  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
To skip directly to a particular game, click on its title: |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Teaspoon asks, "what did we have in mind for this week, more Imaginary Games?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Do you recall what the other Floydable games were in the imaginary games from imaginary universes collection?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "the Garbage game was one" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Teaspoon), "That's right. Thanks. I'll get that set up." | ||
| DavidW says, "lessee. Gaia's Web, Garbage Collection, Unreal City." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Thanks." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh really? That many. Cool." | ||
| DavidW says, "(I didn't remember, but I now indicate the platform in game directories.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Are you ready, or do you still need a minute?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "One could also say that few. There's a lot more than four non-Floyables." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "uh. I used the bathroom and rinsed my mouth. I'll catch up with as we play." | ||
| DavidW says, "er with the rest." | ||
| DavidW says, "I have cereal and paper and tea to hand." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, first off, has everybody read the blurb?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(I'm reading it now.)" | ||
| olethros arrives, full of fun and funk. | olethros says, "hey, I am here too, for a change. Where is the blurb" | |
| [LINK] | ||
| Teaspoon says, "halfway down" | ||
| olethros says, "not precise enough" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to olethros), "Garbage Collection" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm ready when others are." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm mostly ready. This sounds like it'll be fun." | ||
| olethros says, "ok" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It does. Though this may not be that game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This may be a fanfic of that game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I kind of suspect it'll be that game." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "looks fun anyhow" | ||
| olethros says, "sounds like quite an experience" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask garbagecollection" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Some of our more goal-oriented friends have complained that Floyd | explorers are too aimless--they don't know what to do with something Floyd | that just gives you a bunch of stuff to take apart. So I decided to Floyd | give them a nice linear directed version of the Garbage Explorer Floyd | experience. Happy garbage-picking!--expl0rerfr34k Floyd | Floyd | Garbage Collection Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by expl0rerfr34k (retrieved to this world by Floyd | Matt Weiner) Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160207 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | You pick up some garbage from the dump: A yellow film shimmers on a Floyd | sharp metal fragment. Floyd | Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n) | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |
| Teaspoon says, "heh, well-played" | ||
| olethros says, "yay" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Indeed - but will it now just be a stream of garbage descriptions, always with a 'Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)'?" | ||
| olethros says, "let's see" | ||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You leave the dump. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Some of our more goal-oriented friends have complained that Floyd | explorers are too aimless--they don't know what to do with something Floyd | that just gives you a bunch of stuff to take apart. So I decided to Floyd | give them a nice linear directed version of the Garbage Explorer Floyd | experience. Happy garbage-picking!--expl0rerfr34k Floyd | Floyd | Garbage Collection Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by expl0rerfr34k (retrieved to this world by Floyd | Matt Weiner) Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160207 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | You pick up some garbage from the dump: A white slick bubbles out of a Floyd | jagged chunk of rock. Floyd | Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n) | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |
| olethros says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A bent rubber strand.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
| DavidW says, "wait, y/n? We haven't examined it yet." | |
| Roger arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x strand" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STRAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
| DavidW says, "oh hell. Lagging again badly." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Aw. I think it may just be this. Which, to be fair, would be INSANELY easy to implement." | ||
| Roger says, "Hi kids" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A piece of metal is screwed to a fragment of plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
| olethros says, "you just examine them one by one by clicking Y or N" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "I guess lets do a few more just to ensure there's not more here?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A smashed shard of plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
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| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A cracked shard of plastic is attached to a cracked fragment of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
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| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the pits of a block of rock a fuchsia liquid gathers.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
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| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
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| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A knotted strand of rubber is screwed to a sharp piece of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
| DavidW says, "oh, I am disappointed." | |
| olethros says, "maybe we can play the original" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "it...does seem to be a bit of a letdown." | ||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A smooth wooden panel is lodged in a chunk of earth.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
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| olethros says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A sharp piece of wood is attached to a smashed fragment of plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
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| olethros says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Into a length of rope sinks a red slick.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
| DavidW says, "We don't get to examine anything." | |
| olethros says (to Floyd), "get ope" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET OPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
| Jacqueline says, "I suspect it's at least pulling the sentence fragments from a table so that there are a lot of different combos..." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, that's kind of meh." | |
| olethros says, "damn it, I only join once for floyd, and" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Fortunately, I uploaded another game." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "good thing too" | ||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A fragment of rubber is tied to a cracked piece of plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
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| olethros says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A chartreuse ooze shines on a fragment of metal and wets a wooden
Floyd | fragment that it is screwed to.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
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| olethros says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A thick mass of earth is wetted by a chartreuse liquid.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
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| olethros says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A white slick drips down a string of rubber and wets a piece of rope
Floyd | that it is tied to.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
| olethros says, "there is some interaction" | |
| olethros says, "the garbage interacts with itself" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A fuchsia secretion beads up on a smashed piece of glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n)
| Jacqueline asks, "May I end this?" | |
| olethros says, "yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You leave the dump. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, or QUIT? Floyd | > | Roger says, "YES" | |
| olethros says (to Floyd), "hints" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > HINTS Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, or QUIT? Floyd | > | Roger says, "Uh oh" | |
| DavidW asks, "Do the descriptions get longer, then?" | ||
| olethros says (to DW), "seems like it" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Does it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm lagging badly again, unfortunately." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "restart" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure that the descriptions do get longer or not." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Some of our more goal-oriented friends have complained that Floyd | explorers are too aimless--they don't know what to do with something Floyd | that just gives you a bunch of stuff to take apart. So I decided to Floyd | give them a nice linear directed version of the Garbage Explorer Floyd | experience. Happy garbage-picking!--expl0rerfr34k Floyd | Floyd | Garbage Collection Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by expl0rerfr34k (retrieved to this world by Floyd | Matt Weiner) Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160207 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | You pick up some garbage from the dump: A chartreuse slick pools on a Floyd | plastic surface. Floyd | Floyd | Examine another piece of garbage? (y/n) | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hints" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > HINTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "There you go, Roger." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You leave the dump. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline 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?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask gaiaweb" | ||
Floyd ] Chapter 12: The Silence of the Thunder Quests: Floyd | 11/12 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stream of Consciousness Floyd | From among the trees, you continue to watch the naked women. The Floyd | younger and shorter of the two wades into the stream, her hair like Floyd | threads spun from Midas' gold. She lowers her basket to the water's Floyd | surface. Fish flop into it, settling into a motionless stack. The Floyd | other woman, bright flowers in her black hair, plucks apples from a Floyd | tree and drops them into the basket hanging from her arm. The fruit Floyd | ripen and swell under her touch. Floyd | Floyd | You were right. Nymphs. Your search is nearly over. Floyd | Floyd | The water nymph returns to land. She begins to sing. The forest nymph Floyd | joins in, her pitch deeper than that of the blond. With both of their Floyd | baskets full, the pair follow the bank upstream. Floyd | Floyd | You venture from the trees to the stream, keeping the nymphs in sight. Floyd | They have joined a group of their sisters to the north of you. You Floyd | call that direction "north" because you're facing it; fatigue has Floyd | rendered your inner compass as trustworthy as Zeus with a farmer's Floyd | daughter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, the blurb for this one is on the same page, just below the blurb for Garbage Collection." | |
| Teaspoon says, "er" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] HELP MENU Floyd ] Press a number to choose an option or Floyd ] ESCAPE or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader Floyd | mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) Floyd | Floyd | 1. Introduction and How to Play (for novice and experienced Floyd | interactive fiction players) Floyd | 2. Hints Floyd | 3. Untangling the Web Floyd | 4. Acknowledgements | olethros says, "afk for a bit" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Acknowledgements (page 1 of 1) Floyd ] Floyd ] Press ESCAPE to return to menu or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd | ( - Acknowledgements) Floyd | Floyd | The creative team behind Gaia's Web was headed by Nigel Floyd | Jayne, with code contributed by Wade Clarke, Eric Eve, Stephen Floyd | Granade, Alice Grove, Jon Ingold, Aaron Reed, Emily Short, and Erik Floyd | Temple. Thank you to Jonathan Blask and David White for consulting on Floyd | the project and for testing. Comments and transcripts are welcome. Floyd | Send them to nigelsjayne@gmail.com. The game was designed using Inform Floyd | 7 ([LINK]), created by Graham Nelson with help from Emily Floyd | Short and many others. Floyd | Floyd | ------------------------ | Teaspoon says, "interesting pedigree" | |
| DavidW says, "'code contributed by' probably refers to extensions used." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "oooh, thata makes more sense" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, but that's very clever." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Just the wording, given this premise." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x" | ||
Floyd ] Chapter 12: The Silence of the Thunder Floyd | Quests: 11/12 Floyd | Stream of Consciousness Floyd | You're transfixed by the naked nymphs gathered to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Chapter 12: The Silence of the Thunder Floyd | Quests: 11/12 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Instead of lugging them around in your sack, you've decided to wear Floyd | Hades' helmet and Hermes' sandals, and carry Poseidon's trident. You Floyd | also carry the sirens' song locked in your head. The sack contains Floyd | even more bounty: Floyd | Achilles' heel Floyd | Asclepius" staff Floyd | some golden apples Floyd | the Graeae's eye Floyd | a plank, possibly from the ship of Theseus Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Chapter 12: The Silence of the Thunder Floyd | Quests: 11/12 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You reluctantly pull your attention away from the nymphs. The sirens Floyd | sing to the fishes now, while their feathered bodies thrash in the Floyd | tides among the rocks. Their song remains, however, starting every Floyd | morning upon awakening, plucking away at your brain like an eagle at Floyd | Prometheus' liver. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The Graeae again." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | >* Implement this verb..Noted. Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | Sighing, you decide that's enough testing for now. you close the Floyd | interpreter. Floyd | Floyd | Press a key to continue. | Jacqueline says, "Coincidence, or was that part of the writing prompts for this>" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "interesting" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "are we playing someone implementing a game?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "They are not listed on this site. I think it may actually be coincidental." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "look" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Chapter 12: The Silence of the Thunder Floyd | Quests: 11/12 Floyd | Gaia's Web Floyd | Floyd | Interactive Quality Assurance by The FromChaos Team, headed by Nigel Floyd | Jayne. Version 1. Copyright © 2016 by Nigel Jayne. LICENSE shows Floyd | copyright information. Floyd | All rights reserved. Serial number 160223 / Inform 7 build 6L38 Floyd | (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N) . Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A naked blond nymph is sitting on your desk, a clipboard resting on Floyd | her crossed legs. She taps her pouty lips with a pen. It falls from Floyd | her delicate fingers, teeters on her knee, and lands on the floor. She Floyd | frowns then bends over. Floyd | Floyd | You blink your weary eyes. The woman disappears. A nymph secretary Floyd | doesn't come with the job, but the office that does seems just as Floyd | unreal, with decor the dream of any teenager: big-screen television, Floyd | stereo system, and soundproofed walls. Even the window can be covered Floyd | to block exterior light and sound. Outside the window and anchored to Floyd | the building is a drone launch pad. The most important piece of Floyd | equipment, though, remains the desktop computer. Floyd | Floyd | All of this seemed intimidating when, six months ago, you joined the Floyd | team responsible for keeping S.hip of Theseus afloat by Floyd | providing the players real-time updates and orchestrating the game's Floyd | real-world interactivity. Fortunately, the project team is large, and Floyd | much of the typical player experience is automated, so you usually Floyd | have time for more conventional game development. Right now, though, Floyd | Thunderbird alerts you to an e-mail message with the subject Floyd | "RST Article." Floyd | Floyd | Experienced and new players of interactive fiction should type Floyd | ABOUT. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Hunh" | |
| Teaspoon exclaims, "we're a game designer!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hunh indeed" | ||
| Roger says, "Carrying around a piece of Achilles is pretty gross" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Instead of lugging them around in your sack, you've decided to wear Floyd | Hades' helmet and Hermes' sandals, and carry Poseidon's trident. The Floyd | sack contains even more bounty: Floyd | Achilles' heel Floyd | Asclepius" staff Floyd | some golden apples Floyd | the Graeae's eye Floyd | a plank, possibly from the ship of Theseus Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We didn't get to stay in the first story very long. I'm feeling confused." | |
| DavidW asks, "Also, is that a bug or not?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "we're a game designer who is testing our Greek-myth game in which we get to spy on lots of girls. In real life we've got a big shiny office." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Acknowledgements (page 1 of 1) Floyd ] Floyd ] Press ESCAPE to return to menu or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd | ( - Acknowledgements) Floyd | Floyd | The creative team behind Gaia's Web was headed by Nigel Floyd | Jayne, with code contributed by Wade Clarke, Eric Eve, Stephen Floyd | Granade, Alice Grove, Jon Ingold, Aaron Reed, Emily Short, and Erik Floyd | Temple. Thank you to Jonathan Blask and David White for consulting on Floyd | the project and for testing. Comments and transcripts are welcome. Floyd | Send them to nigelsjayne@gmail.com. The game was designed using Inform Floyd | 7 ([LINK]), created by Graham Nelson with help from Emily Floyd | Short and many others. Floyd | Floyd | ------------------------ | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Six months on the job, and your office still seems unreal: big-screen Floyd | television, stereo system, soundproofed walls, and a cover for the Floyd | window to minimize exterior sound and light. Outside the window and Floyd | anchored to the building is a drone launch pad. The most important Floyd | piece of equipment, though, remains the desktop computer. On it, Floyd | Thunderbird has flagged an e-mail message with the subject Floyd | "RST Article.". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You give yourself a strength of about 60, more mental than physical, Floyd | but you're determined to increase the maximum of both. Your stamina Floyd | started at 50 this morning after a good night's sleep, but weariness Floyd | has set in, and the early-afternoon caffeine jolt is fizzing out. Floyd | Maybe it's 25 now? Charm, on the other hand, holds steady at 50. The Floyd | HR department at FromChaos wanted "excellent interpersonal skills" for Floyd | this job, which isn't normally associated with a code-tester position. Floyd | It didn't take you too long after joining the S.hip of Floyd | Theseus team to learn why being cast such a large number for Floyd | "charm" on a throw of the cosmic dice would be so important. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | Every titan on the S.hip team monitors their own distinct set Floyd | of players. Outfitted with microphone and webcam, and with a Floyd | touch-screen, the computer is everything a titan needs. Using the Floyd | HarborMaster software, a titan can fix bugs in real-time, Floyd | monitor players through both transcripts and game sessions, and Floyd | initiate real-world responses, which include directing drones and Floyd | communicating with field agents. Floyd | Floyd | Thunderbird, your e-mail program, is open, and the "Rebuilding the Floyd | Ship" message has been flagged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "read message" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > READ MESSAGE Floyd | Floyd | You touch the flagged e-mail. The e-mail is from Kathryn Bogelew, one Floyd | of the Marketing executives at FromChaos: Below is an article that Floyd | will be published by The First POV on Monday. Please notify Floyd | me if it contains contentious material. Thank you. Floyd | Floyd | Will the Ship Sink? Floyd | Floyd | Two years ago, an anonymous game creator released S.hip of Floyd | Theseus, a game that redefined "interactive." The game took place Floyd | on screen and in the "real world." The within-game conspiracies Floyd | spilled over into reality, and players could find their inboxes full Floyd | of incriminating e-mails, their movements followed by cameras, their Floyd | conversations recorded. Players had reason to be suspicious of that Floyd | stranger hanging around the street or the people they saw at the Floyd | grocery store. Floyd | Floyd | The game became a huge success and eventually an independent game Floyd | creator, Marc Kamen, was outed as its author. Industry came calling, Floyd | but Marc refused their advances. Unfortunately, and apparently without Floyd | warning to family or friends, Marc committed suicide. FromChaos Floyd | obtained the rights to his creation. With their deeper pockets and Floyd | vast resources, FromChaos turned S.hip of Theseus into a Floyd | worldwide blockbuster. Floyd | Floyd | A sequel was inevitable. Earlier this year, FromChaos released Floyd | Gaia's Web, which wasn't that sequel, but rather a purely Floyd | text-based introduction to what was to come. This Friday, FromChaos is Floyd | publishing the heavily-anticipated follow-up to S.hip, Floyd | Re.constructing the Ship of Theseus. Every day this week we Floyd | will be previewing this new release, which boasts that it is Floyd | "interactive fiction that will change your world. Literally." Floyd | Floyd | For more information on S.hip of Theseus, read my review of Floyd | the game. Floyd | Floyd | Kathryn has attached the review, even though you can just click on the Floyd | link in her e-mail. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "whoa" | |
| DavidW says, "ack. page dump" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "lots of information all at once" | ||
| TerribleLikeGeminiRueandToTheMoon says, "Good job on the aposthrophes.." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read review" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > READ REVIEW Floyd | Floyd | You touch the S.hip of Theseus review. S.hip of Floyd | Theseus Floyd | Floyd | I was so pleased to see VM Straka's Ship of Theseus adapted Floyd | as a game; he's a criminally underrated writer. S.hip of Floyd | Theseus is one of the most interesting experiments I've seen Floyd | since the House of Leaves ARG disaster, so naturally I was Floyd | excited to see what the developers did. The manner of adaptation feels Floyd | like an homage to its source material: the game blends traditional IF Floyd | tools with new technology as you piece together the multinational Floyd | conspiracy at its heart. Most notably, the game tracks your progress Floyd | via drone surveillance, which is used to trigger later levels and make Floyd | information assimilation more difficult. (Flooding my department was a Floyd | nice touch of verisimilitude for which I applaud the anonymous Floyd | designer.) Floyd | Floyd | Where S.hip of Theseus shines is the incorporation of Floyd | multiplayer format; in Act 2 you're paired with another player, and so Floyd | the narrative shifts. Clues are possible to destroy, depending on how Floyd | careful a reader you are - or your partner is. (There's been a lot of Floyd | complaining about the procedurally-generated pairing lists, but the Floyd | developers quite rightly pointed out that it's possible to rig a Floyd | simple last-in-first-out stack to ensure two friends or lovers are Floyd | paired together. Though I can't imagine why you'd want to - being Floyd | responsible for a loved one's implication in a major government | ||
| Floyd conspiracy? If you get the [REDACTED] ending, you won't even find out | ||
Floyd | for a good 5-7 years if they can forgive you.) Floyd | Floyd | A siren calls from your computer; HarborMaster hails. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so that's the blurb" | |
| Roger says, "Haha, The House of Leaves ARG Disaster" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'm still wondering why we have our Greek inventory in the *real* world" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "unless we are carrying around apples, etc." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's because the game changes the Real World too." | ||
| DavidW says, "We had a naked nymph in the office too, remember." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to David), "Because that's the game." | ||
| Jacqueline | "interactive fiction that will change your world. Literally." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "no, we were *hallucinating* that nymph" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, that's one interpretation." | ||
| DavidW says, "This is really confusing, and I wish we had been grounded in the game-game first more." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think it was a hallucination." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We could restart, but I suspect it wouldn't have mattered what verbs we used, eventually it would have triggered a scene based on moves, I suspect." | ||
| DavidW says, "no, don't restart." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Six months on the job, and your office still seems unreal: big-screen Floyd | television, stereo system, soundproofed walls, and a cover for the Floyd | window to minimize exterior sound and light. Outside the window and Floyd | anchored to the building is a drone launch pad. The most important Floyd | piece of equipment, though, remains the desktop computer. Floyd | Floyd | HarborMaster continues its siren call. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It is all a bit much when I'm still rubbing sleep out of my eyes, though." | |
| Jacqueline says, "The sad truth is, David, this is the dream. You're still asleep." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "ha" | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "You don't want to know what I was dreaming about." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "x harbormaster" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x harbormaster" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X HARBORMASTER Floyd | Floyd | HarborMaster loads with the message: Good afternoon. We have Floyd | updated our systems, and we need a new password for you. Please Floyd | confirm your username and enter the new password. Use "Titan" for Floyd | default username. Floyd | Floyd | Username? | Teaspoon exclaims, "ooh, we can pick a name!" | |
| DavidW says, "It seems we can, yes." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "should we go with the default?" | ||
| Roger says, "Titanny McTitanface" | ||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "Thanks Boaty." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "if we're going for silly names, Pants is easier to type" | ||
| DavidW says, "Default is fine, but Floyd is a good choice too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm good with whatever." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Floyd is good" | ||
| DavidW says (to Teaspoon), "You choose." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Floyd it is then" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "Floyd" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | Username?
Floyd | > FLOYD
Floyd |
Floyd | floyd confirmed. Use UNDO if you want to cancel login.
Floyd |
Floyd | Password?
| Teaspoon says, "floyd1? It's not like anyone is going to hack this." | |
| DavidW says, "uh, use Pants here, I think." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "suits me" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "pants" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | Password?
Floyd | > PANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Passwords must be between 8 and 20 characters long.
Floyd |
Floyd | Password?
| DavidW says, "oh, evil versimiltude" | |
| Teaspoon exclaims, "ye gods and little fishes, of all the things to simulate!" | ||
| DavidW says, "mcpantsface" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "mcpantsface" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (14 mins; standby) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | Six months on the job, and your office still seems unreal: big-screen Floyd | television, stereo system, soundproofed walls, and a cover for the Floyd | window to minimize exterior sound and light. Outside the window and Floyd | anchored to the building is a drone launch pad. The most important Floyd | piece of equipment, though, remains the desktop computer. On it, Floyd | Thunderbird has flagged an e-mail message with the subject Floyd | "RST Article.". Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You give yourself a strength of about 60, more mental than physical, Floyd | but you're determined to increase the maximum of both. Your stamina Floyd | started at 50 this morning after a good night's sleep, but weariness Floyd | has set in, and the early-afternoon caffeine jolt is fizzing out. Floyd | Maybe it's 25 now? Charm, on the other hand, holds steady at 50. The Floyd | HR department at FromChaos wanted "excellent interpersonal skills" for Floyd | this job, which isn't normally associated with a code-tester position. Floyd | It didn't take you too long after joining the S.hip of Floyd | Theseus team to learn why being cast such a large number for Floyd | "charm" on a throw of the cosmic dice would be so important. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | Every titan on the S.hip team monitors their own distinct set Floyd | of players. Outfitted with microphone and webcam, and with a Floyd | touch-screen, the computer is everything a titan needs. Using the Floyd | HarborMaster software, a titan can fix bugs in real-time, Floyd | monitor players through both transcripts and game sessions, and Floyd | initiate real-world responses, which include directing drones and Floyd | communicating with field agents. Floyd | Floyd | Thunderbird, your e-mail program, is open, and the "Rebuilding the Floyd | Ship" message has been flagged. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > READ MESSAGE Floyd | Floyd | You touch the flagged e-mail. The e-mail is from Kathryn Bogelew, one Floyd | of the Marketing executives at FromChaos: Below is an article that Floyd | will be published by The First POV on Monday. Please notify Floyd | me if it contains contentious material. Thank you. Floyd | Floyd | Will the Ship Sink? Floyd | Floyd | Two years ago, an anonymous game creator released S.hip of Floyd | Theseus, a game that redefined "interactive." The game took place Floyd | on screen and in the "real world." The within-game conspiracies Floyd | spilled over into reality, and players could find their inboxes full Floyd | of incriminating e-mails, their movements followed by cameras, their Floyd | conversations recorded. Players had reason to be suspicious of that Floyd | stranger hanging around the street or the people they saw at the Floyd | grocery store. Floyd | Floyd | The game became a huge success and eventually an independent game Floyd | creator, Marc Kamen, was outed as its author. Industry came calling, Floyd | but Marc refused their advances. Unfortunately, and apparently without Floyd | warning to family or friends, Marc committed suicide. FromChaos Floyd | obtained the rights to his creation. With their deeper pockets and Floyd | vast resources, FromChaos turned S.hip of Theseus into a Floyd | worldwide blockbuster. Floyd | Floyd | A sequel was inevitable. Earlier this year, FromChaos released Floyd | Gaia's Web, which wasn't that sequel, but rather a purely Floyd | text-based introduction to what was to come. This Friday, FromChaos is Floyd | publishing the heavily-anticipated follow-up to S.hip, Floyd | Re.constructing the Ship of Theseus. Every day this week we Floyd | will be previewing this new release, which boasts that it is Floyd | "interactive fiction that will change your world. Literally." Floyd | Floyd | For more information on S.hip of Theseus, read my review of Floyd | the game. Floyd | Floyd | Kathryn has attached the review, even though you can just click on the Floyd | link in her e-mail. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > READ REVIEW Floyd | Floyd | You touch the S.hip of Theseus review. S.hip of Floyd | Theseus Floyd | Floyd | I was so pleased to see VM Straka's Ship of Theseus adapted Floyd | as a game; he's a criminally underrated writer. S.hip of Floyd | Theseus is one of the most interesting experiments I've seen Floyd | since the House of Leaves ARG disaster, so naturally I was Floyd | excited to see what the developers did. The manner of adaptation feels Floyd | like an homage to its source material: the game blends traditional IF Floyd | tools with new technology as you piece together the multinational Floyd | conspiracy at its heart. Most notably, the game tracks your progress Floyd | via drone surveillance, which is used to trigger later levels and make Floyd | information assimilation more difficult. (Flooding my department was a Floyd | nice touch of verisimilitude for which I applaud the anonymous Floyd | designer.) Floyd | Floyd | Where S.hip of Theseus shines is the incorporation of Floyd | multiplayer format; in Act 2 you're paired with another player, and so Floyd | the narrative shifts. Clues are possible to destroy, depending on how Floyd | careful a reader you are - or your partner is. (There's been a lot of Floyd | complaining about the procedurally-generated pairing lists, but the Floyd | developers quite rightly pointed out that it's possible to rig a Floyd | simple last-in-first-out stack to ensure two friends or lovers are Floyd | paired together. Though I can't imagine why you'd want to - being Floyd | responsible for a loved one's implication in a major government | ||
| Floyd conspiracy? If you get the [REDACTED] ending, you won't even find out | ||
Floyd | for a good 5-7 years if they can forgive you.) Floyd | Floyd | A siren calls from your computer; HarborMaster hails. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Six months on the job, and your office still seems unreal: big-screen Floyd | television, stereo system, soundproofed walls, and a cover for the Floyd | window to minimize exterior sound and light. Outside the window and Floyd | anchored to the building is a drone launch pad. The most important Floyd | piece of equipment, though, remains the desktop computer. Floyd | Floyd | HarborMaster continues its siren call. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > X HARBORMASTER Floyd | Floyd | HarborMaster loads with the message: Good afternoon. We have Floyd | updated our systems, and we need a new password for you. Please Floyd | confirm your username and enter the new password. Use "Titan" for Floyd | default username. Floyd | Floyd | Username? Floyd | > FLOYD Floyd | Floyd | floyd confirmed. Use UNDO if you want to cancel login. Floyd | Floyd | Password? Floyd | > PANTS Floyd | Floyd | Passwords must be between 8 and 20 characters long. Floyd | Floyd | Password? Floyd | > MCPANTSFACE Floyd | Floyd | Thank you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | HarborMaster V 2.6 is loading ... Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to HarborMaster Floyd | Floyd | Player(s): Eve Martin Location: Rice Lake, ON, Floyd | Canada Heading: North by northwest Average Speed Floyd | (km/h): 20 Floyd | Floyd | Locating and updating resources ... Done. Sidebar open and updated. Floyd | Appropriate field operatives have been notified. Type RESOURCES or Floyd | check the resource sidebar for information. Floyd | Microphone on. Floyd | Floyd | No game session available. Floyd | Floyd | From The Titan Handbook, ("Connecting with Players," pg. 43) Floyd | When a player has logged on but a game session is unavailable, visual Floyd | and textual connection is needed. Use your resources to confirm that Floyd | the player is in control of the playing device and sync playing device Floyd | with HarborMaster, which every field operative is trained to Floyd | do. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "poor David" | |
| Teaspoon says, "this will not be fun on that connection" | ||
| DavidW asks, "uh, weren't we just reading an email? Why are we in a game now?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "resources" | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > RESOURCES Floyd | Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (14 mins; standby) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Also, where's Rice Lake in Ontario? I don't know that one." | |
| Teaspoon says, "I loaded a game, sort of by accident." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we activate one?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "click chucky" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (13 mins; standby) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > CLICK CHUCKY Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (gray squirrel, (Sciurus carolinensis): Like all Floyd | animal operatives, squirrels are equipped with a microphone, which is Floyd | useful for listening to conversations and the environment. Small Floyd | animals like squirrels also have brain implants. Upon activation, the Floyd | squirrel will seek out the target game device and remain in the Floyd | vicinity until de-activation. Squirrels do not typically engage in Floyd | physical contact with the players. However, the actions of animals are Floyd | often unpredictable, as are the reactions of players upon encountering Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | Christopher Suthen is calling from his cell phone ... connected. Floyd | Floyd | From Christopher's cell phone: Those two yer after was just here at my Floyd | gas station. They got some food and gas. He's Roger. Short guy with Floyd | slicked back, long black hair. She's Eve. Short, blond hair. Pretty, Floyd | though I can't really say how 'cause I wasn't lookin' in her eyes, if Floyd | you catch me there. Both could be twenty-something. I offered to help Floyd | them get hooked up, but she wouldn't give me her phone. Guess I can't Floyd | blame her, though. Game like Ship. Players are a suspicious Floyd | group." Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks, Chris. We're on them now," you say. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I am so lost." | |
| Roger says, "How much does this game cost" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "a lot, one must assume" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "YOUR SOUL" | ||
| DavidW says, "We were first with forest nymphs, then in an office, then in Rice Lake with a squirrel and operatives and no time to adjust to anything." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "basically we're doing surveilliance for FUN and PROFIT on people. Our current targets are Roger and Eve. We have a squirrel named Chucky we can spy on them with." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "or three other operatives, from the looks of it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't get this targets business. I don't get what we're doing now." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "We're a game designer for a game that is all about spying on people. And probably shouting boo at them when they're not looking." | ||
| DavidW asks, "About spying?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Hence the reference to spying drones earlier." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "what this has to do with the opening bit about nymphs...has lost me. I still think that bit was a hallucination, but it's kinda hard to tell." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (12 mins; standby) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I thought the drones were for something else. Also, the drones were outside the office not in the wherever we are now." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "click alicia" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (11 mins; standby) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > CLICK ALICIA Floyd | Floyd | Alicia Anderson (student): Alicia, 23 years old, has been a freelance Floyd | field agent for 3 years. She is attractive, energetic, and personable. Floyd | She travels by motorcycle. Floyd | Floyd | From Travis' cell phone: They're on a side road. They're out in the Floyd | open now, but there's a lot of tree cover around, and they could be Floyd | headed for that, especially if they know we're onto them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "activate chucky" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (10 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE CHUCKY Floyd | Floyd | Brain stimulation successful. Chucky is heading toward game device. Floyd | Floyd | From Chucky's microphone: Grass rustles and birds chirp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "click travis" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (9 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > CLICK TRAVIS Floyd | Floyd | Travis Watson (Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)): Travis, 32 years old, Floyd | has been a versatile field agent for 10 years. He is most often used Floyd | to impersonate police officers, for which he has formal training. Floyd | Field agents are not employed by any police department, nor do they Floyd | operate in any official capacity with the police. In some Floyd | jurisdictions, field agents have been granted permission to Floyd | impersonate police officers or detectives, including the use of Floyd | uniforms and vehicles, under strict regulations. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "This squirrel doesn't even have an EXPLODE button? Weak" | |
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "Are you sure you're not confusing squirrels and kittens here?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose this is a bit like Suspended." | ||
| Roger says, "There's a level of PKD here which is kind of appealing though" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I'm sure unclear how to work with this. Is there more to the interface than CLICK/ACTIVATE/DEACTIVATE?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Does the game let us ASK TRAVIS ABOUT METH or direct CHUCKY, NORTH for example?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "chucky, north" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (8 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > CHUCKY, NORTH Floyd | Floyd | Chucky has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "chucky, look" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (7 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > CHUCKY, LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Chucky has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "click samuel" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (6 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > CLICK SAMUEL Floyd | Floyd | Samuel Walker (retired): Samuel, a 65-year-old former accountant, has Floyd | been a freelance field agent for six years. He is willing to assume Floyd | many roles, and his versatility means he is comfortable with Floyd | surveillance, reconnaissance, and physical confrontation. His wife, Floyd | Roberta, is also often available, and the two of them frequently Floyd | collaborate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "we could just activate everybody and see what happens" | |
| Roger says, "Samuel, you go pet that goddamn squirrel right now" | ||
| DavidW asks, "uh, I guess?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Teaspoon), "I endorse this plan." | ||
| Jacqueline says, ">ACTIVATE ALL" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Doubt that works.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "This has the feel of throwing things off a cliff and hoping they'll collide with interesting things unseen at the bottom." | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "falling crate of tomatoes!" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "activate samuel" | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE SAMUEL Floyd | Floyd | "Sam, you there?" you say. Floyd | Floyd | "We both are. Me and Ma are just passing through, but we might be able Floyd | to help." Floyd | Floyd | "What are you thinking?" Floyd | Floyd | "I can stop ahead of them and pretend to have car trouble," Sam says. Floyd | "If she is decent folk, she'll stop and help. Between the two of us, Floyd | we'll try to get that phone." Floyd | Floyd | "Screw that, Pa," Roberta says. "You want them stopped? Ram 'em! Hit Floyd | them in the kiester. Then send in the troops." Floyd | Floyd | (1) "I like Roberta's idea. Try to run them off the road. That'll Floyd | probably get them out of the car." Floyd | (2) "All right. We'll go with Sam's idea. Maybe they'll stop for a Floyd | couple having car trouble." Floyd | (3) "I'll think about it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there a reason we'd want to deactivate an agent?" | |
| Teaspoon says, "no way to know at this stage" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why do we get a choice?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember who we're trying to spy on or why." | ||
| Roger asks, "Why not?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "those two people that Chris mentioned earlier" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Well, because we're spying on other people, and not directly involved." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "because they're paying us a lot of money." | ||
| Roger says, "We're still not /directly/ involved" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I guess we're not so much the game designer as mission control for a game with rules in place already" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is Eve's phone a McGuffin? Is that why we want it?" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "Presumably?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "so it looks like we have violent, nonviolent, and get-back-to-me-later choices now" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So what's our answer?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I like 2." | ||
| Roger says, "Sure fine" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure, 2." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "agreed" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (5 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (2 mins; activated) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, okay," Sam says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "activate travis" | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE TRAVIS Floyd | Floyd | "Travis, you copy?" you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Loud and clear. Over." Floyd | Floyd | "What can you offer me?" Floyd | Floyd | "I have two options. I can set up a roadblock ahead of them and hope Floyd | they don't just turn around, or I can pull them over. Either way, I Floyd | should be able to get her to hand over the phone and get some cam Floyd | shots so we can verify their identity. Over." Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Yeah, try pulling them over. We should at least be able to Floyd | identify them if they stop." Floyd | (2) "Stopping the car may be a good idea. And if you can get them out Floyd | of it, even better. Go ahead and set up that roadblock." Floyd | (3) "I'll think about it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "...set up a roadblock in case the other operative doesn't work, maybe?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm no good at this sort of playing." | ||
| Roger says, "I'm starting to think of it as like a big parallel Truman Show sort of thing" | ||
| DavidW says, "I like the roadblock idea, I guess." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we do want to separate them from a car." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "for whatever reason we're doing this" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (4 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (2 mins; activated) Floyd | Samuel Walker (1 mins; activated) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "Copy that," Travis says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x chucky" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (3 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (1 mins; activated) Floyd | Samuel Walker (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHUCKY Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (gray squirrel, (Sciurus carolinensis): Like all Floyd | animal operatives, squirrels are equipped with a microphone, which is Floyd | useful for listening to conversations and the environment. Small Floyd | animals like squirrels also have brain implants. Upon activation, the Floyd | squirrel will seek out the target game device and remain in the Floyd | vicinity until de-activation. Squirrels do not typically engage in Floyd | physical contact with the players. However, the actions of animals are Floyd | often unpredictable, as are the reactions of players upon encountering Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "activate alicia" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (2 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (11 mins; standby) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE ALICIA Floyd | Floyd | You don't want to activate too many human operatives; they may Floyd | interfere with each other, especially in a situation like this. Floyd | Floyd | From Roberta's cell phone: Sam is standing in front of his car with Floyd | its hood raised. The phone swings around to catch the Toyota Floyd | approaching. It drives by. Floyd | Floyd | "Told you we should've hit 'em," Roberta says to Sam. To you, "Sorry Floyd | about that. You'd think after 46 years of marriage he would know Floyd | enough to listen to me." Floyd | Floyd | Sam shakes his head and says something before closing the hood. The Floyd | feed goes black. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "aw, we can't activate everyone then" | |
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW asks, "What sort of mechanical is Doncan?" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "Doncan?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Doncan-132" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is it a drone or what?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "ooh, missed that." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "activate doncan" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (1 mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (4 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (10 mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE DONCAN Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 has found Eve Martin's phone, and the drone has been Floyd | launched. Floyd | Floyd | From Travis' body cam: Travis stands outside his cruiser in the middle Floyd | of the road. He waits. The Toyota, still at a distance, slows and Floyd | pulls over. Two people — a tall guy and a shorter woman — exit and Floyd | head for the trees. Floyd | Floyd | From Travis' cell phone: Looks like we scared them. I'll park to the Floyd | side of the road. Floyd | Floyd | The camera goes black. Floyd | Floyd | ***Eve Martin has changed direction. She is now heading west at less Floyd | than 5 km/h.*** Floyd | Floyd | From Travis' cell phone: Looks like they're parking along the road. I Floyd | can't see them anymore. They've got some tree cover now. Over. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Chucky's close." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure where this is going to go." | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "I found the movie this was reminding me of!" | ||
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(1997_film)" ">LINK] | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/THE_GAME_(1997_FILM) Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "dash it" | |
| [LINK] | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Teaspoon), "Hm. Didn't see it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't seen it either, but the name sounds familiar." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I haven't, actually, I just sometimes read Wikipedia articles for interesting-sounding movies." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "So, er, not sure how we proceed either, now that we've activated everyone. Wait?" | ||
| Roger says, "Sure; we'll succeed or fail" | ||
| DavidW says, "Wait or deactivate someone so we can activate someone new." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "actually, looking at who's on standby it looks like everyone goes off once they interact once, so we have to manually reactivate them every time." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, huh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I hadn't noticed that." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm hoping that Chucky can do something interesting." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "activate Alicia then?" | ||
| DavidW calls out his Secret Squirrel Attack. | ||
| DavidW says, "sure, activate Alicia." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "activate alicia" | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE ALICIA Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, Alicia," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, I gotcha. I'm on my bike, but I can be there in a jiff." Floyd | Floyd | "What are you thinking?" Floyd | Floyd | "That's some pretty dense forest there, chief. I can try to follow Floyd | them, or I can just wait by their car. I'm betting they'll be out Floyd | eventually. I might have a better chance of running into them there." Floyd | Floyd | (1) "I think we have a better chance at them when they're with the Floyd | car. Keep an eye on it for me." Floyd | (2) "Time might be a factor here. Go ahead and follow them." Floyd | (3) "I'll think about it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I think we follow. They're not gonna stick around by the car, they've left." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "We're not being very subtle, though, at this point." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "Gotcha," Alicia says. Floyd | Floyd | *** New resource available: Jason Williams *** Floyd | Floyd | From Jason's cell phone: I just got wind of the situation. I'm Floyd | close-by. Out for a hike with my dog. Let me know if we can help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "click jason" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (2 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > CLICK JASON Floyd | Floyd | Jason Williams (ecologist): Jason has been a freelance field agent for Floyd | 5 years. Usually his dog, Diana, is with him, and the two are useful Floyd | for both surveillance and interception, Diana being an effective way Floyd | to attract human targets. Floyd | Floyd | From Chucky's microphone: "See?" Eve says. Floyd | Floyd | "I see him," Roger says. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "aww, squirrel is doing something" | |
| DavidW asks, "Can we activate Jason?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "looks like" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "You're right, I don't think this is a subtle game" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "It's possible to activate him, but are you asking if we can or if we want to?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Honestly, I feel like a kid in an elevator who wants to just push all the buttons and see what the hell happens." | ||
| DavidW says, "I was asking to activate him, I think." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "activate jason" | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE JASON Floyd | Floyd | "Hi, Jason," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "We're here." Floyd | Floyd | "What are you thinking?" Floyd | Floyd | "I have Diana with me. She's old, but she still has a little left in Floyd | the sniffer. She could track them down. Lots of smells out here, Floyd | though. I hope she doesn't lead us astray." Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Put Diana on it. Let's see where she leads us." Floyd | (2) "I'll think about it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "but I'm feeling kinda clueless." | |
| DavidW says, "Smithers, release the hounds." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "the trouble is, if you activate a dog and a squirrel do you just get dog-squirrel chase?" | ||
| DavidW says, "uhhh. okay, wait to see if Chucky does something helpful first." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (2 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "Okay," Jason says. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If Chucky fails, then sic the dog on 'em." | |
| Teaspoon says, "agreed" | ||
| DavidW says, "Unfortunately, I think Roger and Eve spotted Chucky." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "hmm. He didn't do much, did he?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "How does one suspect a squirrel?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Well, he let us hear them talk very briefly." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "If he's wearing a headset." | ||
| DavidW asks, "hmm. Maybe we do want dog-squirrel interaction?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno any more." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Oh, is he?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess I was picturing some sort of cybersquirrel." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "good point. We're not really getting any feedback on what we're doing right or not." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "activate jason" | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE JASON Floyd | Floyd | "Hi, Jason," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "We're here." Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Put Diana on it. Let's see where she leads us." Floyd | (2) "I'm still thinking. Hold on." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (1 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Okay," Jason says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Player(s): Eve Martin Location: Rice Lake, ON, Floyd | Canada Heading: West Average Speed (km/h): <5 Floyd | Floyd | No game session available. Floyd | Floyd | From Chucky's microphone: crickets hum and birds chirp. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Player(s): Eve Martin Location: Rice Lake, ON, Floyd | Canada Heading: West Average Speed (km/h): <5 Floyd | Floyd | No game session available. Floyd | Floyd | From Chucky's microphone: crickets hum and birds chirp. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | From Alicia's bodycam: Alicia threads her way through maple trees. Floyd | Floyd | From Alicia's cell phone: As you can see, I'm still looking. They Floyd | should be around here somewhere. I'll be in touch if I find them. Floyd | Floyd | Alicia's bodycam shuts off. Floyd | Floyd | From Jason's cell phone: We've found the car, and Di is checking it Floyd | out. She's got something. Boy, does she ever. We're following it. Hold Floyd | on. Floyd | Floyd | Jason huffs, running. Floyd | Floyd | Whoa! She's after a squirrel. Get back here, Diana. Sorry. She's lost Floyd | the scent. She is too interested in the squirrel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |
| Teaspoon exclaims, "okay, at least one part of the world responded logically!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "So who's active now?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's the best way to get status? Just to >WAIT?" | ||
| DavidW says, "resources" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "so, deactivate chucky?" | ||
| DavidW says, "There just better be a nymph in this forest, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "THanks" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "resources" | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > RESOURCES Floyd | Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "deactivate chucky" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; standby) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > DEACTIVATE CHUCKY Floyd | Floyd | Brain stimulation stopped, and microphone turned off. Chucky is free Floyd | to resume natural activity. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we can deactivate Chucky and activate Jason, sure." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "activate jason" | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE JASON Floyd | Floyd | "Hi, Jason," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "We're here." Floyd | Floyd | "What are my options?" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't see anyone out here, so we could give Diana a chance again." Floyd | Floyd | (1) "Put Diana on it. Let's see where she leads us." Floyd | (2) "I'll think about it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I keep reading that as 'HorseMaster Resources'" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Okay," Jason says. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yikes" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "I know!" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "eesh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I was wondering if these resources corrrespond at all to our initial inventory." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh right. All that Greek stuff." | ||
| DavidW says, "We never got a chance to really look at any of it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd completely forgotten about all of it." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Because all of FromChaos' products are digital, the company doesn't Floyd | have a warehouse and no real "inventory." Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I think we hit a bug" | |
| DavidW says, "no, I think we need to wait." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "regarding the inventory" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "we definitely had our golden apples in real world inventory earlier, but this is presumably the message that should have been there instead" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hm, yeah" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Player(s): Eve Martin Location: Rice Lake, ON, Floyd | Canada Heading: West Average Speed (km/h): <5 Floyd | Floyd | No game session available. Floyd | Floyd | From Alicia's bodycam: Roger and Eve walk toward dense tree cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Player(s): Eve Martin Location: Rice Lake, ON, Floyd | Canada Heading: West Average Speed (km/h): <5 Floyd | Floyd | No game session available. Floyd | Floyd | From Alicia's bodycam: Roger and Eve walk toward dense tree cover. Floyd | Floyd | From DONCAN-132: Dense treetops. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Player(s): Eve Martin Location: Rice Lake, ON, Floyd | Canada Heading: West Average Speed (km/h): <5 Floyd | Floyd | No game session available. Floyd | Floyd | From Alicia's bodycam: Roger and Eve walk toward dense tree cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "hmm. Who do we activate?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, I'd been skimming over some details, such as the bodycam. So yeah, the squirrel is probably super obvious." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, the drone will be obvious too." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "deactivate jason again then?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know what strategy is effective when they're on their guard and hiding like this." | ||
| DavidW says, "But we need active agents regardless." | ||
| Roger says, "Steal their car, leave them to die" | ||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "You mean, rewire their car so we can remote control it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we should also build a volcano that spews donuts instead of lava." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "..." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'll implement that in my next Speedif" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "the cocnept amuses me" | ||
| DavidW says, "or scrambled eggs. Either works." | ||
| DavidW says, "Sorry. I guess my mind is wandering since I don't know what to actually do in the game." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Player(s): Eve Martin Location: Rice Lake, ON, Floyd | Canada Heading: West Average Speed (km/h): <5 Floyd | Floyd | No game session available. Floyd | Floyd | From Alicia's bodycam: Roger and Eve walk toward dense tree cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "deactivate jason" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; deactivated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > DEACTIVATE JASON Floyd | Floyd | Jason Williams de-activates. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Signal from Eve Martin lost. *** Floyd | Floyd | You think about what may have happened — Eve could have turned off Floyd | her phone — then your phone rings. You're fired. Just like that. Get Floyd | out. As you transferred your players to other titans, you notice that Floyd | Eve had already been removed from your roster. Maybe you weren't her Floyd | designated titan. Was it a bug? But that kind of error shouldn't be Floyd | the reason for firing you. You decide to take some time off and create Floyd | some games of your own. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Thank you for playing Gaia's Web. Continue Floyd | to unravel the mystery of Gaia in Re.constructing the Ship of Floyd | Theseus, the official sequel to S.hip of Theseus, and Floyd | take control of real-world resources to defend yourself and your Floyd | friends from Gaia's web. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, QUIT, RESTART, or RESTORE the world, or do you want to Floyd | LOGOUT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm thinking 'wait' until status changes, but we might be at a dense tree cover boundary." | |
| Teaspoon says, "Er." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Again, I say: '...'" | ||
| DavidW says, "asks any nearby volcanoes if they're ready to make breakfast." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "yes. Not very well hinted, was it?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | Command Center Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | Command Center Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; activated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | Command Center Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That felt ... yeah. Disjointed, odd. A series of things that didn't seem to make sense together." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "deactivate jason" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; deactivated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; deactivated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > DEACTIVATE JASON Floyd | Floyd | Jason Williams de-activates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "active chucky" | ||
Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVE CHUCKY Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "activate chucky" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; deactivated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > ACTIVATE CHUCKY Floyd | Floyd | Brain stimulation successful. Chucky is heading toward game device. Floyd | Floyd | From Chucky's microphone: Grass rustles and birds chirp. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Not always a bad design decision, but tricky" | |
| Teaspoon says, "possibly too many things happening without enough feedback on how to do them correctly" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd | HarborMaster Resources (estimated time before intervention in Floyd | parentheses) Floyd | Floyd | Biological Floyd | Floyd | Chucky (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Alicia Anderson (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | Jason Williams (0 mins; deactivated) Floyd | Travis Watson (5 mins; standby) Floyd | Samuel Walker (3 mins; standby) Floyd | Floyd | Mechanical Floyd | Floyd | DONCAN-132 (unknown mins; activated) Floyd | To learn more about a resource, type its name or CLICK it. You can Floyd | also ACTIVATE it or DEACTIVATE it, which places it on standby. Floyd ] Command Center Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Player(s): Eve Martin Location: Rice Lake, ON, Floyd | Canada Heading: West Average Speed (km/h): <5 Floyd | Floyd | No game session available. Floyd | Floyd | From Alicia's bodycam: Roger and Eve walk toward dense tree cover. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Signal from Eve Martin lost. *** Floyd | Floyd | You think about what may have happened — Eve could have turned off Floyd | her phone — then your phone rings. You're fired. Just like that. Get Floyd | out. As you transferred your players to other titans, you notice that Floyd | Eve had already been removed from your roster. Maybe you weren't her Floyd | designated titan. Was it a bug? But that kind of error shouldn't be Floyd | the reason for firing you. You decide to take some time off and create Floyd | some games of your own. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Thank you for playing Gaia's Web. Continue Floyd | to unravel the mystery of Gaia in Re.constructing the Ship of Floyd | Theseus, the official sequel to S.hip of Theseus, and Floyd | take control of real-world resources to defend yourself and your Floyd | friends from Gaia's web. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, QUIT, RESTART, or RESTORE the world, or do you want to Floyd | LOGOUT? Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I thought that changing it so the squirrel goes into the woods would help, but apparently not. Also apparently our tech is defeated by trees. Blimey." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Well... that was interesting. Meet up next week to try the last one?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
