ClubFloyd Transcript:
Ventilator by Peregrine Wade
As played on ifMUD on February 26, 2017

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.

Below is a transcript of Ventilator written by Peregrine Wade. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting IFDB.


WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask ventilator"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | It is really hot today. Sprawled across the bed of your hotel
Floyd | room, you lie sweltering in a growing puddle of sweat. There are no
Floyd | flies in the air, but that is only because they have all passed out on
Floyd | the floor.
Floyd | Ventilator
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Peregrine Wade
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 161008 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hotel Room
Floyd | This is the overpriced room you've paid for. It is striking by its
Floyd | lack of character, its uncomfortable-looking bed, its rickety table,
Floyd | its miniscule minibar, its enormous curtainless window which allows
Floyd | all the blazing sunlight outside to roast you alive, and a door that
Floyd | leads out into the corridor. To say nothing of the toilet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Standing here, beckoning to you, is the ventilator. Is it your friend?
Floyd | Or your foe? Time will tell.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anyhow, it's quiet, possibly because it's currently switched off.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dirty floor are some flies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We'll let Guenni enter the commands today."
Jacqueline asks, "Should we shut the curtains? To block out the sun?"
Roger says, "I don't know why I swallowed the fly"
Roger says, "You see no curtains here"
Jacqueline says, "Oh, I missed the key word 'curtainless'"
Jacqueline says, "Well, there is always X ME and I."
Draconis says, "And X VENTILATOR"
Jacqueline says, "Yes"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x ventalator"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X VENTALATOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Guenni), "vent-i-lator"
Guenni says (to floyd), "vx me"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > VX ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe you need to check your spelling, or maybe you need HELP.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You are unable to examine yourself without a mirror, and the hotel has
Floyd | a strict policy against people with prehensile eyes. Joking aside, you
Floyd | look as normal as ever... albeit a little under the weather. And, of
Floyd | course, your heart is in a mess. Sigh.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "We already VX'd Kim"
Jacqueline says, "I have already gotten my desired effect from this game. It made me laugh before the title credits with the bit about the flies."
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "That... shouldn't be funny. But it kind of is."
Guenni says (to floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   some trousers (being worn)
Floyd |   a shirt (being worn)
Floyd |   your hair (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni asks, "well, shall I switch it on?"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Go for it!"
Jacqueline says, "I'm sure it will end badly, but yes. Switch it on."
Guenni says (to floyd), "switch on ventilator"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWITCH ON VENTILATOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure?
Draconis says, "Your hair (being worn)"
Jacqueline laughs.
Jacqueline exclaims, "Yes, we are sure!"
Guenni says (to floyd), "yes"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | Are you sure?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn on the ventilator. Shortly afterwards, your hair is swept
Floyd | off, soaring through the air buoyantly before being flattened like a
Floyd | particularly inedible pancake onto the wall. Whoa! Perhaps a tad
Floyd | excessive, even for a brand new model.
Floyd |
Floyd | But, however, this at least has had the desired effect, reviving you
Floyd | sufficiently to be able to get back up again. Now, you just need to
Floyd | find a drink...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Draconis says, "No longer being worn, evidently"
Guenni says (to floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Hotel Room
Floyd | This is the overpriced room you've paid for. It is striking by its
Floyd | lack of character, its uncomfortable-looking bed, its rickety table,
Floyd | its miniscule minibar, its enormous curtainless window which allows
Floyd | all the blazing sunlight outside to roast you alive, and a door that
Floyd | leads out into the corridor. To say nothing of the toilet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Standing here, roaring away like nobody's business, is the ventilator.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the wall is your hair.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ventilator is a bit too powerful for your liking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "You've played this before, I take it."
Guenni says (to floyd), "x minibar"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MINIBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | A minibar. Just a minibar. Not a spaceship. Not a portal to another
Floyd | world. Not... well, you get the idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Guenni), "Yes, please look at all the things in the room."
Guenni says (to floyd), "open it"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | The minibar opens with some difficulty, releasing a flood of salted
Floyd | peanuts, paprika chips, and some rather gooey guacamole. There is no
Floyd | sign of anything remotely drinkable, oddly enough for a hotel set in
Floyd | the middle of New Mexico.
Floyd | Do you wish to complain to the hotel staff?
Jacqueline says, "Oh. Sure. Complain to the hotel staff. Say yes."
Guenni says (to floyd), "yes"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | Do you wish to complain to the hotel staff?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | After an hour of being yelled at in a language that sounds
Floyd | suspiciously like a bizarre mix of English, Esperanto and
Floyd | Parseltongue, you are kicked out by an implausible hotel employee with
Floyd | a huge mustache and a sombrero you could canoe across the Rio Grande
Floyd | in. You wander about the desert and - for no conceivable reason than
Floyd | that otherwise the story of your life would have ended in a boring way
Floyd | - get abducted by aliens.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** What the hell??? This isn't a proper ending!
Floyd | (Juvenile Joke #4 out of 7) ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
Draconis says (to Jacqueline), "Strangely enough, no. I meant to but didn't get around to it."
Jacqueline says, "So, there are at least seven juvenile jokes, it would appear."
Jacqueline asks, "I am up for restarting and playing it again. Others?"
Guenni asks, "I take it we restart?"
Guenni laughs'
Jacqueline says (to Guenni), "If you'd like to play again, yes. Please restart."
Guenni says (to floyd), "restart"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | It is really hot today. Sprawled across the bed of your hotel
Floyd | room, you lie sweltering in a growing puddle of sweat. There are no
Floyd | flies in the air, but that is only because they have all passed out on
Floyd | the floor.
Floyd | Ventilator
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Peregrine Wade
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 161008 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hotel Room
Floyd | This is the overpriced room you've paid for. It is striking by its
Floyd | lack of character, its uncomfortable-looking bed, its rickety table,
Floyd | its miniscule minibar, its enormous curtainless window which allows
Floyd | all the blazing sunlight outside to roast you alive, and a door that
Floyd | leads out into the corridor. To say nothing of the toilet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Standing here, beckoning to you, is the ventilator. Is it your friend?
Floyd | Or your foe? Time will tell.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anyhow, it's quiet, possibly because it's currently switched off.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dirty floor are some flies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Let's examine the toilet"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x toilet"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TOILET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's not even worthy of being called a separate room, being basically
Floyd | a hollow cavity in the wall protected from prying eyes only by a pair
Floyd | of ludicrous saloon doors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Nice."
Jacqueline asks, "Examine the bed? The table?"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x bed"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BED
Floyd |
Floyd | Drenched with sweat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "Not your sweat, though"
Guenni says (to floyd), "look under it"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a book that some previous guest had left there, mummified in
Floyd | a shroud of dust bunnies, and out of curiosity you take it.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's really hot in here, as mentioned previously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "x dust"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DUST
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "huh. Nice find on the book. What is it?"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x book"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's "Three Men in a Boat", Stephanie's favourite book! You flit
Floyd | through it idly and find the passage where Harris sings comic songs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Draconis asks, "Read it?"
Jacqueline asks, "Who is Stephanie?"
Roger says, "I can't remember the last time I saw a hotel bed that could be looked under"
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "True"
Guenni says (to floyd), "remember stephanie"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > REMEMBER STEPHANIE
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe you need to check your spelling, or maybe you need HELP.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Guenni), "Nice try. Sadly, remember isn't a default verb"
Guenni says, "I guess he's the one responsible for the broken heart."
Guenni says, "she"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x table"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | On the table is a ventilator.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "Maybe she got ventilated"
Jacqueline asks, "This may not work, but maybe try to think about Stephanie?"
Guenni says (to floyd), "thank about stephanie"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THANK ABOUT STEPHANIE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "look under table"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You kneel down and look under the table. A cockroach sees you,
Floyd | panicks, runs around in circles and finally scurries out of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says, "nice."
Jacqueline says, "Earlier, you typed thank about stephanie, not think about. (Not that I believe either will work.)"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, the cockroach bit is good."
Guenni says, "oops."
Guenni says (to floyd), "think about stephanie"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK ABOUT STEPHANIE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Darn"
Jacqueline says, "We could open the minifridge, but then not complain to the management."
Guenni says, "I'd like to x the hair. Perhaps there's a way to save it when switching the monster."
Jacqueline says, "Sure"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x hair"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about your hair, other than  the fact that
Floyd | it's attached to your scalp and is not some smarmy wig.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "wow"
Jacqueline says, "So it really is quite a ventilator."
Guenni says (to floyd), "pud book on hair"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUD BOOK ON HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe you need to check your spelling, or maybe you need HELP.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "put book on hair"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT BOOK ON HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | Putting things on your hair would achieve nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have ceased to sweat. This is a bad sign, considering that the
Floyd | temperature exceeds 30 degrees Celsius.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says, "ok so the next scalping is inevitable for nov."
Guenni says (to floyd), "switch on ventilator"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWITCH ON VENTILATOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure?
Guenni says (to floyd), "yes"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | Are you sure?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn on the ventilator. Shortly afterwards, your hair is swept
Floyd | off, soaring through the air buoyantly before being flattened like a
Floyd | particularly inedible pancake onto the wall. Whoa! Perhaps a tad
Floyd | excessive, even for a brand new model.
Floyd |
Floyd | But, however, this at least has had the desired effect, reviving you
Floyd | sufficiently to be able to get back up again. Now, you just need to
Floyd | find a drink...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "open minibar"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN MINIBAR
Floyd |
Floyd | The minibar opens with some difficulty, releasing a flood of salted
Floyd | peanuts, paprika chips, and some rather gooey guacamole. There is no
Floyd | sign of anything remotely drinkable, oddly enough for a hotel set in
Floyd | the middle of New Mexico.
Floyd | Do you wish to complain to the hotel staff?
Guenni says (to floyd), "no"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           High Noon
Floyd | Do you wish to complain to the hotel staff?
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | You quash your resentment. Best not to anger the hotel staff unduly.
Floyd | So you try to close the minibar, but funnily enough it won't close.
Floyd | You are forced to leave it as it is, guacamole spilling about and all.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ventilator is a bit too powerful for your liking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "switch off ventilator"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWITCH OFF VENTILATOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The ventilator has a mind of its own, and suddenly you are blown
Floyd | backwards against the wall by the sheer force of the air being blasted
Floyd | out. The battle to the death has now begun!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A cat peeps through the door, clearly wondering why you are in such a
Floyd | ridiculous posture.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Draconis says, "Oh my"
Guenni says, "..floyd" Roger says, "Turning you on does not mean I consent to you pinning me to a wall"
Guenni says, "which one is the space button."
Roger asks, "I think maybe it's green?"
Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I have had something come up and I need to step away."
Roger pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd |
Floyd | Hotel Room (on the wall)
Floyd | This is the overpriced room you've paid for. It is striking by its
Floyd | lack of character, its uncomfortable-looking bed, its rickety table,
Floyd | its miniscule minibar, its enormous curtainless window which allows
Floyd | all the blazing sunlight outside to roast you alive, and a door that
Floyd | leads out into the corridor. To say nothing of the toilet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Standing here, roaring away like nobody's business, is the ventilator.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the wall you can see your hair (and yourself, of course).
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "Yeah, it's the green button"
Guenni says (to floyd), "down"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | You bang your head against the walls fruitlessly. You now fully
Floyd | perceive that the only way is out.... unless you really want to jump
Floyd | through the window.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat says "Miaow?" apprehensively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "out"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You try to use all your might to get yourself back standing on the
Floyd | floor where you rightfully belong, but fail miserably.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Draconis asks, "Ask the cat to turn it off?" Draconis asks, "Ask the cat to turn it off?"
Guenni laughs
Guenni says (to floyd), "ask cat to switch ventilator"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT TO SWITCH VENTILATOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe you need to check your spelling, or maybe you need HELP.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "ask cat to switch off ventilator"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT TO SWITCH OFF VENTILATOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe you need to check your spelling, or maybe you need HELP.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "throw dust bunnies at ventilator"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THROW DUST BUNNIES AT VENTILATOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a book
Floyd |   some trousers (being worn)
Floyd |   a shirt (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni asks, "didn't we collect some dust bunnies under the bed?"
Guenni says (to floyd), "throw book at ventilator"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THROW BOOK AT VENTILATOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Tears welling up in your eyes, you hurl Three Men in a Boat
Floyd | in the face of the terrible Ventilator. The villainous machine shreds
Floyd | the slim, dog-eared tome into confettis.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Ventilator's wrath has now been aroused, and you watch in silent
Floyd | awe as it sends halff your belongings through the wall into the
Floyd | neighbouring room. Your mobile phone is now sliding past you, hopping
Floyd | and skipping madly as it is being blown about.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "take mobile phone"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE MOBILE PHONE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Ventilator is blowing you towards the toilet, clearly under the
Floyd | impression that you wish to go there. Nothing could be further from
Floyd | the truth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni asks, "any ideas?"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x phone"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PHONE
Floyd |
Floyd | Your treasured possession, and only contact with the outside world. On
Floyd | its screen is a list of contacts.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "I'm back. Maybe try to phone for help?"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x list"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LIST
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "x contacts?"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x contacts"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CONTACTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Since you can't remember a phone number to save your life, this is how
Floyd | you keep track of everything.
Floyd |
Floyd | POLICE, DOCTOR, HELP, STEPH, BOB, PIZZA, GOD
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni asks, "" Well, which one first?"
Jacqueline asks, "Steph?"
Guenni says, "He won't be e happy camper, but let's try it."
Guenni says (to floyd), "call steph"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CALL STEPH
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe she can help you. She's still your girlfriend, in spite of that
Floyd | argument you both had... You dial the number hopefully.
Floyd |
Floyd | Her answering machine is the only reply: "Hello, you have reached
Floyd | Stephanie Crane's phone, but she is out right now and won't be back
Floyd | before next Christmas. Please leave a message after the beep. BEEP."
Floyd | Your morale now at its lowest point in recorded history, you hang up
Floyd | listlessly. All is lost.
Floyd |
Floyd | The toilet is now hurtling at great speed towards you, or perhaps you
Floyd | are hurtling at great speed towards it. You don't really have the time
Floyd | to figure it out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "put shirt on head"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT SHIRT ON HEAD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Well, I would like to see all the responses to all the people, though I suspect we are about to run out of time and be killed by the toilet."
Guenni nods
Guenni says (to floyd), "out"
Floyd ]  Hotel Room                                           Man Vs Machine
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You try to use all your might to get yourself back standing on the
Floyd | floor where you rightfully belong, but fail miserably.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hang on a second... isn't it strange how long it's taking for you to
Floyd | crash into the toilet? This hotel room must be wider than you
Floyd | realized. Probably why it was so expensive in the first place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says, ""hmm ok perhaps time for one more. So whom next."
Jacqueline says, "God"
Guenni says (to floyd), "call god"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CALL GOD
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't remember saving this particular number on your mobile phone.
Floyd | It seems to have appeared in your contacts by magic. Perhaps a sign?
Floyd | You dial it with high hopes....
Floyd |
Floyd | "HELLO," a voice booms, sounding remarkably like Darth Vader. "HOW MAY
Floyd | I HELP YOU?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm doomed!" you reply, tears streaming off your face and flying out
Floyd | the window.
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't hear the answer the voice makes, but suddenly everything
Floyd | around you stands still, hushed by a great silence. As you land nimbly
Floyd | on your feet, the ground gives way to nothingness, and the sunlight
Floyd | turns into blackest night...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Draconis says, "...what"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Void
Floyd | All around you stretches the endlessness of outer space. You float
Floyd | aimlessly among the stars and galaxies, which by some strange magic
Floyd | have been shrunk to the size of flies.
Floyd |
Floyd | God is here, watching you benevolently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "(You can also just type >PRESS SPACE without regard to what color the button is.)"
Jacqueline says, "Well, X GOD"
Guenni says (to floyd), "x god"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GOD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't describe this sight in words, because there are no words to
Floyd | describe it. All you can make out is a T-shirt reading "I TOTALLY
Floyd | ROCK, DUDE". God, a fan of rock n" roll? What a revelation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says, ""Ok, I didn't expect to end up therc."
Guenni says (to floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You appear to be completely nude. How embarrassing. Now the whole
Floyd | Universe can see your ingrown toenail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Draconis says, "omg"
Guenni says, ""literally"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline asks, "Do we have any possessions?"
Guenni says (to floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "ask god about stephanie"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK GOD ABOUT STEPHANIE
Floyd |
Floyd | [Use TALK TO to interact with characters.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "walk to god"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WALK TO GOD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Draconis says, "I feel like God needs a dramatic echo"
Guenni exclaims, ""I hate my sometime typing incompetency!!"
Guenni says (to floyd), "talk to god"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO GOD
Floyd |
Floyd | "What has happened to me?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I RESCUED YOU," God booms. He still sounds a lot like Darth Vader.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Keep talking?"
Guenni says (to floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "I know that," you say, "but am I alive or dead? Is this Heaven? Where
Floyd | is everybody?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "YOU ARE STILL MISSING THE BIG PICTURE," God booms.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "What is the big picture?" you ask.
Floyd |
Floyd | God hesitates. Then, the answer comes: "THE VENTILATOR, THE CAT, THE
Floyd | HOTEL ROOM.... ALL OF IT.... DID YOU TRULY BELIEVE THAT IT WAS REAL?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, ">GOD, SORRY"
Jacqueline says, "(kidding)"
Guenni says (to floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now that I think about it... it did seems kind of... surreal?" you
Floyd | say tentatively.
Floyd |
Floyd | "OF COURSE IT DID, FRANK," God booms in a whisper (something normally
Floyd | impossible to do, but this is God after all). "THIS WAS A DREAM; A
Floyd | DREAM WHICH IN A LANGUAGE OF ITS OWN WAS TRYING TO TELL YOU
Floyd | SOMETHING."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "What was it trying to tell me?" you ask, almost afraid of the answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | "THAT THERE IS A SIDE OF YOU WHICH PUSHES AWAY THOSE THAT IT LOVES; A
Floyd | SIDE SYMBOLIZED BY THE VENTILATOR. THAT SIDE WILL ULTIMATELY RESULT IN
Floyd | YOUR OWN DESTRUCTION, IF YOU DO NOT LEARN TO OVERCOME IT."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "But what about the rest? The flies? The minibar? The cat? Everything
Floyd | else?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "ALL PIECES OF THE SAME PUZZLE," God replies. "THE CAT SYMBOLIZED YOUR
Floyd | CAPACITY TO BE KIND WITH OTHERS, THE MINIBAR WAS A PLACE TO HIDE FROM
Floyd | THE SUFFERING OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD WHICH ULTIMATELY RESULTED IN YOUR
Floyd | SYMBOLIC DEATH, AND THE FLIES...THE FLIES...WELL, THEY WERE MILDLY
Floyd | AMUSING. NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO HAVE A MEANING."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Sometimes a fly is just a fly"
Guenni says (to floyd), "g"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "Am I going to be subjected to pop psychology for the rest of
Floyd | eternity? Is that what Hell really is about?" you say angrily.
Floyd |
Floyd | God sighs. "TIME FOR YOU TO FIX WHAT YOU HAVE BROKEN." Suddenly, a
Floyd | mobile phone appears in your hand, and God vanishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "x phone"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PHONE
Floyd |
Floyd | Your treasured possession, and only contact with the outside world. On
Floyd | its screen is a list of contacts.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Guenni says (to floyd), "call stephanie"
Floyd ]  Void                                                 Awakening
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CALL STEPHANIE
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear her voice at the other end of the line! "Where WERE you,
Floyd | Frank? You just ran off without any warning..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I was in a bad place," you answer truthfully. An idea occurs to you
Floyd | suddenly, and you reach out your hand and... turn on the light. Lo and
Floyd | behold! You are in your own bedroom, at home!  No Ventilator to be
Floyd | seen! So it WAS all a dream.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello? Are you still there?" Stephanie asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Huh? Oh, I was just thinking about something I've always wanted to
Floyd | say to you..." you reply, feeling suddenly more uplifted than you've
Floyd | ever felt in your life.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >
Guenni says, ""So thet was that."
Jacqueline says, "Wow"
Jacqueline says, "That... was an unexpectedly good ending."
Draconis says, "...wow"
Guenni says, "Yeah, although a bit sudden."
Guenni says, "HBut I agree, it was pretty uplifting."
Jacqueline says, "I'm afraid that I don't have time for a second game of something today."
Jacqueline says, "We are in the middle of moving."
Jacqueline says, "I will leave the transcript running. You all can find more (likely bad) endings to this, or you can play Do Not Meddle, which is uploaded under 'donotmeddle'"
Jacqueline says, "Or, of course, you all can also call it quits."
Jacqueline says, "I shall leave that up to you nice people."
Jacqueline says, "Thanks for driving, Guenni! You did well."
Guenni says, "thanks."
Guenni says, "I'll call it quits as well for today."




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