, "It can still be a ABAB rhyme thingy" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Nah, only the third one scans" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["The thunder's like drums, and it pounds like a hammer!"] Floyd | Floyd | Traudl frowns. "Uhm, no, little bird, this is a real poem. Floyd | Real poems don't rhyme. Understand?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Well, maybe the first" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I KNEW IT" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["What next?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, let's try another prompt... Floyd | Floyd | Fire! Ice! Chocolate! Mother-goddess, grown fat with aeons, ripe Floyd | green hills and lush valleys. It rains! It rains! It rains! It rains! Floyd | It rains! It rains!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'll get my umbrella!" Floyd | 2) "Those darn aeons are so full of calories!" Floyd | 3) "Water runs in my ears and it's drowning my brains?" Floyd | 4) "Ripe apples! Sweet tangerines! Bananas...bananas that Floyd | dance...something about bananas." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay 1" | |
| verbalK says, "2" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. I like 4" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, I love 1, but no." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I'm out, but my vote is totally for 1 haha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Have fun, i." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to vK), "We can do yours." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Those darn aeons are so full of calories!"] Floyd | Floyd | "No, it's a metaphor--ah--never mind." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Gee, this is fun! Give me something else." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Gee, this is fun! Give me something else."] Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe a more primal, compelling image... Floyd | Floyd | Womankind! We carry the world between our legs, hand-standing Atlases, Floyd | twin bookends of meat and bone. Blood! War! Is there anything else? A Floyd | rotting fruit. Flies. How dare we? How dare us all? Break Floyd | free of the prison--stand in the purple light and--" Floyd | Floyd | Traudl sucks in an enormous lungful of air. Floyd | Floyd | "SCRRRREEEEEEEEEAMMM!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Violet like the hatred of my mother. Shoes! Fireflies!" Floyd | 2) (scream as loud as you can) Floyd | 3) "Meat and tulips! Sand! Death is inevitable." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I like these all." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we scream?" | ||
| verbalK says, "I would." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | [(scream as loud as you can)] Floyd | Floyd | "That--little bird, no, you--don't have a poet's scream." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'm on a roll! Give me something else". Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "This is fun" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I am frustrated but having fun." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec. I have a repairman wanting to visit, so I should possibly not be wearing PJs." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Please wait for me. I don't want to miss this." | ||
| verbalK says, "No problems." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I am changed, but will have to step away when he arrives just to let him in. Now: where were we?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm on a roll! Give me something else".] Floyd | Floyd | "All right. How about this..." Floyd | Floyd | This land, bleak, bountiful, once grew bloody flowers. Steaks! Floyd | Hamburgers! This land, this building, slaves in chains, robbed of Floyd | white gold by two-legged vampires. Liberated! The hand of Art is on Floyd | the udder, and it's your hand. You are the dairy farmer now!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Okay, I give up." Floyd | 2) "Death! Ponies!" Floyd | 3) "I dreamed that I was suffering for eternity in a void in my Floyd | Maidenform bra." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Trying to make poetry that does not rhyme and without screaming" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["I dreamed that I was suffering for eternity in a void in my Floyd | Maidenform bra."] Floyd | Floyd | "How nice for you." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "So...pretty good poem, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["So...pretty good poem, right?"] Floyd | Floyd | Traudl shakes her head. "I'm sorry, little bird. There is poetry in Floyd | your soul, I know it--but you're still not letting it out. Still, you Floyd | do show promise. And at least you're not trying to rhyme. Floyd | Maybe we should try this again." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Let's write some poetry!" Floyd | 2) "I need to leave, uh, daddy-o." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Let's write some poetry!"] Floyd | Floyd | "All right, let's start with something simple." Traudl clears her Floyd | throat and recites. "The sky, darkness, graves, grave, glamour!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Ghosts! Pumpkins! Witches! Boo!" Floyd | 2) "My soul aches as it's devoured by a thousand mouths of sadness." Floyd | 3) "The thunder's like drums, and it pounds like a hammer!" Floyd | 4) "Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Ghosts! Pumpkins! Witches! Boo!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm. Not quite what I had in mind..." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The Beat Barn Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Crap - meant to type 2" | |
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I really, really didn't mean 1." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Honest." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["My soul aches as it's devoured by a thousand mouths of Floyd | sadness."] Floyd | Floyd | "A little much, maybe?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline frowns. | |
| Jacqueline says, "It is so not much." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Soooo not much." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Maybe we're supposed to keep disappointing her ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "'Liberated! The hand of Art is on the udder, and it's your hand.' That. This is a little much." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["What next?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, let's try another prompt... Floyd | Floyd | Fire! Ice! Chocolate! Mother-goddess, grown fat with aeons, ripe Floyd | green hills and lush valleys. It rains! It rains! It rains! It rains! Floyd | It rains! It rains!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'll get my umbrella!" Floyd | 2) "Those darn aeons are so full of calories!" Floyd | 3) "Water runs in my ears and it's drowning my brains?" Floyd | 4) "Ripe apples! Sweet tangerines! Bananas...bananas that Floyd | dance...something about bananas." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Ripe apples! Sweet tangerines! Bananas...bananas that Floyd | dance...something about bananas."] Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think I know about that one..." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Gee, this is fun! Give me something else." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Gee, this is fun! Give me something else."] Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe a more primal, compelling image... Floyd | Floyd | Womankind! We carry the world between our legs, hand-standing Atlases, Floyd | twin bookends of meat and bone. Blood! War! Is there anything else? A Floyd | rotting fruit. Flies. How dare we? How dare us all? Break Floyd | free of the prison--stand in the purple light and--" Floyd | Floyd | Traudl sucks in an enormous lungful of air. Floyd | Floyd | "SCRRRREEEEEEEEEAMMM!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Violet like the hatred of my mother. Shoes! Fireflies!" Floyd | 2) (scream as loud as you can) Floyd | 3) "Meat and tulips! Sand! Death is inevitable." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Violet like the hatred of my mother. Shoes! Fireflies!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Imagery's a little on-the-nose, but..." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'm on a roll! Give me something else". Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "So it's 3" | |
| Jacqueline says, "We'll get that one if it rolls around again, yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm on a roll! Give me something else".] Floyd | Floyd | "All right. How about this..." Floyd | Floyd | This land, bleak, bountiful, once grew bloody flowers. Steaks! Floyd | Hamburgers! This land, this building, slaves in chains, robbed of Floyd | white gold by two-legged vampires. Liberated! The hand of Art is on Floyd | the udder, and it's your hand. You are the dairy farmer now!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Okay, I give up." Floyd | 2) "Death! Ponies!" Floyd | 3) "I dreamed that I was suffering for eternity in a void in my Floyd | Maidenform bra." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Death! Ponies!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Sigh." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "So...pretty good poem, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["So...pretty good poem, right?"] Floyd | Floyd | Traudl shakes her head. "I'm sorry, little bird. There is poetry in Floyd | your soul, I know it--but you're still not letting it out. Still, you Floyd | do show promise. And at least you're not trying to rhyme. Floyd | Maybe we should try this again." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Let's write some poetry!" Floyd | 2) "I need to leave, uh, daddy-o." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Let's write some poetry!"] Floyd | Floyd | "All right, let's start with something simple." Traudl clears her Floyd | throat and recites. "The sky, darkness, graves, grave, glamour!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Ghosts! Pumpkins! Witches! Boo!" Floyd | 2) "My soul aches as it's devoured by a thousand mouths of sadness." Floyd | 3) "The thunder's like drums, and it pounds like a hammer!" Floyd | 4) "Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts."] Floyd | Floyd | "That's... hmm." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of vk), "what was your idea?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["What next?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, let's try another prompt... Floyd | Floyd | Fire! Ice! Chocolate! Mother-goddess, grown fat with aeons, ripe Floyd | green hills and lush valleys. It rains! It rains! It rains! It rains! Floyd | It rains! It rains!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'll get my umbrella!" Floyd | 2) "Those darn aeons are so full of calories!" Floyd | 3) "Water runs in my ears and it's drowning my brains?" Floyd | 4) "Ripe apples! Sweet tangerines! Bananas...bananas that Floyd | dance...something about bananas." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Water runs in my ears and it's drowning my brains?"] Floyd | Floyd | Traudl winces. "No--no, that was another rhyme. I said don't Floyd | rhyme! It's...unpleasing to me." She takes a nervous drag on her Floyd | cigarette. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Gee, this is fun! Give me something else." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay. This has to be it." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Gee, this is fun! Give me something else."] Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe a more primal, compelling image... Floyd | Floyd | Womankind! We carry the world between our legs, hand-standing Atlases, Floyd | twin bookends of meat and bone. Blood! War! Is there anything else? A Floyd | rotting fruit. Flies. How dare we? How dare us all? Break Floyd | free of the prison--stand in the purple light and--" Floyd | Floyd | Traudl sucks in an enormous lungful of air. Floyd | Floyd | "SCRRRREEEEEEEEEAMMM!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Violet like the hatred of my mother. Shoes! Fireflies!" Floyd | 2) (scream as loud as you can) Floyd | 3) "Meat and tulips! Sand! Death is inevitable." Floyd | 4) "Go Fighting Conifers, go, go, team?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Meat and tulips! Sand! Death is inevitable."] Floyd | Floyd | "A little trite." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'm on a roll! Give me something else". Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "What...." | |
| Jacqueline says, "What the..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, so clearly mowing the lawn will not help us win." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Let's Hula hoop ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to vK), "Trie dthat." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, tried that." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "use hula" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > USE HULA Floyd | Floyd | That command isn't available in choice mode. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm on a roll! Give me something else".] Floyd | Floyd | "All right. How about this..." Floyd | Floyd | This land, bleak, bountiful, once grew bloody flowers. Steaks! Floyd | Hamburgers! This land, this building, slaves in chains, robbed of Floyd | white gold by two-legged vampires. Liberated! The hand of Art is on Floyd | the udder, and it's your hand. You are the dairy farmer now!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Okay, I give up." Floyd | 2) "Death! Ponies!" Floyd | 3) "I dreamed that I was suffering for eternity in a void in my Floyd | Maidenform bra." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "But we need that head ...." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Death! Ponies!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Sigh." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "So...pretty good poem, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["So...pretty good poem, right?"] Floyd | Floyd | Traudl shakes her head. "I'm sorry, little bird. There is poetry in Floyd | your soul, I know it--but you're still not letting it out. Still, you Floyd | do show promise. And at least you're not trying to rhyme. Floyd | Maybe we should try this again." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Let's write some poetry!" Floyd | 2) "I need to leave, uh, daddy-o." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Let's write some poetry!"] Floyd | Floyd | "All right, let's start with something simple." Traudl clears her Floyd | throat and recites. "The sky, darkness, graves, grave, glamour!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Ghosts! Pumpkins! Witches! Boo!" Floyd | 2) "My soul aches as it's devoured by a thousand mouths of sadness." Floyd | 3) "The thunder's like drums, and it pounds like a hammer!" Floyd | 4) "Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "We've tried all of these, haven't we?" | |
| DavidW says, "You almost had it but you didn't follow through properly." | ||
| verbalK says, "Even 1" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "We did? Hm." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Ok so maybe that number 4 for the scream part is supposed to appear once we try everything ... and then we need to try that one ? It was the one about go go conifers ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "When she screams, she's screaming the word 'SCREAM'." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["My soul aches as it's devoured by a thousand mouths of Floyd | sadness."] Floyd | Floyd | "A little much, maybe?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["What next?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, let's try another prompt... Floyd | Floyd | Fire! Ice! Chocolate! Mother-goddess, grown fat with aeons, ripe Floyd | green hills and lush valleys. It rains! It rains! It rains! It rains! Floyd | It rains! It rains!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'll get my umbrella!" Floyd | 2) "Those darn aeons are so full of calories!" Floyd | 3) "Ripe apples! Sweet tangerines! Bananas...bananas that Floyd | dance...something about bananas." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Ripe apples! Sweet tangerines! Bananas...bananas that Floyd | dance...something about bananas."] Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think I know about that one..." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Gee, this is fun! Give me something else." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Gee, this is fun! Give me something else."] Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe a more primal, compelling image... Floyd | Floyd | Womankind! We carry the world between our legs, hand-standing Atlases, Floyd | twin bookends of meat and bone. Blood! War! Is there anything else? A Floyd | rotting fruit. Flies. How dare we? How dare us all? Break Floyd | free of the prison--stand in the purple light and--" Floyd | Floyd | Traudl sucks in an enormous lungful of air. Floyd | Floyd | "SCRRRREEEEEEEEEAMMM!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Violet like the hatred of my mother. Shoes! Fireflies!" Floyd | 2) (scream as loud as you can) Floyd | 3) "Meat and tulips! Sand! Death is inevitable." Floyd | 4) "Go Fighting Conifers, go, go, team?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We can't scream that, though." | |
| verbalK says, "I think we never tried 4" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Go Fighting Conifers, go, go, team?"] Floyd | Floyd | A few members of the audience titter. "No--no--this thing you're Floyd | doing, where the words end with the same sound?," Traudl hisses. Floyd | "That's rhyming." Floyd | Floyd | She runs an unsteady hand through her hair. "You're embarrassing Floyd | yourself and you're embarrassing me!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'm on a roll! Give me something else". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do you understand what you're trying to do?" | |
| verbalK says, "But it does not seem like a good idea" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought I did, but clearly I haven't cottoned on yet." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Don't rhyme." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Don't be overthetop." | ||
| verbalK says, "I don't :) I mean, we want to get the head." | ||
| verbalK says, "Traudl remains a mystery though ..." | ||
| DavidW says, "Getting the head is more important than making Traudl happy." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We must let the poetry of our soul out into the universe." | ||
| verbalK asks, "Did we try to take the head ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We can't do other stuff in choice mode." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm on a roll! Give me something else".] Floyd | Floyd | "All right. How about this..." Floyd | Floyd | This land, bleak, bountiful, once grew bloody flowers. Steaks! Floyd | Hamburgers! This land, this building, slaves in chains, robbed of Floyd | white gold by two-legged vampires. Liberated! The hand of Art is on Floyd | the udder, and it's your hand. You are the dairy farmer now!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What a coincidence, you recite like a cow!" Floyd | 2) "Okay, I give up." Floyd | 3) "Death! Ponies!" Floyd | 4) "I dreamed that I was suffering for eternity in a void in my Floyd | Maidenform bra." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["I dreamed that I was suffering for eternity in a void in my Floyd | Maidenform bra."] Floyd | Floyd | "How nice for you." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "So...pretty good poem, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["So...pretty good poem, right?"] Floyd | Floyd | Traudl shakes her head. "I'm sorry, little bird. There is poetry in Floyd | your soul, I know it--but you're still not letting it out. Still, you Floyd | do show promise. And at least you're not trying to rhyme. Floyd | Maybe we should try this again." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Let's write some poetry!" Floyd | 2) "I need to leave, uh, daddy-o." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I need to leave, uh, daddy-o."] Floyd | Floyd | "You can leave me, Little Bird, but you can't leave you." Floyd | Floyd | The Beat Barn (on the stage) Floyd | A smoky little hole in the wall filled with customers dressed in black Floyd | and sipping coffee from tiny cups. Scratchy jazz is playing softly in Floyd | the background. A low stage is along one wall. Floyd | Floyd | Traudl Brandt is sitting cross-legged in the middle of the stage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take head" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE HEAD Floyd | Floyd | Traudl looks like she's holding onto it pretty tightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "nah..." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, you do need to solve the poetry puzzle." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to traudl" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TRAUDL Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 13 here.] Floyd | Floyd | Traudl Brandt sits before you like a smoke-wreathed goddess. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Er, it's me again!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Er, it's me again!"] Floyd | Floyd | "So, the little bird returns." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Let's write some poetry!" Floyd | 2) "I need to leave, uh, daddy-o." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Let's write some poetry!"] Floyd | Floyd | "All right, let's start with something simple." Traudl clears her Floyd | throat and recites. "The sky, darkness, graves, grave, glamour!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Ghosts! Pumpkins! Witches! Boo!" Floyd | 2) "My soul aches as it's devoured by a thousand mouths of sadness." Floyd | 3) "The thunder's like drums, and it pounds like a hammer!" Floyd | 4) "Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "My guess is we don't get just one, we have to do them all somewhat okay." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, which one here?" | ||
| invisiwall goes home. | verbalK says, "Something that does not rhyme, so not 3" | |
| verbalK asks, "1 is over the top ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Ghosts! Pumpkins! Witches! Boo!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm. Not quite what I had in mind..." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["What next?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, let's try another prompt... Floyd | Floyd | Fire! Ice! Chocolate! Mother-goddess, grown fat with aeons, ripe Floyd | green hills and lush valleys. It rains! It rains! It rains! It rains! Floyd | It rains! It rains!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'll get my umbrella!" Floyd | 2) "Those darn aeons are so full of calories!" Floyd | 3) "Ripe apples! Sweet tangerines! Bananas...bananas that Floyd | dance...something about bananas." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Ripe apples! Sweet tangerines! Bananas...bananas that Floyd | dance...something about bananas."] Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think I know about that one..." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Gee, this is fun! Give me something else." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Gee, this is fun! Give me something else."] Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe a more primal, compelling image... Floyd | Floyd | Womankind! We carry the world between our legs, hand-standing Atlases, Floyd | twin bookends of meat and bone. Blood! War! Is there anything else? A Floyd | rotting fruit. Flies. How dare we? How dare us all? Break Floyd | free of the prison--stand in the purple light and--" Floyd | Floyd | Traudl sucks in an enormous lungful of air. Floyd | Floyd | "SCRRRREEEEEEEEEAMMM!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Violet like the hatred of my mother. Shoes! Fireflies!" Floyd | 2) (scream as loud as you can) Floyd | 3) "Meat and tulips! Sand! Death is inevitable." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Meat and tulips! Sand! Death is inevitable."] Floyd | Floyd | "A little trite." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'm on a roll! Give me something else". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm on a roll! Give me something else".] Floyd | Floyd | "All right. How about this..." Floyd | Floyd | This land, bleak, bountiful, once grew bloody flowers. Steaks! Floyd | Hamburgers! This land, this building, slaves in chains, robbed of Floyd | white gold by two-legged vampires. Liberated! The hand of Art is on Floyd | the udder, and it's your hand. You are the dairy farmer now!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What a coincidence, you recite like a cow!" Floyd | 2) "Okay, I give up." Floyd | 3) "Death! Ponies!" Floyd | 4) "I dreamed that I was suffering for eternity in a void in my Floyd | Maidenform bra." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["What a coincidence, you recite like a cow!"] Floyd | Floyd | Several members of the audience are laughing now. Traudl's sallow Floyd | complexion is growing increasingly flushed. "Enough!" she cries. Floyd | "Enough, enough, enough! Obviously, you don't have the soul of a poet Floyd | at all. You have the soul of--of--" Floyd | Floyd | She sputters out an unflattering-sounding German word and stalks off. Floyd | After two circuits of the room, several cigarettes and a torrent of Floyd | Teutonic muttering, she seems to realize that she's accidentally left Floyd | her little wooden fiefdom to you and hurries back to the stage. Floyd | "Here--you wanted this, right? I will give you this if you never try Floyd | to recite poetry on my stage again." Floyd | Floyd | She hands you the Head of the Wife of Tomorrow, and the precious Floyd | computer within. Another victory for the hoi polloi! Floyd | Floyd | The Beat Barn (on the stage) Floyd | A smoky little hole in the wall filled with customers dressed in black Floyd | and sipping coffee from tiny cups. Scratchy jazz is playing softly in Floyd | the background. A low stage is along one wall. Floyd | Floyd | Traudl Brandt is sitting cross-legged in the middle of the stage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yay." | |
| verbalK exclaims, "Nice !" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the stage) Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, the solution is more generous than I realized." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get off stage" | ||
Floyd ] The Beat Barn Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OFF STAGE Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't on the stage at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "What else are we missing ?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x checklist" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHECKLIST Floyd | Floyd | A neat little copy of the checklist on the blackboard, which you can Floyd | use to keep track of the BUBU components you still need to give to the Floyd | Professor. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Perforated Silver Membrane Floyd | Micro-Mini Computer Floyd | Brain Guzzler DNA Sample (CHECK) Floyd | Purified Fructonium Floyd | 20,000-Ton Impenetrable Steel Chassis (CHECK) Floyd | Spork (CHECK) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | From here, the road plunges northeast into the sheer cliffs and curves Floyd | gently southwest towards town. Twisted-looking pines frame the tunnel Floyd | entrance itself, which is pitch black and smells moist and alive. Far Floyd | above you, you can see the sleek modernist wedge of Minsystems Labs Floyd | perched at the edge of the cliffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. The roads continues, exiting the tunnel to the southwest. To Floyd | the northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the Floyd | darkness. There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You scrabble back up the dark exhaust vent. Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to prof" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PROF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 10 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, greetings again, my young chum." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 4) "Here's your computer--sure hope it still works!" Floyd | 5) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Here's your computer--sure hope it still works!"] Floyd | Floyd | "She's certainly seen better days, but as strange as it may sound, Floyd | this is one 'wife' whose most important job isn't looking good." The Floyd | professor cracks open the Head of the Wife of Tomorrow and yanks out a Floyd | handfull of circuits and wires. "Now, I just connect these Floyd | here--and--" Floyd | Floyd | The speaker on the BUBU's control panel crackles into fuzzy life. Floyd | "Hello? Dave? What's going on? I feel so--so sluggish and Floyd | thick-waisted! What's happening?" Floyd | Floyd | "Don't worry your pretty little tubes about it, my dear," the Floyd | professor says soothingly. "Later on I may need you to kill a few Floyd | aliens, but for now, just lie there and let me work on you." Floyd | Floyd | "A spa day! Gosh, Dave, you sure know how to make a wife feel Floyd | appreciated!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 4) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh dear" | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, the hard ones now." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Belatedly, I took middle of the road and I should have gone full-tilt hilarious on the poems, DW?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Yes, rhymes all the way." | ||
| DavidW says, "I thought you had to rhyme in sequence for one entire go, but apparently as long as each verse gets rhymed at one point of another, you're fine." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "brb - letting repairdude in" | ||
| DavidW says, "or repairdudette" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we might need a gender-neutral/genderqueer version of dude too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No, I know it's a dude." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's always the same dude." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, ok" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, he is fixing my bathroom light. Now what?" | ||
| verbalK says, "silver membrane, fructonium" | ||
| DavidW says, "There's 3 places to revisit: Drive-In, Junkyard, and whatever's still to the South." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, yes. But I have no idea where to begin except that we need to make the plants produce fruit" | ||
| DavidW says, "Explore first." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "vK, can you drive a bit?" | ||
| DavidW says, "You won't solve the fruit puzzle by pre-thinking it this early." | ||
| verbalK says, "yes" | ||
| verbalK says, "yes" | ||
| verbalK says, "yes" | ||
| verbalK says, "yes" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Sorry !" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 4) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?"] Floyd | Floyd | "If it helps, the perforation doesn't have to be neat. You can even do Floyd | the job yourself if necessary. But the membrane must be quite large." Floyd | The professor holds out his hands. "Imagine this, but much, much Floyd | larger. At least the size of a wall, or the side of a house." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 4) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Where can I find fructonium?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Why, that's the atomic element which makes up fruit! Of course, we Floyd | would need it in highly purified form, broken down to its most basic Floyd | elemental state--difficult for all but the most talented botanical Floyd | chemists. Good luck!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "A 'perforated silver membrane'? Where am I supposed to find one Floyd | of those?" Floyd | 3) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 4) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"] Floyd | Floyd | "I appreciate that, young lady." Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Let's go back to the goat's initial ome ?" | |
| verbalK says, "home*" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "That's d. sw. sw. w." | |
| verbalK arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "from the living room" | |
| verbalK asks (of DavidW), "from the living room ?" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You brace your legs against the sides of the vent and descend in a Floyd | controlled slide. Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Floyd | A cool, damp road beneath the mountain. Only a couple of the lights Floyd | here work, and their dim yellow glow reflects off the slick concrete Floyd | walls. The roads continues, exiting the tunnel to the southwest. To Floyd | the northeast, you can see blue and red lights flashing in the Floyd | darkness. There's an open exhaust vent in the wall here, leading UP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harding Tunnel Entrance Floyd | From here, the road plunges northeast into the sheer cliffs and curves Floyd | gently southwest towards town. Twisted-looking pines frame the tunnel Floyd | entrance itself, which is pitch black and smells moist and alive. Far Floyd | above you, you can see the sleek modernist wedge of Minsystems Labs Floyd | perched at the edge of the cliffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | Generations of garbage have been piled here in haphazard stacks, Floyd | rusting and slowly sinking into the earth under the weight of tons of Floyd | scrap. The only way out is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | McDillingfitty's "house", a rusting metal silo, stands empty, slowly Floyd | falling apart under the weight of the ages. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This junkyard is where we found the goat, hours ago." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x silo" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > X SILO Floyd | Floyd | It's a little taller than a one-story house, but too narrow to have Floyd | much living space. There's an open hatch on the side where a door Floyd | probably used to be. You never noticed it before, but there are Floyd | numbers printed on the side: "X271 -- Minsystems Labs." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "enter silo" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER SILO Floyd | Floyd | You poke your head in and look around. There's nothing inside except Floyd | a smell so dreadful it nearly makes your permanent wave go limp. Floyd | McDillingfitty is nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Seems like nothing changed here ..." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | Generations of garbage have been piled here in haphazard stacks, Floyd | rusting and slowly sinking into the earth under the weight of tons of Floyd | scrap. The only way out is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | McDillingfitty's "house", a rusting metal silo, stands empty, slowly Floyd | falling apart under the weight of the ages. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| invisiwall arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] McDillingfitty's Junkyard Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a telepod (open but empty) Floyd | a RPS cannon Floyd | a checklist Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "What lack we?" | |
| verbalK asks, "Ok, I think I'm gonna head for the drive in now, except if someone has an idea ?" | ||
| verbalK says (to inivisiwall), "we are missing the silver membrane and fructonium" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Drive in, sure." | |
| DavidW says, "You need a perforated silver membrane and purified fructonium." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Ooh, that tricksy fructonium" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Drive-In Floyd | You're standing in the drive-in on the edge of town, where all the Floyd | coolest teens come to ignore movies. To the north is Make-Out Floyd | Mountain, and flanking it are a number of less controversial Floyd | mountains. Mist hangs in the cool air, clinging to the stunted pines Floyd | and making the screen slick with tiny droplets. A dirt road leads Floyd | south, and you can see buildings nestled in the low bowl of the Floyd | valley. Floyd | Floyd | A smoking wreck is parked here upside down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x wreck" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > X WRECK Floyd | Floyd | The remains of the Mercury Meteor -- well, technically, now that it's Floyd | hit the Earth's surface the correct term is "meteorite." Most of it's Floyd | destroyed, but the glove compartment survived. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall asks, "Pines, screen, glove compartment?" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x pines" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > X PINES Floyd | Floyd | They're tough little can-do trees with a lot of spirit. They've got to Floyd | be, to make it out here in the desert! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x screen" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | There's a ragged hole in the middle where your car crashed through. Floyd | Other than that, it's in good condition. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| verbalK asks, "Is it made out of silver ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "OH YEAH" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "take screen" | ||
Floyd ] The Drive-In Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | You carefully yank the screen down and roll it up neatly. Yippee! You Floyd | just found a perforated silver membrane! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Of course." | |
| DavidW says, "yay" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Why would... oh "silver screen"" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well done, vK" | ||
| DavidW says, "I was hoping you'd figure it out." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Were they literally made of silver?" | ||
| verbalK asks, "Let's go check the town now ?" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North Saguaro 300 Block Floyd | You're standing on Saguaro Road, in a part of town your mother doesn't Floyd | like you going. A junkyard squats to the west, and to the east, an old Floyd | barn has been painted black and blue and hung with a neon sign reading Floyd | "The Beat Barn." A dirt road leads north to the drive-in, and Saguaro Floyd | Road itself heads into town to the south and curves northeast into the Floyd | woods. Floyd | Floyd | The neon sign is lit up, casting a harsh blue glow over the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Forward Base Yankee Foxtrot Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forward Base Yankee Foxtrot Floyd | The look of this part of Saguaro Road has changed drastically since Floyd | this morning. A line of tanks blocks the street to the south, and the Floyd | air echoes with the sound of explosions and the tromp of busy Floyd | artillery teams. To the east, the Yoshidas' flower shop seems to have Floyd | been transformed into some kind of makeshift military headquarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There might be some silver compound in it; I don't know." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Old screens did have a silver finish to them, not sure if it was actually silver." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Ooh I see." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Yankee Foxtrot Headquarters Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yankee Foxtrot Headquarters Floyd | The humble flower shop has been transformed into a military command Floyd | base. A large tabletop map of the town has been set up where the Floyd | discount gardenia bin used to be, and a clump of officers surround it, Floyd | gesturing at the diagram and shouting at each other. Floyd | Floyd | Jenny Yoshida is sitting on the stairs, looking miserable. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Wow the town is super intense now." | |
| invisiwall exclaims, "At least Jenny is okay!" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x jenny" | ||
Floyd ] Yankee Foxtrot Headquarters Floyd | > Floyd | > X JENNY Floyd | Floyd | She actually managed to get cleaner somehow during the attack (or Floyd | maybe afterwards, when they were bandaging up her arm), but she looks Floyd | devastated. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to jenny" | ||
Floyd ] Yankee Foxtrot Headquarters Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JENNY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 14 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh--Bonnie, you're alive!" Jenny tries to force a smile. "Well, Floyd | that's--that's good." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Are you okay? What happened to your arm?" Floyd | 2) "Are you okay? Why are all these soldiers here?" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "Let's be considerate." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Yankee Foxtrot Headquarters Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Are you okay? What happened to your arm?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Somebody, uh, kind of stepped on it. When we were all running. It's Floyd | not broken or anything, I just--I just--I can't, uh, I can't deal with Floyd | all this! Everything's gone all to heck, I don't know where anybody Floyd | is, I can't even phone Mary Jane's house to find out if she's even Floyd | alive because the phones are down..." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Oh, Her Royal Highness is alive, all right, and having a temper Floyd | tantrum fit for a queen." Floyd | 2) "She's alive, and she's just about worried sick about you!" Floyd | 3) "Well, she was alive when I left her..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "2" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Yankee Foxtrot Headquarters Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["She's alive, and she's just about worried sick about you!"] Floyd | Floyd | "She is?" Jenny's face lights up. "Oh, thank goodness! I'm been--I've Floyd | been going just about nuts imagining all kinds of horrible things. Floyd | Where is she? I have to find her!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "She's safe at home. Uh, you sort of have to shimmy up an air vent Floyd | to get in--" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is how we get in. Sweet." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Yankee Foxtrot Headquarters Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["She's safe at home. Uh, you sort of have to shimmy up an air Floyd | vent to get in--"] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yes, I've been up that vent before." Jenny notices your Floyd | expression. "What? She's got a ten o' clock curfew. It's ridiculous! Floyd | Listen, I, uh, I really can't thank you enough for telling me this. I Floyd | need to see her right now." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Gee, let's get back to the lab, then." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Wow, such a rebel" | |
| Jacqueline says, "It was a different time." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Gee, let's get back to the lab, then."] Floyd | Floyd | You and Jenny enjoy what is by current standards a relaxing walk back Floyd | to the lab, during which neither of you dies. Soon you're standing at Floyd | the door of Mary Jane's room. Floyd | Floyd | "We have a secret knock," Jenny explains, which turns out to be two Floyd | barely audible taps. "See, it stands for 'haircut', because at first Floyd | it was going to be 'shave and a haircut' because we get our hair done Floyd | together sometimes but we don't shave, or, er, at least we don't shave Floyd | at a barbershop or anything like that, uh, so we dropped that part--" Floyd | Floyd | The door jerks open and Mary Jane launches herself at Jenny like a Floyd | puffy-eyed pink cobra. "Jenny! You're ALIVE!" she squeals. "I Floyd | thought your poor little brain had been guzzled!" Floyd | Floyd | "I thought yours had!" Floyd | Floyd | After the tearful reunion, Mary Jane turns to you. "Well, gosh, now I Floyd | feel like a real goony bird for crying over Jenny dying when she's not Floyd | even dead. I ought to be pitching in and helping you and Dad stop Floyd | those awful things. I'm going to the lab to see what's what!" Floyd | Floyd | Jenny gives her a peck on the cheek. "Have fun!" Then you and Mary Floyd | Jane climb the stairs to the Tomorrowdome. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, it's a BUBU," Mary Jane observes, grabbing a lab coat. "Or, well, Floyd | gee, it's most of one at least. I can make it better!" Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | The BUBU giggles. "Gosh, Dave, your hands are so tickley inside me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm kind of surprised it wasn't an eight o'clock curfew." | |
| invisiwall asks, "Okay, BUBU = booboo like the embarrassing pet name?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, maybe." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I know it's the machine" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I forget that you were here earlier when the acronym was explained." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to professor" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PROFESSOR Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 10 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, greetings again, my young chum." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 3) "I found an, uh, perforated membrane for you!" Floyd | 4) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["I found an, uh, perforated membrane for you!"] Floyd | Floyd | "The screen from the drive-in! Excellent! Without those creature Floyd | features playing through the kitchen window at all hours my daughter Floyd | will be able to get through the dishes without dropping half of them Floyd | because she was startled by the Moon Men or the Swamp Woman. And as a Floyd | bonus, I can use this for the BUBU, too!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The BUBU is kind of creeping me out, but maybe that's just me." | |
| invisiwall says, "No, same" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"] Floyd | Floyd | "I appreciate that, young lady." Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to mary jane" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 12 here.] Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane looks up. "Hi, Bonnie!" she says brightly. Floyd | Floyd | 1) "You're a scientist?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["You're a scientist?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, silly! I'm a little rusty, though. Cheerleading keeps me awful Floyd | busy lately!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 2) "I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Where can I find fructonium?"] Floyd | Floyd | "I'm not the one to talk to about plant stuff!" Mary Jane lets out of Floyd | a self-deprecating giggle. "Outside of physics, engineering, and Floyd | cheerleading and such, I'm pretty much useless!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Where can I find fructonium?" Floyd | 2) "I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I should go!"] Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane nods. "Go get "em!" Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "So... I am now crowd sourcing a plan for the fructonium." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Go to the kitchen so we can fiddle with the hydroponics?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Well, who in the game knows about 'plant stuff'?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Jenny" | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "Jenny !" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Where is she?" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Kitchen." | |
| invisiwall says, "Eh, where'd she go..." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Very Pink Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Very Pink Room Floyd | A frothy, frilly pink bedroom with a large canopy bed and a vanity Floyd | buried under mountains of makeup. Posters of famous movie stars line Floyd | the walls. A large bay window looks out on a pleasantly kept rose Floyd | garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh. How convenient" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her Floyd | famous snickerdoodles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to jenny" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JENNY Floyd | Floyd | "Hi, Bonnie! How's everything going up there?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "We're putting together a machine to stop the brain guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "Don't worry about it, Jenny, all that matters is we're safe in Floyd | here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["We're putting together a machine to stop the brain Floyd | guzzlers."] Floyd | Floyd | "Wow, that's great! I'm sure everything will work out and I'm, uh, I'm Floyd | okay waiting here, I guess. I--do you want something baked? Anything?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles." Floyd | 2) "What kinds of things can you bake?" Floyd | 3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?" Floyd | 4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?" Floyd | 5) "I should go." Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK says, "3" | |
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Can I--Bonnie, that's not exactly difficult. Don't you pay attention Floyd | in home ec at all? That was practically the first thing they taught us Floyd | after how to make a roux. I mean--sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. Of Floyd | course I can help. Some nice fresh fruit is all I need." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles." Floyd | 2) "What kinds of things can you bake?" Floyd | 3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?" Floyd | 4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?" Floyd | 5) "I should go." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?"] Floyd | Floyd | Jenny frowns, looking at the tubes. "Of course they're not ripe, poor Floyd | things! They may look healthy, but they're all alone up here, stuck to Floyd | a dumb old wall. If there's one thing I've learned it's that even if Floyd | they have all the food and water they need plants will never be happy Floyd | if they feel neglected. They need people to love them. They need Floyd | people to talk to them! Openly! You can't just tell plants you love Floyd | them and then run off with your popular friends every afternoon while Floyd | they're stuck working in the shop. I mean being sold in the shop. Floyd | Being sold is like the flowers' job, that's why I said it like that." Floyd | Jenny coughs. "Anyway, uh, maybe just talking to them and giving them Floyd | some attention would help." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles." Floyd | 2) "What kinds of things can you bake?" Floyd | 3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?" Floyd | 4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?" Floyd | 5) "I should go." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Haha" | |
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["What kinds of things can you bake?"] Floyd | Floyd | "All kinds of things! It's not that different from botany, really, Floyd | except more of the plants are dead and uh, ground up, plus there's Floyd | eggs and things. But both require hard work and a good solid knowledge Floyd | of baker's chemistry!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles." Floyd | 2) "What kinds of things can you bake?" Floyd | 3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?" Floyd | 4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?" Floyd | 5) "I should go." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles."] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, uh, they're just kind of the first cookie I learned how to make. Floyd | I sort of bake when I'm nervous. It gives me something to do with my Floyd | hands. Mary Jane eats when she's nervous, so together we make a pretty Floyd | good team!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles." Floyd | 2) "What kinds of things can you bake?" Floyd | 3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?" Floyd | 4) "None of these plants are ripe! What's going on?" Floyd | 5) "I should go." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | ["I should go."] Floyd | Floyd | "See you later!" Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her Floyd | famous snickerdoodles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So we should talk to the plants. I'm looking forward to the conversation options." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to garden" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 15 here.] Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Er, hello? Gosh, I feel silly." Floyd | 2) "Good plant, good...planty planty." Floyd | 3) "Good morning. My, don't you look lovely and green today!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, they are GOOD options." | |
| invisiwall says, "A+" | ||
| verbalK asks, "2 ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "3" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["Good morning. My, don't you look lovely and green today!"] Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Please, oh, please...grow for me?" Floyd | 2) "Come on, grow! Show those lazy vegetables how it's done!" Floyd | 3) "You know what they say. Boys seldom make dinner of fruit that Floyd | looks thinner! So... go for it!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["You know what they say. Boys seldom make dinner of fruit that Floyd | looks thinner! So... go for it!"] Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Come on, be a sport!" Floyd | 2) (stick out your stomach) "See, I'm growing. Doesn't this Floyd | look fun?" Floyd | 3) "If all the other plants jumped off a bridge...of...of not-growing, Floyd | would you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Gosh. I hope not 3 but probably 3." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I meant that for the option before." | ||
| invisiwall says, "I like being an example" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Very proactive" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | [(stick out your stomach) "See, I'm growing. Doesn't this Floyd | look fun?"] Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | 1) (Appeal to fruit's sense of patriotism.) Floyd | 2) (Bring up your past together.) Floyd | 3) (Violent emotional breakdown) Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Oh m y god" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "1!" | ||
| verbalK says, "hahahaha" | ||
| verbalK says, "I wanna do 2 or 3" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [(Appeal to fruit's sense of patriotism.)] Floyd | Floyd | "Now look," you tell the plant sternly. "Maybe you're a plant. And Floyd | maybe you're not worried about the Brain Guzzlers because you don't Floyd | have a brain, or even a nervous system, and so you don't think any of Floyd | this has anything to do with you. But let me tell you this, buddy! Floyd | You grew on American soil, or out of American water, anyway, and that Floyd | makes you a citizen of the good old United States of America! Floyd | Americans don't give up when the going gets tough. Americans fight. Floyd | Americans win! Our country has never been successfully conquered by Floyd | slime monsters from space and, gosh darn it, it's never going to be! Floyd | Now you're going to get off your lazy roots, citizen, and you're going Floyd | to start growing! And one day... one day, you magnificent son of a Floyd | gun, little children who aren't yet a gleam in Father's eye will Floyd | salute the everloving heck out your memory! There will be statues to Floyd | you! People will look at still lifes and instead of saying 'Oh, Floyd | another one of those', they'll stand a little taller. They'll wipe Floyd | their eyes. And they'll say, 'There, in that bowl, there lies a true Floyd | American'. And then they'll go home and they'll have a gosh darn Floyd | honest-to-mother barbeque with hamburgers and corn on the cob and yes, Floyd | even fruit, and it will all be because of you!" Floyd | Floyd | Your words and actions have moved the fruit to its various cores. Floyd | Before your eyes, the bitter green lumps swell into a colorful Floyd | cornucopia of ripe fruit! Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | The hydroponic garden is now bursting with oodles of ripe fruit in Floyd | every color of the rainbow. Floyd | Floyd | Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her Floyd | famous snickerdoodles. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "they're all good, but you can only pick one." | |
| invisiwall says, "Oh my god" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That was amazing." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to jenny" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JENNY Floyd | Floyd | "Hi again, Bonnie!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles." Floyd | 2) "What kinds of things can you bake?" Floyd | 3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?" Floyd | 4) "I should go." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Well I must declare I'm shocked they didn't grow in red white and blue after that" | |
| verbalK says, "It was cool indeed" | ||
| DavidW says, "You can take the fruit now, by the way." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["I should go."] Floyd | Floyd | "See you later!" Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | The hydroponic garden is now bursting with oodles of ripe fruit in Floyd | every color of the rainbow. Floyd | Floyd | Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her Floyd | famous snickerdoodles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "take fruit" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FRUIT Floyd | Floyd | You pluck an armful of the ripest and fruitiest-looking fruit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and cookies" | |
| verbalK asks, "Cookies ?" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "take cookies" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE COOKIES Floyd | Floyd | "Take as many as you want!" Jenny says eagerly, practically shoving Floyd | them into your hands. You end up with a lot more than you wanted. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "snickerdoodles" | |
| invisiwall says, "Jenny's snickerdoodles" | ||
| DavidW says, "Share with your friends!" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to jenny" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JENNY Floyd | Floyd | "Hi again, Bonnie!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles." Floyd | 2) "What kinds of things can you bake?" Floyd | 3) "Could you make something called 'fructonium' for me?" Floyd | 4) "Here's that fruit, Jenny!" Floyd | 5) "I should go." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Do not ever question the need for cookies, vK." | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | ["Here's that fruit, Jenny!"] Floyd | Floyd | "Great! Oh, you just wait, I'll make you a nice fructonium pie!" Floyd | Floyd | And after a little kneading, a little flour, a little kneading, Floyd | fifty-five minutes in the oven, and helping Jenny clean up the Floyd | workspace because that's the considerate thing to do, it's ready. You Floyd | now have a gently glowing pie filled with purest refined fructonium! Floyd | Floyd | "Looks good enough to eat, doesn't it?" Jenny laughs. "Uh, but don't, Floyd | okay? That's really pure. Your stomach would melt." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jeepers, you sure must like snickerdoodles." Floyd | 2) "What kinds of things can you bake?" Floyd | 3) "I should go." Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "This game and glowing pies, I swear" | |
| DavidW says, "It's a day for glowing pie." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["I should go."] Floyd | Floyd | "See you later!" Floyd | Floyd | Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | It has its own self-sufficient hydroponic garden on one wall, and part Floyd | of the counter space is taken up with a glass surface labeled Floyd | "TELEPAD", but other than that it's a normal, if very upscale, Floyd | kitchen. There's a great view of the town from the windows here. The Floyd | door to the northeast leads back to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Jenny Yoshida is keeping herself busy baking piles and piles of her Floyd | famous snickerdoodles. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "examine the pie!" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a fruit pie Floyd | too many snickerdoodles Floyd | a telepod (open but empty) Floyd | a RPS cannon Floyd | a checklist Floyd | a Depth Charge Deluxe Floyd | a game pamphlet Floyd | a Canyonville High yearbook Floyd | a collapsible hula hoop Floyd | a skirt-and-sweater combo (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x pie" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIE Floyd | Floyd | It's vibrating like a purring cat and luminous with a gentle ruby red Floyd | aura. Gosh, this is a real day for glowing pies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "snickerdoodles" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > SNICKERDOODLES Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Hahaha okay you win this one" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "x snickerdoodles" | ||
Floyd ] Hydroponic Kitchen Floyd | > Floyd | > X SNICKERDOODLES Floyd | Floyd | (the snickerdoodles) Floyd | They smell great. Jenny's such a good baker! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | "" Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to professor" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PROFESSOR Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 10 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, greetings again, my young chum." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "Have a snickerdoodle? Your daughter's friend made them. Floyd | 3) "Here's that fuel, professor! It's in pie form." Floyd | 4) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Have a snickerdoodle? Your daughter's friend made them.] Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, she's very domestic, isn't she? Not exactly the sort of chum I'd Floyd | prefer for Mary Jane--" His eyebrows raise as he nibbles on a cookie. Floyd | "But I must admit that, scientifically speaking, she doodles a mean Floyd | snicker." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "Here's that fuel, professor! It's in pie form." Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Here's that fuel, professor! It's in pie form."] Floyd | Floyd | "Wonderful!" The professor drops the pie into the BUBU's tank. "That Floyd | should give our machine the necessary zing it needs for all-day Floyd | power!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "That's everything! Isn't it?" Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["That's everything! Isn't it?"] Floyd | Floyd | He nods. "That's everything. We can launch the BUBU whenever you're Floyd | ready. But we'll only have one shot, young lady. So be ready for it." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "I'm ready to go. Launch the BUBU!" Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Ok, are we read y?" | |
| invisiwall asks, "There's nothing we need to take care of is there?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Unless you want to hand out more cookies." | ||
| DavidW says, "To Renee and MJ." | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to jane" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JANE Floyd | Floyd | That command isn't available in choice mode. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "2, right?" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to Mary Jane" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | That command isn't available in choice mode. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "I'm ready to go. Launch the BUBU!" Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | ["I guess I won't bother you any more right now!"] Floyd | Floyd | "I appreciate that, young lady." Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to Mary Jane" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MARY JANE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 12 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Hi again, Bonnie!" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Jenny is making snickerdoodles. Want some?" Floyd | 2) "I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["Jenny is making snickerdoodles. Want some?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Ooh, I would love some!" Mary Jane says, licking her lips. Floyd | She takes a handful of cookies and stuffs one in her mouth. "Fammff Floyd | yoo." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | ["I should go!"] Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane nods. "Go get "em!" Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | "Really, though," the BUBU says, "I've gained 1.451 tons since this Floyd | morning. I really ought to do a jumping jack or two." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to bubu" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BUBU Floyd | Floyd | That wouldn't be a very productive conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "Should I go give some cookies to Renee ?" | |
| invisiwall says, "snrk" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to renee" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RENEE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 11 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Hey there." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're reading? Does the professor have an eye for Floyd | good science fiction?" Floyd | 2) "Want some of these snickerdoodles?" Floyd | 3) "Okay, I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Want some of these snickerdoodles?"] Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, gosh, yes," Renee says, taking a handful. "Nearly dying makes you Floyd | pretty hungry, huh?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What's that you're reading? Does the professor have an eye for Floyd | good science fiction?" Floyd | 2) "Okay, I should go!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Modernist Living Room Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["Okay, I should go!"] Floyd | Floyd | "See ya!" Floyd | Floyd | Modernist Living Room Floyd | This circular room is ultramodern, like something from twenty years in Floyd | the future. The sleek, smart-looking furniture is a symphony in Floyd | avocado, orange, and mustard-yellow. There are exits set into the Floyd | wooden paneling to the southwest and northwest, and another exit past Floyd | a small entry foyer to the east. A spiral staircase leads up, and a Floyd | gaping exhaust vent leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Renee Finch is plopped in a comfortable-looking easy chair, leafing Floyd | through a leather-bound book. Floyd | Floyd | > | verbalK asks, "So, are we ready to go ?" | |
| DavidW says, "let's save the city, the country, the world!" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are you just wandering around to make sure everyone has snickerdoodles?" | ||
| verbalK says, "Yes, but I'm done now :)" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tomorrowdome Floyd | A dome covers the roof of the laboratory, converting this top floor Floyd | into a vast circular workspace with a view of the surrounding Floyd | mountains beneath a sky full of brilliant stars. In the center of the Floyd | room is some sort of half-completed machine. Near it is a cluttered Floyd | desk, with a blackboard looming over it. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane Minsky is working on the BUBU. Floyd | Floyd | Professor Barrabas Rudolph Minsky is up to his elbows in the machine, Floyd | tinkering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "talk to professor" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PROFESSOR Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Picture number 10 here.] Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, greetings again, my young chum." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I have a question about the Brain Guzzlers." Floyd | 2) "I'm ready to go. Launch the BUBU!" Floyd | 3) "I guess I won't bother you any more right now!" Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Sharing is Caring, Jacqueline" | |
| verbalK asks, "Ready?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Indeed" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, ready" | ||
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | ["I'm ready to go. Launch the BUBU!"] Floyd | Floyd | Nodding grimly, the professor helps you into the pilot's seat of the Floyd | "spaceship." "May God have mercy on our souls," he says. Floyd | Floyd | Mary Jane gives you a kiss on the cheek. "Good luck, Bonnie!" Then Floyd | she taps a few buttons and the dome slowly opens overhead. Machinery Floyd | grinds as the BUBU rises into the air. Floyd | Floyd | A glittering sea of stars surrounds you. Below, you see the last Floyd | flickering lights of Canyonville glinting off huge dark shapes. The Floyd | town seems to undulate like an ocean of living ink. The few buildings Floyd | you can see, in the scattered light from fires and sparkling electric Floyd | lines, aren't much more than shells. There's the ruins of the diner. Floyd | Over there, the one remaining wall of the haunted house sways in the Floyd | breeze. The last of the police station crumbles as you watch. Floyd | Floyd | From the south, a wave of Brain Guzzlers rolls over the line of tanks. Floyd | You can hear faint shouts and bursts of futile gunfire. One enormous Floyd | Guzzler is slowly oozing over the Beat Barn. Another probes the base Floyd | of the cliff with its tendrils. Floyd | Floyd | "They look mean, Dave," the BUBU remarks, "but I was made to Floyd | fight tough stains! Floyd | Floyd | 1) Fire the BUBU. Floyd | Floyd | > | invisiwall says, "Oh my god BUBU" | |
| verbalK says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Tomorrowdome Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | [Fire the BUBU.] Floyd | Floyd | With a terrifying crack, light lances from the tip of the BUBU, Floyd | fingers of electricity raking the sky like crude scratches carved into Floyd | filmstock .The Brain Guzzlers begin to quiver, then to shrivel, Floyd | sputting into loose piles like deflating party balloons. In minutes, Floyd | it is over. The string is pulled, and Canyonville's remaining brains Floyd | will remain unguzzled. Floyd | Floyd | "You did it!" a voice chirps from beneath you. You look down to see Floyd | Mary Jane looking up at you, Jenny by her side, their hands clasped Floyd | together and their hair whipped by the mountain wind. Floyd | Floyd | The professor stands behind them, staring thoughtfully off into some Floyd | unknown future. "The way I see it," he muses, "we may never know why Floyd | they came here, where they came from, or where they went. We may never Floyd | know, and we may never be ready to know! All I know is that every year Floyd | of my life I become more convinced that not only do we not know what Floyd | we don't know, we also don't know what we do know. These are the Floyd | things that come when man tampers in heavens--we, with our Sputniks Floyd | and our weather balloons, we've opened the door and laid out the Floyd | welcome mat. Dare we really shirk our responsibility when our guests Floyd | arrive. Dare we?" Floyd | Floyd | Indeed, those words are full of wisdom. But though the future is Floyd | uncertain, you've brought about a brighter today, and a brighter today Floyd | is the first step to a brighter tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | Jimmy Johnson was rescued, alive, well, and of normal size, some eight Floyd | thousand miles away in a lifeboat, with no memory of where he had been Floyd | or how his brain came to be returned to him. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** THE END...? *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Darn it." | |
| DavidW says, "congrats!" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Jimmy lived?" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Very movie-ending soliloquyesque, prof" | ||
| verbalK asks, "So Jimmy's doing well ? Should we go kiss him now ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to vK), "No." | ||
| DavidW says, "Some version of Jimmy lived, yes. For the sequel, I assume." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "This was fun!" | ||
| invisiwall says, "Jimmy lived, but I'm going to headcanon that Bonnie went walking with Renee after these events" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This was very fun. Except for the bit about Jimmy." | ||
| verbalK exclaims, "But what about the hula hoop ?!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect Jimmy and Officer Wilcox were made unlikable partly to minimize any upset feelings when they get killed." | ||
| verbalK says, "I am starting to feel the need-to-know-what-the-hula-hoop-is-for..." | ||
| DavidW says (to verbalK), "I don't know about the hula hoop." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Did we try using it to fool the heartbeat machine?" | ||
| verbalK asks, "How would that work ?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I don't think it would work, but maybe 'put hoop in car'?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to invisiwall), "I thought about it, but I don't think we could make that work." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Well, if it can compress really really tiny, we could wear it like a bracelet and then, um... re-expand it to get our wrist out.... I DUNNO" | ||
| DavidW says, "The teddybear is more likely usable for the haunted house ride." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||
| verbalK asks, "The teddy bear ? How ?" | ||
| invisiwall asks, "There was a teddybear??" | ||
| DavidW says, "We didn't have to get a hula hoop. We could've had a poetry book or a switchblade knife, or a teddybear." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, the #2 game, Map, by Ade McT, is also a glulx game, so we could play that next week." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I have not played Map." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'll assume it's good if it came in 2nd." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I am okay with weekly still, as long as I can get a sub when I need one." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think if we do anything else (first Sunday of the month, or biweekly, or whatever, that people will get confused.)" | ||
| invisiwall says, "This was fun; won't be around next Sunday though, due to Thanksgiving in these here United States" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe Wife of Tomorrow can hula hoop." | ||
| invisiwall exclaims, "Or, ooh, maybe one of the other kids can!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I have no idea. But there must be something." | ||
| invisiwall says, "...then again it never appeared as a conversation option" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Y'all could undo a few and find out." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe you can put it in the row of delicious pies." | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't think of a sure-fire place in the game where it'd be possibly useful." | ||
| DavidW says, "btw, the RPG cannon can shoot at the paper target in the Hall of Amazing Tech or whatever that room was called." | ||
| DavidW says, "There are no scissors in the game to shoot at that I know of." | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah, there was a paper target." | ||
| verbalK is tired and is going to go get some food | ||
| DavidW says, "There was ice cream of tomorrow. Usually, not not necessarily, it's the flavour you picked." | ||
| DavidW says, "Also, the alternate way to deal with the pies is to swap the charts." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Swap what charts?" | ||
| DavidW says, "The health chart in MJ's purse with the MJ Jr's growth chart in the plant shop." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Ohhh a thing I hadn't seen" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ah yeah, right" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know where one uses the switchblade, but maybe it's an option in the race from fairgrounds to tunnel." | ||
| DavidW says, "The poetry book, of course, can be used on stage." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Figured." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Love that puzzle. Best bit of the game." | ||
| DavidW says, "I was worried you were getting too frustrated there." | ||
| invisiwall asks, "Oh yes, how did you solve it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "You rhyme and piss Traudl off so much, she gives you the head if you promise to leave." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You basically try to fail so as to frustrate her. She eventually gives you the head just so you won't come back." | ||
| invisiwall says, "Hahahaha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Which, we won't, because the bar has been destroyed." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So there's that." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, having the bar get destroyed bothered me." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "oh?" | ||
| DavidW says, "and the diner too, for that matter." | ||
| DavidW says, "buildings are sanctuaries." | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh, and where the heck were the pine nuts?" | ||
| DavidW says, "An entire Pine Nut festival and parade, and I don't remember seeing any nuts." | ||
| DavidW says, "There are horse droppings on the street after the parade, but the game calls them something else." | ||
| invisiwall says, "The pine nuts were all immediately eaten of course ;D" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder what sort of game the author will write next. We've had a witch school, a jungle adventure, alien plants, and a 50's comedy-horror." | ||
| Amber wags. | ||
| Amber goes home. | Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm going to head out. Go explore my new neighborhood some more." | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe it'll be a bee-girl band next. Or a mermaid hospital." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "You should send her those ideas." | ||
| DavidW says, "Her ideas will be better than mine." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "By the way, got a note from her looking forward to the transcript, but she finds the mud a bit difficult to use, so she didn't join us. I can totally appreciate that." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or a girl band AT a hospital. 'Jinks: Truly Contagious'." | ||
