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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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| BrianK exclaims, "Happy new year!!" | ||
| Doug says, "woooo!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I see by the bb that Jacqueline will be away today. So I guess it's continue your last game if applicable or Floyder's Choice." | ||
| Roger says, "huzzah" | ||
| BrianK says, "The last game was Enchanter, but it might be nice to take a break and play something else" | ||
| BrianK says, "Although I don't have any ideas otherwise" | ||
| Doug says, "Bruno released a new game yesterday" | ||
| Doug | [LINK] | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If you all would like, I will upload that before I go." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Apologies, must get ready and then step out the door in a few minutes.)" | ||
| Doug says, "hi Jacq! Happy new year!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Happy New Year to you, too." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, Happy New Year, Jacqueline." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Happy New Year to the whole lot of you!" | ||
| BrianK exclaims, "Happy new year!" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did you all finish Enchanter?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "You've at least chosen a game I know nothing about, always a plus." | ||
| BrianK says, "We aren't finished yet" | ||
| Doug says, "it's a 'sequel' to his other games, but I don't think you need to have played them all. (I've only played 2 or 3)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah. Well, I'll leave it to you all to decide what to do, since Enchanter is still running." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think I missed the last Enchanter session (again)." | ||
| Doug says, "though that's just a guess" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I've uploaded Bruno's game as notallthings" | ||
| Peregrine arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "hi Peregrine" | |
| Jacqueline says, "And now, I head out. (Happy New Year, Peregerine!)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Peregrine), "Happy New Year!" | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "load notallthings" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | All around the city now, parties are taking place. It's been a hell of Floyd | a year, emphasis on hell. Floyd | Floyd | But tonight, there are other things you have to do. The end of the year Floyd | is a threshold. And like all thresholds... Floyd | Floyd | Not All Things Make It Across Floyd | An inventory by Bruno Dias Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 161231 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty), a Floyd | desk (on which are a handkerchief, a tallow candle, the keener Floyd | fragment, a goathorn piece, a shred of fabric, a broken propeller, a Floyd | pint glass, and a trapped butterfly), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | (If you would like explicit guidance on how to play, type INSTRUCTIONS) Floyd | | Peregrine says, "Happy New Year to you too, DW" | |
| Peregrine says, "Wow, this is poetry the way I like it. Gritty and to the point." | ||
| DavidW says, "That's a lot of inventory items." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Who's driving?" | ||
| Doug says, "not it" | ||
| DavidW says, "'cause I vote that we examine all those goodies." | ||
| BrianK says, "I guess I can drive" | ||
| BrianK says, "I'll pull up the instructions in case there's something new" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "instructions" | ||
Floyd | >This is a parser game; you can interact by typing commands, usually in Floyd | the form "(verb)", "(verb) (noun)", or "(verb) (noun) on/into/at Floyd | (noun)". To complete this story and see most of the content, you will Floyd | want to use LOOK, EXAMINE (thing), PUT (thing) IN (container), TAKE Floyd | (thing), TOUCH (thing), and DROP (thing), but there are others you Floyd | could try. A few example commands to get you started: Floyd | Floyd | EXAMINE ME Floyd | INVENTORY Floyd | EXAMINE PIECE Floyd | TOUCH PIECE Floyd | | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | >Getting old, to be quite honest. Floyd | | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), " i" | ||
Floyd | >You are carrying nothing. Floyd | | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x wastebasket" | ||
Floyd | >It's an ordinary wastebasket, a cylinder of black aluminum. But Floyd | wrapped around it is a complex pattern in silver thread that makes your Floyd | eyes defocus if you try to follow it. Floyd | Floyd | When midnight strikes, everything inside it will be destroyed. Even the Floyd | magical things that are ordinarily hard to dispose of. Especially the Floyd | magical things. Floyd | | Doug says, "odd that it's not echoing our commands." | |
| BrianK says, "Oh whoops" | ||
| BrianK says, "I didn't load it in sleepmask" | ||
| Doug says, "ohh" | ||
| DavidW says, "Even though the game is called 'Not All Things Make It Across', I still wanna > X ALL THE THINGS." | ||
| DavidW says, "That's one ultimate wastebasket." | ||
| Owlor arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Doug asks (of BrianK), "should we reload?" | |
| BrianK says, "May as well" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "quit" | Peregrine exclaims, "Hellowlor!" | |
| DavidW says, "Feel free to reload in sleepmask. There might be a clock to midnight we need to see." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
| Sequitur arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | BrianK says, "Uh, is floyd okay" | |
| Doug says, "hi Peregrine, Owlor, Sequitur!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | BrianK says, "Oh there we go" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask notallthings" | ||
| Floyd >Are you sure you want to quit? Please answer yes or no.> ] Safehouse | ||
Floyd | Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | All around the city now, parties are taking place. It's been a hell of Floyd | a year, emphasis on hell. Floyd | Floyd | But tonight, there are other things you have to do. The end of the Floyd | year is a threshold. And like all thresholds... Floyd | Floyd | Not All Things Make It Across Floyd | An inventory by Bruno Dias Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 161231 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty), Floyd | a desk (on which are a handkerchief, a tallow candle, the keener Floyd | fragment, a goathorn piece, a shred of fabric, a broken propeller, a Floyd | pint glass, and a trapped butterfly), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | (If you would like explicit guidance on how to play, type Floyd | INSTRUCTIONS) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Owlor says, "hello,I am completely clueless about ifmud, in spite of having been here before" | DavidW says, "It wasn't showing the are you sure message." | |
| Peregrine says, "Type in #clubfloyd now to be able to speak to us" | Doug says (to Owlor), "it's convention to hold all conversation on #clubfloyd" | |
| Doug says, "(or #cfspoilers if you've played the game before)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Owlor), "We're just starting a new game." | ||
| Peregrine says, "Then to say something, type ;whatever you want to say" | ||
| Peregrine says, "the ; is essential" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "instructions" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > INSTRUCTIONS Floyd | Floyd | This is a parser game; you can interact by typing commands, usually in Floyd | the form "(verb)", "(verb) (noun)", or "(verb) (noun) on/into/at Floyd | (noun)". To complete this story and see most of the content, you will Floyd | want to use LOOK, EXAMINE (thing), PUT (thing) IN (container), TAKE Floyd | (thing), TOUCH (thing), and DROP (thing), but there are others you Floyd | could try. A few example commands to get you started: Floyd | Floyd | EXAMINE ME Floyd | INVENTORY Floyd | EXAMINE PIECE Floyd | TOUCH PIECE Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ah better, status line too." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing we have to decide what items to put into the wastebasket (to destroy forever) and which to put into the cardboard box (to keep for the next year), but I'm just wildly guessing." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | There is no score in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | Just a cardboard box you salvaged from the bodega down the street. Floyd | Using paint made from wormwood and lead, you've marked it with a sigil Floyd | meant to keep its contents safe in transit. Floyd | Floyd | For packing in the things you want to keep. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "makes sense" | |
| Owlor says, ";" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A cheap writing desk out of a flatpack. There's not even drawers. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk are a handkerchief, a tallow candle, the keener fragment, Floyd | a goathorn piece, a shred of fabric, a broken propeller, a pint glass, Floyd | and a trapped butterfly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So far, the game is making my guess seem correct. But how do we know what we what?" | |
| Owlor says, "oops" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x wormwood" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WORMWOOD Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er want?" | |
| BrianK says, "No drawers on this desk??? Blasphemy" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Let's examine the stuff before we start sorting" | ||
| DavidW says, "There's probably chewed gum underneath the desk." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DESK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You salvaged this one out of a bistro that was about to close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "get chair" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't even see any room exits." | |
| BrianK says, "Looks like it's a small game" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to sit on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "chair" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Guess we're stuck here till midnight." | |
| DavidW says, "Or this is the setup room." | ||
| DavidW I bet midnight happens once we sort all the things. | BrianK says, "Let's go through all the important-looking objects, then" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x handkerchief" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HANDKERCHIEF Floyd | Floyd | An ordinary grey pocket square. You keep it on hand; it's useful for Floyd | handling things you'd rather not touch with bare skin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "please" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CANDLE Floyd | Floyd | Made from tallow, with the dried optical nerve of a cow serving as the Floyd | wick. It burns unevently with a purple-white flame; it does not smell Floyd | great. The candle connects sight to memory and allows things to carry Floyd | echoes of their history. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x fragment" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FRAGMENT Floyd | Floyd | It has no discernible physical shape. It's just a sullen, faded lump Floyd | of hatred, held together by its own surface tension, still radiating Floyd | horror. Floyd | Floyd | (You can TOUCH most things to learn more about them.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's no ordinary candle." | |
| Doug asks, "unevenly or uneventfully?" | ||
| Owlor asks, "wait optical nerve of a cow? isthat a thing?" | ||
| Sequitur says, "I mean, cows have eyes" | ||
| DavidW says, "All eyes have nerves." | ||
| Owlor says, "nononono, that its used as a wick" | ||
| DavidW says, "They connect the eye to the brain." | ||
| DavidW says, "I have never heard of a nerve wick before." | ||
| Owlor says, "I know how eyes wor, its candles i dont understand." | ||
| Sequitur says, "No that's something I made up" | ||
| Doug says, "burning an optic nerve is more plausible than a magic wastebasket." | ||
| Sequitur says, "I mean the candle is also magic" | ||
| DavidW says, "Some of these things will be magical, yes." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x piece" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIECE Floyd | Floyd | A memento from twenty-odd years ago. Gods, it's been that Floyd | long. Its divine power is certainly faded, but you still hold on Floyd | to it for good luck. And, in all honesty, because gods have a bad Floyd | habit of being reborn from their pieces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch candle" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH CANDLE Floyd | Floyd | You don't want to disturb it while it's burning. For all you know, Floyd | touching it might bring on a vision of the cow being slaughtered. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Eeeeagh." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x fabric" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FABRIC Floyd | Floyd | A torn shred of thick synthetic material that someone carefully scored Floyd | into a pattern that resembles feathers, or maybe scales. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I had that vision in one of Emily's games." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x propeller" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PROPELLER Floyd | Floyd | The broken half of a small propeller made out of some carbon Floyd | composite; taken from the remains of a destroyed police drone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh hey, that's the thingy from Cape." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch fabric" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH FABRIC Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the shred of fabric) Floyd | (first taking the handkerchief) Floyd | You gingerly take the shred of fabric with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You grab hold of the shred of fabric with your bare hand, and your Floyd | vision swims for a lingering instant... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Doug says, "the, uh, cape." | |
| Peregrine exclaims, "Someone press space!" | ||
| BrianK says, "Oh yeah" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | Vision: Rooftop, Sweltering Floyd | Just after sunset, several stories up, still radiating the heat of the Floyd | day. A streak of blood runs across the edge of the building. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh yeah, there was a police drone in Cape too" | |
| BrianK says, "and the police drone is Cape-ish I think" | ||
| BrianK says, "Timing" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x blood" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLOOD Floyd | Floyd | A curved, triangular splatter. Not a gunshot; a fist. But produced Floyd | with abnormal force. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x building" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUILDING Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shred of fabric (held with your bare hand) Floyd | a handkerchief Floyd | Floyd | (Once you are done here, you can LET GO to return.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a shred of fabric to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. This is just a vision, but I'm not sure what the fabric has to do with it." | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | Garbage baking in the sun all the way down in street-level; the ozone Floyd | promise of rain in the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "presumably this is a flashback to when we wore the cape and punched people with abnormal force." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SKY Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't remember any cape." | |
| Doug says, "the fabric, I mean" | ||
| DavidW asks, "How do you know the fabric is from a cape?" | ||
| BrianK says, "Presumably this is a reference to the author's other game, Cape" | ||
| Doug says, "because I played Cape. :)" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I don't know that game." | ||
| BrianK says, "I played it too long ago so my memory is pretty vague" | ||
| Doug says, "where you can gain feathers or scales" | ||
| Doug says, "and punch baddies" | ||
| Doug asks, "anyhoo. Wonder if we can jump? or fly?" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a shred of fabric to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "If the game is referencing other games I suppose it won't be too interesting if we haven't played them :P" | |
| Doug says, "it's not a particularly deep or important reference, I think" | ||
| Peregrine says, "I've played Cape and Mere Arnarchy." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "taste" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to taste? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "fabric" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > FABRIC Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a shred of fabric to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, maybe the items are interconnected in some way." | |
| BrianK says, "Have we sensed the world around us as much as we can" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "touch the blood maybe?" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "touch blood" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Rooftop, SwelteriBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH BLOOD Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a shred of fabric to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess so, for now. We can probably return here if we must." | |
| Doug says, "or taste it" | ||
| BrianK says, "Taste is blocked :P" | ||
| Peregrine exclaims (at Doug), "You vampire!" | ||
| Doug says, "oops right" | ||
| Peregrine rushes at Doug with a steak. | ||
| Doug says, "mmm" | ||
| BrianK says, "So the visions are just like an instant captured in time" | ||
| Doug says, "let's make like Elsa (?) and let it go" | ||
| BrianK says, "Pfft" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "let go" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LET GO Floyd | Floyd | You let go of the shred of fabric, and the vision fades around you. Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty), Floyd | a desk (on which are a shred of fabric, a tallow candle, the keener Floyd | fragment, a goathorn piece, a broken propeller, a pint glass, and a Floyd | trapped butterfly), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLASS Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the pint glass or the trapped butterfly? Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "(still haven't seen Frozen)" | |
| DavidW says, "I can't wait to start making dresses and living snowmen." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "pint" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PINT Floyd | Floyd | A pint glass, the conical kind with a flared bulge towards the top. Floyd | Faded lettering on the side spells out "Herrig's." Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Heheee" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x butterfly" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUTTERFLY Floyd | Floyd | A viceroy butterfly, perpetually flying laps inside a glass torus. Floyd | Breaking it out of its little time loop would have vast and Floyd | far-reaching consequences, just like doing literally anything else. Floyd | But figuring out what those consequences are for a given time and Floyd | place is a daunting task of divination. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Go for the butterfly" | |
| Doug says, "hm, the pint glass might be from the bar in The World Turned Upside Down" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "touch butterfly" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH BUTTERFLY Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the trapped butterfly) Floyd | You gingerly take the trapped butterfly with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You grab hold of the trapped butterfly with your bare hand, and your Floyd | vision swims for a lingering instant... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| BrianK pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | Vision: Shop, Cramped Floyd | The back door is still swinging where the shopkeeper went in to fetch Floyd | something; the front door is caught closing as a customer walks away. Floyd | The item in your hand remembers, particularly, this tiny instant of Floyd | quiet between two doors slamming after an unwelcome visit, before Floyd | everything went to hell. Floyd | Floyd | All around you, the shelves are filled with a panoply of bizarre Floyd | artifacts. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "(which we could play next)" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x back door" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BACK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on an empty Floyd | aquarium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x aquarium" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X AQUARIUM Floyd | Floyd | Recently cleaned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on a caged Floyd | crow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x crow" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROW Floyd | Floyd | Asleeep in a brass cage. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Aquarium says, I have no blood on *me*." | |
| BrianK says, "asleeeeeep" | ||
| Doug says, "hm, I don't remember a shop" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on an empty Floyd | bell jar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x bell jar" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BELL JAR Floyd | Floyd | Marked as sold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on a Great Floyd | War gas mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x gas mask" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GAS MASK Floyd | Floyd | Mint condition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on a coal Floyd | carving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x carving" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARVING Floyd | Floyd | The size of a human head and the shape of an inhuman head. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "mint gas!" | |
| BrianK says, "I like the carving description" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on a bottle Floyd | of faerie wine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x faerie wine" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FAERIE WINE Floyd | Floyd | Curiously small and very, very old. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on a bottle Floyd | of faerie wine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "Inhuman head, clearly a MCU reference" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on a Floyd | collection of hands of glory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x hands of glory" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HANDS OF GLORY Floyd | Floyd | Mummified and dipped in wax. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "hands of... glory?" | |
| BrianK says, "I think there's a hand of glory in Harry Potter" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Yeah, the hand of a hanged man, said to protect thieves" | ||
| [LINK] | ||
| Doug says, "TIL" | ||
| BrianK says, "Oh it's a generic thing" | ||
| DavidW says, "A hand of glory is a hand where the fingers are candles. An aid to thieves. And it pre-dates Harry Potter. (As 'inhuman' predates Marvel Comics.)" | ||
| Peregrine says, "It's not made up. (or at least, not made up by Bruno or Rowling)" | ||
| Doug | The Hand of Glory also purportedly had the power to unlock any door it came across. | ||
| DavidW says, "A lot of stuff in Harry Potter was pre-made by other authors than Rowling." | ||
| Doug says (to DavidW), "I was joking about the MCU" | ||
| DavidW says (to Doug), "Hard to tell these days." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on a caged Floyd | crow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x artifacts" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTIFACTS Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes roam over the shelf space, eventually settling on an empty Floyd | aquarium. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I think we've exhausted the list of artifacts" | |
| DavidW asks, "Anything else in here?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get hands" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HANDS Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a trapped butterfly to Floyd | escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Besides a shelf of artifacts?" | |
| Sequitur says, "There are more things, though the list is purely at random" | ||
| Oreolek arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | BrianK says, "Ah" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x front door" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Shop, Cramped Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FRONT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I'm not sure yet what we're looking for. We are looking for some insight on what to keep and toss, yes?" | |
| Peregrine says, "I guess it's a personal choice." | ||
| Sequitur says, "This is not a puzzle, no" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "let go" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LET GO Floyd | Floyd | You let go of the trapped butterfly, and the vision fades around you. Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty), Floyd | a desk (on which are a trapped butterfly, a shred of fabric, a tallow Floyd | candle, the keener fragment, a goathorn piece, a broken propeller, and Floyd | a pint glass), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "touch chair" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch me" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH ME Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No memories associated with us." | |
| Peregrine says, "A chair would hardly fit in the wastebasket, however magical it may be" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty), Floyd | a desk (on which are a trapped butterfly, a shred of fabric, a tallow Floyd | candle, the keener fragment, a goathorn piece, a broken propeller, and Floyd | a pint glass), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Well, what should we visit next" | |
| Peregrine asks, "Propeller?" | ||
| BrianK says, "We saw the fabric and the butterfly" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Peregrine), "And how many magical wastebaskets have you come across?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "..." | ||
| Sequitur says, "You can fit a chair into a magic wastebasket, but it has to be one of those large 30-gallon ones" | ||
| Sequitur says, "This is also true of mundane garbage bins" | ||
| Doug asks, "did we examine everything?" | ||
| BrianK says, "Or a magically enlarged small wastebasket, where the inside is larger than the outside :P" | ||
| DavidW says, "We have not examined everything." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x goathorn" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOATHORN Floyd | Floyd | A memento from twenty-odd years ago. Gods, it's been that Floyd | long. Its divine power is certainly faded, but you still hold on Floyd | to it for good luck. And, in all honesty, because gods have a bad Floyd | habit of being reborn from their pieces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x keener" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X KEENER Floyd | Floyd | It has no discernible physical shape. It's just a sullen, faded lump Floyd | of hatred, held together by its own surface tension, still radiating Floyd | horror. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, by examine, you meant 'examine'." | |
| Doug says, "more like keenEST!" | ||
| BrianK says, "We did 'examine' everything, we just haven't touched everything" | ||
| DavidW says, "We haven't examined by touch everything." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, piece = goathorn piece" | ||
| BrianK says, "Let's move on to the propeller then" | ||
| Peregrine says, "I'm a litte hesitant to touch a ball of hatred. Sounds like a badtempered kitty." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "touch propeller" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH PROPELLER Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the broken propeller) Floyd | You gingerly take the broken propeller with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You grab hold of the broken propeller with your bare hand, and your Floyd | vision swims for a lingering instant... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| BrianK pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Warehouse, ExplodBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | Vision: Warehouse, Exploding Floyd | A mess of fire and debris, stopped mid-detonation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "smell" | Doug says, "whoa" | |
Floyd ] Vision: Warehouse, ExplodBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | Not like black powder, not like cordite. Acrid and sharp like some Floyd | kind of high explosive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Warehouse, ExplodBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "f x fire" | |
| BrianK says, "I guess you can't really listen to something frozen in time" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x fire" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Warehouse, ExplodBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIRE Floyd | Floyd | High-speed chunks of aluminum and composite polymers, turned into Floyd | expensive shrapnel; the remains of police drones, and maybe a fragment Floyd | or two of the bomb that set them off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "makes sense" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x debris" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Warehouse, ExplodBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DEBRIS Floyd | Floyd | High-speed chunks of aluminum and composite polymers, turned into Floyd | expensive shrapnel; the remains of police drones, and maybe a fragment Floyd | or two of the bomb that set them off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to floyd), "touch fire" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Warehouse, ExplodBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH FIRE Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a broken propeller to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "can you smell something frozen in time? how do the smell molecules travel to your nose?" | |
| DavidW says, "maybe turn the propeller to fast forward or rewind." | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x propeller" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Warehouse, ExplodBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PROPELLER Floyd | Floyd | The broken half of a small propeller made out of some carbon Floyd | composite; taken from the remains of a destroyed police drone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "it's broken" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn propeller" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Warehouse, ExplodBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN PROPELLER Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a broken propeller to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave propeller" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Warehouse, ExplodBefore midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAVE PROPELLER Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a broken propeller to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I think that's everything in this vision" | |
| Peregrine sings 'Leeeeet it goooooooo' | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "let go" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LET GO Floyd | Floyd | You let go of the broken propeller, and the vision fades around you. Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty), Floyd | a desk (on which are a broken propeller, a trapped butterfly, a shred Floyd | of fabric, a tallow candle, the keener fragment, a goathorn piece, and Floyd | a pint glass), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose one thing we must keep is the hanky." | |
| BrianK says, "So we have the keener fragment, the goathorn piece, and the pint glass left" | ||
| Oreolek asks, "pint glass next maybe?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Sequitur says, "The hanky is just a bit of atmospheric parser fluff. Kinda like the umbrella in Anchorhead, since you're using it to handle things without going into a vision." | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "drink pint" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK PINT Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing suitable to drink here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "darn, that didn't work" | |
| DavidW says, "Parser fluff is the missing fifth fluff from Hitchhiker's." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "touch glass" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH GLASS Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the trapped butterfly or the pint glass? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "touch pint" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH PINT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the pint glass) Floyd | You gingerly take the pint glass with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You grab hold of the pint glass with your bare hand, and your vision Floyd | swims for a lingering instant... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | BrianK says, "as a nitpick I'm not too fond of that disambiguation :P" | |
| Peregrine pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | Vision: Bar, Silent Floyd | Rain on the windows turns the world outside into a yellowy haze; Floyd | upturned chairs rest on wooden tables. Floyd | Floyd | And over the counter, a note changes hands between a bartender and a Floyd | patron. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | A napkin with an address scrawled on. It corresponds to a peculiar Floyd | shop downtown. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Although I guess that's just my weird philosophy of using the noun instead of the modifiers in the parser" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bartender" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BARTENDER Floyd | Floyd | Rough, tall, bulky; like everything in his bar he looks like he's made Floyd | out of hardwood and old magic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x patron" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PATRON Floyd | Floyd | Average in build but oddly sharp-eyed; you notice her undercut, though Floyd | most of her is fuzzy. Whatever magic she's been tampering with has Floyd | given her so much of an aura that she seems to vibrate in the air, Floyd | there-and-not-there. And you know she isn't done, yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch patron" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH PATRON Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a pint glass to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "bah" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x aura" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X AURA Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | A napkin with an address scrawled on. It corresponds to a peculiar Floyd | shop downtown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "smell patron" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL PATRON Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x address" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ADDRESS Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "eat note" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rain" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAIN Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tables" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLES Floyd | Floyd | Oak. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chairs" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAIRS Floyd | Floyd | Oak. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "hm, the peculiar shop we visited before?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Doug), "Possibly, yes." | |
| Peregrine says, "Connection the Barbarian strikes again" | ||
| BrianK says, "If we've checked out everything" | ||
| DavidW says, "I sorta want to know if these visions fit into a coherent story, but I'm not sure if they do." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BAR Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to floyd), "x windows" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINDOWS Floyd | Floyd | Not at their cleanest, today. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "clean windows" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Bar, Silent Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLEAN WINDOWS Floyd | Floyd | You are in a phantom of the past, a congealed instant; you can only Floyd | sense the world around you, or let go of a pint glass to escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "perhaps the patron was the "unwelcome visit" at the shop." | |
| Peregrine says, "Hm." | ||
| Sequitur says, "They fit into a coherent narrative but it's not self-contained since like my other end-of-year game this is a big extended mythology thing" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Cool." | ||
| DavidW says, "Like, you find a set of photographs in a shoe box your aunt, and you don't know where the photos took place or who's in the photos." | ||
| BrianK says, "That's a pretty good analogy" | ||
| Doug asks, "wait, that thing my aunt gave me was a shoe box??" | ||
| DavidW asks, "You didn't know what it was?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "HHGTTG" | ||
| Peregrine says, "hee" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "let go" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LET GO Floyd | Floyd | You let go of the pint glass, and the vision fades around you. Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty), Floyd | a desk (on which are a pint glass, a broken propeller, a trapped Floyd | butterfly, a shred of fabric, a tallow candle, the keener fragment, Floyd | and a goathorn piece), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I wonder if we can see the customer in the shop flashback" | |
| BrianK says, "I think the customer had just left" | ||
| Doug | the front door is caught closing as a customer walks away. | ||
| Oreolek says, "maybe we can examine the front door" | BrianK says, "Remember to talk on channel :P" | |
| Doug says, "but, I'm in favor of touching all the things first before revisiting" | ||
| BrianK says, "But I tried examining the doors earlier" | ||
| BrianK says, "Uhh what's left" | ||
| DavidW says, "try 'x customer' on revisit." | ||
| BrianK says, "The goathorn piece and the keener fragment" | ||
| Oreolek says, "oh damn" | ||
| Doug says, "too bad Touchy is 7 days idle." | ||
| BrianK says, "Haha" | ||
| Peregrine says, "heeheehee" | ||
| Doug says, "and his doing is SEQUITUR. whoa." | ||
| Peregrine says, "talk about destiny" | ||
| BrianK says, "Anyway I'll just go with the piece then" | ||
| DavidW asks, "So this inventory is our manifest destiny?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Hmhm." | ||
| Doug says, "GO AT HORN" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "touch piece" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH PIECE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the goathorn piece) Floyd | You gingerly take the goathorn piece with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You grab hold of the goathorn piece with your bare hand, and your Floyd | vision swims for a lingering instant... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| BrianK pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | Vision: Basement, 1994 Floyd | Dark and humid; silt has broken through the walls, the floor is Floyd | drowned in seawater, and the smell of rotting fish is everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | And in the middle of the basement, a man speaks to a god of goats. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | Silt, saltwater, urea. Floyd | Floyd | > | Oreolek says, "interesting, now we have an exact year" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x silt" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SILT Floyd | Floyd | Grey and rough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "c'mon, look at the god" | |
| Doug says, "heh, from the drowned floor I would have guessed this was a reference to When The Land Goes Under The Water but that was rather earlier than 1994." | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "C'mon it builds tension to save it for last" | |
| Peregrine is tense. | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x seawater" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SEAWATER Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "the god of elephants in the room" | |
| BrianK says, "Although really I was just going through the description in order" | ||
| Sequitur says, "It's actually a pretty disappointing god" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x basement" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BASEMENT Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Vision: Basement, 1994 Floyd | Dark and humid; silt has broken through the walls, the floor is Floyd | drowned in seawater, and the smell of rotting fish is everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | And in the middle of the basement, a man speaks to a god of goats. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x fish" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FISH Floyd | Floyd | A god of living goats and dead fish, caught in this place trying to Floyd | swallow modernity. Head of a goat, fishtail, united by a body obscured Floyd | under layers of hairshirt-like wool. Strange and bloodied. It would Floyd | eventually be swallowed, itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "ooops" | |
| BrianK says, "So it's a mer-goat" | ||
| Oreolek says, "$1" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm, Capricorn?" | ||
| Oreolek says, "is it a tapestry godmonster" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | You already looked a bit unsteady, a bit rough around the edges, back Floyd | then. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Oh that's us" | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Vision: Basement, 1994 Floyd | Dark and humid; silt has broken through the walls, the floor is Floyd | drowned in seawater, and the smell of rotting fish is everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | And in the middle of the basement, a man speaks to a god of goats. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "huh, are we the Ghost of New Year's Days Future?" | |
| DavidW asks, "So why were we speaking to a god of goats?" | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Vision: Basement, 1994 Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK exclaims, "Play [the game this connects to] to find out more!" | |
| BrianK says, "in three easy payments of $19.99" | ||
| Peregrine asks, "The sentence is ambiguous. Are we speaking to a 'god of goats' or to a god about goats�?" | ||
| Doug says, "it's a god of living goats and dead fish" | ||
| Oreolek says, "please.. my goat.. it's sick." | ||
| DavidW says, "Prithee, god, let us speak of goats." | ||
| Peregrine says, "'Hello, God. I wanted to bring up the subject of goats.'" | ||
| Sequitur says, "Looks like you only have the fragment left..." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "let go" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LET GO Floyd | Floyd | You let go of the goathorn piece, and the vision fades around you. Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty), Floyd | a desk (on which are a goathorn piece, a pint glass, a broken Floyd | propeller, a trapped butterfly, a shred of fabric, a tallow candle, Floyd | and the keener fragment), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, I guess this is referring to Four Sitting in a Sinking House from Ectocomp, which I haven't played yet" | |
| BrianK says, "If the house is sinking, that explains the seawater" | ||
| Oreolek asks, "wait, so you talked to the God of Goats and he just gave you his goathorn piece as a memento?" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x piece" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIECE Floyd | Floyd | A memento from twenty-odd years ago. Gods, it's been that Floyd | long. Its divine power is certainly faded, but you still hold on Floyd | to it for good luck. And, in all honesty, because gods have a bad Floyd | habit of being reborn from their pieces. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I haven't played any of these games. I've been in 1998 recently." | |
| BrianK says, "The implication seems to be that the god died" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Woaw, time-traveller" | ||
| Peregrine says (to DavidW), "That explains a lot of things" | ||
| Oreolek says (to BrianK), "the god didn't reborn, he's not dead" | ||
| Doug says, "probably we took it after the god was swallowed" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (empty), Floyd | a desk (on which are a goathorn piece, a pint glass, a broken Floyd | propeller, a trapped butterfly, a shred of fabric, a tallow candle, Floyd | and the keener fragment), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "The fragment's all that's left" | |
| Peregrine exclaims, "Okay, so now it's time for the ball of hatred!" | ||
| Peregrine says, "RAAAAARGH" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "touch fragment" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH FRAGMENT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the keener fragment) Floyd | You gingerly take the keener fragment with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You grab hold of the keener fragment with your bare hand, and your Floyd | vision swims for a lingering instant... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| BrianK pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] IT HATES IT HATES IT HATES Floyd | Floyd | Vision: Darkness Floyd | IT HATES. IT HATES. IT HATES. IT HATES. IT HATES. IT HATES. IT HATES. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x hate" | ||
Floyd ] IT HATES IT HATES IT HATES Floyd | > Floyd | > X HATE Floyd | Floyd | It hates. It hates. It hates. It hates. It hates. It hates. It hates. Floyd | It hates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] IT HATES IT HATES IT HATES Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | It hates. It hates. It hates. It hates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] IT HATES IT HATES IT HATES Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It hates. It hates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] IT HATES IT HATES IT HATES Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | It hates. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "whoa" | |
| Doug says, "nice use of status line" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Better put THAT in the wastebasket" | ||
| BrianK says, "Considering the descriptions divided by two every time I'm going to assume the actions don't matter for the responses" | ||
| Oreolek says, "i sense strong smell of "I Have No Mouth"" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] IT HATES IT HATES IT HATES Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | There is no score in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] IT HATES IT HATES IT HATES Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Oreolek), "I was thinking that also." | |
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "taste" | ||
Floyd ] IT HATES IT HATES IT HATES Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to taste? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "taste hate" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE HATE Floyd | Floyd | It hates. Floyd | Floyd | No, wait. Something's wrong. Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the keener fragment, an engraved wastebasket (empty), a Floyd | cardboard box (empty), a desk (on which are a goathorn piece, a pint Floyd | glass, a broken propeller, a trapped butterfly, a shred of fabric, and Floyd | a tallow candle), and a chair here. | Doug says, "your score is IT HATES" | |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hands are still shaking. It seems you threw the thing down on the
Floyd | floor with some force.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| BrianK says, "Yeah, it was just a hate countdown" | |
| Sequitur says, "You can actually LET GO to escape that sequence early" | ||
| BrianK asks, "Did we want to revisit the butterfly?" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "take hate" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE HATE Floyd | Floyd | You gingerly take the keener fragment with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "put hate in wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 1/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HATE IN WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | You put the keener fragment into the wastebasket. You'll be really Floyd | glad to be rid of this thing; even in pieces, those have a mind of Floyd | their own. You could never track down who made the original device, Floyd | anyway, from just this small piece. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Hey hey we should vote before deciding to keep or trash things :P" | |
| Doug says, "hm, was that from Mere Anarchy? I don't remember" | ||
| DavidW says (to BrianK), "yeah, but I agree to trash the HATE." | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 1/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (in which is the keener fragment), Floyd | a cardboard box (empty), a desk (on which are a goathorn piece, a pint Floyd | glass, a broken propeller, a trapped butterfly, a shred of fabric, and Floyd | a tallow candle), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Sequitur says, "The keener is the central plot device in Mere Anarchy. The torus is a little background detail, and the shop is a scene in that story also" | |
| BrianK says, "get piece" | ||
| BrianK says, "er" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "get piece" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 1/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PIECE Floyd | Floyd | You gingerly take the goathorn piece with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "What should we do with this" | |
| DavidW says, "I'd like to keep the butterfly. That seemed safe and pleasant and artifact-licious." | ||
| DavidW How many items does the box hold? | Doug says, "hard to believe Mere Anarchy was 2015. seems longer ago" | |
| DavidW asks, "How many items does the box hold?" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 1/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | Just a cardboard box you salvaged from the bodega down the street. Floyd | Using paint made from wormwood and lead, you've marked it with a sigil Floyd | meant to keep its contents safe in transit. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I figure it can hold everything" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, except the title suggests that Not All Things Make It Across." | ||
| Doug says, "gods probably belong in the wastebasket of history" | ||
| Sequitur says, "no gods, no kings" | ||
| BrianK says, "Well, that just makes me want to have all things make it across to be contrarian" | ||
| Doug says, "axe the hero, paint a zero on his head" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd keep the goat god and butterfly shop. Toss the cloth blood and the whatever explosion." | ||
| Oreolek says, "wear the goathorn, ditch the police" | ||
| Doug asks, "is this basically Marie Kondo: The Game?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe keep the pint with the Oak tables, Oak chairs, and Oak bartender." | ||
| Doug asks, "which of these things spark joy?" | ||
| BrianK says, "I agree with that" | ||
| Peregrine says, "So do I" | ||
| Doug | First, put your hands on everything you own, ask yourself if it sparks joy, and if it doesn’t, thank it for its service and get rid of it. Second, once only your most joy-giving belongings remain, put every item in a place where it’s visible, accessible, and easy to grab and then put back. | ||
| BrianK says, "I think for everything beyond the hate thing, the actual emotions invoked really depend on the emotions the player felt when they played the corresponding games" | ||
| Doug says, "I think we can make some guesses even without playing them" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Well, I'd keep the bloody cape. I enjoyed that game." | ||
| Doug says, "I'm also guessing there is no wrong answer" | ||
| BrianK says, "Yeah" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "put goathorn in box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 2/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GOATHORN IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You put the goathorn piece into the box. It's probably safe to keep, Floyd | anyway. And besides, it complements the telling of the story of how Floyd | you came to possess it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've heard that Violence isn't the answer." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take fabric" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 2/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FABRIC Floyd | Floyd | You gingerly take the shred of fabric with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 2/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | Just a cardboard box you salvaged from the bodega down the street. Floyd | Using paint made from wormwood and lead, you've marked it with a sigil Floyd | meant to keep its contents safe in transit. Floyd | Floyd | In the cardboard box is a goathorn piece. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "wonder if we need to do something with the candle, since we couldn't touch it (and it'd probably burn the cardboard box anyway)" | |
| DavidW says, "I suppose once everything is placed, blow the candle out." | ||
| Peregrine says, "Probably" | ||
| BrianK says, "Are we keeping the blood fabric or trashing it" | ||
| Peregrine says, "I would keep it." | ||
| Doug says, "ohhh, right, the candle is what is giving us the visions." | ||
| DavidW says, "Personally, I would toss the fabric, but I think I'm outvoted." | ||
| BrianK says, "I would toss it, I guess" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Okay, I'm outvoted." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "put fabric in wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 3/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT FABRIC IN WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | You put the shred of fabric into the wastebasket. That case is closed, Floyd | anyway, and you travel light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Allen arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "get propeller" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 3/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PROPELLER Floyd | Floyd | You gingerly take the broken propeller with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Hygiene wins over coolness." | |
| DavidW says, "Propeller was the explosion one, right? I see no reason to keep it." | ||
| BrianK says, "Yeah" | ||
| Peregrine says, "In the wastebasket you go, then" | ||
| BrianK says, "Even as someone who played Cape it's not all that meaningful to me" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "put propeller in wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 4/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PROPELLER IN WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | You put the broken propeller into the wastebasket. I mean, it's really Floyd | just mundane trash, but you kept it for a while as a reminder that Floyd | they're not invincible. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Ah I guess it held more meaning to the player" | |
| Peregrine says, "Never mind." | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 4/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (in which are a broken propeller, Floyd | a shred of fabric, and the keener fragment), a cardboard box (in which Floyd | is a goathorn piece), a desk (on which are a pint glass, a trapped Floyd | butterfly, and a tallow candle), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine asks, "We keep the pint and the butterfly, right?" | |
| Peregrine says, "(i.e. put them in the box)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd keep both the pint and butterfly, yes." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "get pint" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 4/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PINT Floyd | Floyd | You gingerly take the pint glass with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "put pint in box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PINT IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You put the pint glass into the box. It has sentimental value. Plus, Floyd | it's hard to get another one given that Herrig kind of despises you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "get butterfly" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BUTTERFLY Floyd | Floyd | You gingerly take the trapped butterfly with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "put butterfly in box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 6/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BUTTERFLY IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You put the trapped butterfly into the box. Sure, in retrospect this Floyd | is hardly the most useful thing to grab and run out of a fire in a Floyd | magic shop, but hindsight is 20/20. Floyd | Floyd | There; it's done. You've picked what to keep and what to discard from Floyd | the past. A cleaner entry into another year of struggle. Floyd | Floyd | Nobody has fun on new year's eve anyway; the pressure is too much. So Floyd | you might as well spend it choosing what to take and what to leave Floyd | behind. A year in this city has shown you enough things that you'd Floyd | rather not have seen. Floyd | Floyd | You light a cigarette while you wait out the last few moments. You Floyd | don't hear the snap of the wastebasket vanishing into thin Floyd | air at midnight; it's drowned out by the crackle of fireworks outside. Floyd | But you smell ozone in the air, and feel the telltale vibration of Floyd | something ceasing to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Happy new year *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read the author's AFTERWORD? Floyd | > | BrianK says, "And there you have it" | |
| Doug says, "hm, I wonder if there are different endings" | ||
| Peregrine exclaims, "Happy New Year!" | ||
| BrianK exclaims, "Happy new year!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "afterword" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 6/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > AFTERWORD Floyd | Floyd | Not All Things Make it Across was written in December 2016 Floyd | for the occasion of New Year's Eve. It's set in the same universe as Floyd | Cape and Mere Anarchy, and shares a player character Floyd | with The World Turned Upside Down and Four Sittings in a Floyd | Sinking House. It is, therefore, even more self-indulgent than Floyd | the December game I wrote in 2015. Floyd | Floyd | As always, I can be reached on Twitter (@notbrunoagain). Floyd | Floyd | Special thanks in no particular order to Cat Manning, Katherine Floyd | Morayati, Brendan Patrick Hennessy, furkle, juxi, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Floyd | Astrid Dalmady, Hannah Flynn, Liam MacDonald, Adam Myers, Liam Welton, Floyd | Samuel Partridge, Jason Macintosh, Caleb Wilson, Doug Orleans, Emily Floyd | Short, verityvirtue, Kevin Snow, and everyone else who aided, Floyd | supported, and read my work in 2016. Floyd | Floyd | Bruno Dias Floyd | December 30th, 2016 Floyd | Floyd | (You can read this again by typing AFTERWORD anywhere in the Floyd | game) Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read the author's AFTERWORD? Floyd | > | Doug says, "it me!" | |
| Oreolek says, "happy new year" | ||
| BrianK says, "I figure the ending would change slightly if you decide to keep everything or toss everything" | ||
| Peregrine says, "it me too (I read some of Bruno's work this year)" | ||
| Doug says, "that's what I was thinking" | ||
| Peregrine says, "sounds right" | ||
| Doug says, "I wonder if we can blow out the candle before disposing of everything" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (in which are a broken propeller, Floyd | a shred of fabric, and the keener fragment), a cardboard box (in which Floyd | are a pint glass and a goathorn piece), a desk (on which is a tallow Floyd | candle), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "blow candle" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > BLOW CANDLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd also check if we can enter the box or wastebasket. Just in case." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "turn off candle" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN OFF CANDLE Floyd | Floyd | You don't want to disturb it while it's burning. For all you know, Floyd | touching it might bring on a vision of the cow being slaughtered. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "enter wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "get basket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BASKET Floyd | Floyd | You would really, really rather not be holding it when it Floyd | goes off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "burn basket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > BURN BASKET Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOX Floyd | Floyd | You'll carry it out soon enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "enter box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER BOX Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put box in basket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BOX IN BASKET Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to concern yourself with the cardboard box; it's Floyd | actually perfectly ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "put handkerchief in basket" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT HANDKERCHIEF IN BASKET Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to concern yourself with the handkerchief; it's Floyd | actually perfectly ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | Normally you keep the place pretty clean and thus neutral-scented, but Floyd | the candle is burning in here right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "put candle in basket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CANDLE IN BASKET Floyd | Floyd | You'll dispose of the candle properly once it's done burning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put basket in box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BASKET IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to concern yourself with the engraved wastebasket; it's Floyd | actually perfectly ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "put self in box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SELF IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to concern yourself with yourself; it's actually Floyd | perfectly ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "hahahah" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read engraving" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ENGRAVING Floyd | Floyd | (That thing is either not here, or you don't need to refer it over Floyd | the course of the story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek says (to Floyd), "read basket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BASKET Floyd | Floyd | It's an ordinary wastebasket, a cylinder of black aluminum. But Floyd | wrapped around it is a complex pattern in silver thread that makes Floyd | your eyes defocus if you try to follow it. Floyd | Floyd | In the engraved wastebasket are a broken propeller, a shred of fabric, Floyd | and the keener fragment. Floyd | Floyd | When midnight strikes, everything inside it will be destroyed. Floyd | Even the magical things that are ordinarily hard to dispose of. Floyd | Especially the magical things. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "sure, just a perfectly ordinary magical basket of annihilation." | |
| BrianK says, "Ah, the smell of postgame trying-to-break-the-game madness" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all from box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL FROM BOX Floyd | Floyd | (You will have to refer to things individually in this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to BrianK), "I see it more as trying to peek behind the curtains." | |
| Doug says, "hrmph" | ||
| Doug says, "I vote for trying to keep all the things" | ||
| BrianK says, "That's a better way to put it" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x basket" | Sequitur says, ">enter wastebasket" | |
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BASKET Floyd | Floyd | It's an ordinary wastebasket, a cylinder of black aluminum. But Floyd | wrapped around it is a complex pattern in silver thread that makes Floyd | your eyes defocus if you try to follow it. Floyd | Floyd | In the engraved wastebasket are a broken propeller, a shred of fabric, Floyd | and the keener fragment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Sequitur says, "You enter the wastebasket, screaming "TAKE ME HOME, BOYS!" to any passing garbage men" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "get propeller" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 4/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PROPELLER Floyd | Floyd | (first putting the trapped butterfly back on the desk) Floyd | You gingerly take the broken propeller with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "get fabric. get fragment" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 2/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET FABRIC. GET FRAGMENT Floyd | Floyd | (first putting the broken propeller back on the desk) Floyd | You gingerly take the shred of fabric with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | (first putting the shred of fabric back on the desk) Floyd | You gingerly take the keener fragment with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 2/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | All the units in this old building have been divided and subdivided Floyd | until they're dangerously cramped. The apartment is much as you found Floyd | it; a year is not so long, and you'll be gone soon. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an engraved wastebasket (empty), a cardboard box (in which Floyd | are a pint glass and a goathorn piece), a desk (on which are a shred Floyd | of fabric, a broken propeller, a trapped butterfly, and a tallow Floyd | candle), and a chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Sequitur says, "Oh yeah this has an INVENTORY LIMIT" | |
| Sequitur says, "Nobody can say I'm not a traditional parser game author NOW" | ||
| DavidW says, "ah. No holding two visionable items at a time, eh" | ||
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| BrianK says, "Well, at least it's nice enough to put stuff on the desk for you" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "put propeller in box. put fragment in box. put fabric in box." | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PROPELLER IN BOX. PUT FRAGMENT IN BOX. PUT FABRIC IN BOX. Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the broken propeller) Floyd | (first putting the keener fragment back on the desk) Floyd | You gingerly take the broken propeller with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the broken propeller into the box. Might as well keep it; it's Floyd | not like you're not basically made out of incriminating evidence. Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the keener fragment) Floyd | You gingerly take the keener fragment with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the keener fragment into the box. You're loathe to keep it, Floyd | but it might still lead you back to where the original keener was Floyd | made... or to the person who used it. Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the shred of fabric) Floyd | You gingerly take the shred of fabric with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the shred of fabric into the box. Shreds of clothing are Floyd | usually not that useful as sympathetic tokens, but this one has Floyd | special significance. Maybe you should keep it as insurance. Just in Floyd | case your friend gets out of line. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "put butterfly in box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 6/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BUTTERFLY IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the trapped butterfly) Floyd | You gingerly take the trapped butterfly with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the trapped butterfly into the box. Sure, in retrospect this Floyd | is hardly the most useful thing to grab and run out of a fire in a Floyd | magic shop, but hindsight is 20/20. Floyd | Floyd | In the end, you're too much of a pack rat to really leave anything Floyd | behind. Particularly in such a definitive way. But it's the exercise Floyd | of choosing that counts; if you're going to carry all those memories Floyd | along with you, let it be because you think they matter. Floyd | Floyd | Nobody has fun on new year's eve anyway; the pressure is too much. So Floyd | you might as well spend it choosing what to take and what to leave Floyd | behind. A year in this city has shown you enough things that you'd Floyd | rather not have seen. Floyd | Floyd | You light a cigarette while you wait out the last few moments. You Floyd | don't hear the snap of the wastebasket vanishing into thin Floyd | air at midnight; it's drowned out by the crackle of fireworks outside. Floyd | But you smell ozone in the air, and feel the telltale vibration of Floyd | something ceasing to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Happy new year *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read the author's AFTERWORD? Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "(Slightly) different ending" | |
| DavidW says, "huh. You are allowed to keep it all. PACK RAT." | ||
| Doug says, "well that's nice." | ||
| BrianK says, "The wastebasket goes off regardless" | ||
| BrianK says, "Oh wait, the wastebasket vanishes entirely" | ||
| BrianK says, "I thought it just got rid of the contents" | ||
| Peregrine says, "*poof*" | ||
| DavidW says, "It goes back to the mothership." | ||
| Doug says, "I should go around and touch everything in my house, so I can feel like I'm not actually a hoarder!" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Well, this was not traditional IF but still pleasant reading." | ||
| Doug says, "but first, get a cow's optic nerve" | ||
| Doug asks, "shall we try to Banish All The Things?" | ||
| BrianK says, "Well, we're already here" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Sequitur), "It makes me want to go back and play/replay your games" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "put butterfly in wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 6/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BUTTERFLY IN WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the trapped butterfly) Floyd | You gingerly take the trapped butterfly with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the trapped butterfly into the wastebasket. It's kind of sad Floyd | destroying this, since it's one of a kind, but it's also useless and Floyd | bizarrely cruel. Floyd | Floyd | There; it's done. You've picked what to keep and what to discard from Floyd | the past. A cleaner entry into another year of struggle. Floyd | Floyd | Nobody has fun on new year's eve anyway; the pressure is too much. So Floyd | you might as well spend it choosing what to take and what to leave Floyd | behind. A year in this city has shown you enough things that you'd Floyd | rather not have seen. Floyd | Floyd | You light a cigarette while you wait out the last few moments. You Floyd | don't hear the snap of the wastebasket vanishing into thin Floyd | air at midnight; it's drowned out by the crackle of fireworks outside. Floyd | But you smell ozone in the air, and feel the telltale vibration of Floyd | something ceasing to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Happy new year *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read the author's AFTERWORD? Floyd | > | BrianK says, "er whoops" | |
| BrianK says, "I forgot to take everything else out" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Safehouse Aleph Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | Just a cardboard box you salvaged from the bodega down the street. Floyd | Using paint made from wormwood and lead, you've marked it with a sigil Floyd | meant to keep its contents safe in transit. Floyd | Floyd | In the cardboard box are a shred of fabric, the keener fragment, a Floyd | broken propeller, a pint glass, and a goathorn piece. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "put fabric in wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT FABRIC IN WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the shred of fabric) Floyd | You gingerly take the shred of fabric with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the shred of fabric into the wastebasket. That case is closed, Floyd | anyway, and you travel light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "put keener in wastebasket. put propeller in wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT KEENER IN WASTEBASKET. PUT PROPELLER IN WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the keener fragment) Floyd | You gingerly take the keener fragment with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the keener fragment into the wastebasket. You'll be really Floyd | glad to be rid of this thing; even in pieces, those have a mind of Floyd | their own. You could never track down who made the original device, Floyd | anyway, from just this small piece. Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the broken propeller) Floyd | You gingerly take the broken propeller with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the broken propeller into the wastebasket. I mean, it's really Floyd | just mundane trash, but you kept it for a while as a reminder that Floyd | they're not invincible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | Just a cardboard box you salvaged from the bodega down the street. Floyd | Using paint made from wormwood and lead, you've marked it with a sigil Floyd | meant to keep its contents safe in transit. Floyd | Floyd | In the cardboard box are a pint glass and a goathorn piece. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "put pint in wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PINT IN WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the pint glass) Floyd | You gingerly take the pint glass with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the pint glass into the wastebasket. To be quite honest, Floyd | you're not sure if these are even enchanted. You nicked one hoping it Floyd | had some kind of self-cleaning charm on it, but no such luck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "put goathorn in wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 5/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GOATHORN IN WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the goathorn piece) Floyd | You gingerly take the goathorn piece with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the goathorn piece into the wastebasket. You've told that Floyd | story a couple of times now, but maybe it's time to bury that body; Floyd | the old fish-goat still shows up ever so often in your nightmares, Floyd | crying about the concept of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "put butterfly in wastebasket" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 6/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BUTTERFLY IN WASTEBASKET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the trapped butterfly) Floyd | You gingerly take the trapped butterfly with the handkerchief. Floyd | Floyd | You put the trapped butterfly into the wastebasket. It's kind of sad Floyd | destroying this, since it's one of a kind, but it's also useless and Floyd | bizarrely cruel. Floyd | Floyd | It's been, in the ways that count, and awful year. Nobody will blame Floyd | you for throwing out what little good there is, along with all the Floyd | bad. You try not to let your mind form the words "fresh start"; there Floyd | has never been one, and never will be. Floyd | Floyd | Nobody has fun on new year's eve anyway; the pressure is too much. So Floyd | you might as well spend it choosing what to take and what to leave Floyd | behind. A year in this city has shown you enough things that you'd Floyd | rather not have seen. Floyd | Floyd | You light a cigarette while you wait out the last few moments. You Floyd | don't hear the snap of the wastebasket vanishing into thin Floyd | air at midnight; it's drowned out by the crackle of fireworks outside. Floyd | But you smell ozone in the air, and feel the telltale vibration of Floyd | something ceasing to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Happy new year *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read the author's AFTERWORD? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps the pint glass has a charm against breakage. It's probably annoying to replace the glassware in a tavern." | |
| Peregrine says, "Okay, time for me to hit the sack." | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "hit the sack" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 6/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT THE SACK Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read the author's AFTERWORD? Floyd | > | Doug says, "already? but the year just started!" | |
| Peregrine says, "I feel a need... a need for sleep." | ||
| Doug says, "nighty night." | ||
| Doug says, "thanks for playing" | ||
| Peregrine exclaims, "Thanks for the game. Have a happy new year!" | ||
| DavidW says, "g'night Peregrine" | ||
| Peregrine says, "night y'all" | ||
| Doug says, "tomorrow will be a fr**h s***t" | ||
| Peregrine hops into the DeLorean and heads off to the future. | ||
| Sequitur goes home. | Doug says, "anyway, yeah, nice little rumination." | |
| DavidW says, "so, is that it for today? I'm fine with stopping here, making it a short session." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wouldn't mind a bit of a nap." | ||
| Doug says, "we could play his short game from NYE 2015, but I'm also fine with stopping" | ||
| DavidW asks, "You mean from last year?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "uh, I mean, from a year ago?" | ||
| Doug says, "from a year and a day ago" | ||
| Doug says, "oh, I guess it was a Christmas game. The World Turned Upside Down" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think I know that one." | ||
| says, "let's see if I can remember how to upload games to floyd" | ||
| DavidW asks, "shall we quit the current game then?" | ||
| Doug says, "hm, I don't think I saved the magic URL for floyd uploads." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, but my browser remembers!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask theworldturnedupsidedown" | ||
Floyd ] Safehouse Aleph Before midnight 6/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOAD SLEEPMASK THEWORLDTURNEDUPSIDEDOWN Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read the author's AFTERWORD? Floyd | > | ||
| Oreolek disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask theworldturnedupsidedown" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Our Lords and Knights, and Gentry too, doe mean old fashions Floyd | to forgoe: Floyd | They set a porter at the gate, that none must enter in Floyd | thereat. Floyd | They count it a sin, when poor people come in. Floyd | Hospitality it selfe is drown'd. Floyd | Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world Floyd | turn'd upside down. Floyd | Floyd | -- Anonymous English Civil War tract Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "The IFDB page says this is another Mere Anarchy/Cape game, which means I'll again not get the references." | |
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | The World Turned Upside Down Floyd | A Cape side story by Bruno Dias Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 151224 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Closing Time (behind the bar) Floyd | It's five to three on the last Saturday before Christmas; the green Floyd | glass light fixtures hanging over the bar have been dimmed, dirty Floyd | frost speckles the windows, and the hazy scent of alcoholic vomit Floyd | emanating from the toilets has subdued to a minor note in the far Floyd | background of the olfactory panoply that fills Herrig's. Floyd | Floyd | The last few regulars left in the place have coalesced into a single Floyd | group, huddled around the corner table. Floyd | Floyd | (You can complete this story with only the verbs EXAMINE, WAIT, Floyd | and INTERJECT when prompted; type NOTES at any time to read the Floyd | author's note.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I think this was less connected" | |
| DavidW says, "There's that word 'panoply' again." | ||
| DavidW says, "There was a panoply of artifacts in the last game." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "examine regulars" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > EXAMINE REGULARS Floyd | Floyd | There's Skóa, of course, with the hat; and Jamessin smoking sullenly Floyd | in the corner. Chow reads quietly in her wide chair, silently enjoying Floyd | the presence of her friends Ramos (with the centipede familiar) and Floyd | Grin (with the oversized scarf). Floyd | Floyd | The floorboards crack and pop underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "reminds me of this: [LINK]" | |
| DavidW says, "ouch" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x centipede" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X CENTIPEDE Floyd | Floyd | A tube of flesh hidden beneath an armature of mottled red and black, Floyd | studded with numerous sharp yellow legs, clinging to Ramos' shoulder Floyd | and neck like the worst/greatest feather boa. Sometimes it taps his Floyd | collarbone with one of its scraping limbs, as though to remind him of Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | A cat perches outside one of the windows, then disappears again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hat" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X HAT Floyd | Floyd | You force your eyes to focus on the hat for a moment: It's shaped like Floyd | an abstract paper chrysanthemum, perched on her head at an improbable Floyd | angle. It moves, not with the drafty air inside the bar but of its own Floyd | volition, like a breathing flower. Floyd | Floyd | The floorboards crack and pop underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scarf" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X SCARF Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty much ever color at one point or another; it looks very Floyd | much like someone finished a scarf, then just started the next one by Floyd | continuing that same scarf, several times over, until they had a beast Floyd | that resembled six or seven different scarves joined end to end into a Floyd | cozy chimera. Floyd | Floyd | A cat perches outside one of the windows, then disappears again. Floyd | Floyd | The door swings open to let someone in from the outside; given the Floyd | hour, and the events of the last few days, you can't help but set your Floyd | fingers behind the bar into an unpleasant pattern, readying some curse Floyd | or another. But then you see the man's face and your apprehension is Floyd | replaced by mild annoyance. Floyd | Floyd | "We're closed," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Didn't come here to drink," he replies, giving you the look that Floyd | tells you he's about to rope you into something. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. We're the bartender? That's new." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Much like the bar: A little rough around the edges, a little worse for Floyd | wear. Floyd | Floyd | The table of regulars laughs together; except, of course, for Grin. Floyd | Floyd | You fail to contain a sigh. "Why are you even here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, just having a look at the old place. Didn't know that I would Floyd | still find it." He talks with an odd lilt that you've been told is Floyd | Welsh. Floyd | Floyd | "What's that supposed to mean?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "perhaps examine him." | |
| DavidW says, "He probably has a snake familiar or cockatoo or something." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x grin" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X GRIN Floyd | Floyd | So named because he doesn't. Grin likes to hang around, listen, figure Floyd | out where the wind is blowing. He has a tendency to disappear for Floyd | weeks at a time. Other than that, all you know about him is that he's Floyd | from someplace warmer than Yeats; right now, in the middle of winter, Floyd | his head barely pokes out of the enormous scarf wrapped several times Floyd | around his neck and face. Floyd | Floyd | Skóa takes a drink out of her glass. Floyd | Floyd | "Didn't half the wizards in this city get killed or worse last year?" Floyd | Floyd | You shrug. "They weren't my customers." Floyd | Floyd | "Still. Must have been some trouble." Floyd | Floyd | (You could INTERJECT here) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I think Yeats was one of the cities in Cape" | |
| DavidW says, "Do we have a name for the new guy yet? I haven't seen one." | ||
| Doug asks, "oh, by 'him' did you mean the newcomer?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Also, I'm having trouble telling who's speaking to whom." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | (Ainsley) Floyd | Ainsley is one of those people who always looks like he's lost weight, Floyd | skin hanging slightly too loose off his bones like there used to be Floyd | more of him; but you've never seem him any thicker. Maybe he puffs up Floyd | when he's back across the ocean where he's from. Wears a Floyd | professorial-looking argyle sweater vest and a calculated two-day Floyd | nonbeard. Though you've never seen him do actual magic, of all the Floyd | joints in all the cities in the world he likes to roll into yours, Floyd | once every few months, when he's in town. Floyd | Floyd | Ramos nods silently in response to some unseen signal or message from Floyd | his familiar. Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, Ainsley," you say, getting plainly frustrated now. "Just Floyd | tell me what this is about." Floyd | Floyd | He cocks his head and stares you down curiously, for a moment. And Floyd | then he pulls out a slightly oversized phone. He flips through Floyd | pictures of what looks like a blur smeared against the night sky; Floyd | after a few of them, though, it resolves itself in your mind as a Floyd | vaguely human figure, leaping across rooftops; or maybe flying. You Floyd | can't quite tell. Floyd | Floyd | "You wouldn't happen to know anything about this, would you?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could INTERJECT here) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, the newcomer." | |
| Doug says, "hm, I guess we missed a chance to INTERJECT" | ||
| Doug says, "ah, the pictures are probably of the player in Cape" | ||
| Doug says, "who could either leap or fly" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess the impression this game is very much on rails and that INTERJECT is for short targets of extra info." | ||
| DavidW says, "er tangent" | ||
| DavidW says, "tangents, not targets" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm tired." | ||
| Doug asks, "shall I interject?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "interject" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > INTERJECT Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, okay. There's some rumors going around. A lot of them. The Floyd | incident with the keener left a bit of a power vacuum. What was left Floyd | of the cabal is now wrestling to see who comes out on top. Let's just Floyd | say I don't cross the bridges no more." Floyd | Floyd | "I can imagine." Floyd | Floyd | "So there's this person going around Blaise sending people to the Floyd | hospital. Some people think it's just a weird mundane in a costume, Floyd | some people think it's a player. Fucked if I know how to get in touch, Floyd | though." Floyd | Floyd | He purses his lips; the smell of Jamessin's cigarette must be giving Floyd | him cravings. Floyd | Floyd | "Better than nothing, at least. Thanks." Floyd | Floyd | The table of regulars laughs together; except, of course, for Grin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ah right, Blaise was the city in Cape" | |
| Doug says, "er, both Blaise and Keats. or maybe they are neighborhoods, I forget" | ||
| DavidW says, "I thought it was Yeats" | ||
| Doug says, "yes, sorry." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's gotta all literary in here all of a sudden." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a rag Floyd | a crow cameo Floyd | Floyd | Ramos takes a drink out of his glass. Floyd | Floyd | "What's your real angle here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Trouble back home. I'm putting a team together. Figured whoever's Floyd | been beating up drug dealers is the kind of person who can help." Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes leap into the back of your skull faster than you can stop Floyd | yourself. Floyd | Floyd | "You flew all the way to Yeats to recruit a latex fetishist to go fix Floyd | one of your fuck-ups." Floyd | Floyd | "It's serious. Scary shit I hoped I'd never see again." Floyd | Floyd | (You could INTERJECT here) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "should we just interject always?" | |
| DavidW says, "up to you" | ||
| Doug says, "I don't remember if it has an effect other than extra story bits" | ||
| Doug says, "I'm also curious about the crow came." | ||
| Doug says, "+o" | ||
| Doug says, "maybe I'll wait until a non-interject point" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "interject" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > INTERJECT Floyd | Floyd | You shake your head, more at yourself than at him. "Fine. If it gets Floyd | you off my back. You see the one in the corner with the oversized Floyd | scarf? That's Grin. He might know what's up." Floyd | Floyd | "Don't suppose you might serve me a drink, now?" Floyd | Floyd | "Don't push your luck. And I hope you don't plan on staying in town Floyd | for more than a couple days." Floyd | Floyd | "Wouldn't dream of it." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** an ending *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Doug says, "eek." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm not getting much sense of player agency here. I think this is a story we're being told and interjecting just changes it slightly." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Closing Time Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x crow" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X CROW Floyd | Floyd | A layer of onyx finely glued onto a layer of iridescent labradorite, Floyd | then carved so that the onyx resembles a crow's head emerging from the Floyd | eerie glow of the white-cyan stone underneath. "For protection," she Floyd | said, on the last night you saw her in this bar. It still hums a tiny Floyd | bit with her aura, pointing faintly towards some distant path. Floyd | Floyd | Chow gives Ainsley a curious look from the corner table Floyd | You give him one last shrug. "Maybe try someone else's bar for once." Floyd | Floyd | He doesn't respond; there's no other bar and he knows that. He just Floyd | walks out dejectedly. You give the countertop one last wipe down, Floyd | sighing. "We're closing," you announce to the people at the corner Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** an ending *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Doug says, "hm, seems like interjecting is warranted" | |
| DavidW says, "I don't think there's much more to it than that. You can try restarting and interjecting that first time we missed." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Closing Time Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Allen has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give cameo to ainsley" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE CAMEO TO AINSLEY Floyd | Floyd | Ainsley doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | You notice the random flickering of the lights outside. Floyd | Floyd | You give him one last shrug. "Maybe try someone else's bar for once." Floyd | Floyd | He doesn't respond; there's no other bar and he knows that. He just Floyd | walks out dejectedly. You give the countertop one last wipe down, Floyd | sighing. "We're closing," you announce to the people at the corner Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** an ending *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Our Lords and Knights, and Gentry too, doe mean old fashions Floyd | to forgoe: Floyd | They set a porter at the gate, that none must enter in Floyd | thereat. Floyd | They count it a sin, when poor people come in. Floyd | Hospitality it selfe is drown'd. Floyd | Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world Floyd | turn'd upside down. Floyd | Floyd | -- Anonymous English Civil War tract Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | The World Turned Upside Down Floyd | A Cape side story by Bruno Dias Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 151224 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Closing Time (behind the bar) Floyd | It's five to three on the last Saturday before Christmas; the green Floyd | glass light fixtures hanging over the bar have been dimmed, dirty Floyd | frost speckles the windows, and the hazy scent of alcoholic vomit Floyd | emanating from the toilets has subdued to a minor note in the far Floyd | background of the olfactory panoply that fills Herrig's. Floyd | Floyd | The last few regulars left in the place have coalesced into a single Floyd | group, huddled around the corner table. Floyd | Floyd | (You can complete this story with only the verbs EXAMINE, WAIT, Floyd | and INTERJECT when prompted; type NOTES at any time to read the Floyd | author's note.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "notes" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > NOTES Floyd | Floyd | This is a very short story written very quickly on occasion of Floyd | December 2015, as a brief thank-you note to everyone who's read, Floyd | supported, or helped my IF work over the course of the preceding year. Floyd | It is small and wholly self-indulgent; as always, you can reach me on Floyd | Twitter @notbrunoagain. Floyd | Floyd | Special thanks in no particular order to Jason McIntosh, Doug Floyd | Orleans, Caleb Wilson, Tory Hoke, Etienne Vouga, Emily Short, David Floyd | Cornelson, Carolyn van Eseltine, Aaron Reed, Neil Butters, Cat Floyd | Manning, Kerstin Hall, and surely many others who have read, played, Floyd | contributed, and helped me in 2015. Floyd | Floyd | Bruno Dias Floyd | December 24th, 2015 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "interject" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > INTERJECT Floyd | Floyd | You're not talking to anyone right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drop cameo" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CAMEO Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Closing Time (behind the bar) Floyd | It's three minutes to three on the last Saturday before Christmas; the Floyd | green glass light fixtures hanging over the bar have been dimmed, Floyd | dirty frost speckles the windows, and the hazy scent of alcoholic Floyd | vomit emanating from the toilets has subdued to a minor note in the Floyd | far background of the olfactory panoply that fills Herrig's. Floyd | Floyd | The last few regulars left in the place have coalesced into a single Floyd | group, huddled around the corner table. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crow cameo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "clean bar with rag" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN BAR WITH RAG Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to clean the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "clean bar" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN BAR Floyd | Floyd | You rub the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x rag" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X RAG Floyd | Floyd | You don't strictly need it, but it helps people read you as the Floyd | bartender. Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes drift inexorably to the group of regulars huddled around the Floyd | table, taking stock of them. Floyd | Floyd | There's Skóa, of course, with the hat; and Jamessin smoking sullenly Floyd | in the corner. Chow reads quietly in her wide chair, silently enjoying Floyd | the presence of her friends Ramos (with the centipede familiar) and Floyd | Grin (with the oversized scarf). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x chow" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X CHOW Floyd | Floyd | Chow is Skóa's physical opposite: Short, brown-skinned, slightly round Floyd | about the cheeks and quite round about the body. But the two have the Floyd | same cold, frighteningly perceptive eyes in common. Chow seems to Floyd | enjoy mostly the vague warmth of others' company; she fills space by Floyd | reading a book. You didn't quite glimpse its cover. Floyd | Floyd | Ramos nods silently in response to some unseen signal or message from Floyd | his familiar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It might be interesting if a game's commands were entirely interjections like 'wow', 'hey', 'aww', 'hooray', etc." | |
| Doug says, "heh" | ||
| Doug says, ">HEH" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You force your eyes to focus on the cover of the book: It's not old as Floyd | in really old, just weatherbeaten and outdated. It's some pulpy thing Floyd | with a screaming woman on the cover and a suitably absurd title: Floyd | The Return of the Worm. Floyd | Floyd | The floorboards crack and pop underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Actually, I sorta already did that with 'Yay Games'." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x floorboards" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOORBOARDS Floyd | Floyd | (That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But I hadn't thought of the idea for interjections to steer a conversation." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x skoa" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X SKOA Floyd | Floyd | She is built much like the human version of an ancient birch tree: Floyd | pale, tall, and slightly ominous-looking. This isn't helped by her Floyd | propensity for a sort of post-post businesspunk wardrobe, though Floyd | tonight she chose to break her somber figure by wearing a curious Floyd | fascinator that you can't quite resolve with your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | Someone's phone squawks with a notification; nobody looks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x fascinator" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X FASCINATOR Floyd | Floyd | You force your eyes to focus on the hat for a moment: It's shaped like Floyd | an abstract paper chrysanthemum, perched on her head at an improbable Floyd | angle. It moves, not with the drafty air inside the bar but of its own Floyd | volition, like a breathing flower. Floyd | Floyd | The table of regulars laughs together; except, of course, for Grin. Floyd | Floyd | The door swings open to let someone in from the outside; given the Floyd | hour, and the events of the last few days, you can't help but set your Floyd | fingers behind the bar into an unpleasant pattern, readying some curse Floyd | or another. But then you see the man's face and your apprehension is Floyd | replaced by mild annoyance. Floyd | Floyd | "We're closed," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Didn't come here to drink," he replies, giving you the look that Floyd | tells you he's about to rope you into something. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's an O? I saw Ska." | |
| Doug says, "yeah, there's an accent over the O" | ||
| DavidW says, "ah. I don't see accented characters with my mudclient." | ||
| Doug says, "sux2bu" | ||
| DavidW says, "Someday I'll join the future." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x jamessin" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X JAMESSIN Floyd | Floyd | Jamessin is the youngest one in this crowd, though she's eager to make Floyd | it clear at all times that she's nobody's apprentice. Tonight, Floyd | something has her nervous; she's on her third cigarette now, still Floyd | fiddling with the flame she produces from a slightly singed fingertip. Floyd | Plenty going around to make someone rattled, of course. Floyd | Floyd | Someone looks at their phone and laughs at a private joke. Floyd | Floyd | You fail to contain a sigh. "Why are you even here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, just having a look at the old place. Didn't know that I would Floyd | still find it." He talks with an odd lilt that you've been told is Floyd | Welsh. Floyd | Floyd | "What's that supposed to mean?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | (That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ramos" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X RAMOS Floyd | Floyd | Gruff-looking and punkish, but ultimately good natured. Of course, Floyd | then there's the chihuahua-sized centipede clinging to his neck and Floyd | shoulder like a suckling infant. You still remember a time before Floyd | familiars turned into a sort of shock fashion competition, though Floyd | Ramos seems to have put an end to that; nobody cared to try harder Floyd | than the giant centipede. Floyd | Floyd | The floorboards crack and pop underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | "Didn't half the wizards in this city get killed or worse last year?" Floyd | Floyd | You shrug. "They weren't my customers." Floyd | Floyd | "Still. Must have been some trouble." Floyd | Floyd | (You could INTERJECT here) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "interject" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > INTERJECT Floyd | Floyd | You look askance for a moment, but decide to spill anyway: "So maybe Floyd | there was an attack. So maybe a bunch of rich assholes are in the Floyd | ground or in hospice care now. Maybe some of the people responsible Floyd | were my customers. They're not any more." Floyd | Floyd | "You're only telling me this because you know I know." Floyd | Floyd | You give him a practiced glare. Floyd | Floyd | Chow takes a drink out of her glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x vest" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X VEST Floyd | Floyd | (That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x chairs" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X CHAIRS Floyd | Floyd | (That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | The corner table is round, with a plush bench that wraps around it, Floyd | fixed next to a window. Floyd | Floyd | Someone's phone squawks with a notification; nobody looks. Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, Ainsley," you say, getting plainly frustrated now. "Just Floyd | tell me what this is about." Floyd | Floyd | He cocks his head and stares you down curiously, for a moment. And Floyd | then he pulls out a slightly oversized phone. He flips through Floyd | pictures of what looks like a blur smeared against the night sky; Floyd | after a few of them, though, it resolves itself in your mind as a Floyd | vaguely human figure, leaping across rooftops; or maybe flying. You Floyd | can't quite tell. Floyd | Floyd | "You wouldn't happen to know anything about this, would you?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could INTERJECT here) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aw, not "Oak."" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x pictures" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURES Floyd | Floyd | (That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | (That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says, "hm, maybe we should try not interjecting here" | DavidW says, "Could try 'wait'" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | "Is that the weirdo in a costume that all the papers are up in arms Floyd | about?" Floyd | Floyd | He nods, eyes bobbing up in his head like they want to roll. Floyd | Floyd | You continue: "Why do you assume a wizard is behind every weird thing Floyd | that happens?" Floyd | Floyd | "Used to be a good assumption to have in this town. Now I'm not so Floyd | sure." Floyd | Floyd | Jamessin blows a smoke ring, though it comes out weirdly deformed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x smoke ring" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X SMOKE RING Floyd | Floyd | (That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry," you say, not sorry. "Can't help you there. What's your real Floyd | angle here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Trouble back home. I'm putting a team together. Figured whoever's Floyd | been beating up drug dealers is the kind of person who can help." Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes leap into the back of your skull faster than you can stop Floyd | yourself. Floyd | Floyd | "You flew all the way to Yeats to recruit a latex fetishist to go fix Floyd | one of your fuck-ups." Floyd | Floyd | "It's serious. Scary shit I hoped I'd never see again." Floyd | Floyd | (You could INTERJECT here) Floyd | Floyd | The table of regulars laughs together; except, of course, for Grin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hm, yeah, I guess only the third interjection matters" | |
| DavidW asks, "So, is everyone else here PCs in previous games?" | ||
| Doug says, "no, none of them are" | ||
| Doug says, "and I guess none of them are the patron from the flashback in the previous game" | ||
| Doug says, "but I guess Grin knows the PC from Cape" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOOK Floyd | Floyd | That seems to belong to Chow. Floyd | Floyd | Ramos nods silently in response to some unseen signal or message from Floyd | his familiar. Floyd | Floyd | You give him one last shrug. "Maybe try someone else's bar for once." Floyd | Floyd | He doesn't respond; there's no other bar and he knows that. He just Floyd | walks out dejectedly. You give the countertop one last wipe down, Floyd | sighing. "We're closing," you announce to the people at the corner Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** an ending *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Doug says, "anyway yeah, I guess there's not much beyond examining everything, and three interjection points" | |
| Doug says, "maybe a later game will involve Ainsley's team." | ||
| Doug says, "hm, the crow cameo might have been given by the patron. Who might be a character in Mere Anarchy, but my memories of that are fuzzy" | ||
| Doug says, "anyhoo, that's the game." | ||
| DavidW says, "good show" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think I'm done for today. It was different, but nice enough." | ||
| Owlor says, "yeah it was interesting, sorry i was quiet for most of it." | ||
| Doug says, "it's reminding me that I hope Carolyn picks up 18 Rooms again." | ||
| \[clubfloyd] Doug says, "speaking of superhero games." | DavidW says, "oh yeah, 18 Rooms. Agreed, it would be nice to see more of that." | |
| DavidW asks, "We got, uh 4 of those rooms? Or was it 5?" | ||
| Doug says, "3, I thought" | ||
| Doug says, "you're right, 4. Room 15." | ||
| BrianK goes home. | Doug says, "anyway, happy new year Floyders!" | |
| DavidW says, "thanks. Happy New Year to all,." | ||
