  
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 finalexam" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 0 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In the dream, you are already one of the Administrators. Floyd | Responsible for the security of all of the countries once known as the Floyd | West, your decisions affect the lives of two billion people. It's a Floyd | tough job, and you worked hard for many years in order to get it. Floyd | Floyd | Then you wake up, and remember that you're not even qualified to work Floyd | here yet! Today is the day you qualify. Today is the day of your Floyd | Final Exam. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Final Exam Floyd | Copyright (C) Jack Whitham 2015 (IFComp) 01-Nov-2015 Floyd | Release 9 / Serial number 151101 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 Floyd | Candidate number 28436 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom (on the bed) Floyd | You're in bed. The alarm didn't wake you. Something feels wrong. There Floyd | is no light from the window, and your bedroom seems to be empty... Floyd | Floyd | [Enter HELP if you are unsure what to do now.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an identity badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x badge" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 2 Floyd | Floyd | > X BADGE Floyd | Floyd | (first getting out of bed) Floyd | A small plastic ID badge. The badge states: 'Candidate Number 28436'. Floyd | Floyd | Something is certainly wrong! Is this... part of the test? You never Floyd | found out exactly what the final exam involved. Perhaps it is like Floyd | this for every candidate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x look" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 2 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOOK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | This is very like the room you were assigned for this year's exam Floyd | season. There are dozens of them in the Administration Centre's Floyd | residential block, all more or less identical. But it cannot be your Floyd | room, because all of your stuff is gone, and the room looks like it Floyd | did when you first moved in. It's clean, tidy, and almost completely Floyd | empty, just with basic furnishings: desk, chair, bed and washbasin. Floyd | There's a window in the north wall and a door leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I've never understood games that don't let you see the room from the bed. Most bedrooms, you can see everything even if you are tucked up in bed." | |
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "x washbasin" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X WASHBASIN Floyd | Floyd | It's a small washbasin with a mirror above it. Your toothbrush and Floyd | soap have gone, along with everything else. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yeah, you can't even see your badge from the bed." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are a student of Administration theory. You think of yourself as Floyd | fairly smart and attractive, reasonably charming, and certainly Floyd | well-prepared for any exam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wash" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 6 Floyd | Floyd | > WASH Floyd | Floyd | Congratulations on your excellent hygiene. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hee" | |
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | But you have an exam to pass! Floyd | Floyd | [You should go out; whatever is going on, you're not going to find any Floyd | answers here.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "are we timed?" | |
| hzomb says, "There isn't a clock." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is Jack Whitham on the mud?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, there seems to be no clock." | ||
| Doug says, "not that I know of" | ||
| hzomb asks, "Do you want to save?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "nah" | ||
| hzomb exclaims, "We don't want to be late for the exam!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's early in the game." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "okay, so we might as well stay in and look at everything, right?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Although I can clear the save for when we do." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Teaspoon), "Yeah, I think the game is just trying to hint for newbies." | ||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | Jacqueline asks, "Is there more to explore here?" | |
| hzomb asks, "the desk?" | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DESK Floyd | Floyd | There are no drawers in the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 9 Floyd | Floyd | > HELP Floyd | Floyd | Final Exam is a parser-based game. The basic idea is to type Floyd | what you want to do and then see what happens. However, the game only Floyd | understands a limited set of actions. If you find that the game Floyd | doesn't understand you, try simplifying your command to a few words. Floyd | If you're not making any progress, you can find some more suggestions Floyd | on the author's website at [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | If you've explored as much as you can, but you're not sure what to do Floyd | next, then you might try the 'HINT' command. You can also ask for a Floyd | HINT about a specific object, e.g. HINT BED. Final Exam also has an Floyd | 'EXITS' command, which lists the compass directions that you can move Floyd | in from your current location. The walkthrough (which is available Floyd | from the author's website) includes some maps along with step-by-step Floyd | instructions for completing the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "hint bed" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > HINT BED Floyd | Floyd | If there were any hints about the bed, you'd see them now. But the bed Floyd | isn't important, so there are no hints about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. I'd rather we not use hint much." | |
| hzomb says, "I think that's all for the bedroom." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall we?" | ||
| Doug says, "oh huh, I think I forgot about HINT and never used it." | ||
| hzomb says (to Jacqueline), "that hint was hinted." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to hzomb), "Fair enough." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | This is very like the room you were assigned for this year's exam Floyd | season. There are dozens of them in the Administration Centre's Floyd | residential block, all more or less identical. But it cannot be your Floyd | room, because all of your stuff is gone, and the room looks like it Floyd | did when you first moved in. It's clean, tidy, and almost completely Floyd | empty, just with basic furnishings: desk, chair, bed and washbasin. Floyd | There's a window in the north wall and a door leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 12 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Even at night, you'd expect to see something. The gardens of the Floyd | Administration Centre, and beyond them, the amphitheatre, the hedge Floyd | maze and ornamental lake, lit by street lights and moonlight. It never Floyd | gets completely dark. But today, there's nothing at all. Just total Floyd | blackness, as if there is a smooth black wall just beyond the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "or maybe it wasn't in the version I played" | |
| Teaspoon asks, "shall we go south then?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, please." | ||
| hzomb says, ">out" | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 0 Moves: 13 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You walk through a few deserted corridors. There is nobody here; the Floyd | building is completely silent. You cross the Administration Centre's Floyd | quadrangle, also deserted, and end up in... Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "Ooh, faxes!" | |
| hzomb asks, "Nobody around. Are we late?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 0 Moves: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | It's on the reception desk, where it seems quite out of place next to Floyd | the modern computer workstations. It's not a printer or a scanner: Floyd | it's an old-fashioned fax machine that prints onto thin thermal paper. Floyd | You notice some paper hanging out of the machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "so many exits" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 0 Moves: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the large doors or the green door? Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says (to Oreolek), "only north." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x green door" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 0 Moves: 15 Floyd | Floyd | > X GREEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It's a small green door in the northwest corner of the room, under the Floyd | staircase. The word 'MAINTENANCE' is written faintly on the door. Floyd | The fax machine bleeps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 16 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Poor-quality paper from a fax machine. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28436, please go upstairs to the Observation Gallery Floyd | where you will find further instructions.' Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "Somebody knows we're here." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "We have passed the first test!" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "enter mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 17 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 18 Floyd | Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | The mural shows the construction of a gigantic Gothic cathedral by Floyd | medieval craftsmen. The cathedral, which is half finished, is covered Floyd | in both primitive scaffolding and workmen, each of whom is busily Floyd | engaged in creating some small part of the whole. It is already a Floyd | thing of great beauty on both a micro and macro scale, though it may Floyd | be a century before the work is done. A tiny caption reads 'The Floyd | Rebuilding of Civilisation'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "good thing thermal paper is... scored." | |
| hzomb says, "representing perfect order" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 19 Floyd | Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Somehow, your reflection looks older than you remember. The exam Floyd | stress must be causing some premature aging! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x behind mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 19 Floyd | Floyd | > X BEHIND MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "There is a staircase." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x staircase" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 20 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAIRCASE Floyd | Floyd | The wide staircase leads up to a mezzanine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x windows" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 21 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOWS Floyd | Floyd | Even at night, you'd expect to see something. The driveway and Floyd | surrounding parkland, lit by street lights and moonlight. It never Floyd | gets completely dark. But today, there's nothing at all. Just total Floyd | blackness, as if there is a smooth black wall just beyond the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 22 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are a student of Administration theory. You think of yourself as Floyd | fairly smart and attractive, reasonably charming, and certainly Floyd | well-prepared for any exam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take machine" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 23 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | There is no reason to move the fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "take mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 24 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | It is securely attached to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "oooh, so they don't want us to take the mirror" | |
| hzomb says, "Or it isn't important." | ||
| hzomb asks, "up or maintenance?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Probably not important." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd like to go up" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I vote up" | ||
| hzomb asks, "What was the other door?" | ||
| Oreolek says, "an aging mirror securely bolted against thieves? nah, probably just a minor detail." | ||
| Doug asks, "who's driving?" | ||
| hzomb says, "try up" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't know that we have a driver. That may be the issue." | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "x large" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 25 Floyd | Floyd | > X LARGE Floyd | Floyd | The doors to the south are the main entrance to the Administration Floyd | Centre. They are tall, wide, and extremely locked. Other, smaller Floyd | doors lead east, west, northwest and north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm still feeling a bit sleepy and not up for driving, per se." | |
| Doug says, "not it!" | ||
| Oreolek says, "there was up, maintenance, south, e, w, n, nw" | ||
| hzomb says, "we came in south." | ||
| Doug asks, "who here has not played this before?" | ||
| hzomb says, "We have votes for UP." | ||
| Jacqueline raises her hand. | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I haven't, but I'll get lost with this many exits" | ||
| hzomb says, "We can try these doors in order." | ||
| Oreolek is indifferent, as long as we explore everything | ||
| hzomb asks, "Start with east?" | ||
| hzomb exclaims, "They'll probably be locked!" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I'm kind of in agreement with Oreolek, it's just that the fax said to go up, didn't it?" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "enter maintenance door" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 26 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER MAINTENANCE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb asks, "Are they hiding something?" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "open maintenance door" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 27 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MAINTENANCE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The green door remains locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 27 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOCK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "That one is the green door." | |
| hzomb says, "Oh maintenance is locked." | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "open east" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 28 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN EAST Floyd | Floyd | (the mural) Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 29 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door in that direction is locked. Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Quadrangle. Floyd | up to the Mezzanine. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "So it's implying those other doors are locked." | |
| Oreolek says, "i thought mural is on the west wall" | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 30 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 31 Floyd | Floyd | > X PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | The painting hangs on the eastern wall. It is an enormous portrait of Floyd | Edmund Burke, the 18th century writer and politician. The Central Floyd | Administrator is said to be a fan. Floyd | Floyd | > | hzomb says, "I dislike dropping Burke's name to stand for his philosophy/political ideas." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "look north" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 32 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x north" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 33 Floyd | Floyd | > X NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "look up" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 34 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP Floyd | Floyd | Seen through the window, the sky is completely black. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "er, do you encounter that a lot hzomb?" | |
| hzomb says, "Surprisingly I do. Floating Point is another sinner." | ||
| Doug | Burke believed that property was essential to human life. Because of his conviction that people desire to be ruled and controlled, the division of property formed the basis for social structure, helping develop control within a property-based hierarchy. He viewed the social changes brought on by property as the natural order of events, which should be taking place as the human race progressed. With the division of property and the class system, he also believed that it kept the monarch in check to the needs of the classes beneath the monarch. | ||
| hzomb says, "Has a book by Donne to stand for certain values." | ||
| hzomb says, "You can't read the book, naturally." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "yell to mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 34 Floyd | Floyd | > YELL TO MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug | As Christopher Hitchens summarises, "If modern conservatism can be held to derive from Burke, it is not just because he appealed to property owners in behalf of stability but also because he appealed to an everyday interest in the preservation of the ancestral and the immemorial." | |
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "smash mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 35 Floyd | Floyd | > SMASH MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "hmm. Thanks." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "touch mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 36 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "smell mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 37 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "smell me" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 38 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL ME Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So when you said explore everything, you meant it, Oreolek. :)" | |
| Doug says, "(this is stuff is not actually important to the game but I thought I'd provide some footnotes.)" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 39 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 40 Floyd | Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 41 Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 42 Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "sorry, riffing on earlier conversation" | |
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 43 Floyd | Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| hzomb says (to Floyd), "revise" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 43 Floyd | Floyd | > REVISE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "touch me" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 44 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH ME Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh, about what all verbs you should include?" | |
| hzomb says, "So it's not just generic." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 44 Floyd | Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 45 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Quadrangle. Floyd | up to the Mezzanine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "so LISTEN and SMELL are working" | |
| hzomb says, "I think we came via the Quadrangle so it's only really up." | ||
| Doug says, "I nominate Teaspoon as driver." | ||
| Oreolek says, "it's not like we can back out on the exam now" | ||
| hzomb exclaims, "Oh the exam!" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "You up for it, Teaspoon?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "well, if no one else wants I'll have a go" | ||
| Doug says, "or we could just stay here until DavidW wakes up. :)" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 46 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 47 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quadrangle Floyd | The quadrangle is completely surrounded by Administration Centre Floyd | buildings. It's a large, square outdoor space with well-tended lawns Floyd | and flowerbeds and paths leading in all directions. The place is Floyd | unnervingly quiet. Though the buildings, paths and gardens are Floyd | well-lit, the sky is completely black. Floyd | Floyd | There is a sundial in the centre of the quadrangle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x sundial" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 48 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUNDIAL Floyd | Floyd | As there is no sun, the sundial isn't working. You notice a quotation Floyd | on the brass dial. It reads: 'What we do here matters somewhere else.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 49 Floyd | Floyd | > X DIAL Floyd | Floyd | As there is no sun, the sundial isn't working. You notice a quotation Floyd | on the brass dial. It reads: 'What we do here matters somewhere else.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "look up" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 50 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP Floyd | Floyd | The sky is completely black. Except for a message printed in white Floyd | text, apparently floating far above you. The text reads: 'Safe Mode'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 51 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | The only exit leads south to the Lobby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "whaaaat" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x flowerbeds" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 51 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOWERBEDS Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "the quotation is from GK Chesterton, says google." | |
| hzomb asks, "Safe mode?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take dial" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 52 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DIAL Floyd | Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "'What we do here matters somewhere else,' you mean?" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x buildings" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 53 Floyd | Floyd | > X BUILDINGS Floyd | Floyd | The quadrangle is surrounded by Administration Centre buildings. The Floyd | style is palatial and 18th century: two storeys of grand, ornamental Floyd | stonework, with attic windows peeking through the tiled roof above Floyd | that. The buildings seem to be deserted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "enter buildings" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 54 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER BUILDINGS Floyd | Floyd | They're not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "no exits except south" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 55 Floyd | Floyd | > X SKY Floyd | Floyd | (the up above) Floyd | The sky is completely black. Except for a message printed in white Floyd | text, apparently floating far above you. The text reads: 'Safe Mode'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fax" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 55 Floyd | Floyd | > X FAX Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 55 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x text" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 56 Floyd | Floyd | > X TEXT Floyd | Floyd | The text reads: 'Safe Mode'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 57 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an identity badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x badge" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 1 Moves: 58 Floyd | Floyd | > X BADGE Floyd | Floyd | A small plastic ID badge. The badge states: 'Candidate Number 28436'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh, we don't still have the paper? We didn't take it?" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 59 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug | GK Chesterton’s argument (expressed in a ‘Father Brown’ story) that “what we do here matters somewhere else, and we are looking at the tapestry from the wrong side” | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 60 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | It's on the reception desk, where it seems quite out of place next to Floyd | the modern computer workstations. It's not a printer or a scanner: Floyd | it's an old-fashioned fax machine that prints onto thin thermal paper. Floyd | You notice some paper hanging out of the machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 61 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "now we do" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 62 Floyd | Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | The mural shows the construction of a gigantic Gothic cathedral by Floyd | medieval craftsmen. The cathedral, which is half finished, is covered Floyd | in both primitive scaffolding and workmen, each of whom is busily Floyd | engaged in creating some small part of the whole. It is already a Floyd | thing of great beauty on both a micro and macro scale, though it may Floyd | be a century before the work is done. A tiny caption reads 'The Floyd | Rebuilding of Civilisation'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 63 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | As you walk up the stairs, you recall the first time you were here. It Floyd | was a school trip when you were very young: a day out at the Floyd | Administration Centre! You remember the sense of excitement at being Floyd | so close to the great and powerful. Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x memo" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 64 Floyd | Floyd | > X MEMO Floyd | Floyd | It is an internal memo from one of the Administration departments: Floyd | Floyd | 'Following the recent expansion of the Sellafield data and power Floyd | facility, the Simulation Department is pleased to announce that there Floyd | will be a 25% increase in simulator availability from next month. A Floyd | third data centre has been built on the Sellafield site, where it will Floyd | benefit from highly cost-effective electricity. The Administration Floyd | will have priority access to 50% of its computing power, the remainder Floyd | being sold privately to finance the reactor upgrade. The increase will Floyd | enable more detailed policy evaluations to be carried out.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | Dear candidate 28436, please go upstairs to the Observation Gallery where you will find further instructions. | |
| Doug says, "whoa, text in the sky. Heh, didn't notice that when I played." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "are we in a simulation? I think we're in a simulation" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 65 Floyd | Floyd | > X NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | It's one of the few newspapers that still has a printed edition, Floyd | though for obvious reasons, this is an electronic copy. The front page Floyd | story is all about an African dictator named Mugaffi. It is Floyd | illustrated with pictures of children being treated for chemical burns Floyd | outside a school. A few days ago, chemical weapons were used in the Floyd | rebel city of Morgazi. 'Sources' blame Mugaffi's forces for the Floyd | attack. Floyd | Floyd | According to the newspaper, this is the latest horrible incident of Floyd | the full-blown civil war in Assadia. Though the protests against the Floyd | corrupt Mugaffi regime began peacefully enough, the regime retaliated Floyd | brutally - first with riot police, then with soldiers - and the Floyd | situation rapidly escalated into war between rebels and regime forces. Floyd | Last week, Mugaffi launched airstrikes against rebel-held cities. Now Floyd | he uses chemical weapons against unarmed civilians, in contravention Floyd | to all law, decency and sanity. But Mugaffi is afraid of the usual Floyd | fate of deposed dictators, and he will do anything to cling to power. Floyd | Floyd | You recall that Assadia is an independent country outside of the Floyd | Administration. As such, Mugaffi is free to do as he pleases, with no Floyd | authority to restrain his gangster government. Strange, though, that Floyd | the situation should have developed so quickly. You had thought that Floyd | Mugaffi only won his presidency last year, as an anti-corruption Floyd | candidate with much acclaim in the media, and was generally thought to Floyd | be doing a good job in hard circumstances. But the newspaper reports Floyd | imply that he's been in power for years. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "hah, it's an electronic copy because *we're* electronic." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x coffee table" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 66 Floyd | Floyd | > X COFFEE TABLE Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the coffee table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "l east" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 67 Floyd | Floyd | > L EAST Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 68 Floyd | Floyd | > X SOFA Floyd | Floyd | A large and comfortable leather sofa. You notice a book underneath the Floyd | sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 69 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The book is 'Notopia', by Perry Simm. Some of the book is a biography Floyd | of the Central Administrator. But mostly, the book concerns how the Floyd | Administration rose to power. The title refers to the Administration's Floyd | approach to government, rejecting ideology and Utopian idealism, and Floyd | focusing instead on stability and rational pragmatism. The result, Floyd | according to the back cover, is 'the sort of society in which people Floyd | would actually like to live'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x artwork" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 69 Floyd | Floyd | > X ARTWORK Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the portrait of Edmund Burke or the twelve Floyd | pictures? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "twelve" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 70 Floyd | Floyd | > TWELVE Floyd | Floyd | There are twelve pictures, each representing a key advancement in the Floyd | development of human civilisation as seen by the Administrators. Some Floyd | are obvious, like the discovery of fire, and the development of Floyd | writing and agriculture. Others are more controversial, such as the Floyd | institutionalisation of religion and the English revolution of 1688. Floyd | The most recent pictures show the development of the Internet and the Floyd | creation of the Administration. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 71 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 72 Floyd | Floyd | > X PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | The painting hangs on the eastern wall. It is an enormous portrait of Floyd | Edmund Burke, the 18th century writer and politician. The Central Floyd | Administrator is said to be a fan. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh right, another footnote: Perry Simm is the main character from A Mind Forever Voyaging." | |
| Jacqueline asks (of Perry), "By Perry Simm. Did you hear that, Perry?" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "is anyone else disturbed by dragging in parallels to real life horrors without having yet given us a reason for us to be *that* disturbed yet, in-game?" | ||
| hzomb says, "This one has examine=look behind." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look behind portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 73 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | [In Final Exam, 'LOOK BEHIND' is synonymous with 'EXAMINE'.] Floyd | The painting hangs on the eastern wall. It is an enormous portrait of Floyd | Edmund Burke, the 18th century writer and politician. The Central Floyd | Administrator is said to be a fan. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "so it does" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I am clearly still tired, I'm losing track of the tiny map in my head." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What next?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 74 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | east to the Corridor. Floyd | down to the Lobby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 75 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 76 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Even at night, you'd expect to see something. The driveway and Floyd | surrounding parkland, lit by street lights and moonlight. It never Floyd | gets completely dark. But today, there's nothing at all. Just total Floyd | blackness, as if there is a smooth black wall just beyond the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 77 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The doors are locked. In this building, office doors are usually keyed Floyd | to the identity of the person who works there, so these doors will Floyd | only open for the Central Administrator, unless he is already in the Floyd | office. It seems that he is out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x plaque" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 78 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLAQUE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of three such plaques: the others are placed along the Floyd | corridor to the east. Each briefly describes one of the three values Floyd | of the Administration: Stability, Liberty, and Responsibility. Exams Floyd | are highly likely to involve essays on interactions between the three, Floyd | but it never hurts to revise a little more, so you read the Floyd | description below the word: Floyd | Floyd | 'Administrators have a duty to ensure that their government is stable, Floyd | reliable and predictable, so that the freedoms and benefits enjoyed by Floyd | subjects are unchanged from day to day, untouched by the chaos of Floyd | civil disorder and economic turmoil. Policies with the potential to Floyd | cause unrest, upheaval and conflict are considered dangerous, and Floyd | Administrators are required to test all policies rigorously in Floyd | simulation before deployment. As Pratchett wrote, Floyd | Floyd | 'People believe they want justice and wise government but, in fact, Floyd | what they really want is an assurance that tomorrow will be very much Floyd | like today.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "um, as in Terry? Being compared to Burke?" | |
| Doug says, "indeed" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x look" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 78 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOOK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 79 Floyd | Floyd | > X Floyd | Floyd | (the plaque) Floyd | It's one of three such plaques: the others are placed along the Floyd | corridor to the east. Each briefly describes one of the three values Floyd | of the Administration: Stability, Liberty, and Responsibility. Exams Floyd | are highly likely to involve essays on interactions between the three, Floyd | but it never hurts to revise a little more, so you read the Floyd | description below the word: Floyd | Floyd | 'Administrators have a duty to ensure that their government is stable, Floyd | reliable and predictable, so that the freedoms and benefits enjoyed by Floyd | subjects are unchanged from day to day, untouched by the chaos of Floyd | civil disorder and economic turmoil. Policies with the potential to Floyd | cause unrest, upheaval and conflict are considered dangerous, and Floyd | Administrators are required to test all policies rigorously in Floyd | simulation before deployment. As Pratchett wrote, Floyd | Floyd | 'People believe they want justice and wise government but, in fact, Floyd | what they really want is an assurance that tomorrow will be very much Floyd | like today.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 80 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sit on sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 81 Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON SOFA Floyd | Floyd | But you have an exam to pass! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think I should probably have some coffee. BRB." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 82 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | east to the Corridor. Floyd | down to the Lobby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x burke" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 83 Floyd | Floyd | > X BURKE Floyd | Floyd | The painting hangs on the eastern wall. It is an enormous portrait of Floyd | Edmund Burke, the 18th century writer and politician. The Central Floyd | Administrator is said to be a fan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "eat sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 84 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT SOFA Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the sofa) Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "smell table" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 85 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL TABLE Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I wonder if it's the same portrait on both floors." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 86 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 87 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Museum of Pre-Administration Government. Floyd | east to the Security Administrator's Office. Floyd | south to the Observation Gallery. Floyd | west to the Mezzanine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 88 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Observation Gallery Floyd | You are in a cavernous room built on the same vast scale as a concert Floyd | hall. It cannot possibly fit within the buildings of the Floyd | Administration Centre - the normal rules of geometry have clearly been Floyd | bent here. You are standing in an observation gallery far above the Floyd | floor, which is filled with concentric circles of workstation desks. Floyd | All face the centre of the room, where another circular desk is placed Floyd | on a raised platform. Above all of this, a huge three-dimensional Floyd | globe hangs in empty space. The dim lighting in the room comes mainly Floyd | from the planet, which glows with an internal light. To the north, Floyd | stairs lead up to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | A display monitor hangs above the gallery. There's a message on the Floyd | monitor. Floyd | Floyd | You saw this room on your first visit to the Administration Centre, Floyd | all those years ago. It was even more awe-inspiring then: the room Floyd | seemed even more gigantic, and at that time, it was full of people, Floyd | all busily at work on the floor below. It felt like standing at the Floyd | centre of the world. You knew this was the place you wanted to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek asks (of Doug), "it's a sim, so copy-paste?" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 89 Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | The display is an enormous high-resolution flat-screen monitor, Floyd | suspended from the gallery ceiling. It shows a message: green text on Floyd | black background. Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28436, Floyd | Floyd | You must be wondering where everyone has gone. Let me explain. Floyd | Floyd | A serious situation has developed, and I have been forced to take Floyd | emergency steps to isolate the Administration Centre - and ourselves - Floyd | from the outside world. This isolation prevents my communicating with Floyd | you normally, and at present I can only do so via this screen. I will Floyd | explain more in due course. Floyd | Floyd | In the meantime, I need you to obtain the emergency access card. Floyd | It's in the museum north of here. It allows you to enter the Floyd | Maintenance Room, which is northwest of the Lobby. Then POKE Floyd | 702522351. Afterwards, please return here for further instructions. Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "how do we know this message is on the up and up?" | |
| Doug says, "in fact, the description is copy-pasted..." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x globe" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 90 Floyd | Floyd | > X GLOBE Floyd | Floyd | The 3D representation of Earth hangs in the centre of the room, Floyd | suspended in empty space. It's a three-dimensional political map, Floyd | highlighting countries and major cities, and it's tilted so that much Floyd | of your view is filled with the European continent, where the Floyd | countries of the First Settlement are shaded green. Across the Floyd | Mediterranean Sea, much of Africa is shaded pink. The exception is the Floyd | North African country of Assadia, which appears in yellow to indicate Floyd | a major crisis. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to Teaspoon), "we don't." | |
| Teaspoon asks, "how long have we been in here, at that?" | ||
| Oreolek says, ""planet Earth is blue..." except Africa is pink" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x assadia" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 91 Floyd | Floyd | > X ASSADIA Floyd | Floyd | Assadia is a North African country run by a vicious gangster named Floyd | Mugaffi. The yellow colour indicates that a major crisis is happening Floyd | there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x africa" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 92 Floyd | Floyd | > X AFRICA Floyd | Floyd | That part of the world is independent from the Administration. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x first settlement" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 93 Floyd | Floyd | > X FIRST SETTLEMENT Floyd | Floyd | The First Settlement countries were once the European Union - an Floyd | unhappy federation in which very different countries with very Floyd | different cultures were forced to fit together by those who favoured Floyd | ideology over stability. The unstable and incompetent union stumbled Floyd | from crisis to crisis until it eventually blundered into the one that Floyd | finished it off for good. That was when the Administration took over. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "...for now" | |
| Teaspoon asks, "I'm inclined to leave Assadia to itself. Can they be doing a worse job than the Administration?" | ||
| Oreolek says, "so Assadia is like Algeria" | ||
| Doug asks, "The Administration must be doing a good job, or else why would we care about passing the final exam?" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x desks" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 94 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESKS Floyd | Floyd | The Administrators do much of their work here. Each desk is assigned Floyd | to some small region of the world, with physically adjacent regions Floyd | occupying adjacent desks in this room. The workstations allow Floyd | situations to be analysed, resources to be allocated, and Floyd | Administration decisions to be sent to the outside world. The layout Floyd | of the room makes it easy to coordinate with neighbours. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "because we're lackeys for a corrupt and terrifying regime?" | |
| Doug asks, "have we seen evidence of that yet?" | ||
| Doug says, "besides being fans of Burke" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, the name 'Mugaffi' reminds me of Gaddafi, and 'Assadia' is making me think of Syria (perhaps because Syria -> al-Assad -> Assadia?)" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "any regime that has as an *implicit* assumption that countries that don't get along need to be handled by other, bigger regimes, has me at least dubious" | ||
| Doug says, "Mugaffi also reminds me of Mugabe" | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 95 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | The only exit leads north to the Corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 96 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 97 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Museum of Pre-Administration Government. Floyd | east to the Security Administrator's Office. Floyd | south to the Observation Gallery. Floyd | west to the Mezzanine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 98 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Museum of Pre-Administration Government Floyd | This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, Floyd | stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and Floyd | in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is Floyd | coming from the corridor to the south and faintly from a blank video Floyd | screen just beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most Floyd | too far away into the dark to be readable. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glass case containing an access card. Floyd | Floyd | You remember your first visit to the Administration Centre. The tour Floyd | spent hours in the museum. Most of your classmates took little Floyd | interest in it and were quickly bored. But you found it fascinating. Floyd | Here in the centre of it all, literally within the corridors of power! Floyd | What excitement, what possibility! Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "did we read the Liberty plaque?" | |
| Oreolek says, "yes, I reckon" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Something came up. Be back in a quarter of an hour or so" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x screen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 99 Floyd | Floyd | > X SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | The video screen is blank but producing a faint light. You notice a Floyd | sticky label on the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x label" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 100 Floyd | Floyd | > X LABEL Floyd | Floyd | There's a message on the label: 'Keeps breaking. 732595713 to reset.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "take screen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 101 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | It's on the other side of the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get label" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 102 Floyd | Floyd | > GET LABEL Floyd | Floyd | It's on the other side of the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "well, I have the numbers in scrollback for when we need them." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x plaque" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 103 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLAQUE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of three such plaques: the others are to the south. Each Floyd | briefly describes one of the three values of the Administration: Floyd | Stability, Liberty, and Responsibility. Exams are highly likely to Floyd | involve essays on interactions between the three, but it never hurts Floyd | to revise a little more, so you read the description below the word: Floyd | Floyd | 'Administrators have a duty to nurture personal responsibility, as Floyd | this is necessary to build a strong, lawful and liberal society. It is Floyd | held that each adult person has free will and is responsible for his Floyd | or her actions. As Burke wrote, Floyd | Floyd | 'Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and Floyd | appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the Floyd | more there must be without.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks (of Oreolek), "want to drive while Teaspoon is gone?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure I want to live in this Administration." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess I could drive." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I have coffee now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I haven't been paying attention to directions and have no map." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "reset screen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 103 Floyd | Floyd | > RESET SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I think we read the Stability and Responsibility plaques but not Liberty." | |
| Oreolek says, "i don't keep a map too" | ||
| Doug says, "the map is pretty much linear." | ||
| Doug says, "most doors are locked" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 104 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read liberty" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 105
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ LIBERTY
Floyd |
Floyd | [In Final Exam, 'READ' is synonymous with 'EXAMINE'.]
Floyd | It's one of three such plaques: the others are to the north and west.
Floyd | Each briefly describes one of the three values of the Administration:
Floyd | Stability, Liberty, and Responsibility. Exams are highly likely to
Floyd | involve essays on interactions between the three, but it never hurts
Floyd | to revise a little more, so you read the description below the word:
Floyd |
Floyd | 'Administrators have a duty to uphold freedom of speech, thought and
Floyd | conscience, along with processes to prevent injustice such as jury
Floyd | trial. No person may be punished for holding opinions, however
Floyd | disagreeable these opinions may be. As Queen Elizabeth I famously
Floyd | said,
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd'[We] have no desire to make windows into men's souls.' | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "we're looking for the emergency access card" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. I'm betting that glitch will mess up the transcript, but by the time I post the transcript I'll forget to check." | ||
| Doug says, "huh weird." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm not sure why it did that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway." | ||
| Doug says, "also I read that as 'As Queen Elizabeth, I famously said...'" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Which way? Back N and then onward?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "heh" | ||
| Doug says, "the emergency access card is north, said the Central Administrator." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 106 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Museum of Pre-Administration Government Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glass case containing an access card. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 107 Floyd | Floyd | > X CASE Floyd | Floyd | The glass case bears a sign: 'In case of emergency, break glass. Floyd | Penalty for improper use.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 108 Floyd | Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | A plastic card much like a credit card. It is made of white plastic Floyd | and bears the text: 'EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE ACCESS'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh right, this game is BRIEF by default." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "This is an emergency, right?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 108 Floyd | Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | Final Exam is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "either it's an emergency or it's an exam that is simulating an emergency..." | |
| Jacqueline says, "We can tell ourselves that, sure." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Break the glass?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 108 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "oh, so we're supposed to break glass? i thought violence is discouraged here" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "break glass" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 109 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK GLASS Floyd | Floyd | The glass shatters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take card" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 110 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CARD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 111 Floyd | Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | A plastic card much like a credit card. It is made of white plastic Floyd | and bears the text: 'EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE ACCESS'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we go back to that broken screen?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Or somewhere else I missed while making coffee or being groggy?" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 112 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 113 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Administrator's Office Floyd | This is the office of the Security Administrator. There is no sign of Floyd | the Administrator or any other staff. The door leads west to the Floyd | corridor. The office is furnished by a desk, sofa, a bookshelf, and a Floyd | mural on the northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "the broken screen was the same place as the access card" | |
| Oreolek says, "this is the room we didn't visit" | ||
| Doug says, "oh right." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 114 Floyd | Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | The mural shows a dystopian cityscape of ugly skyscrapers and foul Floyd | motorways. Miserable crowds mill around in the polluted, smoggy Floyd | streets. The picture is intensely detailed, so you can even guess at Floyd | what some of the people are doing, though none of them seem happy: Floyd | miserable commuters, miserable criminals, miserable homeless people. Floyd | Skyscrapers tower above them, adorned with the logos of credit cards Floyd | and banks, and bearing the flags of failed governments. A tiny caption Floyd | reads 'Where We Came From'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ok it's not totally linear." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 115 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A very solid-looking wooden desk, bare and clean, as if it's just been Floyd | delivered by an upmarket furniture shop. You feel like something is Floyd | missing from the desk, but you can't remember what it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 116 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "...why would we remember?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "From the training." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 117 Floyd | Floyd | > X SOFA Floyd | Floyd | A large and comfortable leather sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 118 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SOFA Floyd | Floyd | [In Final Exam, 'SEARCH' is synonymous with 'EXAMINE'.] Floyd | A large and comfortable leather sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 119 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKSHELF Floyd | Floyd | The bookshelves seem to have been emptied recently. Marks in the dust Floyd | show where books have been removed. There is a book on the top shelf. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 120 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | ('Notopia') Floyd | The book is 'Notopia', by Perry Simm. Some of the book is a biography Floyd | of the Central Administrator. But mostly, the book concerns how the Floyd | Administration rose to power. The title refers to the Administration's Floyd | approach to government, rejecting ideology and Utopian idealism, and Floyd | focusing instead on stability and rational pragmatism. The result, Floyd | according to the back cover, is 'the sort of society in which people Floyd | would actually like to live'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "okay, another book" | |
| Doug says, "oh heh, there are multiple copies" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 121 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an access card Floyd | 'Notopia' Floyd | some thermal paper Floyd | an identity badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "put notopia on bookshelf" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 122 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT NOTOPIA ON BOOKSHELF Floyd | Floyd | You put 'Notopia' on the bookshelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "no wait." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 123 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKSHELF Floyd | Floyd | The bookshelves seem to have been emptied recently. Marks in the dust Floyd | show where books have been removed. There is a book on the top shelf. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "weird" | |
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 123 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, 'Notopia' or 'Idiots' Guide to Writing Malware and Floyd | Viruses'? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "idiot" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 124 Floyd | Floyd | > IDIOT Floyd | Floyd | It's one of the well known Idiots' Guide series of computer books. It Floyd | has a friendly yellow cover, on which a cartoon man offers to tell you Floyd | how to 'Crack computers, flood networks and steal information'. The Floyd | book contains several hundred pages of instructions for finding and Floyd | exploiting security holes in computers. While this book may be filled Floyd | with all sorts of interesting information, none of it's going to come Floyd | up on your exam. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, it disambiguated 'book' to the one we found under the sofa before." | |
| Oreolek says, "but we found Notopia" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "hallo, how are we getting on?" | ||
| Doug says, "yes, but the Idiot's Guide is the book in this room (the Security Administrator's office)" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "take idiot" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 125 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IDIOT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 126 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 'Idiots' Guide to Writing Malware and Viruses' Floyd | an access card Floyd | some thermal paper Floyd | an identity badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "read idiot" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 127 Floyd | Floyd | > READ IDIOT Floyd | Floyd | It's one of the well known Idiots' Guide series of computer books. It Floyd | has a friendly yellow cover, on which a cartoon man offers to tell you Floyd | how to 'Crack computers, flood networks and steal information'. The Floyd | book contains several hundred pages of instructions for finding and Floyd | exploiting security holes in computers. While this book may be filled Floyd | with all sorts of interesting information, none of it's going to come Floyd | up on your exam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "that looks like a curious book to have in a computer programme." | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 127
Floyd |
Floyd | > THAT LOOKS LIKE A CURIOUS BOOK TO HAVE IN A COMPUTER PROGRAMME.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon says, "whoops sorry" | |
| Doug says (to Teaspoon), "we got the emergency access card. now we're snooping in the Security Administrator's office before bringing it back to the Central Administrator." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "We can't fix that screen, right?" | ||
| Doug says, "not yet" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "look under sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 128 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SOFA Floyd | Floyd | [In Final Exam, 'LOOK UNDER' is synonymous with 'EXAMINE'.] Floyd | A large and comfortable leather sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit on sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 129 Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON SOFA Floyd | Floyd | But you have an exam to pass! Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh right." | |
| Doug says, "no sitting!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "NO" | ||
| Doug says, "only EXAMing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "ah, so we're just being nosy. Sounds good" | ||
| Doug says, "funny enough most commands are synonyms for EXAM" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, any intention we might have to be IF people and search couch cushions or look behind paintings? Tough. Just look at stuff. That's all." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "a" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 129 Floyd | Floyd | > A Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 130 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Administrator's Office Floyd | This is the office of the Security Administrator. There is no sign of Floyd | the Administrator or any other staff. The door leads west to the Floyd | corridor. The office is furnished by a desk, sofa, a bookshelf, and a Floyd | mural on the northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the bookshelves is 'Notopia'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 131 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A very solid-looking wooden desk, bare and clean, as if it's just been Floyd | delivered by an upmarket furniture shop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "take desk" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 132 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "steal desk" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 132 Floyd | Floyd | > STEAL DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to Jacqueline), "I think it just means that if there's anything to be found we will find it with X" | |
| Oreolek asks, "so, where to?" | ||
| Doug says, "I vote we bring the access card back to the Central Administrator" | ||
| Oreolek says, "we need to open maintenance with it" | ||
| Doug says, "oh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Right, but I'm just saying that it's conflated all the verbs in a way that is likely soul-crushing to puzzle fiends." | ||
| Doug | It allows you to enter the Maintenance Room, which is northwest of the Lobby. Then POKE 702522351. Afterwards, please return here for further instructions. | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "nw then?" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "pole" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 132 Floyd | Floyd | > POLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "poke" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 1 Moves: 133 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE Floyd | Floyd | You can only POKE numbers in the POKE room. [The POKE room is reached Floyd | from the Maintenance Room, northwest of the Lobby.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 134 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 135 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Observation Gallery Floyd | You are in a cavernous room built on the same vast scale as a concert Floyd | hall. It cannot possibly fit within the buildings of the Floyd | Administration Centre - the normal rules of geometry have clearly been Floyd | bent here. You are standing in an observation gallery far above the Floyd | floor, which is filled with concentric circles of workstation desks. Floyd | All face the centre of the room, where another circular desk is placed Floyd | on a raised platform. Above all of this, a huge three-dimensional Floyd | globe hangs in empty space. The dim lighting in the room comes mainly Floyd | from the planet, which glows with an internal light. To the north, Floyd | stairs lead up to the landing. Floyd | | Doug says, "we also found the note '732595713 to reset.' for the screen" | |
Floyd | A display monitor hangs above the gallery.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 136 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I feel like we're on Facebook. Will 702522351 find it creepy if we poke them?" | |
| Oreolek says, "i forgot which way to the maintenace" | ||
| Doug says, "oh yeah, we should check out the observation gallery" | ||
| Doug says, "forgot about that." | ||
| Doug says, "the lobby is south" | ||
| Doug says, "er wait." | ||
| Doug says, "the lobby is west then down" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 137 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 138 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "but we haven't checked out the gallery yet." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "unlock maintenance" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 139 Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK MAINTENANCE Floyd | Floyd | The green door is automatically unlocked when you are carrying a Floyd | suitable access card. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 140 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 141 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28436, Floyd | Floyd | You must be wondering where everyone has gone. Let me explain. Floyd | Floyd | A serious situation has developed, and I have been forced to take Floyd | emergency steps to isolate the Administration Centre - and ourselves - Floyd | from the outside world. This isolation prevents my communicating with Floyd | you normally, and at present I can only do so via this screen. I will Floyd | explain more in due course. Floyd | Floyd | In the meantime, I need you to obtain the emergency access card. Floyd | Then go west from the Maintenance Room and POKE 702522351. Afterwards, Floyd | please return here for further instructions. Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x portal" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 142 Floyd | Floyd | > X PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | It's a completely black rectangle. It's large enough for you to Floyd | comfortably walk through it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "how many maintence rooms do we have?" | |
| Oreolek says, "just this one" | ||
| Oreolek says, "but we're a hacker" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 143 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are a student of Administration theory. You think of yourself as Floyd | fairly smart and attractive, reasonably charming, and certainly Floyd | well-prepared for any exam. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, ";We can do all that right now, right?" | |
| Doug says, "yeah, the poke room is west." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 144 Floyd | Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | The sign is on the western door. It reads: 'POKE Room. Unauthorised Floyd | access is prohibited by the Central Administrator. Misuse of POKE will Floyd | corrupt physical memory and may result in instantaneous death, reboot, Floyd | data loss, segmentation fault, brain damage, infinite loops and loss Floyd | of network access. If in any doubt, do not enter.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 144 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28436, Floyd | Floyd | You must be wondering where everyone has gone. Let me explain. Floyd | Floyd | A serious situation has developed, and I have been forced to take Floyd | emergency steps to isolate the Administration Centre - and ourselves - Floyd | from the outside world. This isolation prevents my communicating with Floyd | you normally, and at present I can only do so via this screen. I will Floyd | explain more in due course. Floyd | Floyd | In the meantime, I need you to obtain the emergency access card. Floyd | Then go west from the Maintenance Room and POKE 702522351. Afterwards, Floyd | please return here for further instructions. Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 146 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | POKE Room Floyd | You are standing within core memory, completely surrounded by the raw, Floyd | working elements of a vast machine. Lights pulsate and flicker all Floyd | around you: the effect is like wandering around within your own brain. Floyd | You can see 4,294,967,295 buttons here. A door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 147 Floyd | Floyd | > X BUTTONS Floyd | Floyd | The buttons are numbered from 1 to 4294967295, and you can POKE any Floyd | one of them, e.g. POKE 12345. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "can we poke all the buttons?" | |
| Oreolek says, "4294967295 is a weird number" | ||
| Doug says, "let's press them all in order!" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "poke 12345" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 148 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 12345 Floyd | Floyd | It could be really dangerous to press the wrong button. You decide to Floyd | double-check the number before trying again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "poke 000000" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 149 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 000000 Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button, nothing obvious happens here, but you sense Floyd | that something has changed elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "careful!" | |
| Oreolek says, "okay. I'm sure 000000 doesn't mind" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I did save." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "poke 000001" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 150 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 000001 Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button, nothing happens at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "it's not, it's the maximum value for a 32-bit unsigned integer" | |
| Doug says, "what we do here matters somewhere else." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yep" | ||
| Doug says, ">POKE OREOLEK" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "although why that's relevant in a simulation like this I have no idea." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 151 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are a student of Administration theory. You think of yourself as Floyd | fairly smart and attractive, reasonably charming, and certainly Floyd | well-prepared for any exam. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly discover the effect of POKE'ing the wrong button. You Floyd | find yourself in an... Floyd | Infinite Loop Floyd | You are trapped forever in a tiny infinite loop. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a kernel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x kernel" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 152 Floyd | Floyd | > X KERNEL Floyd | Floyd | The kernel panics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x kernel" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 152 Floyd | Floyd | > X KERNEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "whoaaa" | |
| Teaspoon says, "we broke it" | ||
| Doug says, "haha I did not get this ending." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's cool. We have an idiot's guide to hacking." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also I saved." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hack" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 152 Floyd | Floyd | > HACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "kernel panic is a common Linux error for when an app does something terribly, terribly wrong" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "panic" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 152 Floyd | Floyd | > PANIC Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 153 Floyd | Floyd | > HINT Floyd | Floyd | At this point in the game, you should follow the instructions given to Floyd | you by the Central Administrator. These will gradually unlock further Floyd | parts of the game and give simple examples of the skills you will need Floyd | to solve later puzzles. You can find the Administrator's most recent Floyd | instructions in the Observation Gallery, which is UP, EAST, SOUTH from Floyd | the Lobby. When you find the gallery, enter EXAMINE DISPLAY. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, but this time the kernel ran away." | |
| Oreolek says, "and an idiot's guide would be most helpful now" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 154 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 'Idiots' Guide to Writing Malware and Viruses' Floyd | an access card Floyd | some thermal paper Floyd | an identity badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "use guide" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 155 Floyd | Floyd | > USE GUIDE Floyd | Floyd | Please be more specific about how you wish to use 'Idiots' Guide to Floyd | Writing Malware and Viruses'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "consult the guide about kernel" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 156 Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT THE GUIDE ABOUT KERNEL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in 'Idiots' Guide to Writing Malware Floyd | and Viruses'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "break" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 156 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to break? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "loop" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 156 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOP Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "consult the guide about infinite loop" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 157 Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT THE GUIDE ABOUT INFINITE LOOP Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in 'Idiots' Guide to Writing Malware Floyd | and Viruses'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x kernel" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 157 Floyd | Floyd | > X KERNEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 158 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wake up" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 159 Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE UP Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 160 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "do we need to reload?" | |
| Oreolek says, "sorry" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "clubf heehee." | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 160
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLUBF HEEHEE.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "heehee." | |
| Doug says, "I like a floyd" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Oreolek says, "so now we know brute force doesn't work" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x badge" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 161 Floyd | Floyd | > X BADGE Floyd | Floyd | A small plastic ID badge. The badge states: 'Candidate Number 28436'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am all for restoring, but I'm also happy to let you all flail." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "poke 28436" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 162 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 28436 Floyd | Floyd | You can only POKE numbers in the POKE room. [The POKE room is west of Floyd | the Maintenance Room, northwest of the Lobby.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't break out of the loop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "i still want to POKE self" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "poke self" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE SELF Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that number. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yeah I think restore is our only option." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "restore cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Infinite Loop Score: 1 Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > RESTORE CF2 Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to restore. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "nice easter egg though." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 144
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "There you go." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | POKE Room Floyd | You are standing within core memory, completely surrounded by the raw, Floyd | working elements of a vast machine. Lights pulsate and flicker all Floyd | around you: the effect is like wandering around within your own brain. Floyd | You can see 4,294,967,295 buttons here. A door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "poke 28436" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 146 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 28436 Floyd | Floyd | It could be really dangerous to press the wrong button. You decide to Floyd | double-check the number before trying again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I guess that doesn't count as an ending" | |
| Doug says, "since it never ends." | ||
| Oreolek says, "careful, that could mean Aisle game doesn't have even a single one" | ||
| Doug says, "702522351 is what the CA wants us to poke; 732595713 will reset the screen." | ||
| Doug says, "no, Aisle has an ending after every command." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "poke 732595713" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 147 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 732595713 Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button, nothing obvious happens here, but you sense Floyd | that something has changed elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "as in an ***ending***." | |
| Oreolek asks, "okay, so we check the screen now?" | ||
| Doug says, "sure" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 148 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 149 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 150 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 151 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 152 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Museum of Pre-Administration Government Floyd | This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, Floyd | stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and Floyd | in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is Floyd | coming from the corridor to the south and from a video screen just Floyd | beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most too far away Floyd | into the dark to be readable. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glass case (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x screen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 153 Floyd | Floyd | > X SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | The video screen is showing a televised interview with the Central Floyd | Administrator. He is wearing a dark suit, and even in this old Floyd | recording, his hair has already started to turn grey. The sound is Floyd | faint, but you can make out some of the discussion if you listen Floyd | carefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 154 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | (to the video screen) Floyd | The Central Administrator is speaking: Floyd | Floyd | '...having committed themselves to so-called science-based Floyd | policies, these being policies tested by computer simulation, the Floyd | intellectual class could not raise an objection when the simulators Floyd | produced answers they had not expected.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 155 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | (to the video screen) Floyd | 'Such as?' prompts the interviewer. Floyd | Floyd | 'I mean that the simulations favoured social policies that the Floyd | intellectuals had regarded as conservative, old-fashioned and Floyd | reactionary. The data clearly pointed at stability, liberty and Floyd | personal responsibility as the key properties of a good society. The Floyd | people had assumed that the machines would confirm their own beliefs Floyd | in globalism, socialism and so forth. They had never questioned those Floyd | beliefs, and indeed did not even think that their beliefs were Floyd | beliefs. The idea that the machine might come up with the 'wrong' Floyd | answer never occurred to them.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 156 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | (to the video screen) Floyd | 'This must have created some problems,' the interviewer remarks. Floyd | Floyd | 'Oh, well, some. But nothing greatly significant. The simulations Floyd | were quite repeatable. There were a few cases where independent Floyd | research got different answers, but these were discredited. I audited Floyd | their software and traced the differences to software bugs. Coding Floyd | errors. It turns out that humans are almost as bad at writing software Floyd | as they are at running a government!' Floyd | Floyd | The interviewer laughs. 'Is there any link between the two?' Floyd | Floyd | 'I think so. Humans... well, all of us... struggle to deal with Floyd | complexity. When dealing with a complex system, like a country, or a Floyd | large software program, the temptation is always to assume that you Floyd | know enough to make an informed guess about what should be done. It is Floyd | a temptation that must be resisted. Everything must be thoroughly Floyd | tested before it is allowed to 'go live'. You must do everything you Floyd | can to avoid destabilising something that used to work.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 157 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | (to the video screen) Floyd | 'But were there protests?' presses the interviewer. Floyd | Floyd | 'Some people will disagree with government no matter what it does. Floyd | That is fine. They may choose to complain, and we may choose to Floyd | listen. I think, though, that one reason the intellectuals eventually Floyd | accepted the new system is that they found themselves in bad company. Floyd | They now stood alongside deniers and conspiracy theorists, the same Floyd | people they had once mocked as 'wingnuts' and lunatics for denying the Floyd | validity of simulation results. Ultimately, they came over to our side Floyd | out of embarrassment as much as anything. Pretended they had agreed Floyd | with us all along...'. Floyd | Floyd | The screen goes blank again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 158 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "this game has a curious take on scoring" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 158 Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 1 out of a possible 20, in 158 turns Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yeah this is optional content." | |
| Jacqueline says, "phone" | ||
| Doug says, "it's not part of the walkthrough" | ||
| Oreolek asks, "back to POKing?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x rope" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 159 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROPE Floyd | Floyd | The red rope blocks access to the museum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remove rope" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 160 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE ROPE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the red rope) Floyd | The red rope will not move at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut rope" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 161 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT ROPE Floyd | Floyd | The red rope will not move at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "duck under rope" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 161 Floyd | Floyd | > DUCK UNDER ROPE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "jump rope" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 161 Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP ROPE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go under rope" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 162 Floyd | Floyd | > GO UNDER ROPE Floyd | Floyd | The rope is not much of a barrier, but presumably it is there for a Floyd | reason... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "dive rope" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 162 Floyd | Floyd | > DIVE ROPE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to dive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "touch rope" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH ROPE Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x displays" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > X DISPLAYS Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the video screen, the nearest display or the rest Floyd | of the exhibition? Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "at least now we know what the LISTEN was for" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "limbo" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > LIMBO Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nearest" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > NEAREST Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x nearest display" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 164 Floyd | Floyd | > X NEAREST DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | The nearest display is the only one you can read. It forms an Floyd | introduction to the rest of the exhibition, and it's immediately clear Floyd | that the theme of the museum has hardly changed since you last visited Floyd | it. The museum presents the case against the pre-Administration Floyd | approach to government, known here as 'populism'. Floyd | Floyd | The display bears a quotation from a political adviser regarding his Floyd | own government's lack of forward planning. Like all Western Floyd | governments of its time, that government was completely dominated by Floyd | concerns about retaining popularity and good public relations. It had Floyd | no policies as such; rather, it simply reacted to events, attempting Floyd | to retain the favour of the press and the public. Floyd | Floyd | This was not limited to one policy area, to one party, or to one Floyd | government in one country. It was a universal failing. The voters said Floyd | that they wanted politicians who spoke plainly and stuck to their Floyd | principles, but if such people actually stood for election, they were Floyd | quickly rejected, as no principle is universally popular. Consequently Floyd | the only successful politicians had no principles and never said what Floyd | they meant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x rest of exhibition" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 164 Floyd | Floyd | > X REST OF EXHIBITION Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the rest of the Floyd | exhibition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x rest" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 165 Floyd | Floyd | > X REST Floyd | Floyd | You can't make out much of the rest of the exhibition, but you already Floyd | know that it continues in much the same vein as the nearest display, Floyd | charting the failure and decline of pre-Administration government. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "ok, want to check out the observation gallery?" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 166 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 167 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 168 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 169 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 170 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | POKE Room Floyd | You are standing within core memory, completely surrounded by the raw, Floyd | working elements of a vast machine. Lights pulsate and flicker all Floyd | around you: the effect is like wandering around within your own brain. Floyd | You can see 4,294,967,295 buttons here. A door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "what was the number again/" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "poke 702522351" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 2 Moves: 171 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 702522351 Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button, nothing obvious happens here, but you sense Floyd | that something has changed elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ding" | |
| Teaspoon exclaims, "hurrah!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 2 Moves: 172 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the Floyd | console's display. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am back. Mr Maga had called to wish me a happy day of birth celebration." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I see you all got a point." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "2 of 20." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm sort of not feeling this game." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "we're supposed to go somewhere now, right?" | ||
| Doug says, "it'll pick up" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I don't remember where" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Will it? I will continue to follow." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x badge" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 2 Moves: 173 Floyd | Floyd | > X BADGE Floyd | Floyd | A small plastic ID badge. The badge states: 'Candidate Number 28436'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "also we have not been momentuming" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 174 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28436, Floyd | Floyd | The Administration Centre is under attack. The network is flooded Floyd | by virus packets, and I am unable to do anything other than hold back Floyd | the flood. Floyd | Floyd | However, you can help. By great fortune, you were due to take an Floyd | exam today, and that involved some special measures which have Floyd | protected you from the attack. Like me, you are connected to an Floyd | independent system which is unaffected by the virus. But unlike me, Floyd | you are able to control a maintenance robot. I need you to use that Floyd | robot to save us. Floyd | Floyd | Take control of the robot via the portal in the Maintenance Room. Floyd | In the outside world, find a Diagnostic network socket, such as WS4, Floyd | or perhaps WS2, though I'm not sure that one is working. PLUG a Floyd | network cable into it, and PLUG the other end into the Central Floyd | Administrator socket, which is labelled WS3. You might need to find Floyd | several network cables and JOIN them together: there is a cable Floyd | joining tool in the old Broadcasting Studio. Floyd | Floyd | That connection should re-establish some internal communications Floyd | and let me run some diagnostics. It may be enough to fight the virus. Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I'm hesitant to drive since I've played it." | |
| Doug says, "but others seem to be wandering off." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I like experiencing vicariously." | ||
| Doug says, "kinda wish DavidW had been awake." | ||
| Doug says, "I wonder if he'd like it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am sorry I threw off our feng shui." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'm not quite feeling this one either" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. I just got an email from a friend wanting to schedule a call at the top of the next hour." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Which I should take. So I'm around for another 50 min or so." | ||
| Doug asks, "perhaps we should call it, then?" | ||
| Oreolek says, "maybe." | ||
| Doug says, "if no one's into it" | ||
| Doug says, "no need to force it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We could postpone and keep poking at it next week, but yeah, it's not grabbing me." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I can see where it might pick up, but in ways that might depress me given current events." | ||
| Doug says, "it's mostly puzzle from here on in, until the end game(s)" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "good puzzles?" | ||
| Doug says, "I enjoyed it, but it's somewhat mechanical and not everyone liked that aspect of it." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x portal" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 175 Floyd | Floyd | > X PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | It's a completely black rectangle. It's large enough for you to Floyd | comfortably walk through it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "enter it" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 176 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER IT Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench (on which is a screwdriver) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I wonder if we have to rechage" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 177 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 178 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are a well-oiled and somewhat noisy maintenance robot. Your robot Floyd | body has a humanoid configuration - two legs, two arms, and a head, Floyd | but it could not possibly pass for a human anywhere, not even a sci-fi Floyd | convention, because the design is so completely functional. There is Floyd | no skin; tubes, solenoids and wires are exposed along with the metal Floyd | skeleton. The machine was never designed to leave the bunker - its Floyd | intended purpose is limited to replacing server parts and installing Floyd | network gear. A black box is attached to you like a backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "*recharge" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get screwdriver" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 179 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SCREWDRIVER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x screwdriver" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 180 Floyd | Floyd | > X SCREWDRIVER Floyd | Floyd | A flathead screwdriver with an insulated handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 181 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | The backpack is a large black box attached to the back of your robot Floyd | body. It contains your physical mind, isolated from the network and Floyd | power supply of the data centre. The number 28436 is printed on the Floyd | box in a neat typeface. A second number has been crudely scratched on Floyd | it: 644358724. The box has a network socket. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x socket" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 181 Floyd | Floyd | > X SOCKET Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, Socket WS3 or Socket WS2? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x ws2" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 182 Floyd | Floyd | > X WS2 Floyd | Floyd | The label reads 'Socket WS2 - Diagnostic'. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "plug ws2" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 183 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG WS2 Floyd | Floyd | But you don't have a network cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 184 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x workbench" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 185 Floyd | Floyd | > X WORKBENCH Floyd | Floyd | The workbench has seen better days! The wood is rotten and the legs Floyd | are very rusty. It looks like decades have passed since anybody used Floyd | it. There are some tools on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 186 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | north into the charging stations. Floyd | south to the Generator Room. Floyd | west to the Battery Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 186 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x tools" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 187 Floyd | Floyd | > X TOOLS Floyd | Floyd | Wrenches, a saw, drill bits: all rusted and completely useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x tools" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 188 Floyd | Floyd | > X TOOLS Floyd | Floyd | Wrenches, a saw, drill bits: all rusted and completely useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 189 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 190 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | northeast into the portal. Floyd | southeast to the Lobby. Floyd | west to the POKE Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "what's going on with teh exits?" | |
| Oreolek says, "oh, it's straightforward then. JOIN cables into one big cable." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 191 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "moving the robot into the charging station disconnects us and we 'wake up' back in the simulation." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 192 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The blast door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 3 Moves: 193 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a single-length network cable here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "ah" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get cable" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 3 Moves: 194 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x ws4" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 3 Moves: 195 Floyd | Floyd | > X WS4 Floyd | Floyd | The label reads 'Socket WS4 - Diagnostic'. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "plug cable into socket" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 3 Moves: 196 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO SOCKET Floyd | Floyd | The single-length network cable is now plugged into Socket WS4. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "plug cable into robot" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 3 Moves: 197 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO ROBOT Floyd | Floyd | The single-length network cable is already here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline has a quick Suspended flashback. | |
| Oreolek asks, "okay, we have WS4 AND WS2. which one to use?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "we were told one's broken" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 3 Moves: 198 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS4. The rest of the cable is in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "that's a single-length cable. we need to JOIN it with more length" | |
| Doug | find a Diagnostic network socket, such as WS4, or perhaps WS2, though I'm not sure that one is working. PLUG a network cable into it, and PLUG the other end into the Central Administrator socket, which is labelled WS3. | ||
| Doug | there is a cable joining tool in the old Broadcasting Studio. | ||
| Teaspoon says, "so we need to find more cables" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 3 Moves: 199 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS4. The rest of the cable is in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 3 Moves: 200 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Data Centre. Floyd | east to the Maintenance Room. Floyd | west to the Secure Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 3 Moves: 201 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (letting go of the single-length network cable, as it is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS4, and it's too short to stretch to another room) Floyd | Floyd | Secure Room Floyd | This room was once an office. Some ancient desks and chairs are Floyd | cluttered into a corner, and you can see a faded calendar on the wall Floyd | beside a dusty portrait. There's a doorway to the east and a blast Floyd | door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some old desks and chairs here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 3 Moves: 202 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | The only exit leads east to the Battery Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "desks" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 3 Moves: 202 Floyd | Floyd | > DESKS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x desks" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 4 Moves: 203 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESKS Floyd | Floyd | Old and poor quality. The chairs look uncomfortable and flimsy, while Floyd | the desks are made of peeling chipboard. This could never have been a Floyd | pleasant place to work. You see a network cable underneath one of the Floyd | desks. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get cable" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 4 Moves: 204 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 4 Moves: 205 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS4. The rest of the cable lies on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 4 Moves: 205 Floyd | Floyd | > X PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "plug cable into cable" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 4 Moves: 206 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO CABLE Floyd | Floyd | (the single-length network cable into the single-length network cable) Floyd | You can't put something inside itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oh, come on" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 4 Moves: 207 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 4 Moves: 208 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS4. The rest of the cable lies on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "we need to find the joining tool" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "join cable with cable" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 4 Moves: 209 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLE WITH CABLE Floyd | Floyd | That would require a special tool. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "in the studio." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 210 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 211 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | northeast to the Network Room. Floyd | south to the Battery Room. Floyd | west to the Passage. Floyd | northwest to the Broadcasting Studio. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x racks" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 212 Floyd | Floyd | > X RACKS Floyd | Floyd | The racks are used to support the black boxes, making them easily Floyd | accessible for maintenance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x boxes" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 213 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOXES Floyd | Floyd | The physical minds of thousands of Administration staff. These boxes Floyd | contain your colleagues and associates. Each box is firmly mounted in Floyd | a metal rack, bears a five-digit number, and is the same shape as the Floyd | one you carry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get boxes" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 214 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOXES Floyd | Floyd | They're fixed in place. In any case, you cannot know whose mind is in Floyd | each box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x number" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 215 Floyd | Floyd | > X NUMBER Floyd | Floyd | The backpack is a large black box attached to the back of your robot Floyd | body. It contains your physical mind, isolated from the network and Floyd | power supply of the data centre. The number 28436 is printed on the Floyd | box in a neat typeface. A second number has been crudely scratched on Floyd | it: 644358724. The box has a network socket. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 216 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x numbers" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 216 Floyd | Floyd | > X NUMBERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 217 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | As you walk through the room, you notice a loose floor tile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x tile" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 218 Floyd | Floyd | > X TILE Floyd | Floyd | The floor tile moves slightly when you stand on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "stand on tile" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 4 Moves: 219 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON TILE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "move tile" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 5 Moves: 220 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE TILE Floyd | Floyd | The floor tile is bulky, but you manage to lift it. This reveals a Floyd | void underneath the floor. You see a network cable in the void. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get cable" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 5 Moves: 221 Floyd | Floyd | > GET CABLE Floyd | Floyd | (the single-length network cable) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 5 Moves: 222 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broadcasting Studio Floyd | The mixing desk, soundproof walls and 'On Air' sign in this room tell Floyd | you that it was originally intended to be used as a broadcasting Floyd | studio. Now it is being used as a store room for computer parts, which Floyd | have been stacked up against the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There is an instruction book on the mixing desk. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a satellite uplink kit and a toolbag (which is Floyd | closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 5 Moves: 223 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | satellite uplink kit: Taken. Floyd | instruction book: Taken. Floyd | toolbag: Taken. Floyd | mixing desk: That's hardly portable. Floyd | 'On Air' sign: That's hardly portable. Floyd | computer parts: You find nothing that you need there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x instruction book" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 5 Moves: 224 Floyd | Floyd | > X INSTRUCTION BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The book dates from the 1970s and contains many pages of typewritten Floyd | instructions which explain how to use the primitive studio facilities. Floyd | Reading the book makes it clear that this bunker was one of many Floyd | intended to house 'key personnel' during wartime. It seems it was Floyd | subsequently repurposed by the Central Administrator as his (physical) Floyd | home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 5 Moves: 225 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | The studio equipment is vintage. Given the right buyer, this old Floyd | analogue gear might be quite valuable. But it's no use to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 5 Moves: 226 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a toolbag (which is closed) Floyd | an instruction book Floyd | a satellite uplink kit Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "mix phat beats" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 5 Moves: 226 Floyd | Floyd | > MIX PHAT BEATS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "open toolbag" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 5 Moves: 227 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN TOOLBAG Floyd | Floyd | You open the toolbag, revealing a cable joining tool and a Floyd | single-length network cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "surprise" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "join cable with cable" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 228 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLE WITH CABLE Floyd | Floyd | The cables are joined, creating two coiled lengths. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "join cable with cable" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 229 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLE WITH CABLE Floyd | Floyd | You have no other cable end to join to the double-length network Floyd | cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x kit" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 230 Floyd | Floyd | > X KIT Floyd | Floyd | The satellite uplink kit is housed in a heavy case (which is closed). Floyd | It provides emergency network access via satellite, but can only be Floyd | used in an area with a clear view of the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 231 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a double-length network cable Floyd | a toolbag (which is open) Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | an instruction book Floyd | a satellite uplink kit Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 232 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | (the double-length network cable) Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x joining" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 233 Floyd | Floyd | > X JOINING Floyd | Floyd | This tool allows you to JOIN two network cables, or CUT one cable into Floyd | two sections. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "take single-lengyj cable" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 234
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SINGLE-LENGYJ CABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "join cable with cable" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 234 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLE WITH CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the single-length network cable or the Floyd | double-length network cable? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "join cables" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 235 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLES Floyd | Floyd | single-length network cable: The cables are joined, creating three Floyd | coiled lengths. Floyd | triple-length network cable: You have no other cable end to join to Floyd | the triple-length network cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "join single-length cable with double-length cable" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 235
Floyd |
Floyd | > JOIN SINGLE-LENGTH CABLE WITH DOUBLE-LENGTH CABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "sorry" | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 236 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a triple-length network cable Floyd | a toolbag (which is open) Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | an instruction book Floyd | a satellite uplink kit Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | Doug asks, "so, WS4 to WS3?" | |
| Oreolek says, "maybe something different" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 236
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "did we already try WS2 to WS3? they're in the same room." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "nope, we had no cable" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 236
Floyd |
Floyd | > NOPE, WE HAD NO CABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Oreolek says, "we had no cable" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 6 Moves: 237 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a floor tile here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 6 Moves: 238 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS4. The rest of the cable lies on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 6 Moves: 239 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "plug cable into ws2" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 6 Moves: 240 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO WS2 Floyd | Floyd | The triple-length network cable is now plugged into Socket WS2. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "plug cable into ws4" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 6 Moves: 240 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO WS4 Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "plug cable into ws3" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 241 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO WS3 Floyd | Floyd | The triple-length network cable is now plugged into Socket WS3. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 242 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the Floyd | console's display. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read messafe" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 242 Floyd | Floyd | > READ MESSAFE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "read message" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 243 Floyd | Floyd | > READ MESSAGE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28436, Floyd | Floyd | I attempted to assess the attack, but network socket WS2 is not Floyd | working and I can't get through to the diagnostic system. Floyd | Floyd | There's another network socket in the Battery Room. It is labelled Floyd | WS4. Please connect that socket to WS3. Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to join two network cables together, and run them Floyd | between the two rooms. You will find a tool for JOINing cables in the Floyd | old Broadcasting Studio. Join the cables, then connect network sockets Floyd | WS3 and WS4. Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yeah, we got ahead of the game" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 244 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable is in your hand, and is also attached to Socket Floyd | WS2. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "unplug ws2" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 245 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG WS2 Floyd | Floyd | The triple-length network cable is now unplugged from Socket WS2. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 7 Moves: 246 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS4. The rest of the cable lies on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs east from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 7 Moves: 246
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "plug ws3" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 7 Moves: 246 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG WS3 Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "plug ws4" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 7 Moves: 247 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG WS4 Floyd | Floyd | Try PLUG CABLE INTO SOCKET. If more than one socket is present, try Floyd | giving the name of the socket, e.g. WS9. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "plug cable into ws4 socket" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 7 Moves: 248 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO WS4 SOCKET Floyd | Floyd | The socket is already in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "FYI, if you 'press save' (here in the Toyshop room), it will automatically pick the next save name." | |
| Teaspoon says, "that's useful" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 7 Moves: 249 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS4. The rest of the cable lies on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs east from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "also 'press restore'" | |
| Doug says, "will restore the most recent save." | ||
| Doug asks, "shall we join the cables?" | ||
| Oreolek asks, "so, plug it and recharge?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "join cables" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 8 Moves: 250 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLES Floyd | Floyd | (to the trailing network cable) Floyd | The cables are joined, creating three coiled lengths. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 8 Moves: 251 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (keeping hold of the trailing network cable) Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable is in your hand, and runs west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x stations" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 8 Moves: 252 Floyd | Floyd | > X STATIONS Floyd | Floyd | The robot body may stand inside one of these in order to recharge its Floyd | battery. While the robot body is recharging, your mind returns to the Floyd | Administration Centre. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I wonder why there are two." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 8 Moves: 253 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the Floyd | console's display. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 9 Moves: 254 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28436, Floyd | Floyd | Thankyou, your new connection allowed me to assess the attack. Floyd | Floyd | It's worse than I thought. We have no external communications at Floyd | all; everything is infected. I need you to make a new connection via a Floyd | satellite uplink. Floyd | Floyd | Our enemy has discovered the location of our data centre, and will Floyd | soon attempt to break in. We must act quickly. You will need to open Floyd | the blast door on the east side of the bunker, and run a cable from Floyd | socket WS3 to some place where the sky is visible. Set up a satellite Floyd | uplink unit there, and connect it to the cable. Due to the distance, Floyd | you will need to join more network cables - probably as many as you Floyd | can find. Look in the Network Room first. There will be more in other Floyd | places. Floyd | Floyd | You will have to explore the caves. Floyd | Floyd | One more thing. Be careful with the other network sockets. Some of Floyd | them are flooded by the virus. If you connect them wrongly, it won't Floyd | damage the Administration, but it might prevent you returning here. Floyd | Floyd | Good luck... Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 9 Moves: 255 Floyd | Floyd | > X KEYBOARD Floyd | Floyd | The keyboard is built into the console. It doesn't seem to do Floyd | anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "type" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 9 Moves: 255 Floyd | Floyd | > TYPE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Hm, going to step away, but of course the transcript is still running and it looks like you all are making good progress. Good luck!" | |
| Doug says, "well, I've done all this before. not sure if I should just keep going or what" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "good on you doug" | ||
| Doug says, "I think I'd rather let someone who hasn't played before play it, or if nobody is interested we can quit." | ||
| Oreolek says, "i'll probably quit" | ||
| Doug says, "just wanted to finish the 'tutorial mode' to give people an idea of what it's like." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "That was nice of you" | ||
| Oreolek says, "you mean it's not even the first half? there are still 11 out of 20 score point to get" | ||
| Doug says, "yeah the points are mostly finding the rest of the cables, and then figuring out how to connect the satellite uplink." | ||
| Doug says, "by exploring the caves" | ||
| Doug says, "but there are other things to do, which you may or may not have noticed..." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "can we plug the cable in such a way as to *aid* the virus?" | ||
| Doug says, "yep!" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "are there easter eggs?" | ||
| Doug says, "the walkthrough lists 9 alternate endings" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Huh, nice." | ||
| Doug says, "although it doesn't say how to get them." | ||
| Doug says, "I think I've gotten 3. some of them have multiple variants too." | ||
| Oreolek goes home. | ||
| Doug has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Teaspoon teleports home to the sound of tortured piano strings. | ||
| Olly arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Olly says (to Jacqueline), "Happy birthday." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Olly), "Thank you." | ||
| Olly waves. | ||
| Olly has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "I guess I missed ClubFloyd." | |
| Roger says, "I did too" | ||
| Doug asks, "have you played Final Exam?" | ||
| Roger says, "I don't think so" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah. I guess I'm glad we didn't wait for you." | ||
| Doug says, "there were only two who hadn't played it and neither of them were into it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't played it." | ||
| Doug says, "I think it might be up your alley." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm sorry I missed it, but my sleep schedule has been completely off-kilter lately." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "To be fair, Perry is still running, if you all want to go poke at Final Exam." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The author would probably appreciate it if there were more to the transcript." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But no pressure. Up to you all." | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "I think I'd have to start at the beginning." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Absolutely." | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 9 Moves: 256 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So it's okay if I do a >restart ?" | |
| Doug arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says, "Yep." | |
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 9 Moves: 256
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 0 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In the dream, you are already one of the Administrators. Floyd | Responsible for the security of all of the countries once known as the Floyd | West, your decisions affect the lives of two billion people. It's a Floyd | tough job, and you worked hard for many years in order to get it. Floyd | Floyd | Then you wake up, and remember that you're not even qualified to work Floyd | here yet! Today is the day you qualify. Today is the day of your Floyd | Final Exam. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Final Exam Floyd | Copyright (C) Jack Whitham 2015 (IFComp) 01-Nov-2015 Floyd | Release 9 / Serial number 151101 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 Floyd | Candidate number 28199 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom (on the bed) Floyd | You're in bed. The alarm didn't wake you. Something feels wrong. There Floyd | is no light from the window, and your bedroom seems to be empty... Floyd | Floyd | [Enter HELP if you are unsure what to do now.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Go on without me" | |
| Jacqueline says, "It's clearly got some good stuff in it, it's just not my thing, which is of course fine." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe I'll watch, for when you get to the later bits." | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "Gimme a few seconds to set up. I just woke up." | |
| DavidW says, "I seem to have misplaced my pen." | ||
| Doug says, "I'm headed to bed soonish but I'll watch for a bit." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an identity badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x badge" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 2 Floyd | Floyd | > X BADGE Floyd | Floyd | (first getting out of bed) Floyd | A small plastic ID badge. The badge states: 'Candidate Number 28199'. Floyd | Floyd | Something is certainly wrong! Is this... part of the test? You never Floyd | found out exactly what the final exam involved. Perhaps it is like Floyd | this for every candidate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Even at night, you'd expect to see something. The gardens of the Floyd | Administration Centre, and beyond them, the amphitheatre, the hedge Floyd | maze and ornamental lake, lit by street lights and moonlight. It never Floyd | gets completely dark. But today, there's nothing at all. Just total Floyd | blackness, as if there is a smooth black wall just beyond the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | Even the bed seems wrong. This isn't your duvet and these aren't your Floyd | pillowcases. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 5 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | [In Final Exam, 'LOOK UNDER' is synonymous with 'EXAMINE'.] Floyd | Even the bed seems wrong. This isn't your duvet and these aren't your Floyd | pillowcases. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x duvet" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X DUVET Floyd | Floyd | Even the bed seems wrong. This isn't your duvet and these aren't your Floyd | pillowcases. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillowcases" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOWCASES Floyd | Floyd | Even the bed seems wrong. This isn't your duvet and these aren't your Floyd | pillowcases. Floyd | Floyd | [You should go out; whatever is going on, you're not going to find any Floyd | answers here.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Don't rush me." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 8 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | The only exit leads south to the Quadrangle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom Score: 0 Moves: 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(bathroom break)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "'kay" | ||
| Zigtalk arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Zigtalk waves. | ||
| Zigtalk says, "I'm just going to loiter, if you don't mind it." | DavidW says (to Zigtalk), "sure. Just as long as everyone doesn't mind me playing it slow at my own pace." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 0 Moves: 9 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You walk through a few deserted corridors. There is nobody here; the Floyd | building is completely silent. You cross the Administration Centre's Floyd | quadrangle, also deserted, and end up in... Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Zigtalk exclaims (at DavidW), "Of course!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 0 Moves: 10 Floyd | Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Somehow, your reflection looks older than you remember. The exam Floyd | stress must be causing some premature aging! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 0 Moves: 11 Floyd | Floyd | > X PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | The painting hangs on the eastern wall. It is an enormous portrait of Floyd | Edmund Burke, the 18th century writer and politician. The Central Floyd | Administrator is said to be a fan. Floyd | The fax machine bleeps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fax" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 0 Moves: 12 Floyd | Floyd | > X FAX Floyd | Floyd | (the fax machine) Floyd | It's on the reception desk, where it seems quite out of place next to Floyd | the modern computer workstations. It's not a printer or a scanner: Floyd | it's an old-fashioned fax machine that prints onto thin thermal paper. Floyd | You notice some paper hanging out of the machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 13 Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | [In Final Exam, 'READ' is synonymous with 'EXAMINE'.] Floyd | Poor-quality paper from a fax machine. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28199, please go upstairs to the Observation Gallery Floyd | where you will find further instructions.' Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay, a point" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x full" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 13 Floyd | Floyd | > X FULL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Enjoy. We only had that one point for what felt like a long time." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 14 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | As you walk up the stairs, you recall the first time you were here. It Floyd | was a school trip when you were very young: a day out at the Floyd | Administration Centre! You remember the sense of excitement at being Floyd | so close to the great and powerful. Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Iria arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x memo" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 15 Floyd | Floyd | > X MEMO Floyd | Floyd | It is an internal memo from one of the Administration departments: Floyd | Floyd | 'Following the recent expansion of the Sellafield data and power Floyd | facility, the Simulation Department is pleased to announce that there Floyd | will be a 25% increase in simulator availability from next month. A Floyd | third data centre has been built on the Sellafield site, where it will Floyd | benefit from highly cost-effective electricity. The Administration Floyd | will have priority access to 50% of its computing power, the remainder Floyd | being sold privately to finance the reactor upgrade. The increase will Floyd | enable more detailed policy evaluations to be carried out.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria asks, "What are we playing?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm playing Final Exam." | ||
| DavidW says, "My brain is still waking up. This memo's info isn't getting through to it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing that the Simulation Dept's 25% increase came a little early." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 16 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | east to the Corridor. Floyd | down to the Lobby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 17 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 18 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Museum of Pre-Administration Government Floyd | This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, Floyd | stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and Floyd | in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is Floyd | coming from the corridor to the south and faintly from a blank video Floyd | screen just beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most Floyd | too far away into the dark to be readable. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glass case containing an access card. Floyd | Floyd | You remember your first visit to the Administration Centre. The tour Floyd | spent hours in the museum. Most of your classmates took little Floyd | interest in it and were quickly bored. But you found it fascinating. Floyd | Here in the centre of it all, literally within the corridors of power! Floyd | What excitement, what possibility! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder if I went the wrong way. I haven't found the 'observation gallery' unless the mezzanine was it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 19 Floyd | Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | A plastic card much like a credit card. It is made of white plastic Floyd | and bears the text: 'EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE ACCESS'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x case" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 20 Floyd | Floyd | > X CASE Floyd | Floyd | The glass case bears a sign: 'In case of emergency, break glass. Floyd | Penalty for improper use.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "the mezzanine is not it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xs" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 20 Floyd | Floyd | > XS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 21 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 21 Floyd | Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | Final Exam is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 22 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 23 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Observation Gallery Floyd | You are in a cavernous room built on the same vast scale as a concert Floyd | hall. It cannot possibly fit within the buildings of the Floyd | Administration Centre - the normal rules of geometry have clearly been Floyd | bent here. You are standing in an observation gallery far above the Floyd | floor, which is filled with concentric circles of workstation desks. Floyd | All face the centre of the room, where another circular desk is placed Floyd | on a raised platform. Above all of this, a huge three-dimensional Floyd | globe hangs in empty space. The dim lighting in the room comes mainly Floyd | from the planet, which glows with an internal light. To the north, Floyd | stairs lead up to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | A display monitor hangs above the gallery. There's a message on the Floyd | monitor. Floyd | Floyd | You saw this room on your first visit to the Administration Centre, Floyd | all those years ago. It was even more awe-inspiring then: the room Floyd | seemed even more gigantic, and at that time, it was full of people, Floyd | all busily at work on the floor below. It felt like standing at the Floyd | centre of the world. You knew this was the place you wanted to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 1 Moves: 24 Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | The display is an enormous high-resolution flat-screen monitor, Floyd | suspended from the gallery ceiling. It shows a message: green text on Floyd | black background. Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28199, Floyd | Floyd | You must be wondering where everyone has gone. Let me explain. Floyd | Floyd | A serious situation has developed, and I have been forced to take Floyd | emergency steps to isolate the Administration Centre - and ourselves - Floyd | from the outside world. This isolation prevents my communicating with Floyd | you normally, and at present I can only do so via this screen. I will Floyd | explain more in due course. Floyd | Floyd | In the meantime, I need you to obtain the emergency access card. Floyd | It's in the museum north of here. It allows you to enter the Floyd | Maintenance Room, which is northwest of the Lobby. Then POKE Floyd | 411251181. Afterwards, please return here for further instructions. Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "where's my tea and/or coffee." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n.n" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 26 Floyd | Floyd | > N.N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | Museum of Pre-Administration Government Floyd | This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, Floyd | stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and Floyd | in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is Floyd | coming from the corridor to the south and faintly from a blank video Floyd | screen just beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most Floyd | too far away into the dark to be readable. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a glass case containing an access card. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break case" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 27 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK CASE Floyd | Floyd | The glass shatters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take card" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 1 Moves: 28 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CARD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 1 Moves: 29 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 1 Moves: 30 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 1 Moves: 31 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 32 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 33 Floyd | Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | The sign is on the western door. It reads: 'POKE Room. Unauthorised Floyd | access is prohibited by the Central Administrator. Misuse of POKE will Floyd | corrupt physical memory and may result in instantaneous death, reboot, Floyd | data loss, segmentation fault, brain damage, infinite loops and loss Floyd | of network access. If in any doubt, do not enter.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 1 Moves: 34 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28199, Floyd | Floyd | You must be wondering where everyone has gone. Let me explain. Floyd | Floyd | A serious situation has developed, and I have been forced to take Floyd | emergency steps to isolate the Administration Centre - and ourselves - Floyd | from the outside world. This isolation prevents my communicating with Floyd | you normally, and at present I can only do so via this screen. I will Floyd | explain more in due course. Floyd | Floyd | In the meantime, I need you to obtain the emergency access card. Floyd | Then go west from the Maintenance Room and POKE 411251181. Afterwards, Floyd | please return here for further instructions. Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 1 Moves: 35 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | POKE Room Floyd | You are standing within core memory, completely surrounded by the raw, Floyd | working elements of a vast machine. Lights pulsate and flicker all Floyd | around you: the effect is like wandering around within your own brain. Floyd | You can see 4,294,967,295 buttons here. A door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "gasp. That's a lotta buttons." | |
| DavidW asks, "also, where's the PEEK Room?" | ||
| Doug says, "it's a lot more than 69,105." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke 411251181" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 2 Moves: 36 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 411251181 Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button, nothing obvious happens here, but you sense Floyd | that something has changed elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yet you can count them in no time" | |
| DavidW says, "point 2 achieved" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Be careful with your poking. Just FYI." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 2 Moves: 37 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the Floyd | console's display. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 38 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28199, Floyd | Floyd | The Administration Centre is under attack. The network is flooded Floyd | by virus packets, and I am unable to do anything other than hold back Floyd | the flood. Floyd | Floyd | However, you can help. By great fortune, you were due to take an Floyd | exam today, and that involved some special measures which have Floyd | protected you from the attack. Like me, you are connected to an Floyd | independent system which is unaffected by the virus. But unlike me, Floyd | you are able to control a maintenance robot. I need you to use that Floyd | robot to save us. Floyd | Floyd | Take control of the robot via the portal in the Maintenance Room. Floyd | In the outside world, find a Diagnostic network socket, such as WS4, Floyd | or perhaps WS2, though I'm not sure that one is working. PLUG a Floyd | network cable into it, and PLUG the other end into the Central Floyd | Administrator socket, which is labelled WS3. You might need to find Floyd | several network cables and JOIN them together: there is a cable Floyd | joining tool in the old Broadcasting Studio. Floyd | Floyd | That connection should re-establish some internal communications Floyd | and let me run some diagnostics. It may be enough to fight the virus. Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "it took us like 2 hours to get this far." | |
| Jacqueline says, "There was a lot of explore everything slowly happening." | ||
| Doug says, "no one wanted to drive." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, I admit I haven't been exploring everything." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was pretty sleepy still." | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. I guess maybe I should find the studio and that joining tool first?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 39 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | northeast into the portal. Floyd | southeast to the Lobby. Floyd | west to the POKE Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 40 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x green door" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 41 Floyd | Floyd | > X GREEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It's a small green door in the northwest corner of the room, under the Floyd | staircase. The word 'MAINTENANCE' is written faintly on the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 42 Floyd | Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | The mural shows the construction of a gigantic Gothic cathedral by Floyd | medieval craftsmen. The cathedral, which is half finished, is covered Floyd | in both primitive scaffolding and workmen, each of whom is busily Floyd | engaged in creating some small part of the whole. It is already a Floyd | thing of great beauty on both a micro and macro scale, though it may Floyd | be a century before the work is done. A tiny caption reads 'The Floyd | Rebuilding of Civilisation'. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "was that a rhetorical question?" | |
| DavidW says, "I was not asking for a hint." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 43 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Quadrangle. Floyd | northwest to the Maintenance Room. Floyd | up to the Mezzanine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 3 Moves: 44 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quadrangle Floyd | The quadrangle is completely surrounded by Administration Centre Floyd | buildings. It's a large, square outdoor space with well-tended lawns Floyd | and flowerbeds and paths leading in all directions. The place is Floyd | unnervingly quiet. Though the buildings, paths and gardens are Floyd | well-lit, the sky is completely black. Floyd | Floyd | There is a sundial in the centre of the quadrangle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sundial" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 3 Moves: 45 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUNDIAL Floyd | Floyd | As there is no sun, the sundial isn't working. You notice a quotation Floyd | on the brass dial. It reads: 'What we do here matters somewhere else.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 3 Moves: 46 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | The only exit leads south to the Lobby. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I thought there were paths in all directions" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 3 Moves: 47 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You discover that the door to the residential wing has locked behind Floyd | you. You cannot return to the bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 3 Moves: 48 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The doors in that direction are locked. The only exit leads south to Floyd | the Lobby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Quadrangle Score: 3 Moves: 49 Floyd | Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | A plastic card much like a credit card. It is made of white plastic Floyd | and bears the text: 'EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE ACCESS'. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. The card only grants access to the Maint Rm, not everywhere." | |
| DavidW says, "Not a skeleton key." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 50 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 3 Moves: 51 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x newspaper" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 3 Moves: 52 Floyd | Floyd | > X NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | It's one of the few newspapers that still has a printed edition, Floyd | though for obvious reasons, this is an electronic copy. The front page Floyd | story is all about an African dictator named Mugaffi. It is Floyd | illustrated with pictures of children being treated for chemical burns Floyd | outside a school. A few days ago, chemical weapons were used in the Floyd | rebel city of Morgazi. 'Sources' blame Mugaffi's forces for the Floyd | attack. Floyd | Floyd | According to the newspaper, this is the latest horrible incident of Floyd | the full-blown civil war in Assadia. Though the protests against the Floyd | corrupt Mugaffi regime began peacefully enough, the regime retaliated Floyd | brutally - first with riot police, then with soldiers - and the Floyd | situation rapidly escalated into war between rebels and regime forces. Floyd | Last week, Mugaffi launched airstrikes against rebel-held cities. Now Floyd | he uses chemical weapons against unarmed civilians, in contravention Floyd | to all law, decency and sanity. But Mugaffi is afraid of the usual Floyd | fate of deposed dictators, and he will do anything to cling to power. Floyd | Floyd | You recall that Assadia is an independent country outside of the Floyd | Administration. As such, Mugaffi is free to do as he pleases, with no Floyd | authority to restrain his gangster government. Strange, though, that Floyd | the situation should have developed so quickly. You had thought that Floyd | Mugaffi only won his presidency last year, as an anti-corruption Floyd | candidate with much acclaim in the media, and was generally thought to Floyd | be doing a good job in hard circumstances. But the newspaper reports Floyd | imply that he's been in power for years. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Another indicator that a lot of time has passed." | |
| DavidW says, "If only newspapers had dates on them." | ||
| Doug asks, "you mean a lot of time since 2016?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Since the PC went to bed." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, hm." | ||
| DavidW says, "He or she has done a Rip van Winkle." | ||
| DavidW says, "But the game is being coy about it." | ||
| Doug asks, "why do you say that?" | ||
| DavidW says, "because of the mirror. We look older than we should." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, the reflection? hm." | ||
| DavidW says, "And here the newspaper says more that a one-year presidency has run for many years." | ||
| Doug says, "I think there's another explanation but I'm not actually sure." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, good catch." | ||
| DavidW says, "Yes, there is another explanation. That sim. dept memo." | ||
| DavidW says, "This might be entirely a simulation." | ||
| DavidW says, "There might be no virus, no war, no emergency." | ||
| Doug | [LINK] | ||
| Doug says, "wait that's not the one I meant to paste." | ||
| Doug says, "apparently there are many comics about simulation, heh." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 3 Moves: 53 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The doors are locked. In this building, office doors are usually keyed Floyd | to the identity of the person who works there, so these doors will Floyd | only open for the Central Administrator, unless he is already in the Floyd | office. It seems that he is out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 3 Moves: 54 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug | [LINK] | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 3 Moves: 55 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Observation Gallery Floyd | You are in a cavernous room built on the same vast scale as a concert Floyd | hall. It cannot possibly fit within the buildings of the Floyd | Administration Centre - the normal rules of geometry have clearly been Floyd | bent here. You are standing in an observation gallery far above the Floyd | floor, which is filled with concentric circles of workstation desks. Floyd | All face the centre of the room, where another circular desk is placed Floyd | on a raised platform. Above all of this, a huge three-dimensional Floyd | globe hangs in empty space. The dim lighting in the room comes mainly Floyd | from the planet, which glows with an internal light. To the north, Floyd | stairs lead up to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | A display monitor hangs above the gallery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x planet" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 3 Moves: 56 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLANET Floyd | Floyd | The 3D representation of Earth hangs in the centre of the room, Floyd | suspended in empty space. It's a three-dimensional political map, Floyd | highlighting countries and major cities, and it's tilted so that much Floyd | of your view is filled with the European continent, where the Floyd | countries of the First Settlement are shaded green. Across the Floyd | Mediterranean Sea, much of Africa is shaded pink. The exception is the Floyd | North African country of Assadia, which appears in yellow to indicate Floyd | a major crisis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x assadia" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 3 Moves: 57 Floyd | Floyd | > X ASSADIA Floyd | Floyd | Assadia is a North African country run by a vicious gangster named Floyd | Mugaffi. The yellow colour indicates that a major crisis is happening Floyd | there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 3 Moves: 57 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the rows of workstation desks or the raised central Floyd | platform? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "central" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 3 Moves: 58 Floyd | Floyd | > CENTRAL Floyd | Floyd | It's a large desk in the middle of the room, directly below the model Floyd | of the Earth. At times of crisis, the Central Administrator and his Floyd | assistants may direct operations from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rows" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 3 Moves: 59 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROWS Floyd | Floyd | The Administrators do much of their work here. Each desk is assigned Floyd | to some small region of the world, with physically adjacent regions Floyd | occupying adjacent desks in this room. The workstations allow Floyd | situations to be analysed, resources to be allocated, and Floyd | Administration decisions to be sent to the outside world. The layout Floyd | of the room makes it easy to coordinate with neighbours. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I suppose there's no Assadia desk since they're not governed by the Administrators?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x africa" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 3 Moves: 60 Floyd | Floyd | > X AFRICA Floyd | Floyd | That part of the world is independent from the Administration. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(need another bathroom break)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I guess this means you ended up making tea at some point." | ||
| DavidW says, "no, this was me losing a few pounds." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks for clearing that up." | ||
| DavidW says, "I should stop and refill one of my tea bottles, though." | ||
| Doug says, "British pounds, I'm going to pretend you meant." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline) DavidW says (to Doug), "Oh, if you want it translated into British, then what I meant was I lost one stone." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Observation Gallery Score: 3 Moves: 61 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | The only exit leads north to the Corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 3 Moves: 62 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 3 Moves: 63 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Administrator's Office Floyd | This is the office of the Security Administrator. There is no sign of Floyd | the Administrator or any other staff. The door leads west to the Floyd | corridor. The office is furnished by a desk, sofa, a bookshelf, and a Floyd | mural on the northern wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 3 Moves: 64 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A very solid-looking wooden desk, bare and clean, as if it's just been Floyd | delivered by an upmarket furniture shop. You feel like something is Floyd | missing from the desk, but you can't remember what it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 3 Moves: 65 Floyd | Floyd | > X SOFA Floyd | Floyd | A large and comfortable leather sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 3 Moves: 66 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKSHELF Floyd | Floyd | The bookshelves seem to have been emptied recently. Marks in the dust Floyd | show where books have been removed. There is a book on the top shelf. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 3 Moves: 67 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | It's one of the well known Idiots' Guide series of computer books. It Floyd | has a friendly yellow cover, on which a cartoon man offers to tell you Floyd | how to 'Crack computers, flood networks and steal information'. The Floyd | book contains several hundred pages of instructions for finding and Floyd | exploiting security holes in computers. While this book may be filled Floyd | with all sorts of interesting information, none of it's going to come Floyd | up on your exam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 3 Moves: 68 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mural" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 3 Moves: 69 Floyd | Floyd | > X MURAL Floyd | Floyd | The mural shows a dystopian cityscape of ugly skyscrapers and foul Floyd | motorways. Miserable crowds mill around in the polluted, smoggy Floyd | streets. The picture is intensely detailed, so you can even guess at Floyd | what some of the people are doing, though none of them seem happy: Floyd | miserable commuters, miserable criminals, miserable homeless people. Floyd | Skyscrapers tower above them, adorned with the logos of credit cards Floyd | and banks, and bearing the flags of failed governments. A tiny caption Floyd | reads 'Where We Came From'. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, before and after murals. cute." | |
| DavidW says, "Also, probably both are exaggerated to the point of absurdity." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Security Administrator's Office Score: 3 Moves: 70 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | The only exit leads west to the Corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 3 Moves: 71 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 72 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Museum of Pre-Administration Government Floyd | This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, Floyd | stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and Floyd | in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is Floyd | coming from the corridor to the south and faintly from a blank video Floyd | screen just beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most Floyd | too far away into the dark to be readable. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glass case (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 73 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The rope is not much of a barrier, but presumably it is there for a Floyd | reason... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 74 Floyd | Floyd | > X SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | The video screen is blank but producing a faint light. You notice a Floyd | sticky label on the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x label" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 75 Floyd | Floyd | > X LABEL Floyd | Floyd | There's a message on the label: 'Keeps breaking. 495147333 to reset.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 3 Moves: 76 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 3 Moves: 77 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 78 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 79 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 3 Moves: 80 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | POKE Room Floyd | You are standing within core memory, completely surrounded by the raw, Floyd | working elements of a vast machine. Lights pulsate and flicker all Floyd | around you: the effect is like wandering around within your own brain. Floyd | You can see 4,294,967,295 buttons here. A door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke 495147333" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 3 Moves: 81 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 495147333 Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button, nothing obvious happens here, but you sense Floyd | that something has changed elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 3 Moves: 82 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. The only exit leads east to the Maintenance Floyd | Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 83 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 84 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 3 Moves: 85 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 3 Moves: 86 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 87 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Museum of Pre-Administration Government Floyd | This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, Floyd | stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and Floyd | in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is Floyd | coming from the corridor to the south and from a video screen just Floyd | beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most too far away Floyd | into the dark to be readable. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glass case (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 88 Floyd | Floyd | > X SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | The video screen is showing a televised interview with the Central Floyd | Administrator. He is wearing a dark suit, and even in this old Floyd | recording, his hair has already started to turn grey. The sound is Floyd | faint, but you can make out some of the discussion if you listen Floyd | carefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 89 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | (to the video screen) Floyd | The Central Administrator is speaking: Floyd | Floyd | '...having committed themselves to so-called science-based Floyd | policies, these being policies tested by computer simulation, the Floyd | intellectual class could not raise an objection when the simulators Floyd | produced answers they had not expected.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 90 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | (to the video screen) Floyd | 'Such as?' prompts the interviewer. Floyd | Floyd | 'I mean that the simulations favoured social policies that the Floyd | intellectuals had regarded as conservative, old-fashioned and Floyd | reactionary. The data clearly pointed at stability, liberty and Floyd | personal responsibility as the key properties of a good society. The Floyd | people had assumed that the machines would confirm their own beliefs Floyd | in globalism, socialism and so forth. They had never questioned those Floyd | beliefs, and indeed did not even think that their beliefs were Floyd | beliefs. The idea that the machine might come up with the 'wrong' Floyd | answer never occurred to them.' Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, 'they' might prefer to think the machines were tampered with." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 91 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | (to the video screen) Floyd | 'This must have created some problems,' the interviewer remarks. Floyd | Floyd | 'Oh, well, some. But nothing greatly significant. The simulations Floyd | were quite repeatable. There were a few cases where independent Floyd | research got different answers, but these were discredited. I audited Floyd | their software and traced the differences to software bugs. Coding Floyd | errors. It turns out that humans are almost as bad at writing software Floyd | as they are at running a government!' Floyd | Floyd | The interviewer laughs. 'Is there any link between the two?' Floyd | Floyd | 'I think so. Humans... well, all of us... struggle to deal with Floyd | complexity. When dealing with a complex system, like a country, or a Floyd | large software program, the temptation is always to assume that you Floyd | know enough to make an informed guess about what should be done. It is Floyd | a temptation that must be resisted. Everything must be thoroughly Floyd | tested before it is allowed to 'go live'. You must do everything you Floyd | can to avoid destabilising something that used to work.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 92 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | (to the video screen) Floyd | 'But were there protests?' presses the interviewer. Floyd | Floyd | 'Some people will disagree with government no matter what it does. Floyd | That is fine. They may choose to complain, and we may choose to Floyd | listen. I think, though, that one reason the intellectuals eventually Floyd | accepted the new system is that they found themselves in bad company. Floyd | They now stood alongside deniers and conspiracy theorists, the same Floyd | people they had once mocked as 'wingnuts' and lunatics for denying the Floyd | validity of simulation results. Ultimately, they came over to our side Floyd | out of embarrassment as much as anything. Pretended they had agreed Floyd | with us all along...'. Floyd | Floyd | The screen goes blank again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yay plot" | |
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume you've already seen this part." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope" | ||
| DavidW says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We hadn't fixed the screen. Wanted to, but that's about where interest trailed off." | ||
| Doug says, "no, we did see this part, but I think you had left" | ||
| DavidW says, "I feel this is still the intro part, and that the main part of the game is the 'outside' world with the robot. But I'm guessing." | ||
| Doug says, "pretty much." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know where the broadcasting studio is, but maybe it's 'outside' too and not in the admin bldg." | ||
| DavidW says, "so, off to the robot." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 3 Moves: 93 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I kinda want to poke these plaques." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 3 Moves: 94 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lobby" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 3 Moves: 95 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOBBY Floyd | Floyd | You can see some of the lobby from up here, but you would need to go Floyd | downstairs to see any detail. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "have you looked at them?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Looked at what?" | ||
| Doug says, "the plaques" | ||
| DavidW says, "Not explicitly, no." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Oh, true. I did have to step out a little bit, may have just missed this bit." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plaque" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 3 Moves: 96 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLAQUE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of three such plaques: the others are placed along the Floyd | corridor to the east. Each briefly describes one of the three values Floyd | of the Administration: Stability, Liberty, and Responsibility. Exams Floyd | are highly likely to involve essays on interactions between the three, Floyd | but it never hurts to revise a little more, so you read the Floyd | description below the word: Floyd | Floyd | 'Administrators have a duty to ensure that their government is stable, Floyd | reliable and predictable, so that the freedoms and benefits enjoyed by Floyd | subjects are unchanged from day to day, untouched by the chaos of Floyd | civil disorder and economic turmoil. Policies with the potential to Floyd | cause unrest, upheaval and conflict are considered dangerous, and Floyd | Administrators are required to test all policies rigorously in Floyd | simulation before deployment. As Pratchett wrote, Floyd | Floyd | 'People believe they want justice and wise government but, in fact, Floyd | what they really want is an assurance that tomorrow will be very much Floyd | like today.' Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, wasn't expecting all that. I thought it was a plaque with just one word on it, not an essay." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 3 Moves: 97 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plaque" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 3 Moves: 98
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLAQUE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of three such plaques: the others are to the north and west.
Floyd | Each briefly describes one of the three values of the Administration:
Floyd | Stability, Liberty, and Responsibility. Exams are highly likely to
Floyd | involve essays on interactions between the three, but it never hurts
Floyd | to revise a little more, so you read the description below the word:
Floyd |
Floyd | 'Administrators have a duty to uphold freedom of speech, thought and
Floyd | conscience, along with processes to prevent injustice such as jury
Floyd | trial. No person may be punished for holding opinions, however
Floyd | disagreeable these opinions may be. As Queen Elizabeth I famously
Floyd | said,
Floyd |
| ||
| Floyd'[We] have no desire to make windows into men's souls.' | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 99 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Museum of Pre-Administration Government Floyd | This is the Administration Centre's museum. It's a vast hall, Floyd | stretching far away to the north and east. It is currently closed and Floyd | in darkness. A red rope blocks passage to the north and east. Light is Floyd | coming from the corridor to the south and faintly from a blank video Floyd | screen just beyond the rope. Exhibition displays fill the room, most Floyd | too far away into the dark to be readable. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Responsibility' on the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a glass case (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plaque" | ||
Floyd ] Museum of Pre-Administration Government Score: 3 Moves: 100 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLAQUE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of three such plaques: the others are to the south. Each Floyd | briefly describes one of the three values of the Administration: Floyd | Stability, Liberty, and Responsibility. Exams are highly likely to Floyd | involve essays on interactions between the three, but it never hurts Floyd | to revise a little more, so you read the description below the word: Floyd | Floyd | 'Administrators have a duty to nurture personal responsibility, as Floyd | this is necessary to build a strong, lawful and liberal society. It is Floyd | held that each adult person has free will and is responsible for his Floyd | or her actions. As Burke wrote, Floyd | Floyd | 'Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and Floyd | appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the Floyd | more there must be without.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor Score: 3 Moves: 101 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | The corridor turns a corner here, continuing to the north and west. Floyd | The Security Administrator's office is through a door to the east, and Floyd | to the south, a short staircase leads downwards to a darkened room. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Liberty' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Mezzanine Score: 3 Moves: 102 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Mezzanine Floyd | The first floor landing forms a mezzanine here, overlooking the lobby Floyd | below. It's a sort of waiting room, placed right outside the Central Floyd | Administrator's office, which is through the double doors to the west. Floyd | A corridor leads east, and a grand staircase leads down. Like the rest Floyd | of the building, the mezzanine is deserted, but if anyone was waiting Floyd | here, they would be able to sit on the sofa and read the papers on the Floyd | coffee table. Or they might look at the rather Administratively-themed Floyd | artwork on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There's a plaque bearing the word 'Stability' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the coffee table are a memo and a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 103 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | This is the main entrance to the sprawling Administration Centre. Floyd | Large doors to the south would lead to the driveway and surrounding Floyd | parkland, but you cannot see anything through the windows in the south Floyd | wall. A grand staircase leads upwards. Doors lead east and west to the Floyd | wings of the main building, while a smaller exit leads north to the Floyd | quadrangle. There is a green door in the northwest corner of the room. Floyd | There's a mural on the western wall, and a portrait and a mirror on Floyd | the eastern wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the reception desk is a fax machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 104 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Quadrangle. Floyd | northwest to the Maintenance Room. Floyd | up to the Mezzanine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 105 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The door in that direction is locked. Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Quadrangle. Floyd | northwest to the Maintenance Room. Floyd | up to the Mezzanine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Score: 3 Moves: 106 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door in that direction is locked. Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Quadrangle. Floyd | northwest to the Maintenance Room. Floyd | up to the Mezzanine. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I find it weird that 'exits' would leave out locked doors." | |
| DavidW says, "Secret doors, I could understand." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 107 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 108 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench (on which is a screwdriver) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robot" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 109 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROBOT Floyd | Floyd | You are a well-oiled and somewhat noisy maintenance robot. Your robot Floyd | body has a humanoid configuration - two legs, two arms, and a head, Floyd | but it could not possibly pass for a human anywhere, not even a sci-fi Floyd | convention, because the design is so completely functional. There is Floyd | no skin; tubes, solenoids and wires are exposed along with the metal Floyd | skeleton. The machine was never designed to leave the bunker - its Floyd | intended purpose is limited to replacing server parts and installing Floyd | network gear. A black box is attached to you like a backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 110 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I don't have the book anymore. Also, I'm unclear how we go back." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 111 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | The backpack is a large black box attached to the back of your robot Floyd | body. It contains your physical mind, isolated from the network and Floyd | power supply of the data centre. The number 28199 is printed on the Floyd | box in a neat typeface. A second number has been crudely scratched on Floyd | it: 856414854. The box has a network socket. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, why would our ID number be painted on this robot?" | |
| DavidW says, "er printed" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x station" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 112 Floyd | Floyd | > X STATION Floyd | Floyd | The robot body may stand inside one of these in order to recharge its Floyd | battery. While the robot body is recharging, your mind returns to the Floyd | Administration Centre. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "maybe we ARE the robot" | |
| Doug says, "er, the black box." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, it said our mind in safe in there, yes, but that's no reason to print our number on the box." | ||
| DavidW asks, "What if someone else entered the portal?" | ||
| Doug asks, "how else would they know whose mind is in the box?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Under normal circumstances, we wouldn't be allowed in the Maint Rm at all." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take screwdriver" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 113 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SCREWDRIVER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 114 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | A flathead screwdriver with an insulated handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 115 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x workbench" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 116 Floyd | Floyd | > X WORKBENCH Floyd | Floyd | The workbench has seen better days! The wood is rotten and the legs Floyd | are very rusty. It looks like decades have passed since anybody used Floyd | it. There are some tools on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tools" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 3 Moves: 117 Floyd | Floyd | > X TOOLS Floyd | Floyd | Wrenches, a saw, drill bits: all rusted and completely useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The admin in charge of this maintenance needs correction." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 3 Moves: 118 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Generator Room Floyd | This room contains disused electrical equipment, much of it now buried Floyd | under an assortment of junk. Floyd | Floyd | There's a rusty metal switch marked 'Blast Door' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a heap of junk here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x junk" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 4 Moves: 119 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUNK Floyd | Floyd | All of this junk seems to have been cleared away from other parts of Floyd | the facility. It's mostly spartan furniture: bunk beds, mattresses, Floyd | desks and chairs. You see a network cable amongst the junk. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline claps. | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 4 Moves: 120 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 4 Moves: 121 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a single length of network cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x junk" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 4 Moves: 122 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUNK Floyd | Floyd | All of this junk seems to have been cleared away from other parts of Floyd | the facility. It's mostly spartan furniture: bunk beds, mattresses, Floyd | desks and chairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x generator" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 4 Moves: 123 Floyd | Floyd | > X GENERATOR Floyd | Floyd | You see a diesel generator and switching gear. A mercury rectifier Floyd | lurks in the shadows like something from Frankenstein's laboratory. Floyd | It's all antiquated, rusty, and completely beyond use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rectifier" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 4 Moves: 124 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECTIFIER Floyd | Floyd | You see a diesel generator and switching gear. A mercury rectifier Floyd | lurks in the shadows like something from Frankenstein's laboratory. Floyd | It's all antiquated, rusty, and completely beyond use. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't want to push the blast door switch just yet." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 4 Moves: 125 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | The only exit leads north to the Maintenance Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 4 Moves: 126 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug cable into ws2" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 4 Moves: 127 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO WS2 Floyd | Floyd | The single-length network cable is now plugged into Socket WS2. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug cable into ws3" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 5 Moves: 128 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO WS3 Floyd | Floyd | The single-length network cable is now plugged into Socket WS3. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline claps. | |
| Doug says, "you completed the point-giving circuit!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter station" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 5 Moves: 129 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER STATION Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the Floyd | console's display. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 5 Moves: 130 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28199, Floyd | Floyd | I attempted to assess the attack, but network socket WS2 is not Floyd | working and I can't get through to the diagnostic system. Floyd | Floyd | There's another network socket in the Battery Room. It is labelled Floyd | WS4. Please connect that socket to WS3. Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to join two network cables together, and run them Floyd | between the two rooms. You will find a tool for JOINing cables in the Floyd | old Broadcasting Studio. Join the cables, then connect network sockets Floyd | WS3 and WS4. Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 5 Moves: 131 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | 'Idiots' Guide to Writing Malware and Viruses' Floyd | an access card Floyd | an identity badge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 5 Moves: 132 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable is in your hand, and is also attached to Socket Floyd | WS2. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unplug ws2" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 5 Moves: 133 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG WS2 Floyd | Floyd | The single-length network cable is now unplugged from Socket WS2. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 5 Moves: 134 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a single-length network cable (plugged into Socket WS3) Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop cable" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 5 Moves: 135 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 5 Moves: 136 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a single-length network cable here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 5 Moves: 137 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x batteries" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 5 Moves: 138 Floyd | Floyd | > X BATTERIES Floyd | Floyd | There are hundreds of rechargeable batteries, all mounted in metal Floyd | racks. They provide electricity for the facility when mains power is Floyd | not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 5 Moves: 139 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 5 Moves: 140 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a single length of network cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x racks" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 5 Moves: 141 Floyd | Floyd | > X RACKS Floyd | Floyd | The racks are used to support the black boxes, making them easily Floyd | accessible for maintenance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boxes" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 5 Moves: 142 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOXES Floyd | Floyd | The physical minds of thousands of Administration staff. These boxes Floyd | contain your colleagues and associates. Each box is firmly mounted in Floyd | a metal rack, bears a five-digit number, and is the same shape as the Floyd | one you carry. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "goodness." | |
| Doug says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "So if we need to liaise with one of these jokers, we'd need to know their ID number and plug their box into something or other like this robot." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 5 Moves: 143 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | As you walk through the room, you notice a loose floor tile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tile" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 5 Moves: 144 Floyd | Floyd | > X TILE Floyd | Floyd | The floor tile moves slightly when you stand on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move tile" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 6 Moves: 145 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE TILE Floyd | Floyd | The floor tile is bulky, but you manage to lift it. This reveals a Floyd | void underneath the floor. You see a network cable in the void. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 6 Moves: 146 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | (the single-length network cable) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 6 Moves: 147 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Passage Score: 6 Moves: 148 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | This passage is blocked because the roof has collapsed. There's a pile Floyd | of rubble to the west, preventing any further progress in that Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rubble" | ||
Floyd ] Passage Score: 6 Moves: 149 Floyd | Floyd | > X RUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling has collapsed, blocking the passage with a pile of rubble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 6 Moves: 150 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a floor tile here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 151 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broadcasting Studio Floyd | The mixing desk, soundproof walls and 'On Air' sign in this room tell Floyd | you that it was originally intended to be used as a broadcasting Floyd | studio. Now it is being used as a store room for computer parts, which Floyd | have been stacked up against the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There is an instruction book on the mixing desk. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a satellite uplink kit and a toolbag (which is Floyd | closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take toolbag" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 152 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TOOLBAG Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 153 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | A network engineer's toolbag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 154 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You open the toolbag, revealing a cable joining tool and a Floyd | single-length network cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder how many of these ruddy cables do we need." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 155 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The book dates from the 1970s and contains many pages of typewritten Floyd | instructions which explain how to use the primitive studio facilities. Floyd | Reading the book makes it clear that this bunker was one of many Floyd | intended to house 'key personnel' during wartime. It seems it was Floyd | subsequently repurposed by the Central Administrator as his (physical) Floyd | home. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "WS3 and WS4 are not far apart." | |
| DavidW says, "I know. Which makes me think WS4 won't work either." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 156 Floyd | Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | The sign lights up when the studio is broadcasting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x equipment" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 156 Floyd | Floyd | > X EQUIPMENT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kit" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 157 Floyd | Floyd | > X KIT Floyd | Floyd | The satellite uplink kit is housed in a heavy case (which is closed). Floyd | It provides emergency network access via satellite, but can only be Floyd | used in an area with a clear view of the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open kit" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 158 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN KIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the satellite uplink kit indoors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 159 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broadcasting Studio Floyd | The mixing desk, soundproof walls and 'On Air' sign in this room tell Floyd | you that it was originally intended to be used as a broadcasting Floyd | studio. Now it is being used as a store room for computer parts, which Floyd | have been stacked up against the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There is an instruction book on the mixing desk. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a satellite uplink kit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x parts" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 160 Floyd | Floyd | > X PARTS Floyd | Floyd | Neat stacks of identical boxes, factory-sealed. You see motherboards, Floyd | power supplies and storage units - all spare parts for the data Floyd | centre. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 6 Moves: 161 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | The studio equipment is vintage. Given the right buyer, this old Floyd | analogue gear might be quite valuable. But it's no use to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 6 Moves: 162 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to move around with all these short network cables! Floyd | [Consider JOINing some of them together.] Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a floor tile here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 6 Moves: 163 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 6 Moves: 164 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Secure Room Floyd | This room was once an office. Some ancient desks and chairs are Floyd | cluttered into a corner, and you can see a faded calendar on the wall Floyd | beside a dusty portrait. There's a doorway to the east and a blast Floyd | door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some old desks and chairs here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 6 Moves: 165 Floyd | Floyd | > X PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | It's a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, covered in dust and dirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x calendar" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 6 Moves: 166 Floyd | Floyd | > X CALENDAR Floyd | Floyd | The year is 1990. Maybe that was the last time this room was used as Floyd | an office. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 6 Moves: 167 Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move portrait" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 6 Moves: 168 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desks" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 7 Moves: 169 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESKS Floyd | Floyd | Old and poor quality. The chairs look uncomfortable and flimsy, while Floyd | the desks are made of peeling chipboard. This could never have been a Floyd | pleasant place to work. You see a network cable underneath one of the Floyd | desks. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 7 Moves: 170 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | (the single-length network cable) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 7 Moves: 171 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a toolbag (which is open) Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blast" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 7 Moves: 172 Floyd | Floyd | > X BLAST Floyd | Floyd | A very heavy metal door, set in the south wall. It is closed. A number Floyd | has been scratched onto the door: 303738162. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 7 Moves: 173 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to move around with all these short network cables! Floyd | [Consider JOINing some of them together.] Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 174 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable lies on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blast" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 175 Floyd | Floyd | > X BLAST Floyd | Floyd | A very heavy metal door, set in the east wall and wide enough for a Floyd | car. It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 176 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tool" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 177 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TOOL Floyd | Floyd | (the cable joining tool) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 7 Moves: 178 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | This tool allows you to JOIN two network cables, or CUT one cable into Floyd | two sections. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "join cables" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 8 Moves: 179 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLES Floyd | Floyd | single-length network cable: The cables are joined, creating two Floyd | coiled lengths. Floyd | single-length network cable: The cables are joined, creating three Floyd | coiled lengths. Floyd | single-length network cable: The cables are joined, creating four Floyd | coiled lengths. Floyd | single-length network cable: The cables are joined, creating five Floyd | coiled lengths. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 8 Moves: 180 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a quintuple-length network cable (plugged into Socket WS3) Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | a toolbag (which is open but empty) Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 8 Moves: 181 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs east from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug cable into ws4" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 9 Moves: 182 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO WS4 Floyd | Floyd | The trailing network cable is now plugged into Socket WS4. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 9 Moves: 183 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (keeping hold of the trailing network cable) Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable is in your hand, and runs west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter station" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 9 Moves: 184 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER STATION Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the Floyd | console's display. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 10 Moves: 185 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28199, Floyd | Floyd | Thankyou, your new connection allowed me to assess the attack. Floyd | Floyd | It's worse than I thought. We have no external communications at Floyd | all; everything is infected. I need you to make a new connection via a Floyd | satellite uplink. Floyd | Floyd | Our enemy has discovered the location of our data centre, and will Floyd | soon attempt to break in. We must act quickly. You will need to open Floyd | the blast door on the east side of the bunker, and run a cable from Floyd | socket WS3 to some place where the sky is visible. Set up a satellite Floyd | uplink unit there, and connect it to the cable. Due to the distance, Floyd | you will need to join more network cables - probably as many as you Floyd | can find. Look in the Network Room first. There will be more in other Floyd | places. Floyd | Floyd | You will have to explore the caves. Floyd | Floyd | One more thing. Be careful with the other network sockets. Some of Floyd | them are flooded by the virus. If you connect them wrongly, it won't Floyd | damage the Administration, but it might prevent you returning here. Floyd | Floyd | Good luck... Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 10 Moves: 186 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable is in your hand, and runs west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 10 Moves: 187 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (keeping hold of the trailing network cable) Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS4. The cable is in your hand, and runs east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unplug ws4" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 10 Moves: 188 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG WS4 Floyd | Floyd | The trailing network cable is now unplugged from Socket WS4. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 10 Moves: 189 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (collecting the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable is in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 10 Moves: 190 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Generator Room Floyd | This room contains disused electrical equipment, much of it now buried Floyd | under an assortment of junk. Floyd | Floyd | There's a rusty metal switch marked 'Blast Door' on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a heap of junk here. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs north from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 10 Moves: 191 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | The rusty lever breaks off in your robot hand! It seems like you will Floyd | need some other tool to operate the switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push switch with screwdriver" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 10 Moves: 191 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SWITCH WITH SCREWDRIVER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use screwdriver" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 10 Moves: 192 Floyd | Floyd | > USE SCREWDRIVER Floyd | Floyd | Please be more specific about how you wish to use the screwdriver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x switch" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 10 Moves: 193 Floyd | Floyd | > X SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | A large metal switch. A faded label reads 'Blast Door'. The switch Floyd | lever has broken off. The casing is held shut by a large flathead Floyd | screw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unscrew casing with screwdriver" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 10 Moves: 194 Floyd | Floyd | > UNSCREW CASING WITH SCREWDRIVER Floyd | Floyd | The switch casing swings open, revealing the switch mechanism. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mechanism" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 10 Moves: 195 Floyd | Floyd | > X MECHANISM Floyd | Floyd | A large metal switch. A faded label reads 'Blast Door'. The switch Floyd | lever has broken off. The casing is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||
Floyd ] Generator Room Score: 11 Moves: 196 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You hear a frightful grinding of ancient machinery as the blast door Floyd | opens. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 11 Moves: 197 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (collecting the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable is in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 11 Moves: 198 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. There's a message on the Floyd | console's display. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 11 Moves: 199 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Exits lead: Floyd | northeast into the portal. Floyd | southeast to the Lobby. Floyd | west to the POKE Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 11 Moves: 200 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | [It looks like there is an important message on the console. Maybe you Floyd | should EXAMINE DISPLAY before doing anything else.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x display" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 11 Moves: 201 Floyd | Floyd | > X DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28199, Floyd | Floyd | It's worse than I thought. We have no external communications at Floyd | all; everything is infected. I need you to make a new connection via a Floyd | satellite uplink. Floyd | Floyd | Our enemy has discovered the location of our data centre, and will Floyd | soon attempt to break in. We must act quickly. You will need to run a Floyd | cable from socket WS3 to some place where the sky is visible. Set up a Floyd | satellite uplink unit there, and connect it to the cable. Due to the Floyd | distance, you will need to join more network cables - probably as many Floyd | as you can find. Look in the Network Room first. There will be more in Floyd | other places. Floyd | Floyd | You will have to explore the caves. Floyd | Floyd | One more thing. Be careful with the other network sockets. Some of Floyd | them are flooded by the virus. If you connect them wrongly, it won't Floyd | damage the Administration, but it might prevent you returning here. Floyd | Floyd | Good luck... Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sigh. I accidentally went the wrong way." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 11 Moves: 202 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable is in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "hm, didn't we already read that?" | |
| DavidW says, "We did, yes." | ||
| Doug asks, "oh, does it just not let you do anything but go back into the portal?" | ||
| DavidW says, "But I suppose every visit to the Admin Ctre must include a console reading." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, we were going into the portal. hm." | ||
| Doug says, "it might be a bug. usually it only insists we read new messages." | ||
| DavidW says, "I was trying to get the uplink kit." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 11 Moves: 203 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs east from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 11 Moves: 204 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a floor tile here. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs south from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 11 Moves: 205 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Broadcasting Studio Floyd | The mixing desk, soundproof walls and 'On Air' sign in this room tell Floyd | you that it was originally intended to be used as a broadcasting Floyd | studio. Now it is being used as a store room for computer parts, which Floyd | have been stacked up against the walls. Floyd | Floyd | There is an instruction book on the mixing desk. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a satellite uplink kit here. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs southeast Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take kit" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 11 Moves: 206 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KIT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||
Floyd ] Broadcasting Studio Score: 11 Moves: 207 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 11 Moves: 208 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | (collecting the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a floor tile here. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs south from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 11 Moves: 209 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (collecting the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs east from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 11 Moves: 210 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (collecting the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable is in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 11 Moves: 211 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs west from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. I bet the cable isn't meant to go through here." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 11 Moves: 212 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (collecting the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable is in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop cable" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 11 Moves: 213 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 11 Moves: 214 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 11 Moves: 215 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | A very heavy metal door, set in the west wall and wide enough for a Floyd | car. It is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x algae" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 11 Moves: 215 Floyd | Floyd | > X ALGAE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 11 Moves: 216 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 11 Moves: 217 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | River Overlook Floyd | You're standing on a path on the north side of an underground river Floyd | which flows through the cave here. The river level is too high to Floyd | allow passage in any direction except through a narrow passage to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 11 Moves: 218 Floyd | Floyd | > X RIVER Floyd | Floyd | The underground river flows from west to east. The rate of flow is Floyd | extremely rapid and the water looks very dangerous. It disappears Floyd | under the eastern wall of the cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x e" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 11 Moves: 219 Floyd | Floyd | > X E Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Why do I think that I have to dam this river?" | |
| Doug says, "dammed if I know." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 11 Moves: 220 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 11 Moves: 221 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | southwest to east. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 11 Moves: 222 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Damp Cavern Score: 11 Moves: 223 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Damp Cavern Floyd | You are at the western end of a long, damp cavern that stretches east. Floyd | A wide tunnel leads south, and a passage leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 11 Moves: 224 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North of the Chasm Floyd | You're in the north end of a large cave, standing beside a chasm which Floyd | blocks passage to the south. The chasm was once spanned by a Floyd | footbridge, but it collapsed years ago. On the other side of the Floyd | chasm, you see the wall of the bunker. Passages lead east and Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | There is a cabinet here. A narrow conduit runs from the cabinet to the Floyd | bunker on the other side of the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I bet I was expected to find South of the Chasm first." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 11 Moves: 225 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINET Floyd | Floyd | A rusty metal box which has probably been here since the bunker was Floyd | built. It's about the size and shape of a gym locker. A sign on the Floyd | door reads 'GPO Telephones'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 226 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | Opening the cabinet reveals some modern networking gear, and Network Floyd | Socket Z5. You see a network cable inside the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 227 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gear" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 228 Floyd | Floyd | > X GEAR Floyd | Floyd | The label reads 'Socket Z5 - Unfiltered'. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chasm" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 229 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHASM Floyd | Floyd | A wide and deep chasm. You can't see the bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x conduit" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 230 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONDUIT Floyd | Floyd | The conduit is a rectangular plastic pipe, a few inches in diameter, Floyd | and it's bolted to the western cave wall. It seems to be filled with Floyd | wires which run from the bunker wall to the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Emergency Staircase Score: 12 Moves: 231 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emergency Staircase Floyd | You are at the foot of a round concrete shaft, which was once filled Floyd | with a spiral staircase, apparently an emergency exit from the bunker. Floyd | The staircase collapsed years ago, and is now just a heap of wreckage Floyd | at the bottom of the shaft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x heap" | ||
Floyd ] Emergency Staircase Score: 12 Moves: 232 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEAP Floyd | Floyd | This was once an emergency exit from the bunker, but it's completely Floyd | unusable now, just a pile of wreckage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Emergency Staircase Score: 12 Moves: 233 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The staircase is completely unusable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "still playing finalexam?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| DavidW says, "I arrived very late, so it's just me playing." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 234 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North of the Chasm Floyd | You're in the north end of a large cave, standing beside a chasm which Floyd | blocks passage to the south. The chasm was once spanned by a Floyd | footbridge, but it collapsed years ago. On the other side of the Floyd | chasm, you see the wall of the bunker. Passages lead east and Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | There is a cabinet here. A narrow conduit runs from the cabinet to the Floyd | bunker on the other side of the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket Z5 is inside the cabinet. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Damp Cavern Score: 12 Moves: 235 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Damp Cavern Floyd | You are at the western end of a long, damp cavern that stretches east. Floyd | A wide tunnel leads south, and a passage leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Black Pool Score: 12 Moves: 236 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Black Pool Floyd | You are near the eastern end of a long, damp cavern. Much of the floor Floyd | of the cavern is covered by a pool of dark, still, brackish water. A Floyd | passage leads southwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plastic float near the edge of the pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Black Pool Score: 12 Moves: 237 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | southwest to the Fork. Floyd | west to the Damp Cavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "this is annoying . I need to extend my map onto another page." | |
| Doug says, "heh." | ||
| Doug says, "yeah the map is kind of in landscape mode." | ||
| Ghogg says, "I don't remember having a map that sprawling, although I guess it's always possible to choose a starting point that mucks you up" | ||
| Ghogg says, "oh I guess if you have the paper upright" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x float" | ||
Floyd ] Black Pool Score: 12 Moves: 238 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOAT Floyd | Floyd | It's the sort of thing that a lifeguard might carry at a beach. The Floyd | float is made of red plastic, though it's become grimy and Floyd | discoloured. The float has a reinforced hole at one end for attaching Floyd | a rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "I usually never do that" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take float" | ||
Floyd ] Black Pool Score: 12 Moves: 239 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FLOAT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Black Pool Score: 12 Moves: 240 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Black Pool Floyd | You are near the eastern end of a long, damp cavern. Much of the floor Floyd | of the cavern is covered by a pool of dark, still, brackish water. A Floyd | passage leads southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||
Floyd ] Black Pool Score: 12 Moves: 241 Floyd | Floyd | > X POOL Floyd | Floyd | This water looks like it has not been disturbed for centuries. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "(weirdly did recently on secret mission, but I already had a notion what the map looked like)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 12 Moves: 242 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ok, I really need to sleep. Hopefully I can keep a connection long enough to see you finish." | |
| Doug says, "have fun!" | ||
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 243 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 244 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | east to southwest. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 245 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 246 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 247 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South of the Chasm Floyd | You're in the middle of a large cave which runs northeast and south, Floyd | standing near the corner of the concrete wall of the bunker, which is Floyd | to the southwest. A wide chasm spans the cave here, preventing passage Floyd | to the north. The chasm was once spanned by a footbridge, but it Floyd | collapsed years ago, and only a few rusted girders remain. A narrow Floyd | conduit, bolted to the western cave wall, runs from the bunker to a Floyd | cabinet on the other side of the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x conduit" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 248 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONDUIT Floyd | Floyd | The conduit is a rectangular plastic pipe, a few inches in diameter, Floyd | and it's bolted to the western cave wall. It seems to be filled with Floyd | wires which run from the bunker wall to the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wires" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 248 Floyd | Floyd | > X WIRES Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bunker wall" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 249 Floyd | Floyd | > X BUNKER WALL Floyd | Floyd | It is the outer wall of the bunker. It is as tall as the cave and made Floyd | entirely of reinforced concrete, stained a slimy green colour by Floyd | decades of damp and algae growth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bridge" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 250 Floyd | Floyd | > X BRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | All that remains of the footbridge are a few rusted girders on each Floyd | side of the chasm. Over decades, the moisture in these caverns must Floyd | have eroded the bridge, until it broke under its own weight and Floyd | disappeared into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chasm" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 251 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHASM Floyd | Floyd | A wide and deep chasm. You can't see the bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 252 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 253 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 254 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | southwest to east. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 255 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 12 Moves: 256 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 257 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 258 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIPE Floyd | Floyd | The pipe is made from rusty iron, and is around eight inches in Floyd | diameter. It looks like a waste pipe. It spans the lake, and seems to Floyd | be strong enough to use as a bridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I hope it's strong enough." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 259 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The robot body cannot swim. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear float" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 260 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR FLOAT Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 261 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You start to cross the lake by walking along the pipe, but you Floyd | struggle to balance because of the weight and bulk of the satellite Floyd | uplink kit. If you want to cross, you'll either have to drop that, or Floyd | drop almost everything else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop kit" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 262 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP KIT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 263 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mud" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 264 Floyd | Floyd | > X MUD Floyd | Floyd | The ground here is muddy, wet clay. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig mud" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 265 Floyd | Floyd | > DIG MUD Floyd | Floyd | You do not need to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so no buried cables?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Score: 12 Moves: 266 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Waterfall Floyd | You're standing on some slippery rocks to the south of a waterfall. An Floyd | underground river emerges from high on the western wall here, forming Floyd | a magnificent waterfall, then flowing away to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Iria has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x waterfall" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Score: 12 Moves: 267 Floyd | Floyd | > X WATERFALL Floyd | Floyd | The water emerges from the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Score: 12 Moves: 267 Floyd | Floyd | > X RIVER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the underground lake or the waterfall? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lake" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Score: 12 Moves: 268 Floyd | Floyd | > X LAKE Floyd | Floyd | The water foams at the base of the waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Score: 12 Moves: 269 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | The only exit leads east to the Lake Beach. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "this is pretty weird." | |
| DavidW says, "I see no particular reason to be here, unless to pick up something that went over the waterfall." | ||
| DavidW asks, "was the sky visible at the emerg stair?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 270 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 271 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a satellite uplink kit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take kit" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 272 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KIT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 12 Moves: 273 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 274 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Damp Cavern Score: 12 Moves: 275 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Damp Cavern Floyd | You are at the western end of a long, damp cavern that stretches east. Floyd | A wide tunnel leads south, and a passage leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 276 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North of the Chasm Floyd | You're in the north end of a large cave, standing beside a chasm which Floyd | blocks passage to the south. The chasm was once spanned by a Floyd | footbridge, but it collapsed years ago. On the other side of the Floyd | chasm, you see the wall of the bunker. Passages lead east and Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | There is a cabinet here. A narrow conduit runs from the cabinet to the Floyd | bunker on the other side of the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket Z5 is inside the cabinet. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Emergency Staircase Score: 12 Moves: 277 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Emergency Staircase Floyd | You are at the foot of a round concrete shaft, which was once filled Floyd | with a spiral staircase, apparently an emergency exit from the bunker. Floyd | The staircase collapsed years ago, and is now just a heap of wreckage Floyd | at the bottom of the shaft. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up" | ||
Floyd ] Emergency Staircase Score: 12 Moves: 278 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP Floyd | Floyd | The walls and roof of the cave are formed from limestone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||
Floyd ] Emergency Staircase Score: 12 Moves: 279 Floyd | Floyd | > X SKY Floyd | Floyd | The walls and roof of the cave are formed from limestone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I guess not." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 280 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North of the Chasm Floyd | You're in the north end of a large cave, standing beside a chasm which Floyd | blocks passage to the south. The chasm was once spanned by a Floyd | footbridge, but it collapsed years ago. On the other side of the Floyd | chasm, you see the wall of the bunker. Passages lead east and Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | There is a cabinet here. A narrow conduit runs from the cabinet to the Floyd | bunker on the other side of the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket Z5 is inside the cabinet. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Damp Cavern Score: 12 Moves: 281 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Damp Cavern Floyd | You are at the western end of a long, damp cavern that stretches east. Floyd | A wide tunnel leads south, and a passage leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 282 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 283 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | east to southwest. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 284 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 285 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 286 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable forms a coil on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 287 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a satellite uplink kit Floyd | a plastic float Floyd | an instruction book Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | a toolbag (which is open but empty) Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "join cable" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 288 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLE Floyd | Floyd | The cables are joined, creating six coiled lengths. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 289 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sextuple-length network cable (plugged into Socket WS3) Floyd | a satellite uplink kit Floyd | a plastic float Floyd | an instruction book Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | a toolbag (which is open but empty) Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "How's it going?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop cable" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 290 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay. I think I need to open the other blast door now, but I should save first." | |
| DavidW says, "I also need another bathroom break." | ||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 290 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 291 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up z5 in book" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 292 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP Z5 IN BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in 'Idiots' Guide to Writing Malware Floyd | and Viruses'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up virus in book" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 293 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP VIRUS IN BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in 'Idiots' Guide to Writing Malware Floyd | and Viruses'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 294 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | It's one of the well known Idiots' Guide series of computer books. It Floyd | has a friendly yellow cover, on which a cartoon man offers to tell you Floyd | how to 'Crack computers, flood networks and steal information'. The Floyd | book contains several hundred pages of instructions for finding and Floyd | exploiting security holes in computers. While this book may be filled Floyd | with all sorts of interesting information, none of it's going to come Floyd | up on your exam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 295 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Exits lead: Floyd | northeast into the portal. Floyd | southeast to the Lobby. Floyd | west to the POKE Room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 12 Moves: 296 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | POKE Room Floyd | You are standing within core memory, completely surrounded by the raw, Floyd | working elements of a vast machine. Lights pulsate and flicker all Floyd | around you: the effect is like wandering around within your own brain. Floyd | You can see 4,294,967,295 buttons here. A door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 303738162" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 12 Moves: 297 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH 303738162 Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button, nothing happens at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 298 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 299 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable forms a coil on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 12 Moves: 300 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 12 Moves: 301 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Secure Room Floyd | This room was once an office. Some ancient desks and chairs are Floyd | cluttered into a corner, and you can see a faded calendar on the wall Floyd | beside a dusty portrait. There's a doorway to the east and a blast Floyd | door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some old desks and chairs here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 12 Moves: 302 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | A very heavy metal door, set in the south wall. It is closed. A number Floyd | has been scratched onto the door: 303738162. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 12 Moves: 303 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The blast door is firmly closed. It can only be opened electronically. Floyd | The controls must be elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I was hoping that poking its number would open it." | |
| DavidW says, "oh wait. Perhaps I have to say poke, not push." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Secure Room Score: 12 Moves: 304 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Secure Room Floyd | This room was once an office. Some ancient desks and chairs are Floyd | cluttered into a corner, and you can see a faded calendar on the wall Floyd | beside a dusty portrait. There's a doorway to the east and a blast Floyd | door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some old desks and chairs here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 12 Moves: 305 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 306 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable forms a coil on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 307 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 12 Moves: 308 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | POKE Room Floyd | You are standing within core memory, completely surrounded by the raw, Floyd | working elements of a vast machine. Lights pulsate and flicker all Floyd | around you: the effect is like wandering around within your own brain. Floyd | You can see 4,294,967,295 buttons here. A door leads east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke 303738162" | ||
Floyd ] POKE Room Score: 12 Moves: 309 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE 303738162 Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button, nothing happens at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 310 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 311 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable forms a coil on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stations" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 312 Floyd | Floyd | > X STATIONS Floyd | Floyd | The robot body may stand inside one of these in order to recharge its Floyd | battery. While the robot body is recharging, your mind returns to the Floyd | Administration Centre. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left station" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 312 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT STATION Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x left station" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 312 Floyd | Floyd | > X LEFT STATION Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "west station" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 312 Floyd | Floyd | > WEST STATION Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x west station" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 312 Floyd | Floyd | > X WEST STATION Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "first station" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 312 Floyd | Floyd | > FIRST STATION Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x first station" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 312 Floyd | Floyd | > X FIRST STATION Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I feel a bit stymied at the moment. I don't know if I can look up topics in the malware book or not. And I'm a bit leery of poking other numbers or plugging the cable into unsafe sockets." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, you don't want to poke the wrong numbers." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's funny, but we hit a dead end that way." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Save first." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know why the secure room's blast door number did nothing." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm going to take a bit of a longer break to think about this and do a few other things." | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll just leave Perry running. Good luck with ideas popping into your head. :)" | ||
| DavidW asks, "My only ideas are to 1) throw the cable over the chasm, maybe tying it to the cable first, 2) put the kit in the float and put it at river overlook and hope to pick it up at the waterfall. Except why would I want the kit there?" | ||
| Ghogg asks, "is this rhetorical?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "(that is, do you actually want a hint?)" | ||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||
| DavidW says, "I do not want a hint" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 313 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable forms a coil on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tubes" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 313 Floyd | Floyd | > X TUBES Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 314 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The book dates from the 1970s and contains many pages of typewritten Floyd | instructions which explain how to use the primitive studio facilities. Floyd | Reading the book makes it clear that this bunker was one of many Floyd | intended to house 'key personnel' during wartime. It seems it was Floyd | subsequently repurposed by the Central Administrator as his (physical) Floyd | home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 315 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | The backpack is a large black box attached to the back of your robot Floyd | body. It contains your physical mind, isolated from the network and Floyd | power supply of the data centre. The number 28199 is printed on the Floyd | box in a neat typeface. A second number has been crudely scratched on Floyd | it: 856414854. The box has a network socket. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug cable into network socket" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 315 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO NETWORK SOCKET Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, Socket WS3 or Socket WS2? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug cable into box" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 316 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO BOX Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the sextuple-length network cable) Floyd | The sextuple-length network cable is now plugged into the black box. Floyd | The connection is established, and your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That was probably a mistake." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 317 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28199, Floyd | Floyd | It's worse than I thought. We have no external communications at Floyd | all; everything is infected. I need you to make a new connection via a Floyd | satellite uplink. Floyd | Floyd | Our enemy has discovered the location of our data centre, and will Floyd | soon attempt to break in. We must act quickly. You will need to run a Floyd | cable from socket WS3 to some place where the sky is visible. Set up a Floyd | satellite uplink unit there, and connect it to the cable. Due to the Floyd | distance, you will need to join more network cables - probably as many Floyd | as you can find. Look in the Network Room first. There will be more in Floyd | other places. Floyd | Floyd | You will have to explore the caves. Floyd | Floyd | One more thing. Be careful with the other network sockets. Some of Floyd | them are flooded by the virus. If you connect them wrongly, it won't Floyd | damage the Administration, but it might prevent you returning here. Floyd | Floyd | Good luck... Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 318 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable is in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop kit" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 319 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP KIT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 320 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs west from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 321 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | South of the Chasm Floyd | You're in the middle of a large cave which runs northeast and south, Floyd | standing near the corner of the concrete wall of the bunker, which is Floyd | to the southwest. A wide chasm spans the cave here, preventing passage Floyd | to the north. The chasm was once spanned by a footbridge, but it Floyd | collapsed years ago, and only a few rusted girders remain. A narrow Floyd | conduit, bolted to the western cave wall, runs from the bunker to a Floyd | cabinet on the other side of the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs south from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw cable north" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 322 Floyd | Floyd | > THROW CABLE NORTH Floyd | Floyd | The cable lands on the other side of the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, so that works." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 323 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Exits lead: Floyd | southeast to the Low Ceiling. Floyd | south to the Back Entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 324 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Exits lead: Floyd | southeast to the Low Ceiling. Floyd | south to the Back Entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 325 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Exits lead: Floyd | southeast to the Low Ceiling. Floyd | south to the Back Entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] South of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 326 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The bridge is gone: you will have to find another way around the Floyd | chasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 327 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (keeping hold of the trailing network cable) Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs north and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop cable" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 328 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 329 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 330 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | southwest to east. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 331 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Damp Cavern Score: 12 Moves: 332 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Damp Cavern Floyd | You are at the western end of a long, damp cavern that stretches east. Floyd | A wide tunnel leads south, and a passage leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 333 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | North of the Chasm Floyd | You're in the north end of a large cave, standing beside a chasm which Floyd | blocks passage to the south. The chasm was once spanned by a Floyd | footbridge, but it collapsed years ago. On the other side of the Floyd | chasm, you see the wall of the bunker. Passages lead east and Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | There is a cabinet here. A narrow conduit runs from the cabinet to the Floyd | bunker on the other side of the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket Z5 is inside the cabinet. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | A network cable crosses the chasm: it runs south from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 334 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug cable into z5" | ||
Floyd ] North of the Chasm Score: 12 Moves: 335 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE INTO Z5 Floyd | Floyd | The trailing network cable is now plugged into Socket Z5. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Damp Cavern Score: 12 Moves: 336 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (letting go of the trailing network cable as it is still plugged into Floyd | Socket Z5) Floyd | Floyd | Damp Cavern Floyd | You are at the western end of a long, damp cavern that stretches east. Floyd | A wide tunnel leads south, and a passage leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 337 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 338 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | east to southwest. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 339 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 340 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs north and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 341 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable runs east. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a satellite uplink kit and a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 342 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. The console's display is Floyd | filled with line noise, and a red light is flashing. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 343 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display is filled with random characters Floyd | and weird flashing colours. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, that's not good" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x red light" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 344 Floyd | Floyd | > X RED LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | It's on the console beside the display. The light is marked 'Network Floyd | Flood'. The light is flashing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter portal" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 345 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the portal, you take on physical form. You now find Floyd | yourself standing in the outside world, in the metallic form of a Floyd | maintenance robot... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable runs east. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a satellite uplink kit and a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unplug cable" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 346 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG CABLE Floyd | Floyd | The trailing network cable is now unplugged from Socket WS3. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 347 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | The maintenance room is a round room with a low ceiling. The walls are Floyd | made of shiny brushed metal, giving an impression of 1970s science Floyd | fiction. Doors lead west and southeast. You see a warning sign on the Floyd | western door. Floyd | Floyd | There is a console in the centre of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A portal occupies most of the northeast wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 348 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is on a pedestal in the centre of the room. There is a Floyd | display and a keyboard. The display shows a message: Floyd | Floyd | 'Dear candidate 28199, Floyd | Floyd | It's worse than I thought. We have no external communications at Floyd | all; everything is infected. I need you to make a new connection via a Floyd | satellite uplink. Floyd | Floyd | Our enemy has discovered the location of our data centre, and will Floyd | soon attempt to break in. We must act quickly. You will need to run a Floyd | cable from socket WS3 to some place where the sky is visible. Set up a Floyd | satellite uplink unit there, and connect it to the cable. Due to the Floyd | distance, you will need to join more network cables - probably as many Floyd | as you can find. Look in the Network Room first. There will be more in Floyd | other places. Floyd | Floyd | You will have to explore the caves. Floyd | Floyd | One more thing. Be careful with the other network sockets. Some of Floyd | them are flooded by the virus. If you connect them wrongly, it won't Floyd | damage the Administration, but it might prevent you returning here. Floyd | Floyd | Good luck... Floyd | Floyd | Yours, Floyd | Central Administrator.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 290
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 291 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a satellite uplink kit Floyd | a plastic float Floyd | an instruction book Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | a toolbag (which is open but empty) Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put tool, book, screwdriver in bag" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 292
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT TOOL, BOOK, SCREWDRIVER IN BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | cable joining tool: Done.
Floyd | instruction book: Done.
Floyd | screwdriver: Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop kit" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 293 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP KIT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 294 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 295 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 296 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | southwest to east. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 297 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | There is no space to turn around: the only way is east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. interesting." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 298 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 299 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | east to southwest. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 300 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Exits lead: Floyd | east to the Dry Cave. Floyd | southwest to the Low Ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 301 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 302 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | River Overlook Floyd | You're standing on a path on the north side of an underground river Floyd | which flows through the cave here. The river level is too high to Floyd | allow passage in any direction except through a narrow passage to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put float in river" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 303 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLOAT IN RIVER Floyd | Floyd | The float is sucked under the water by a powerful current. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 304 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 305 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | southwest to east. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 306 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 12 Moves: 307 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 308 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 309 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Score: 12 Moves: 310 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Waterfall Floyd | You're standing on some slippery rocks to the south of a waterfall. An Floyd | underground river emerges from high on the western wall here, forming Floyd | a magnificent waterfall, then flowing away to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the underground lake is a plastic float. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That answers that. The float does go from overlook to waterfall." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take float" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Score: 12 Moves: 311 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FLOAT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 312 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 313 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Lakeside View. Floyd | east to the Ladder Bottom. Floyd | west to the Waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oho. I missed an exit" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 314 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ladder Bottom Floyd | You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs Floyd | from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. Floyd | A ladder leads upwards to a manhole cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grating" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 315 Floyd | Floyd | > X GRATING Floyd | Floyd | The grating is old, but very solid, and it completely blocks all Floyd | passage to the east. Only the pipe passes through it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 316 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIPE Floyd | Floyd | The pipe is made from rusty iron, and is around eight inches in Floyd | diameter. It looks like a waste pipe. It runs from the tunnel to the Floyd | west and passes through a heavy iron grating to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 317 Floyd | Floyd | > X LADDER Floyd | Floyd | The ladder is bolted to the wall of the cave and leads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cover" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 318 Floyd | Floyd | > X COVER Floyd | Floyd | The manhole cover is at the top of the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cover" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 319 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN COVER Floyd | Floyd | You open the manhole cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 12 Moves: 320 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ruin Floyd | You're standing in the ruins of a farmhouse. The roof is gone, and Floyd | some of the walls have collapsed. Thick brambles surround the ruin, Floyd | blocking passage in all directions. It is early morning, and the Floyd | remains of the building look beautiful in the dawn light. The air is Floyd | filled with birdsong. A manhole leads down into the caves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brambles" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 12 Moves: 321 Floyd | Floyd | > X BRAMBLES Floyd | Floyd | They are wild, prickly and tangled shrubs. They surround the farmhouse Floyd | and block passage in all directions. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, it looks like this is where to bring the cable and kit." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 322 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ladder Bottom Floyd | You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs Floyd | from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. Floyd | There's a faint light from above. A ladder leads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 323 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 324 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 12 Moves: 325 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 326 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 327 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | east to southwest. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 328 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 329 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 330 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The rest of the cable forms a coil on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a satellite uplink kit and a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take kit" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 331 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KIT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put kit in float" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 332 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT KIT IN FLOAT Floyd | Floyd | The float can't be tied to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put kit on float" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 333 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT KIT ON FLOAT Floyd | Floyd | The float can't be tied to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put float on kit" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 334 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLOAT ON KIT Floyd | Floyd | You need to open the satellite uplink kit first. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 335 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | You see six coiled lengths of network cable. The cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 336 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie cable to float" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 337 Floyd | Floyd | > TIE CABLE TO FLOAT Floyd | Floyd | The sextuple-length network cable is now tied to the plastic float. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, so maybe the float only gets the cable there." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 338 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 339 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 340 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | River Overlook Floyd | You're standing on a path on the north side of an underground river Floyd | which flows through the cave here. The river level is too high to Floyd | allow passage in any direction except through a narrow passage to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push save" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 340 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SAVE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 340 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put float in river" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 341 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLOAT IN RIVER Floyd | Floyd | The float is sucked under the water by a powerful current. The Floyd | trailing network cable is dragged along with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put kit in river" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 342 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT KIT IN RIVER Floyd | Floyd | It would be lost forever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull cable" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 343 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Pulling the trailing network cable might damage it! (However, the Floyd | cable may be CUT.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop kit" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 344 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP KIT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 12 Moves: 345 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. The only exit leads northwest to the Low Floyd | Ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 346 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | (keeping hold of the trailing network cable) Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs southeast and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop cable" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 347 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 348 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | southwest to east. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 349 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 12 Moves: 350 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 351 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 352 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Score: 12 Moves: 353 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Waterfall Floyd | You're standing on some slippery rocks to the south of a waterfall. An Floyd | underground river emerges from high on the western wall here, forming Floyd | a magnificent waterfall, then flowing away to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the underground lake is a plastic float. Floyd | Floyd | A network cable passes through the waterfall. It is tied to the Floyd | plastic float. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take float" | ||
Floyd ] Waterfall Score: 12 Moves: 354 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FLOAT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 355 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 356 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (letting go of the trailing network cable, as it is tied to the Floyd | plastic float, and it's too short to stretch to another room) Floyd | (dropping the plastic float as the trailing network cable is still Floyd | tied to it) Floyd | Floyd | Ladder Bottom Floyd | You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs Floyd | from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. Floyd | There's a faint light from above. A ladder leads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 357 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plastic float here. A cable is tied to the plastic Floyd | float. The cable runs west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie cable" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 358 Floyd | Floyd | > UNTIE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | The trailing network cable is now untied from the plastic float. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable. take float" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 360
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CABLE. TAKE FLOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 361 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (letting go of the trailing network cable, as you have none left) Floyd | Floyd | Ladder Bottom Floyd | You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs Floyd | from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. Floyd | There's a faint light from above. A ladder leads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 12 Moves: 361 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need more cable." | |
| DavidW says, "oh wait. There's a door ne of the Data Ctr that I didn't try." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 12 Moves: 362 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs west from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 12 Moves: 363 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 12 Moves: 364 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 12 Moves: 365 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 12 Moves: 366 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | east to southwest. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 12 Moves: 367 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs southeast Floyd | and west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 12 Moves: 368 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs east and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 12 Moves: 369 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable runs east. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 12 Moves: 370 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 12 Moves: 371 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a floor tile here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 12 Moves: 372 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door is in the northeast corner. It bears an old sign: 'GPO Room'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 12 Moves: 373 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Network Room Floyd | This is where network links enter the bunker. The room is filled with Floyd | racks of network equipment with brightly flashing lights. A door leads Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a twitching maintenance robot here. A cable is plugged Floyd | into the black box attached to the maintenance robot. The cable is Floyd | also attached to Socket WS1. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS1 is on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a single-length network cable here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see some glass cabinets here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robot" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 12 Moves: 374 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROBOT Floyd | Floyd | (the broken maintenance robot) Floyd | The robot is obviously malfunctioning. It lies on the floor, twitching Floyd | violently as if having a fit. In other respects, the robot looks just Floyd | like 'you': it has a humanoid body just like your own, and is plainly Floyd | intended to maintain the systems in the bunker. There's a black box Floyd | attached to the robot like a backpack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unplug broken robot" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 12 Moves: 375 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG BROKEN ROBOT Floyd | Floyd | The broken robot stops twitching. Floyd | Floyd | The single-length network cable is now unplugged from the black box Floyd | attached to the maintenance robot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 12 Moves: 376 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | (the black box attached to the maintenance robot) Floyd | The backpack is a large black box attached to the back of the broken Floyd | robot, containing his physical mind. There's a number printed on the Floyd | box, 40189, and a name: 'Maurice'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask maurice about maurice" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 12 Moves: 377 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAURICE ABOUT MAURICE Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 12 Moves: 378 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOX Floyd | Floyd | (the black box attached to the maintenance robot) Floyd | The poor robot has suffered enough! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ws1" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 12 Moves: 379 Floyd | Floyd | > X WS1 Floyd | Floyd | The label reads 'Socket WS1 - Unfiltered'. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS1. The rest of the cable is in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unplug ws1" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 12 Moves: 380 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG WS1 Floyd | Floyd | The single-length network cable is now unplugged from Socket WS1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 13 Moves: 381 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINETS Floyd | Floyd | Dozens of glass-fronted cabinets filled with modern networking gear. Floyd | You can see many network cables in the cabinets, but they're mostly Floyd | very short, just long enough to connect one router to another. Floyd | However, you notice one cable at the bottom of one cabinet, apparently Floyd | unconnected, and just within reach. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cable" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 13 Moves: 381 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the single-length network cable or a single-length Floyd | network cable? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cables" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 13 Moves: 382 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CABLES Floyd | Floyd | single-length network cable: Taken. Floyd | single-length network cable: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 13 Moves: 383 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Network Room Floyd | This is where network links enter the bunker. The room is filled with Floyd | racks of network equipment with brightly flashing lights. A door leads Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a broken maintenance robot here. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS1 is on the east wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see some glass cabinets here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lights" | ||
Floyd ] Network Room Score: 13 Moves: 384 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | Dozens of glass-fronted cabinets filled with modern networking gear. Floyd | You can see many network cables in the cabinets, but they're mostly Floyd | very short, just long enough to connect one router to another. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Data Centre Score: 13 Moves: 385 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Data Centre Floyd | This large room is filled with racks of black boxes. It seems that Floyd | many of the internal walls of the bunker were removed in order to make Floyd | more space. There is just enough room to move between the racks, but Floyd | not much more. You find doorways leading south, west and northwest. Floyd | There is a door in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a floor tile here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Battery Room Score: 13 Moves: 386 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Battery Room Floyd | This dingy concrete room is filled with racks of batteries, providing Floyd | backup power for the facility. There are doorways to the north, east Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS4 is on the south wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 13 Moves: 387 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable runs east. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 13 Moves: 388 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs east and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 13 Moves: 389 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs southeast Floyd | and west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 13 Moves: 390 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | southwest to east. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 13 Moves: 391 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 13 Moves: 392 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 393 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 394 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs west from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 13 Moves: 395 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ladder Bottom Floyd | You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs Floyd | from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. Floyd | There's a faint light from above. A ladder leads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 396 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs west from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "join cables" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 397 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLES Floyd | Floyd | trailing network cable: The cables are joined, creating two coiled Floyd | lengths. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 398 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs west from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 399 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a trailing network cable (runs west from here) Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a single-length network cable Floyd | a plastic float Floyd | a toolbag (which is open) Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | an instruction book Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "join cables" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 400 Floyd | Floyd | > JOIN CABLES Floyd | Floyd | trailing network cable: The cables are joined, creating three coiled Floyd | lengths. Floyd | trailing network cable: The cables are joined, creating four coiled Floyd | lengths. Floyd | trailing network cable: You have no other cable end to join to the Floyd | trailing network cable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 401 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a trailing network cable (runs west from here) Floyd | a plastic float Floyd | a toolbag (which is open) Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | an instruction book Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 13 Moves: 402 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Ladder Bottom Floyd | You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs Floyd | from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. Floyd | There's a faint light from above. A ladder leads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs west from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 13 Moves: 403 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | (laying the trailing network cable as you go) Floyd | Floyd | Ruin Floyd | You're standing in the ruins of a farmhouse. The roof is gone, and Floyd | some of the walls have collapsed. Thick brambles surround the ruin, Floyd | blocking passage in all directions. It is early morning, and the Floyd | remains of the building look beautiful in the dawn light. The air is Floyd | filled with birdsong. A manhole leads down into the caves. Floyd | Floyd | You are holding a trailing network cable. The cable runs down from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop cable" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 13 Moves: 404 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 13 Moves: 405 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ladder Bottom Floyd | You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs Floyd | from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. Floyd | There's a faint light from above. A ladder leads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs up and west Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 406 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs east and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 407 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 13 Moves: 408 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 13 Moves: 409 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 13 Moves: 410 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Damp Cavern. Floyd | east to the Fork. Floyd | west to the Crawl Tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 13 Moves: 411 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | east to southwest. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 13 Moves: 412 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs southeast Floyd | and west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 13 Moves: 413 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | River Overlook Floyd | You're standing on a path on the north side of an underground river Floyd | which flows through the cave here. The river level is too high to Floyd | allow passage in any direction except through a narrow passage to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | A network cable runs out of the narrow passage and disappears into the Floyd | river. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a satellite uplink kit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take kit" | ||
Floyd ] River Overlook Score: 13 Moves: 414 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KIT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 13 Moves: 415 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs southeast Floyd | and west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 13 Moves: 416 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | southwest to east. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 13 Moves: 417 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 13 Moves: 418 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 419 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 420 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You start to cross the lake by walking along the pipe, but you Floyd | struggle to balance because of the weight and bulk of the satellite Floyd | uplink kit. If you want to cross, you'll either have to drop that, or Floyd | drop almost everything else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw kit south" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 420 Floyd | Floyd | > THROW KIT SOUTH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw kit" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 421 Floyd | Floyd | > THROW KIT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take kit" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 422 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KIT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 423 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP ALL Floyd | Floyd | satellite uplink kit: Dropped. Floyd | plastic float: Dropped. Floyd | toolbag: Dropped. Floyd | black box: The black box contains your mind. If you disconnect it, you Floyd | die. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take kit" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 424 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KIT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 425 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You start to cross the lake by walking along the pipe, and you nearly Floyd | lose your balance on several occasions, but luckily you make it to the Floyd | other side... Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs east and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop kit" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 426 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP KIT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 427 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plastic float here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a toolbag (in which are a screwdriver, an instruction Floyd | book and a cable joining tool) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 13 Moves: 428 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | toolbag: Taken. Floyd | plastic float: Taken. Floyd | metal pipe: That's hardly portable. Floyd | underground lake: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 429 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs east and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a satellite uplink kit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take kit" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 13 Moves: 430 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KIT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 13 Moves: 431 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ladder Bottom Floyd | You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs Floyd | from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. Floyd | There's a faint light from above. A ladder leads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs up and west Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 13 Moves: 432 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ruin Floyd | You're standing in the ruins of a farmhouse. The roof is gone, and Floyd | some of the walls have collapsed. Thick brambles surround the ruin, Floyd | blocking passage in all directions. It is early morning, and the Floyd | remains of the building look beautiful in the dawn light. The air is Floyd | filled with birdsong. A manhole leads down into the caves. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs down from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop kit" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 13 Moves: 433 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP KIT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 13 Moves: 434 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | The uplink kit automatically unfolds a small satellite dish and locks Floyd | on to a satellite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dish" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 13 Moves: 435 Floyd | Floyd | > X DISH Floyd | Floyd | The satellite uplink kit is housed in a heavy case (which is open). Floyd | Within it, you see a small satellite dish and a network socket. It Floyd | provides emergency network access via satellite. The status panel on Floyd | the uplink kit shows that satellite communications are working, but Floyd | there is no data link yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug cable to socket" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 19 Moves: 436 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG CABLE TO SOCKET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the trailing network cable) Floyd | The status panel on the uplink kit lights up as the connection is Floyd | established! The trailing network cable is now plugged into the uplink Floyd | socket. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by six points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 19 Moves: 437 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a trailing network cable (plugged into the uplink socket and runs Floyd | down from here) Floyd | a plastic float Floyd | a toolbag (which is open) Floyd | a screwdriver Floyd | an instruction book Floyd | a cable joining tool Floyd | a black box Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop cable" | ||
Floyd ] Ruin Score: 19 Moves: 438 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CABLE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Ladder Bottom Score: 19 Moves: 439 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ladder Bottom Floyd | You are in a tall, round cave, like the bottom of a well. A pipe runs Floyd | from the passage to the west and through an iron grating to the east. Floyd | There's a faint light from above. A ladder leads upwards. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs up and west Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lake Beach Score: 19 Moves: 440 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Beach Floyd | You stand on a muddy beach on the south side of an underground lake. Floyd | The lake occupies almost all of the cave, leaving only this beach and Floyd | a path to the west. The lake is bridged by a pipe here - it comes from Floyd | a passage to the east, and then runs across the lake to the north. The Floyd | cave is filled with the sound of a waterfall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs east and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lakeside View Score: 19 Moves: 441 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You cautiously cross the lake by walking along the pipe... Floyd | Floyd | Lakeside View Floyd | You're standing on a rocky outcrop on the north side of an underground Floyd | lake. The lake is bridged by a large metal pipe, which crosses the Floyd | water to a small muddy beach on the far side. You hear a waterfall to Floyd | the west. A passage leads northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Fork Score: 19 Moves: 442 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fork Floyd | The passage divides in three directions here: west, northeast, and Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 19 Moves: 443 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dry Cave Floyd | You stand in a dry, circular cavern that forms a junction between Floyd | three passages. The passages to the north and east are wide and tall. Floyd | A crawl tunnel leads west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Dry Cave Score: 19 Moves: 444 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Exits lead: Floyd | north to the Damp Cavern. Floyd | east to the Fork. Floyd | west to the Crawl Tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crawl Tunnel Score: 19 Moves: 445 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crawl Tunnel Floyd | You are crawling through a very low, uneven passage that runs from Floyd | east to southwest. It is fortunate that you do not need to breathe, Floyd | because there is no space for breathing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Low Ceiling Score: 19 Moves: 446 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Low Ceiling Floyd | You're on the eastern edge of a large cave. The rocky ceiling is low Floyd | here, and underneath its lowest point, a crawl tunnel leads northeast. Floyd | A narrow passage leads southeast and the cave widens to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs southeast Floyd | and west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Back Entrance Score: 19 Moves: 447 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Entrance Floyd | You're in the southwest corner of a large cave. The walls of this cave Floyd | are part natural limestone, and part slimy concrete, covered in Floyd | decades of algae growth. To the west, you see the back entrance of the Floyd | bunker, which is a wide door set into a concrete wall. The wall Floyd | stretches north; the cave expands to the north and east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trailing network cable here. The cable runs east and Floyd | west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 19 Moves: 448 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance Room Floyd | This is a cold and dirty room with concrete walls and an oily floor. Floyd | There are no windows - the room is deep underground - and the only Floyd | light comes from aged, flickering fluorescent tubes. There's another Floyd | room to the south and a doorway to the west. Much of the eastern wall Floyd | is taken up by a blast door (which is open). Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS3 is on the south wall. A cable is plugged into Floyd | Socket WS3. The cable runs east. Floyd | Floyd | Network Socket WS2 is on the north wall. The socket is not in use. Floyd | Floyd | There are two charging stations on the north side of the room, each Floyd | large enough to accommodate your robotic body. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a workbench here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 20 Moves: 449 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the charging station, your robotic form shuts down... Floyd | Floyd | Sunshine streams through the windows of the lobby. The Central Floyd | Administrator and a few other senior staff are waiting to congratulate Floyd | you. You have passed your final exam. There is a brief round of Floyd | hand-shaking and back-patting. Floyd | Floyd | 'I am sorry it was a little unorthodox,' the Central Floyd | Administrator begins. 'It's normally just a three-hour viva. But I Floyd | think we can skip that, under the circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | 'Let me introduce you to the new Security Administrator. I had Floyd | thought that the attack came from outside, but it turns out to have Floyd | been something of a palace coup. There's been a reshuffle. Floyd | Floyd | 'The guilty party deserves a second chance, I think, but will not Floyd | be returning to a position of any responsibility. Floyd | Floyd | 'But, the good news: I've found you a job in Simulation. It will be Floyd | ideally suited to the skills and capabilities you ably demonstrated Floyd | today.' Floyd | Floyd | The new Security Administrator leads you up the stairs to introduce Floyd | you to your new co-workers. Floyd | Floyd | Your life as an Administrator has begun. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 20 out of a possible 20, in 449 turns Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | view the CREDITS or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] Maintenance Room Score: 20 Moves: 449 Floyd | Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Final Exam was written by Jack Whitham. The most recent version Floyd | of the game may be found on the author's website: Floyd | [LINK] Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Jillian Whitham for her patience, support, and proofreading; Floyd | to my parents for more things than I can list; and to my testers, Ted Floyd | Casaubon and Steven Postma, for invaluable feedback and playtesting. Floyd | Without their help, this game would probably have remained unplayable. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to Olly Kirk for bug reports during IFComp 2015, and to all who Floyd | played online and produced interesting transcripts for me to read. Floyd | Floyd | This game was produced using Graham Nelson's Inform 6 library and Floyd | compiler. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | view the CREDITS or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay me" | |
| DavidW says, "I imagine there's more to the game I never discovered, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "A winner is you, DW." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "thanks!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think I'll stop there rather than play around with it more. It is after midnight now." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Mmkay. But you're gonna?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ILAC" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | ||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "It was an interesting bit that one couldn't turn around in the Crawl Tunnel. I wonder if that detail becomes relevant in some | |
| situation." | DavidW says, "It's just, I won by following the chief admin's instructions, but there's enough backstory that there's probably other stuff hiding | |
| in the game." | Jacqueline says, "Oh, sure." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'm sure that's the case." | ||
| DavidW asks, "How far did the rest of you get with the game?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, as I said earlier, I left before we fixed that screen and saw the interview." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I can send you the raw transcript, if you're really curious." | ||
| DavidW says, "no, I can wait for the processed transcript." | ||
| Jacqueline) DavidW says, "i'm sure it'll be posted in a year or so." | ||
