  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask untoldriches" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You were reluctant to undertake another adventure with Professor Floyd | d'Squarius, especially after the last near-catastrophe. Escaping from Floyd | the Tomb of the Screaming Mummies had been treacherous enough, but Floyd | then to have to go back inside because the professor lost his keys in Floyd | some snake pit? Frankly, you had begun to question whether his Floyd | treasure hunts were worth it. Floyd | Floyd | But the professor spoke persuasively about this new quest -- "for Floyd | untold riches!" he claimed -- and, in the end, you agreed to join the Floyd | expedition. Since then, things have gone exactly the way they always Floyd | do: horribly. Floyd | Floyd | You tried to tell the professor that bringing a harpoon into an Floyd | inflatable lifeboat was a bad idea. But, like always, he dismissed Floyd | your objections with the usual "you're just the teenage sidekick" Floyd | line. And now YOU are the one stranded on a remote tropical island Floyd | with no clear way of getting back to civilization. Floyd | Floyd | And the amazing treasure you were originally seeking? The professor Floyd | never explained precisely what it was. Floyd | Floyd | Untold Riches Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Jason Ermer Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150927 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are the young assistant to Professor Edsger d'Squarius, Floyd | adventurer-archaeologist. Floyd | Floyd | You and the professor have been through a lot together. You bravely Floyd | charted the Grave of the Headless Vikings (at least until the swamp Floyd | gases started to make you hallucinate). You ventured into the secret Floyd | network of catacombs beneath Stonehenge in search of the Lost Codex of Floyd | Zethar the Druid (it's still lost; you never found it). You have even Floyd | seen the summit of Mount Everest (from a distance). Floyd | Floyd | And every time the professor has gotten into some bizarre or dangerous Floyd | predicament (which is most of the time), you've been there to bail him Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "We must be pretty desperate for that summer extra-credit, or whatever it is that we're chasing after this pprofessor for." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the silver whistle (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x whistle" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHISTLE Floyd | Floyd | The silver emergency whistle hangs from a nylon lanyard that you are Floyd | wearing around your neck. Floyd | Floyd | The whistle was one piece of emergency equipment that the professor Floyd | put you in charge of (the other was the emergency beacon, which seems Floyd | to be missing). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Since we have some new folks: unless we designate a driver, anyone can enter commands. You do that by prefacing the command with F. Like F X ME." | |
| hzomb says, "blow whistle" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > BLOW WHISTLE Floyd | Floyd | The shrill sound of the emergency whistle is both loud and irritating. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The one rule on that is that you can't change location unless you ask the group first." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get lifeboat" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LIFEBOAT Floyd | Floyd | The deflated lifeboat has outlived all usefulness. There's no point in Floyd | carrying it around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "search lifeboat" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH LIFEBOAT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "And don't type commands too fast." | |
| Teaspoon says, "oh, sorry" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, true." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess there are a couple of rules. :)" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREE Floyd | Floyd | The smooth trunk of the palm tree stretches up about twenty feet and Floyd | ends in a fan of wide, green leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was hoping there'd be stuff in the lifeboat." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, where is our prof?" | ||
| hzomb asks, "Can we get in the lifeboat?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB TREE Floyd | Floyd | You're quite skilled at climbing trees -- and it's a good thing. When Floyd | the professor was captured by the Cannibal Warriors, you scrambled up Floyd | a tree and avoided detection. Later (but still before brunch!) you Floyd | climbed down and helped the professor escape. Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, climbing this particular tree doesn't yield any new Floyd | information. You climb back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I wonder if this will be a useful skill later" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You and the professor once traveled in search of the Ukrainian Falcon, Floyd | a golden bird encrusted from beak to claw with the rarest jewels. The Floyd | professor learned that it had been left behind in the exclusion zone Floyd | around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. You journeyed up the Pripyat Floyd | River, but you had to turn around when your boat was attacked by a Floyd | school of giant, phosphorescent catfish. Floyd | Floyd | Since then, you've avoided recreational swimming. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "er" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "are there catfish in Russia?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "PRAY" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "xzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > XZZY Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | You recall a different tropical archipelago, far from here, which you Floyd | and the professor traversed in hope of finding the Chachapoyan Floyd | Fertility Idol. After that, whenever he needed a vacation, the Floyd | professor would sometimes go back to Zabba, Deffe, Hijji, Noppo, and Floyd | Tuvvu (and sometimes Xyzzy). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in boat" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN BOAT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x sand" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAND Floyd | Floyd | The white sands extend to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, rain forest or beach?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | That's going to be hard to do without a shovel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "vote for beach" | |
| hzomb says, "inventory" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "we did" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the silver whistle (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "beach" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | A reddish-brown crab scuttles from pool to pool, its pointy legs Floyd | clicking faintly on the stones. Floyd | Floyd | There is a long plastic tube here. It must have been left behind the Floyd | last time the tide went out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ooh" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get tube" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TUBE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "we have a POSSESSION" | |
| Ghogg arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | hzomb says, "ah we meet our first npc" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x tube" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUBE Floyd | Floyd | The long, waterproof tube has a tight-fitting cap. Large documents, Floyd | like blueprints and maps, can be rolled up and slid inside for Floyd | protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "f open tube" | |
| Jacqueline says, "er" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open tube" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN TUBE Floyd | Floyd | You open the waterproof case, revealing the professor's treasure map! Floyd | Floyd | When the pirates were starting to close in, you tried to convince the Floyd | professor that you should be the one to carry both the map and the Floyd | key. Instead, the professor took the map himself and, inexplicably, Floyd | tied the key to Aziz's leg. He put you in charge of the emergency kit: Floyd | the whistle (which you're wearing) and the beacon (which seems to be Floyd | missing). Floyd | Floyd | The fact that the map case has washed up on the beach might indicate Floyd | bad news for the professor, maybe even worse than that time he was Floyd | almost devoured by man-eating spiders in the Shrine of the Cursed Floyd | Knights. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "this one's perfect for clubfloyding, I'd say" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh? Excellent." | ||
| hzomb says, "Yeah it's a lot of fun." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "who's aziz?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "read map" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > READ MAP Floyd | Floyd | (first removing the map from the waterproof case) Floyd | The sheet of yellowing parchment shows the outline of an island, Floyd | hand-drawn in black ink. Most of the terrain is just sketched in, but Floyd | the northwest region is mapped out in great detail and shows some Floyd | unusual red symbols. Floyd | Floyd | It looks a little like the map the professor had that time you drove a Floyd | dog sled through the arctic in search of the lost city of Floyd | Tuktuyaaqtuuq. That's probably just a coincidence, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says (to Teaspoon), "just an incidental character I think." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x symbols" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > X SYMBOLS Floyd | Floyd | The symbols in the northwest region of the map are drawn in red ink. Floyd | (At least, you think it's red ink?) They depict a face looking Floyd | directly west at a seven-pointed star. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Jason sure came up with a ton of adventures." | |
| hzomb asks, "What if it's blood?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "or ketchup" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Dried blood isn't really communicable most of the time." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we'll be okay." | ||
| hzomb says, "So our first puzzle/clue." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "anyway it doens't stay red very long" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "goes sort of brownish" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x crab" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRAB Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to read the facial expression on a crab, but it doesn't seem Floyd | very happy to see you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get crab" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CRAB Floyd | Floyd | The crab snaps at your fingers with its sharp little claws. You back Floyd | away, aware that your hands are completely unprotected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "talk to crab" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CRAB Floyd | Floyd | To communicate with other characters, use the command 'talk to someone Floyd | about something'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About "Untold Riches" Floyd | Credits and Thanks Floyd | Hints | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About "Untold Riches" Floyd | Credits and Thanks Floyd | Hints | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] About "Untold Riches" Floyd | Untold Riches has been developed for use during the 2015-2016 school Floyd | year as part of an interdisciplinary curriculum for the middle grades Floyd | on computer programming and creative writing. Floyd | Floyd | Gameplay design principles were derived from the rules of Floyd | IFBeginnersComp ([LINK]), in Floyd | particular: (1) The initial goal should be clear from early on. (2) Floyd | The puzzles should be fair and well-clued. (3) The world should be Floyd | thoroughly implemented (no unwinnable states, good coverage of scenery Floyd | and synonyms). Floyd | Floyd | Implementation design principles were based on the idea that the Floyd | source code will be discussed as novice programmers learn to create Floyd | their own games. The code should therefore aim to build game elements Floyd | using the simplest implementation and as much "entry level" Inform 7 Floyd | functionality as possible. Floyd | Floyd | Comments, questions, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome. Please Floyd | contact the author, jasonermer at gmail. Floyd | Floyd | Untold Riches and all related materials are released under a Creative Floyd | Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license [LINK]Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About "Untold Riches" Floyd | Credits and Thanks Floyd | Hints | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | About "Untold Riches" Floyd | > Credits and Thanks Floyd | Hints | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits and Thanks Floyd | Special thanks to Steven Odhner for his creative collaboration Floyd | throughout the development of the game. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks also to playtesters Joseph Geipel, Alice Grove, Arthur O'Dwyer, Floyd | Toby Ott, Andrew Schultz, and Nick Turner for their helpful feedback, Floyd | and for the generous gifts of their time and patience. Floyd | Floyd | The cover image, a cropped and color-edited version of "Archipelago" Floyd | by Dmitry Teslya, is used here under a Creative Commons Attribution [LINK]Floyd | Original image online at [LINK]Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | About "Untold Riches" Floyd | > Credits and Thanks Floyd | Hints | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | A reddish-brown crab scuttles from pool to pool, its pointy legs Floyd | clicking faintly on the stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Thanks for that, folks." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Just wanted to make sure that there aren't special commands or anything." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Which I'm sure Jason would have mentioned in the banner or something, but just in case." | ||
| hzomb says, "You might try HELP." | ||
| hzomb says, "I don't think there are any." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About "Untold Riches" Floyd | Credits and Thanks Floyd | Hints | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | A reddish-brown crab scuttles from pool to pool, its pointy legs Floyd | clicking faintly on the stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x rocks" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROCKS Floyd | Floyd | The crack in the western rocks is wide enough to enter and a path Floyd | leads into the dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "eat crab" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CRAB Floyd | Floyd | You ate raw crab with the professor at a Kyoto sushi bar. (Well, your Floyd | ordered some. Before the food came, some Yakuza strongmen showed up Floyd | and you had to sneak out the back door.) This crab is still alive, Floyd | though! Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "secret location" | |
| Teaspoon says, "we have oodles of backstory, anyway" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "can we go into the cave without being eaten by a grue?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's a great description for the crab" | ||
| hzomb says, "It paints a picture of your relationship with the professor." | ||
| hzomb asks, "Do you want to do a save?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I've saved, there's probably undo, let's go in the cave." | ||
| hzomb says, "cave" | ||
| Draconis heads back home. | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can go northwest and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You pass from the bright, warm sunlight of the tide pool to the cool Floyd | darkness of the cave. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You can see nothing. Floyd | Floyd | It's as dark as the ocean floor. (You know that's a valid comparison Floyd | because you and the professor once journeyed by submersible to the Floyd | wreck of the Titanic in order to retrieve a blue diamond necklace once Floyd | owned by Louis XVI.) You hear the occasional drip of water into some Floyd | distant subterranean puddle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "so we can, but it doesn't help any without a light source" | |
| hzomb says, "we need a light." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x puddle" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > X PUDDLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear the occasional drip of water echoing from the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "It's really pleasant in here. Can we just stay here and meditate?" | |
| hzomb says, "lol" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "aww" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I guess you all probably want to find the treasure, though." | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "rest" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > REST Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Sleeping is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "treasure" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | That's going to be hard to do without a shovel. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb exclaims, "untold riches!" | |
| Teaspoon says, "so we need a shovel and a light souce" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "source" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I suppose we should move on for now, yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | A reddish-brown crab scuttles from pool to pool, its pointy legs Floyd | clicking faintly on the stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "out" | |
| Teaspoon asks, "nw then?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "hit crab with tube" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CRAB WITH TUBE Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't understand your entire command, although the first part Floyd | matched the action hit the crab. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I mean, north/northwest seems like that's where the action is, but maybe there's stuff we need back in the forest?" | |
| hzomb asks, "put crab in tube?" | ||
| hzomb says, "we can go back if needed" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm guessing the crab is the wrong shape for the tube, but sure, try." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "I thought the forest was back to the northwest" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > I THOUGHT THE FOREST WAS BACK TO THE NORTHWEST Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't understand your entire command, although the first part Floyd | matched the action take inventory. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "gah!" | |
| Teaspoon says, "sorry" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "put crab in tube" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CRAB IN TUBE Floyd | Floyd | Putting anything other than the map into the waterproof case is not Floyd | necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Happens to us all." | |
| Roger says, ">IMPROVISE VUVUZELA" | ||
| hzomb smiles | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "blow tube" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Gods but I hate those things." | |
Floyd | > BLOW TUBE Floyd | Floyd | I'm not sure how you intend to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the map Floyd | a waterproof case (open but empty) Floyd | the silver whistle (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "blow whistle" | |
| hzomb says, "maybe the crab will be scared off" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > BLOW WHISTLE Floyd | Floyd | The squeal of the whistle causes the crab scurry away, snapping its Floyd | claws even more aggressively than usual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | A reddish-brown crab scuttles from pool to pool, its pointy legs Floyd | clicking faintly on the stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "oh it came back" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'm sure we'll find some sort of implement for dealing with the crab." | ||
| hzomb says, "yes onwards" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm also guessing the tide will come in at some point." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "time" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > TIME Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "x sun" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > X SUN Floyd | Floyd | You have to squint a bit against the bright sunlight and blue sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sun" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > X SUN Floyd | Floyd | You have to squint a bit against the bright sunlight and blue sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to hzomb), "Yay timing" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Great minds..." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, jungle?" | ||
| hzomb says, "jungle" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can go northwest and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, we can't go back?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can go northwest and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb asks, "a curving path?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, it is nw." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We started there." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So the cave is all there is. I was turned around." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So that's our only option. My bad." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can go northwest and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "There are two exits." | |
| Jacqueline says, "grr" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to hz), "The other exit was to the cave." | |
| hzomb asks, "try the forest?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "surf" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > SURF Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Just as you are about to continue exploring the island, a large wave Floyd | crashes with a spray of foam, and something unusual catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | When the water recedes, you see the emergency beacon rolling in the Floyd | surf. What luck! Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says (to jacqueline), "oh I see" | |
| Teaspoon says, "get beacon" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take beacon" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BEACON Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x beacon" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > X BEACON Floyd | Floyd | The beacon was one piece of emergency equipment that the professor put Floyd | you in charge of (the other was the emergency whistle). Floyd | Floyd | It's designed to float, but more importantly, to make you visible at Floyd | night. It won't be of much use in the bright sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, that was certainly convenient." | |
| Teaspoon asks, "will this work as a flashlight?" | ||
| hzomb says, "if it makes you visible in the dark..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "un-hu" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, un-huh." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "let's try it" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Jungle or back to the cave?" | ||
| Roger says, "Finally we can get some serious raving done" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "WOOOOOOOOOO" | ||
| hzomb says, "cave lets try the beacon" | ||
| hzomb says, "can't rave in the dark" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | A reddish-brown crab scuttles from pool to pool, its pointy legs Floyd | clicking faintly on the stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to hzomb), "Also, I forgot that you played this. Are you hinting?? Because it feels like you are." | |
| hzomb says, "a bit" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You can see nothing. You hear the occasional drip of water into some Floyd | distant subterranean puddle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Please refrain." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "turn on beacon" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON BEACON Floyd | Floyd | You switch the beacon on. Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | The yellow light of the emergency beacon reflects wetly off the Floyd | irregular, black walls of the cave. Drips of water echo from some dank Floyd | corner through the chilly underground air. Floyd | Floyd | A path exits this chamber to the east, and a rusty iron gate leads Floyd | west. A long ladder stretches up, past the limit of the beacon's weak Floyd | light and into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Leaning in the corner is an old shovel. Floyd | | hzomb says, "but i can't really remember it" | |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon exclaims, "bingo!" | |
| hzomb says (to jacqueline), "ok" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get shovel" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SHOVEL Floyd | Floyd | After that time you and the professor got buried alive in the tomb of Floyd | Pharaoh Humnatune you said you never wanted to use a shovel again... Floyd | but it's been a while and you've calmed down quite a bit. Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the shovel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | The ground here is too rocky for digging. You'd need a pickaxe or Floyd | something to even make a dent, and you haven't seen one of those since Floyd | the professor had you chip through the floor of the Biblioteca di San Floyd | Barnaba on a hunch that it would uncover a secret passage. He was Floyd | wrong, of course, and had to pay the library big bucks to repair the Floyd | tile. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Slow down a touch, please." | |
| Teaspoon says, "Now that is amusing" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "sorry" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'm caught up." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "U?" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "up?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You climb the ladder for a long time. After a while the rough rock Floyd | walls of the cave smooth out and you find yourself ascending through Floyd | the interior of a smooth stone cylinder. A minute later you emerge in Floyd | a room filled with bright sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | Lantern Room Floyd | This room is at the very top of the island's lighthouse. The walls of Floyd | this octagonal room are all made of glass, and you have a panoramic Floyd | view. From here you can see that this island is just one of many that Floyd | make up an archipelago. You notice a ship several miles away sailing Floyd | in and out of sight among the many islands. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room is the lantern: a high-powered electric lamp Floyd | nested inside a set of massive rotating lenses. Underneath the lens Floyd | array, on the lantern's support pedestal, is a large power button. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a tub of grease here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ooh. Sunlight." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "turn off beacon" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN OFF BEACON Floyd | Floyd | You switch the beacon off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "do beacons have batteries?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Some do" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, is that ship the pirates and we want to crash them, or is that our rescue ship and we don't want to crash it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm guessing the former." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get grease" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > GET GREASE Floyd | Floyd | The professor once dangled you by your feet over the La Brea tar pits Floyd | so that you could pull out a crate filled with twenty-eight pounds of Floyd | stolen diamonds. You got it just moments before it sank forever into Floyd | the sea of sticky, black gloop. The grease in the tub looks just like Floyd | that tar, which you were cleaning out from under your fingernails for Floyd | weeks. Floyd | Floyd | Anyhow, you pick up the tub of grease. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait. Are the tar pits still squishy?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tube" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUBE Floyd | Floyd | The long, waterproof tube has a tight-fitting cap. Large documents, Floyd | like blueprints and maps, can be rolled up and slid inside for Floyd | protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "this professor must be a bodybuilder to hold a teen + crate of diamonds" | |
| Roger says, "Time to get that crab greased up" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "There's a joke in there somewhere about how Saturday night was last night." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tub" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUB Floyd | Floyd | This tub contains a thick, black grease used to lubricate the gears of Floyd | the mechanism that causes the bright beam of the lighthouse to sweep Floyd | across the night sky. (Of course, that only happens if it's nighttime Floyd | and if the lighthouse is operational, neither of which is currently Floyd | the case.) The grease is applied using the paintbrush whose bristles Floyd | are stuck in the goo. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, hm. Maybe we do want to get the light on." | |
| Teaspoon says, "I think they are still sticky. Animals kept getting trapped in them through the last centruy." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Huh. I didn't realize that. I was thinking they were solid and they'd been excavated. How do we know what's in there, then?" | ||
| Baughbberick asks, "Don't pits mummify their contents, like bogs sometimes do?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "they do" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "so like a bog, you can retrieve items from the bog, but the bog itself stays put" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks for this educational moment." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "which would tend to suggest that the dimaonds can't be that stuck even if dropped in, but hay, worldbuilding." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, is there anything else here? It kinda doesn't seem like it." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "is this a timed game? Do we have to wait until night?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There's no command for time." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I'm guessing we trigger a new scene somehow." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Lantern Room Floyd | This room is at the very top of the island's lighthouse. The walls of Floyd | this octagonal room are all made of glass, and you have a panoramic Floyd | view. From here you can see that this island is just one of many that Floyd | make up an archipelago. You notice a ship several miles away sailing Floyd | in and out of sight among the many islands. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room is the lantern: a high-powered electric lamp Floyd | nested inside a set of massive rotating lenses. Underneath the lens Floyd | array, on the lantern's support pedestal, is a large power button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "what happens if we hit the button?" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > WHAT HAPPENS IF WE HIT THE BUTTON? Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "er" | |
| hzomb says, "try it" | ||
| Roger says, "It seems pretty forgiving so we can probably flail away at things" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "hit button" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | That kind of violence is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "You can always undo." | |
| Teaspoon says, "good grief" | ||
| hzomb says, "Civilised people depress buttons." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "depress button" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > DEPRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You push the lantern's power button, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "anticlimax" | |
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| Baughbberick says, "NOW you can savagely attack the button" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It implied that we need to fix it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am for exploring more first." | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "it's myst!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Then we can prioritize puzzle tasks." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "turn on beacon" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON BEACON Floyd | Floyd | You switch the beacon on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "down, then?" | |
| Roger says, "reckon so" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | The yellow light of the emergency beacon reflects wetly off the Floyd | irregular, black walls of the cave. Drips of water echo from some dank Floyd | corner through the chilly underground air. Floyd | Floyd | A path exits this chamber to the east, and a rusty iron gate leads Floyd | west. A long ladder stretches up, past the limit of the beacon's weak Floyd | light and into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "west?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| hzomb asks, "can you pass the gate?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The rusty gate is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GATE Floyd | Floyd | The hinges of the gate are frozen with rust. You'll need some kind of Floyd | oil or grease to loosen them up again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lube gate" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > LUBE GATE Floyd | Floyd | You paint the hinges of the rusty gate with a healthy smear of grease. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "nice" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "I went and checked and it looks like, being tar pits, La Brea is usually solid except when it's very hot. Which is when all the fossilised animals fell in." | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > I WENT AND CHECKED AND IT LOOKS LIKE, BEING TAR PITS, LA BREA IS Floyd | USUALLY SOLID EXCEPT WHEN IT'S VERY HOT. WHICH IS WHEN ALL THE Floyd | FOSSILISED ANIMALS FELL IN. Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't understand your entire command, although the first part Floyd | matched the action take inventory. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm impressed it was implemented that way." | |
| Teaspoon says, "I have got to stop doing that" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Teaspoon), "heh" | ||
| hzomb says (to Teaspoon), "it's tricky." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GATE Floyd | Floyd | The hinges of the gate let out an abrupt, metallic bark as they Floyd | finally twist free of the rust. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "west?" | |
| hzomb says, "w" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Workshop Floyd | This cave has been turned into a small workshop with an assortment of Floyd | furniture on one side and an array of machinery on the other. Floyd | Everything in the room is damp from the constant mist churned up by Floyd | the cascade of falling water at the cave's entrance, which lies to the Floyd | west. There is a rusty iron gate in the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | Among the machinery is the room's most impressive feature: a massive Floyd | water wheel, which is attached to a long horizontal track in the wall. Floyd | At the near end of the track you see a crank and a kind of display Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I think grease doesn't really work like that" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Shhh" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "it does in games" | ||
| Roger says, "Hey it's Tony Stark's cave" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Actually what you'd need is some break-free for the rust." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I'm willing to suspecd my disbelief." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "maybe the water wheel powers the light?" | ||
| hzomb says, "look at the display" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x furniture" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > X FURNITURE Floyd | Floyd | The cramped workshop includes a drafting desk, stool, and a sleeping Floyd | cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "ooh, objects" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | The desk is tall and has a single drawer. Some papers are scattered Floyd | across its surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "BING" | |
| hzomb exclaims, "the treasure map!" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "read papers" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | The papers show engineering sketches for an electrical network which Floyd | connects five structures on the island. The design shows a cable Floyd | starting at the water wheel, running through three intermediate power Floyd | stations, and terminating at the top of the lighthouse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "yikes" | |
| Teaspoon says, "oh, this is going to be fun" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "$20 (virtual) (not real) bucks says sleeping in that cot triggers the next scene. Unless I'm completely wrong." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I didn't think sleep was implemented" | ||
| Baughbberick says, "FakeCoin, the cryptocurrency of ifMUD" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Baughbberick), "yay" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lie on cot" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > LIE ON COT Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Sleeping is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Poo" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You open the drawer, revealing some gloves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take gloves" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GLOVES Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Are we not really on the cot? Must not be." | |
| Roger says, "alright, crustacean-handlin gloves" | ||
| Baughbberick asks, "Maybe it's sleep on cot?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ooh yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Baughbberick), "Hm, that'd be hacky." | ||
| Baughbberick asks, "or we're only capable of short but refreshing naps?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x gloves" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLOVES Floyd | Floyd | The heavy canvas work gloves would be useful for protecting your Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "HINT HINT" | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, stuff to do." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is there more to search in here?" | ||
| Baughbberick says, "ow, I stubbed my brain on this sign post." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look under cot" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER COT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "There's a crank or something isn't there" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x stool" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > X STOOL Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected about the stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Baughbberick), "heh" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sit on stool" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON STOOL Floyd | Floyd | (getting off the cot) Floyd | You get onto the stool. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oh, we were on the cot" | |
| Baughbberick asks, "Did we look under it? Is that a thing?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I did look under it." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look under stool" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER STOOL Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x crank" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRANK Floyd | Floyd | The big metal crank juts from the wall at the near end of the track. Floyd | Mounted on the wall above it is a control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The control panel displays five small light bulbs in a horizontal Floyd | line. Currently, all of the lights are off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "well, that's easy enough. When each bit is powered a light will go one." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x wheel" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHEEL Floyd | Floyd | The water wheel is enormous: it reaches almost all the way to the Floyd | ceiling, and its blades are wider than your armspan. It is currently Floyd | motionless, though it is obviously designed to spin on its axle. The Floyd | axle connects the wheel to the track that runs horizontally along the Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "turn wheel" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN WHEEL Floyd | Floyd | The water wheel is far too big and heavy to be turned by hand. The Floyd | force of the falling water, though, may be strong enough to get it Floyd | spinning. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I'm not sure what's going on here. I guess it's an overshot wheel" | |
| Jacqueline says, "That was my guess." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Workshop (on the stool) Floyd | This cave has been turned into a small workshop with an assortment of Floyd | furniture on one side and an array of machinery on the other. Floyd | Everything in the room is damp from the constant mist churned up by Floyd | the cascade of falling water at the cave's entrance, which lies to the Floyd | west. There is a rusty iron gate in the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | Among the machinery is the room's most impressive feature: a massive Floyd | water wheel, which is attached to a long horizontal track in the wall. Floyd | At the near end of the track you see a crank and a kind of display Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Oh the wheel moves along the track towards the water I guess for some reason" | |
| Teaspoon asks, "can we pull the crank?" | ||
| Roger says, "sure, yank that crank" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "pull crank" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL CRANK Floyd | Floyd | The water wheel doesn't budge. Instead, your effort elicits a dry, Floyd | rusty grinding noise from the crank. It sounds like it could use some Floyd | lubrication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "grease crank" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > GREASE CRANK Floyd | Floyd | You paint the crank with a healthy smear of grease. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "twice in a row?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Lubrication solves everything in this game. Let's go lube that crab." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Kidding.)" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "grease me" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > GREASE ME Floyd | Floyd | Putting grease on yourself would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "Can't have too much lubrication." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Teaspoon), "heh" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "worth a shot" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "pull crank" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL CRANK Floyd | Floyd | The water wheel doesn't budge. Instead, your effort elicits a dry, Floyd | rusty grinding noise from the track. It sounds like it could use some Floyd | lubrication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "grease track" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > GREASE TRACK Floyd | Floyd | You smear grease along the whole length of the track: from the crank Floyd | at one end to the waterfall at the other end. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb asks, "What was that game where you grease yourself to get through a crack?" | |
| Teaspoon asks, "how much grease is in this tub?" | ||
| hzomb says (to Teaspoon), "lol" | ||
| Roger says, "I note that when we started greasing things, we stopped reminiscing about all those earlier times with the professor. That's probably for the best." | ||
| Baughbberick says, "Hopefully enough." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "pull crank" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL CRANK Floyd | Floyd | The water wheel doesn't budge. Instead, your effort elicits a dry, Floyd | rusty grinding noise from the axle of the water wheel. It sounds like Floyd | it could use some lubrication. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baughbberick says, ".roger lol" | |
| hzomb says (to Roger), "this is serious business." | ||
| Baughbberick says, "doh, I failed to chansayto" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "You were right Jac, greasing will solve everything" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "(we hope)" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "grease axle" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > GREASE AXLE Floyd | Floyd | You paint the axle of the water wheel with a healthy smear of grease. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline crosses fingers. | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "pull crank" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL CRANK Floyd | Floyd | At last! The crank lets out a nasty screech and finally makes its Floyd | first full rotation. The water wheel rumbles along the track toward Floyd | the waterfall. As the blades of the huge wheel are struck by the Floyd | water, it starts turning -- slowly at first, but it gradually picks up Floyd | speed until it is spinning rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that the first bulb on the control panel has lit up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "WOOO" | |
| Baughbberick exclaims, "shmear all the things!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nicely done. Just LUBE ALL THE THINGS" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing. Yes." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "a less annoying bablefish" | ||
| Roger says, "next guy is all wtf why is everything so slippery in here" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One down." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Actually, funny story. I just moved, and maga isn't here yet. I'm living alone and (gasp) cooking for myself and stuff." | ||
| hzomb says, "aww" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And my kitchen seemed to be a death trap." | ||
| hzomb says, "at least you can make what you like." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The floor was always super slippery and I couldn't figure out what it was." | ||
| hzomb asks, "not the cat?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It was hard to clean up, couldn't see what it was on the floor." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "And it kept coming back!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Really annoying." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I finally figured out it was that when I was spraying non-stick cooking spray on my egg pan some of it was hitting the floor." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This is why I am not allowed to adult without supervision." | ||
| hzomb says, "oh a big cloud of nonstick" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "...how much nonstick is this?" | ||
| Roger says, "much slick" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I have started spraying the pans over the sink, yeah." | ||
| Roger says, "Okay let's slipslide on out of here" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was basically lubing my kitchen floor and then nearly dying. (Although I eventually put a rug down, which was helping.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Okay" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "so we want to power the lighthouse and contact the boat long term, I guess?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "What's the next -- yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Although there are the untold riches to think about. Maybe." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "we have a shovel now, we can dig up the beach" | ||
| Baughbberick says, "Yea, my GF nearly killed me with non-stick spray because of that Jac." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I like ghee" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Baughbberick), "Glad it's not just me!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, hzomb, sadly, my cat is not an under-foot hazard right now. My cat is back in Seattle, with maga, which is why maga isn't here. It's too cold for the cats to fly right now, so he's dealing with the cats and can't move here to join me yet." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "oh, that must be a downer" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It is. Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, what next?" | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "beach! beach! beach!" | ||
| Ghogg goes home. | Roger says, "sure" | |
| Jacqueline asks (of TS), "Want to drive?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "sure" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Workshop (on the stool) Floyd | This cave has been turned into a small workshop with an assortment of Floyd | furniture on one side and an array of machinery on the other. Floyd | Everything in the room is damp from the constant mist churned up by Floyd | the cascade of falling water at the cave's entrance, which lies to the Floyd | west. There is a rusty iron gate in the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | Among the machinery is the room's most impressive feature: a massive Floyd | water wheel, which is attached to a long horizontal track in the wall. Floyd | At the near end of the track you see a crank and a kind of display Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the stool) Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | The yellow light of the emergency beacon reflects wetly off the Floyd | irregular, black walls of the cave. Drips of water echo from some dank Floyd | corner through the chilly underground air. Floyd | Floyd | A path exits this chamber to the east, and a rusty iron gate leads Floyd | west. A long ladder stretches up, past the limit of the beacon's weak Floyd | light and into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | A reddish-brown crab scuttles from pool to pool, its pointy legs Floyd | clicking faintly on the stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | The ground here is too rocky for digging. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | All of the clues at this point suggest you should be digging in the Floyd | grassy plain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "heh" | |
| Teaspoon says, "I think I broke it." | ||
| hzomb asks, "a reference?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "unless someone else inferred that from the map? Because I didn't." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x map" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAP Floyd | Floyd | The sheet of yellowing parchment shows the outline of an island, Floyd | hand-drawn in black ink. Most of the terrain is just sketched in, but Floyd | the northwest region is mapped out in great detail and shows some Floyd | unusual red symbols. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x region" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > X REGION Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x northwest" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > X NORTHWEST Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "There's... a grassy plain?" | |
| hzomb says, "look northwest" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "look northwest" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look northwest" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK NORTHWEST Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "Maybe there is one but we haven't seen it yet." | |
| Teaspoon says, "I'm guessing that's the case." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "we were presumably not suppose to start digging until we'd explored more? It seems like cheating to dig as soon as we find the plain, though..." | ||
| hzomb says, "could look at hints" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "no" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "no, it's a programming issue, isn't it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "CF is generally anti-hints unless we get super stuck, and we're not at all stuck yet." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to TS), "That's my guess." | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "guess we might as well go explore!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | You also see something quite out of place in the natural surroundings: Floyd | a mechanical device is poking out from among the ferns. Floyd | Floyd | Perched on the thick-stemmed leaf of a nearby banana tree sits Aziz, Floyd | the professor's parrot. His blue and yellow feathers contrast brightly Floyd | with the green forest backdrop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oh, that's aziz! with the key we want." | |
| hzomb says, "aha Aziz" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get parrot" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PARROT Floyd | Floyd | Aziz lets out a loud squawk, and swipes at you with a claw. Then he Floyd | bobs his head back and forth a few times while uttering an angry hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "that figures" | |
| Jacqueline says, "A mechanical device. I wonder if we can lube it." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | Based on the look of it, the device must be some kind of power station Floyd | that routes electricity to another part of the island: The device has Floyd | a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. At the base, Floyd | thick electrical cables snake both southwest and southeast (up the Floyd | slope). Floyd | Floyd | "Snack!" says the parrot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "grease device" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > GREASE DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | Putting grease on the power station would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | "Crab snack?" asks the parrot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Super glad we removed Alex from this channel now. He'd be going crazy otherwise." | |
| hzomb says, "lol" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And there it is. The reason for the crab: a fetch quest." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "so we have to catch a crab to feed it to an angry parrot to get the key that we wanted..." | ||
| hzomb asks, "but how do we get the crab?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I've forgotten what we want the key for, actually." | ||
| Baughbberick says, "grease it up" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "ok" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | A reddish-brown crab scuttles from pool to pool, its pointy legs Floyd | clicking faintly on the stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "grease crab" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > GREASE CRAB Floyd | Floyd | Putting grease on the crab would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "dash it" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | A power station is poking out from among the ferns. Floyd | Floyd | Perched on the thick-stemmed leaf of a nearby banana tree sits Aziz, Floyd | the professor's parrot. His blue and yellow feathers contrast brightly Floyd | with the green forest backdrop. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb mumbles something about inventory. | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some gloves Floyd | a tub of grease Floyd | a shovel Floyd | the beacon (providing light) Floyd | the map Floyd | a waterproof case (open but empty) Floyd | the silver whistle (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x ferns" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X FERNS Floyd | Floyd | The moss and ferns make a thick carpet across the floor of the Floyd | rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get ferns" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > GET FERNS Floyd | Floyd | The ferns and mosses are just scenery and can't be taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "which direction?" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | A power station is poking out from among the ferns. Floyd | Floyd | Perched on the thick-stemmed leaf of a nearby banana tree sits Aziz, Floyd | the professor's parrot. His blue and yellow feathers contrast brightly Floyd | with the green forest backdrop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I was afk for a sec. We have the gloves." | |
| Roger says, "I thought we were going to get the crab" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The gloves should work on the crab, yeah." | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "oh, right!" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Plain Floyd | The dense forest thins and becomes a wide plain. There are no trees Floyd | here. Instead, this whole area is covered with coarse grasses as tall Floyd | as your waist. Trails east and south lead back into the jungle. Floyd | Floyd | Standing alone in the center of the wide plain is an enormous stone Floyd | head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | A power station is poking out from among the ferns. Floyd | Floyd | Perched on the thick-stemmed leaf of a nearby banana tree sits Aziz, Floyd | the professor's parrot. His blue and yellow feathers contrast brightly Floyd | with the green forest backdrop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "aha the plain" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | A reddish-brown crab scuttles from pool to pool, its pointy legs Floyd | clicking faintly on the stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wear gloves" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR GLOVES Floyd | Floyd | Wow, do you wish you'd had a pair of gloves like these that night all Floyd | the donkeys got sick while you were trekking down into the Canyon of Floyd | the Ancient Monks. You told the professor not to let them eat so many Floyd | blackberries, but he wouldn't listen. Floyd | Floyd | Anyhow, you put on the gloves. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I am not convinced you can stop a donkey eating any plant it takes a mind to." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get crab" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CRAB Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the crab. It pinches away at you furiously, but the thick Floyd | canvas gloves protect your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | A power station is poking out from among the ferns. Floyd | Floyd | Perched on the thick-stemmed leaf of a nearby banana tree sits Aziz, Floyd | the professor's parrot. His blue and yellow feathers contrast brightly Floyd | with the green forest backdrop. Floyd | Floyd | The parrot scratches at the ribbon tied to its leg. Floyd | Floyd | > | Baughbberick says, "Sorry crab" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "give crab to parrot" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CRAB TO PARROT Floyd | Floyd | "CRAB SNACK!" the parrot caws with joy. Floyd | Floyd | Aziz jumps off the banana leaf and sails toward the crab, wings and Floyd | talons outstretched. Before you know it, the bird has snapped its Floyd | claws around the crab and started flapping up into the canopy of the Floyd | rainforest. You hear a soft, metallic thump on the ground nearby, and Floyd | then the parrot is gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > GET KEY Floyd | Floyd | If you had a dollar for each little key you've had to keep track of Floyd | over the years. In fact, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Floyd | recently requested to borrow the professor's key collection for a Floyd | public exhibition. That's been put on hold, however, until the Floyd | professor can find the key to the safe in which he keeps his key Floyd | collection. Floyd | Floyd | Anyhow, you pick up the key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "This is really lovely, what Jason's done." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "What would otherwise be a kind of standard game is jazzed up by all these little quips of backstory." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | The brass key is about as long as your finger. Professor d'Squarius Floyd | was sure this key would grant you access to the vast riches he spoke Floyd | so vaguely about. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, about that stone head?" | |
| hzomb says (to Jacqueline), "he had to think of something simple to code." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | A power station is poking out from among the ferns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Plain Floyd | The dense forest thins and becomes a wide plain. There are no trees Floyd | here. Instead, this whole area is covered with coarse grasses as tall Floyd | as your waist. Trails east and south lead back into the jungle. Floyd | Floyd | Standing alone in the center of the wide plain is an enormous stone Floyd | head. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, it's for a class. He does a lot of stuff with interactive fiction for kids." | |
| Teaspoon asks, "so should we dig now, or is that cheating?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was just discussing a cool idea with him last week on this." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "ooh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "He was looking for real world puzzles he could implement for kids to solve as a group before trying to do it in text." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Things like the fox, goat, grain problem." | ||
| hzomb says, "logic puzzles" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "to teach programming?" | ||
| hzomb says, "creative thinking" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a cool idea, showing kids the lateral thinking required in a way that sets their brains up for this sort of stuff." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Teaspoon), "I think more to teach them about these games as a player before you try to code something." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "that sounds like a good way to start" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I think it is." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Kind of wish I were still in Seattle to maybe watch him do a class." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(He and I know each other from the Seattle IF meetup.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x head" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > X HEAD Floyd | Floyd | The monolithic sculpture, made of pitted red stone, is in the shape of Floyd | an enormous head with a long nose. The statue's eyes, two bright Floyd | copper plates embedded in the stone, gaze southeast over the waving Floyd | grasses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x plates" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLATES Floyd | Floyd | The monolith's copper eyes catch and focus the bright sun. Together Floyd | they project a brilliant beam of light on the ground to the southeast Floyd | of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x map" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAP Floyd | Floyd | The sheet of yellowing parchment shows the outline of an island, Floyd | hand-drawn in black ink. Most of the terrain is just sketched in, but Floyd | the northwest region is mapped out in great detail and shows some Floyd | unusual red symbols. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb asks, "What is southeast?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x symbols" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > X SYMBOLS Floyd | Floyd | The symbols in the northwest region of the map are drawn in red ink. Floyd | (At least, you think it's red ink?) They depict a face looking Floyd | directly west at a seven-pointed star. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So this is likely our face." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | The monolithic sculpture is facing southeast, whereas the symbols on Floyd | the map show a face looking west. Perhaps it is possible to turn the Floyd | statue so that it faces in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hint much, Jason? heh" | |
| Teaspoon says, "if you say so, parser" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn head" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN HEAD Floyd | Floyd | To turn the scuplture so that it faces a particular direction, use the Floyd | command 'turn sculpture to direction'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "turn statue to west" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN STATUE TO WEST Floyd | Floyd | By pushing on the its long nose you are able to turn the statue so Floyd | that it faces west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | You dig at the precise location where the light from the monolith's Floyd | eyes hits the ground. After a few minutes of working, your shovel Floyd | clanks hard against stone! A few minutes later you have cleared off a Floyd | mysterious stone circle in midst of the grassy sea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "circle" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > CIRCLE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x circle" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > X CIRCLE Floyd | Floyd | The circular stone reminds you of a manhole cover. Its surface is Floyd | engraved with a seven-pointed star. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sorry I'm late. Overslept." | |
| Teaspoon says, "hi there" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "we are an indeterminate way through this game" | ||
| hzomb says, "Nobhg zvqjnl" | ||
| hzomb asks, "If it's a manhole cover, can we open it?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "A game I haven't played. Was this from the recent IF Comp?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| hzomb says, "Yes, it's Untold Riches." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Want me to send you a transcript thus far and we can take a quick break while you read it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "My eyes are still trying to focus. I'm not quite up to extensive reading." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I need to make breakfast anyway... oh, okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Perhaps you should take a pass then. This seems like a game you'd enjoy." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Perhaps better to not start it midstream." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, perhaps. But, if this is a manhole cover, try moving or opening it. If you have a leverage tool like a crowbar, use it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the brass key Floyd | some gloves (being worn) Floyd | a tub of grease Floyd | a shovel Floyd | the beacon (providing light) Floyd | the map Floyd | a waterproof case (open but empty) Floyd | the silver whistle (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cover" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > X COVER Floyd | Floyd | The circular stone reminds you of a manhole cover. Its surface is Floyd | engraved with a seven-pointed star. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x star" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAR Floyd | Floyd | (the stone circle) Floyd | The circular stone reminds you of a manhole cover. Its surface is Floyd | engraved with a seven-pointed star. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get cover" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > GET COVER Floyd | Floyd | The stone circle is just scenery and can't be taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move cover" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE COVER Floyd | Floyd | You are able to pry the stone loose and open it just like a manhole in Floyd | the street. When you do, a gasp of stale air escapes the chamber Floyd | beyond. It smells ancient, like the air inside the Mausoleum of the Floyd | First Qin Emperor, a necropolis guarded by the Terra Cotta Army, which Floyd | you and the professor entered in your search for an intricately-carved Floyd | jade funeral urn containing the ashes of Qin Shi Huang. (You couldn't Floyd | find it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "do we find anything?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Interesting that 'get' didn't work there." | ||
| hzomb says, "Sneaky." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "I guess it couldn't be implemented as "fixed in place"" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > I GUESS IT COULDN'T BE IMPLEMENTED AS "FIXED IN PLACE" Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't understand your entire command, although the first part Floyd | matched the action take inventory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chamber" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAMBER Floyd | Floyd | The circular stone has been dragged aside to reveal a circular hole Floyd | and a dim chamber below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You lower yourself through the circular hole and drop to the floor. Floyd | It's not a long drop (you can easily climb back out) but your impact Floyd | kicks up a cloud of dust that has been undisturbed for a long time. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Floyd | You are in a cylindrical chamber. The floor and curved walls of this Floyd | subterranean room have been lined with smooth stones. Light falls in Floyd | through the circular opening in the low ceiling, glinting off the Floyd | specks of dust that drift in the air. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room squats a wooden chest wrapped in iron bands. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's why you try both verbs." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| hzomb says, "We're a child protagonist - it was just too heavy." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we're a teen." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "shall we try the key?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "maybe it needs lube" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And clearly more competent than our professor, but anyway..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Teaspoon), "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chest" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHEST Floyd | Floyd | The wooden chest and its rounded lid are striped with bands of iron. Floyd | An ornamental key plate surrounds an oblong keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | Adventuring with the professor has landed you in front of many Floyd | treasure chests just like this one. You recall one that contained a Floyd | huge hoard of Aztec gold, and another that contained nothing but a Floyd | single platinum teaspoon (which, rumor had it, once belonged to Crown Floyd | Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria). Floyd | Floyd | The fact that this chest looks exactly like all the others makes you Floyd | that much more curious about what's inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Save the lube for a rusty wheel." | |
| Teaspoon exclaims, "hah!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Already done, DW." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We've lubed a lot of stuff in this game. That's the joke, actually." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hilarious that you'd say that, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock chest with key" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK CHEST WITH KEY Floyd | Floyd | The brass key clicks perfectly into place and turns with a gentle Floyd | twist of your wrist. You've done a lot to get here, and only one Floyd | simple step stands between you and the professor's amazing treasure Floyd | (whatever it is). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I predict this will be a silly treasure." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | Gingerly you open the chest, revealing its contents. Floyd | Floyd | Inside, you behold an object so magnificent it defies description. No Floyd | wonder Professor d'Squarius didn't get into detail about this amazing Floyd | treasure! It's too incredible for words. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "An IOU." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x treasure" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREASURE Floyd | Floyd | It's amazingly lifelike. Except for the number of feet, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You want to examine it more and more closely, but part of you is Floyd | worried you'd knock all the scales out of alignment (or maybe those Floyd | are feathers). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | It resembles the lost treasure of Nuuk'ta, although obviously smaller Floyd | and not lost. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | It's as though a blind jeweler carved it based on a poet's Floyd | description. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | It stirs up a complex set of emotions in you, the way only true art Floyd | can. You find yourself simultansously drawn to it and repulsed by it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| Jacqueline says, "This is pretty good." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | It seems oddly perfect that the candle holder on the left is so much Floyd | more countoured than the other five. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "is it driving us mad?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You study all the interlocking pieces, each one more delicate than the Floyd | last... When you snap out of it, you're not sure how much time as gone Floyd | by. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ts), "Hope not." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Now I'm betting it's dark out." | ||
| hzomb asks, "is there a time limit?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And we'll need to fix the lighthouse." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to hz), "I doubt it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think this just triggers the escape scene." | ||
| DavidW says, "I like how the initial description was like the treasure in 69,105 Keys." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "someone said there wasn't" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "a time limit" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | There really are few words to describe what an amazing treasure it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | There really are few words to describe what a remarkable object it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, yeah. That's it." | |
| Teaspoon says, "but we still can't get it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And it's just a generically awesome treasure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take treasure" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TREASURE Floyd | Floyd | You carefully remove the object from its container. It is certainly a Floyd | piece that curators and collectors from Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to the Floyd | British Museum will be clamoring for. Plus, the professor (if he's Floyd | still alive) would be immensely proud of you for finding it. Floyd | Floyd | None of that matters, though, if you can't get off the island. So, Floyd | onward! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "U?" | |
| hzomb says, "look" | ||
| DavidW says, "The treasure your aunt gave you but you don't know what it is." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "The treasure our prof led us to that we don't know what it is, yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l\" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > L\ Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Vault Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Vault Floyd | You are in a cylindrical chamber. The floor and curved walls of this Floyd | subterranean room have been lined with smooth stones. Light falls in Floyd | through the circular opening in the low ceiling, glinting off the Floyd | specks of dust that drift in the air. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room squats a wooden chest wrapped in iron bands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm betting we go up and it's dark." | |
| Teaspoon says, "let's see" | ||
| hzomb asks, "have we got the beacon?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "yup" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You pull yourself up through the circular hole in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Plain Floyd | The dense forest thins and becomes a wide plain. There are no trees Floyd | here. Instead, this whole area is covered with coarse grasses as tall Floyd | as your waist. Trails east and south lead back into the jungle. Floyd | Floyd | Standing alone in the center of the wide plain is an enormous stone Floyd | head. In the ground, under the watching eyes of the statue, is the Floyd | stone circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sun" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > X SUN Floyd | Floyd | You have to squint a bit against the bright sunlight and blue sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, perhaps not." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Darn." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Still, we have the rest of that puzzle." | ||
| hzomb says, "five lights" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "we know where the first device is, but we didn't push the button on it." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "should we start with that?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Yeah. No idea how I came to drive again (sorry). Would you be willing to take back over, Ts?" | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "sure!" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | A power station is poking out from among the ferns. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm starting to think we have a miniature Cthulu and you want the stars/lights to be right." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "power station" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > POWER STATION Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x power station" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X POWER STATION Floyd | Floyd | The device has a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. Floyd | At the base, thick electrical cables snake both southwest and Floyd | southeast (up the slope). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button on the power station, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The device has a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. Floyd | At the base, thick electrical cables snake both southwest and Floyd | southeast (up the slope). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x dome" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOME Floyd | Floyd | The device has a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. Floyd | At the base, thick electrical cables snake both southwest and Floyd | southeast (up the slope). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button on the power station, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, DW, we're stranded on an island and there's a lighthouse to fix which I'm assuming is our way off the island." | |
| Teaspoon says, "okay, so that doesn't help any. Yet." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "x cables" | ||
| DavidW says, "Need More Batteries" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x cables" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X CABLES Floyd | Floyd | The device has a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. Floyd | At the base, thick electrical cables snake both southwest and Floyd | southeast (up the slope). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Do we... need... a new battery?" | |
| Teaspoon asks, "Maybe we have to switch these on in order?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "in which case, we follow the cables" | ||
| DavidW says, "Or add petrol to the generator. Something." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You climb up the steep slope toward the top of the cliffs. After a Floyd | while, you emerge into the sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | Lighthouse Floyd | You are on a rocky point that rises up through the canopy of the Floyd | trees. Steep cliffs drop into the rainforest in every direction except Floyd | to the northwest, where a steep path leads down. From this high perch Floyd | you can see many of the other small islands that make up the Floyd | archipelago. Floyd | Floyd | A tall, cylindrical lighthouse rises into the sky next to you, Floyd | overlooking the ocean and the jungle below. Snug up against the curved Floyd | stone wall is another power station. Floyd | Floyd | The area around the lighthouse is populated with a troop of playful Floyd | monkeys who hoot and screech as they chase each other around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x power station" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X POWER STATION Floyd | Floyd | The device has a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. Floyd | At the base, thick electrical cables snake northwest (down the slope). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The monkeys react when you approach the power station. Howling in fear Floyd | and aggression, they gather up into a tight pack between you and the Floyd | lighthouse before you can get anywhere close to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline is sad that her RTZ reference was not acknowledged. | |
| Jacqueline goes and drinks some rye. | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe Scotty will tell you the dilithium crystal is cracked and you need a new one." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "anyone have ideas on feral monkeys?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x monkeys" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X MONKEYS Floyd | Floyd | The monkeys, tense and aggressive, crouch in a cluster between you and Floyd | the lighthouse. Thirty pairs of eyes scrutinize your movements. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Our only friends in this game have seemingly drowned and flown away, respectively." | |
| Teaspoon says, "we already climbed a tree and there were no fruits at the top" | ||
| Roger says, "Better grease them up" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "grease monkey" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > GREASE MONKEY Floyd | Floyd | Putting grease on the monkeys would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "shame" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, there were tons of monkeys in one game I played. I gave one a banana and they all ran off to fight over it, letting me take the alarm clock." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the amazing treasure Floyd | the brass key Floyd | some gloves (being worn) Floyd | a tub of grease Floyd | a shovel Floyd | the beacon (providing light) Floyd | the map Floyd | a waterproof case (open but empty) Floyd | the silver whistle (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "whistle?" | |
| Teaspoon says, "could be" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > BLOW WHISTLE Floyd | Floyd | The piercing scream of the emergency whistle causes the monkeys to Floyd | panic! Terrified, they scramble across the rocky ground, jump off into Floyd | the trees, and go leaping and swinging down through the jungle. In Floyd | just a few seconds, they are all gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah" | |
| Jacqueline says, "w00t" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'm surprised that our whistle is useful" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button on the power station, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "...and it still doesn't work. Huh." | |
| DavidW asks, "You need to fix this thing. What's it missing?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | The device has a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. Floyd | At the base, thick electrical cables snake northwest (down the slope). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dome" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOME Floyd | Floyd | The device has a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. Floyd | At the base, thick electrical cables snake northwest (down the slope). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x base" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X BASE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "It's powered on, we fixed that earlier by greasing the wheel. And axle. And most of the room where it was." | |
| DavidW says, "Follow the cable, I guess." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | The device has a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. Floyd | At the base, thick electrical cables snake northwest (down the slope). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button on the power station, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "switch button" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > SWITCH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button on the power station, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "northwest, I guess." | |
| Teaspoon says, "to see about that cable" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | A power station is poking out from among the ferns. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Transatlantic cable." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x station" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATION Floyd | Floyd | The device has a glass dome on top and a single button labeled ON/OFF. Floyd | At the base, thick electrical cables snake both southwest and Floyd | southeast (up the slope). Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "have we been south yet?" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "south" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > SOUTH Floyd | Floyd | The tall cliff blocks your way in the that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "climb cliff" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB CLIFF Floyd | Floyd | Your wall-climbing skills are quite good. Otherwise you never would Floyd | have been able to infiltrate the headquarters of the Clan of the White Floyd | Lotus in order to recapture the San Tilapian crown jewels. But you had Floyd | ropes that time. There's no way the vines here will hold your weight. Floyd | You might instead try the path to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vines" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X VINES Floyd | Floyd | The steep cliff is taller than the tallest rainforest trees. Clinging Floyd | vines snake their way up the rocky wall, here and there dangling long Floyd | chains of magenta flowers. A trail toward the top of the cliffs rises Floyd | steeply to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | The steep cliff is taller than the tallest rainforest trees. Clinging Floyd | vines snake their way up the rocky wall, here and there dangling long Floyd | chains of magenta flowers. A trail toward the top of the cliffs rises Floyd | steeply to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You smell sweet perfume from the flowers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move vines" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE VINES Floyd | Floyd | You push the vines, but nothing happen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "get flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > GET FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | The flowers are just scenery and can't be taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Guess there's no secret something behind the vines." | |
| Jacqueline breaks down and goes to make some breakfast (without lubing her floor). | ||
| Teaspoon says, "heh" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "west" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Plain Floyd | > Floyd | > WEST Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Plain Floyd | The dense forest thins and becomes a wide plain. There are no trees Floyd | here. Instead, this whole area is covered with coarse grasses as tall Floyd | as your waist. Trails east and south lead back into the jungle. Floyd | Floyd | Standing alone in the center of the wide plain is an enormous stone Floyd | head. In the ground, under the watching eyes of the statue, is the Floyd | stone circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "so we've been here." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "south" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Floyd | > Floyd | > SOUTH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Waterfall Floyd | You are in a lush rainforest clearing, surrounded by steep cliffs. Floyd | Clinging vines snake their way up the rocky wall, here and there Floyd | dangling long chains of magenta flowers. Trails lead north and Floyd | northeast. A large waterfall to the east roars and churns up a dense Floyd | cloud of mist. Floyd | Floyd | Another power station is poking out from among the dense foliage Floyd | beside the waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I like the cover art for this game." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button on the power station. With a puff of ozone, the Floyd | glass dome flickers with green light and the device begins to emit a Floyd | low hum. Floyd | Floyd | You have a brief flashback to that time in Philadelphia when the Floyd | professor found, and then cranked up, Ben Franklin's original Floyd | lightning machine. The main difference this time is that the power Floyd | station doesn't explode. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(just opened it)" | |
| Teaspoon says, "I think that's cracked it. We just need to go push the other buttons and then head to the lighthouse." | ||
| hzomb exclaims, "oh that one worked!" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "east" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Floyd | > Floyd | > EAST Floyd | Floyd | Be careful: Carrying the treasure map through the waterfall would Floyd | certainly destroy it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "put map in tube" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT MAP IN TUBE Floyd | Floyd | You roll up the treasure map slide it into the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "close tube" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE TUBE Floyd | Floyd | You close the waterproof case. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "how polite of the game." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You walk through the curtain of water, getting pelted and soaked in Floyd | the process. Floyd | Floyd | Workshop Floyd | This cave has been turned into a small workshop with an assortment of Floyd | furniture on one side and an array of machinery on the other. Floyd | Everything in the room is damp from the constant mist churned up by Floyd | the cascade of falling water at the cave's entrance, which lies to the Floyd | west. There is a rusty iron gate in the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | Among the machinery is the room's most impressive feature: a massive Floyd | water wheel, which is attached to a long horizontal track in the wall. Floyd | At the near end of the track you see a crank and a kind of display Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Check the display panel. See what's on." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The control panel displays five small light bulbs in a horizontal Floyd | line. Currently, the first two lights are lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "oh no" | |
| DavidW asks, "oh. Are there five buttons to push in _sequence_?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "there's two more power stations, one in the forest and one by the lighthouse, then we come back and figure out how to power the lighthouse." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I think you're right, david." | ||
| hzomb says, "looks like" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "the *inside* of the lighthouse is from this location, the exterior being where the monkeys were." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | The yellow light of the emergency beacon reflects wetly off the Floyd | irregular, black walls of the cave. Drips of water echo from some dank Floyd | corner through the chilly underground air. Floyd | Floyd | A path exits this chamber to the east, and a rusty iron gate leads Floyd | west. A long ladder stretches up, past the limit of the beacon's weak Floyd | light and into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | A power station is poking out from among the ferns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button on the power station. With a puff of ozone, the Floyd | glass dome flickers with green light and the device begins to emit a Floyd | low hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "it worked" | |
| hzomb exclaims, "yay!" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lighthouse Floyd | You are on a rocky point that rises up through the canopy of the Floyd | trees. Steep cliffs drop into the rainforest in every direction except Floyd | to the northwest, where a steep path leads down. From this high perch Floyd | you can see many of the other small islands that make up the Floyd | archipelago. Floyd | Floyd | A tall, cylindrical lighthouse rises into the sky next to you, Floyd | overlooking the ocean and the jungle below. Snug up against the curved Floyd | stone wall is a power station. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Lighthouse Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button on the power station. With a puff of ozone, the Floyd | glass dome flickers with green light and the device begins to emit a Floyd | low hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Rainforest Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rainforest Floyd | The dense canopy of leaves breaks up the sunlight. The ground is Floyd | covered with a spongy layer of moss and ferns. The humid air smells of Floyd | both flowering and decaying plants. Floyd | Floyd | Trails to the west and southwest meander through the trees, and the Floyd | way back to the beach is east. A steep cliff rises up directly to the Floyd | south, and to the southeast you see a steep climb that goes up towards Floyd | its summit. Floyd | Floyd | A power station is poking out from among the ferns. Its glass dome is Floyd | glowing with green light, and it is humming quietly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Beach Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You are on a deserted beach, alone except for the salty breeze, the Floyd | waves splashing rhythmically on the sand, and a single palm tree that Floyd | provides very little shade from the harsh sun. The beach extends to Floyd | the southeast, and a path to the west leads into the rainforest. Floyd | Floyd | The flat husk of a once-inflatable lifeboat has washed up nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Tide Pool Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tide Pool Floyd | This part of the beach probably floods completely when the tide comes Floyd | in: all the sand has been washed away and only large rocks remain. Floyd | Their many pockets and indentations are filled with pools of seawater. Floyd | The beach becomes more sandy to the northwest and to the west, a large Floyd | crack in the rocks leads down into a dark cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | The yellow light of the emergency beacon reflects wetly off the Floyd | irregular, black walls of the cave. Drips of water echo from some dank Floyd | corner through the chilly underground air. Floyd | Floyd | A path exits this chamber to the east, and a rusty iron gate leads Floyd | west. A long ladder stretches up, past the limit of the beacon's weak Floyd | light and into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Workshop Floyd | This cave has been turned into a small workshop with an assortment of Floyd | furniture on one side and an array of machinery on the other. Floyd | Everything in the room is damp from the constant mist churned up by Floyd | the cascade of falling water at the cave's entrance, which lies to the Floyd | west. There is a rusty iron gate in the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | Among the machinery is the room's most impressive feature: a massive Floyd | water wheel, which is attached to a long horizontal track in the wall. Floyd | At the near end of the track you see a crank and a kind of display Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW) Professor says, "I knew you could do it, faithful sidekick. (pause) Gimme the treasure. Now." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Workshop Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The control panel displays five small light bulbs in a horizontal Floyd | line. Currently, the first four lights are lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "that may yet happen" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | The yellow light of the emergency beacon reflects wetly off the Floyd | irregular, black walls of the cave. Drips of water echo from some dank Floyd | corner through the chilly underground air. Floyd | Floyd | A path exits this chamber to the east, and a rusty iron gate leads Floyd | west. A long ladder stretches up, past the limit of the beacon's weak Floyd | light and into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lantern Room Floyd | This room is at the very top of the island's lighthouse. The walls of Floyd | this octagonal room are all made of glass, and you have a panoramic Floyd | view. From here you can see that this island is just one of many that Floyd | make up an archipelago. You notice a ship several miles away sailing Floyd | in and out of sight among the many islands. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room is the lantern: a high-powered electric lamp Floyd | nested inside a set of massive rotating lenses. Underneath the lens Floyd | array, on the lantern's support pedestal, is a large power button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd ] Lantern Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You flip the lamp's switch and the room is immediately filled with the Floyd | brightest light your eyes have ever squinted to avoid seeing. It Floyd | shines out from the lighthouse and soon attracts the attention of the Floyd | passing ship. Floyd | Floyd | Fortunately, it is Captain Atlee's ship and within an hour or two, you Floyd | find yourself safely back among her crew. You also find yourself Floyd | reunited with Professor d'Squarius! Floyd | Floyd | "You found it!" he cries when he sees you holding the amazing Floyd | treasure. "Fascinating," he says as he studies the piece. "I had read Floyd | about it having handles. But why would it need so many?" Floyd | Floyd | Back in his cabin, the professor tucks the amazing treasure into a Floyd | padded crate and tells the story of how, after the lifeboat deflated, Floyd | he got caught in a current that carried him away from the island. At Floyd | some point he was spotted and scooped from the sea by Atlee, who had Floyd | managed to escape the pirates with her skillful maneuvering. Floyd | Floyd | "While you were away, I had a look at that." He gestures to one of Floyd | several maps piled up on the table. The parchment shows a maze of Floyd | twisty little passages, all alike. "Seems like there's loads of good Floyd | stuff squirreled away in there." Floyd | Floyd | The story of what happens next -- your confusing trek through that Floyd | network of caves, the unlikely method by which you slay the fearsome Floyd | dragon, the clever way you recover the priceless (but impossibly Floyd | delicate) Ming vase -- is a story that must wait for another day. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "! oops" | |
| DavidW says, "congrats" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I...thought that would take longer or something" | ||
| Roger says, "yay" | ||
| hzomb says, "yay" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||
| hzomb says, "The beta had a longer ending where you would signal the ship." | ||
| DavidW says, "I definitely must play this today." | ||
| hzomb says, "But I guess it was simplified. After you've done the power stations it would be a pain to have another puzzle." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "that's what I guessed would happen, or I wouldn't have finished it so fast" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's fine. I think you did a great job." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "that was a lovely game, anyhow" | ||
| hzomb says (to Teaspoon), "yeah it was a surprise." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It was." | ||
| hzomb exclaims, "Those quips!" | ||
