  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says, "ALO-HA" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "'sup?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Aloha, Jacqueline" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, I have a game I'd really like to try today." | ||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm just happy about the game because it was released this week but stems from a minicomp I ran several years ago." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, shouldn't make you all click a link. It's Haunted House by Pedro Fernández" | ||
| zarf says, "*too late, I clicked*" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "SUCKA" | ||
| zarf says, "I do not remember this one appearing" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I remember someone on Twitter asking for haunted house game suggestions." | ||
| zarf arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "I would like to explore a haunted house, please." | |
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well then, let's." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask hauntedhouse2017" | ||
Floyd ] Outside of the house 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Memories, that fuzzy affair. You're never certain enough how true they Floyd | are to reality. I can't clearly remember, just as an example, what Floyd | rumours said about the McDaniel Mansion... Floyd | Floyd | There was something about a stranger who came to visit on a cold Floyd | Autumn day many years ago, just before the house got abandoned for Floyd | decades. Floyd | And then there was the wild speculation about monsters in the Floyd | basement... Floyd | Floyd | But the thing I really remember from those summer holidays is our Floyd | improbable and not quite balanced trio of friends. There was Doc. Floyd | Brown-haired, thin, handsome, annoyingly arrogant every now and then, Floyd | always the charismatic. Then there was Rose, shy, with the soft, Floyd | delicate look under her golden hair. The three of us united by the Floyd | bare fact that we were the only people of our age in that too quiet, Floyd | too boring, village, wasting the best of our late teens during the Floyd | early eighties. Floyd | Floyd | "Now, Mike, I hereby declare you as our official Torch-bearer" Floyd | solemnly joked Rose when giving me the switched off torch that dry, Floyd | hot late summer evening when, just out of having nothing else to do, Floyd | we decided to play kids and go to explore the ruined McDaniel site, as Floyd | isolated from the rest of the village as the village was from the rest Floyd | of the world... Floyd | Floyd | Haunted House Floyd | An Interactive Fiction Remix by Pedro Fernández Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 170103 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Outside of the house Floyd | So there we stood, at the entrance of the old mansion, just the three Floyd | of us and a former elegant door which was as rusty as firmly closed. Floyd | Floyd | I could see Rose and Doc there. Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "no character stereotypes here, no sir" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And be kind, English is not this author's primary language." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Outside of the house 2 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I was carrying: Floyd | a switched off torch Floyd | Floyd | "A stranger coming out from nowhere causing the house to be Floyd | abandoned..." said Rose. "What an odd story!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Outside of the house 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | On closer inspection, there was a crumpled piece of paper showing Floyd | under the door. I wondered how much time it had been there and why no Floyd | one had taken it before... Floyd | Floyd | Doc asked "Where did that piece of paper come from?" Floyd | Floyd | "What about those weird noises they say that can be heard from Floyd | within..." said Doc. "As if a monster was buried somewhere in the Floyd | basement?" Floyd | Rose and I looked silently all around and then at each other, trying Floyd | to grasp any suspicious sound. Nothing. Just our own breathing, some Floyd | far away tweeting bird, and... a howling roar coming from our back? Floyd | ... Floyd | "Jeeez" exclaimed a livid Rose while Doc was laughing "You just gave Floyd | me the creeps!" Floyd | "Well" he replied "How was that for a buried monster-like creature?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Outside of the house 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | No, no, I didn't do that... Did I? I was too excited about finding a Floyd | way into the house to care about my own appearance that evening. Floyd | Floyd | Rose and Doc looked to each other and then at me, as if expecting my Floyd | decision to move on... but I just hadn't a clue what to do next! Floyd | Floyd | Rose looked puzzled at the paper... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Outside of the house 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Overwhelming darkness 6 Floyd | Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | There was some handwritten text in the old paper. "Magic word, say: Floyd | PL..." no... "PLE"... wait, "PLO"... Floyd | Damn, I couldn't understand that. The paper was so crumpled and the Floyd | handwriting was so old-fashioned and weird... Floyd | Suddenly Doc took the paper off from my hands with a mocking remark Floyd | "You! Silly Mikie, didn't they teach you to read properly? Lemme see Floyd | "Magic word: say PL..." Floyd | I wouldn't allow that. I was used to his disdainful jokes in front of Floyd | Rose, but enough was enough. I removed the paper from him with an Floyd | abrupt gesture, and then... Floyd | ... then, showing a side of herself neither Doc nor me had ever seen Floyd | before, Rose took it away from me with an exasperated look "C'mon Floyd | kids! Will you at least try to fake some mature behaviour in the Floyd | presence of a lady! Let's see, Magic word: say... PLUGH" Floyd | ...and then... PLOF! Floyd | ...she just disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Before we could react, Floyd | her scream could be heard from somewhere inside the house. Doc just Floyd | kicked the door, which opened with a suspicious ease now, and hurried Floyd | into the mansion, so worried to show he was in charge that he forgot I Floyd | was carrying the torch. I followed, but could only be aware, to my Floyd | regret, that the door violently had slammed itself just as we entered, Floyd | and then... no Doc, no Rose, just me and the dark... Floyd | Floyd | Overwhelming darkness Floyd | Overwhelming darkness all around me... as if I just was floating on an Floyd | infinite sea of empty blackness... made me feel so little, so Floyd | helpless... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is very Jane and very Chimney Rock." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON TORCH Floyd | Floyd | I switched the torch on. Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | Under the dim torch light, the house seemed to scream its whole Floyd | desolation all of a sudden. Everywhere I turned it was just an Floyd | unrecognisable, deformed, amount of dust and cobwebs with some Floyd | unidentifiable pieces of furniture beneath. I guessed I was in the Floyd | foyer, and there seemed to be some kind of ways south, east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I approve." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Except why is it always the girl getting rescued?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x furniture" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X FURNITURE Floyd | Floyd | Cobwebs and a thick layer of dust made a gallery of surreal forms Floyd | everywhere I looked at. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cobwebs" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X COBWEBS Floyd | Floyd | Cobwebs and a thick layer of dust made a gallery of surreal forms Floyd | everywhere I looked at. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look under sheet" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 9 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SHEET Floyd | Floyd | No, no... I couldn't see any such thing there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search cobwebs" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 10 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH COBWEBS Floyd | Floyd | I thought of all the possible unclassified lifeforms that could be Floyd | lurking beneath the cobwebs... I'd better not get too close... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we need to choose a direction: south, east, or west." | |
| Jacqueline says, "This PC has no sense of adventure. If the creatures are unclassified it's an excellent opportunity to have a species named after us." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Yeah. S?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Mike Rocondria." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "South is good" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 11 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | I began to move on... but I started to see all kind of blurry images. Floyd | Iridescent snaps of Doc and Rose going frantically from one place to Floyd | another. Fuzzy, nervous, fragmented shots of an unordered story I was Floyd | witnessing as in a sci-fi film hologram. I tried to call them, but Floyd | they wouldn't listen. I moved to reach them, but their images just Floyd | would go through things, through walls, through me... As soon as they Floyd | appeared they would vanish. Perhaps those were images of events that Floyd | took place there, but not then, or they might have been happening Floyd | then, but not there... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Trippy" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 12 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Silence... Everywhere it was so creepy silent... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 13 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | I smelled nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Try south again?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Den 14 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Den Floyd | Somehow I knew I was in the den, and then I retraced my steps when I Floyd | saw Doc's image gangway through it... chased by a suit of armour. That Floyd | was so crazy I thought I felt better when the vision just disappeared. Floyd | I could go north, to the foyer, and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "E?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 15 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | I entered a corridor... and suddenly, someone turned the lights back Floyd | on... Floyd | Floyd | No, no... it wasn't like that, was it? It took me a short while to Floyd | realize... Until that moment, I'd been seeing luminescent visions of Floyd | my friends going erratically around me. That time, I was inside one of Floyd | the visions. A big one, indeed, as it covered most of the corridor I Floyd | was suppossed to be in, its inner dim bluish light surrounding me. At Floyd | the other side of the corridor, I could see Doc and Rose. They both Floyd | were staring right at the spot where I was, as if they couldn't see me Floyd | but were somehow aware that I could be there, watching them. They Floyd | nodded at each other, Rose snapped her fingers, and they Floyd | simultaneously drew away some curtains back them, revealing a huge Floyd | elegantly framed painting with a family portrait... Floyd | I could see a wealthy couple, a few kids... but the whole scenario Floyd | vanished before I could dig into any detail, leaving me back at a dark Floyd | ominous corridor again. Floyd | Floyd | Were they trying to show me something? Floyd | Had they figured out how that strange vision phenomenon was working? Floyd | Was that a portrait of the McDaniel family? Floyd | Floyd | I couldn't tell. I was just alone in a corridor where an impassable Floyd | mountain of rubble and debris completely blocked the way south. Floyd | Floyd | I could go east and west, to the den. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x debris" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 16 Floyd | Floyd | > X DEBRIS Floyd | Floyd | It seemed the consequence of a massive collapse of part of the walls Floyd | and ceiling. Going through it was totally out of the question, but Floyd | there was a tiny gap I could use to take a peek into the other side. Floyd | Scattered along the debris I could see the recognisable pieces of a Floyd | richly ornate frame, but there was no trace of the canvas it could Floyd | have contained. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gap" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 17 Floyd | Floyd | > X GAP Floyd | Floyd | It all happened so fast... Floyd | I could see the huge hall of a wealthy mansion, some stairs leading to Floyd | the upper floor, where a blue, unnatural light came from an open door. Floyd | Silhouetted against it, the contour of a woman. She instantly ran away Floyd | slamming the door, leaving the room back into utter darkness and my Floyd | eyes with an inverted image of it all, black and blue, that lasted for Floyd | a few seconds. Floyd | She was not Rose, that I knew for sure. So I realized, with a mix of Floyd | hope and fear, that maybe I was not alone in the dark, haunted Floyd | house... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "GOLLY" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 18 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Light from the torch wouldn't reach enough into the hall. I couldn't Floyd | see anything at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "IT'S IN THE HOUSE WITH US" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x frame" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 19 Floyd | Floyd | > X FRAME Floyd | Floyd | Scattered along the debris I could see the recognisable pieces of a Floyd | richly ornate frame, but there was no trace of the canvas it could Floyd | have contained. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "How much do we really care about Doc and Rose, anyway?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take frame" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 20 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FRAME Floyd | Floyd | No, no, I didn't do that... Did I? Can't clearly remember... Perhaps I Floyd | tried but it didn't lead anywhere... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 21 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | I was just alone in a corridor where an impassable mountain of rubble Floyd | and debris completely blocked the way south. Floyd | Floyd | I could go east and west, to the den. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "East?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Keep going -- yeah, east." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 22 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The layout of the place clearly resembled a kitchen. As soon as I Floyd | entered Rose's mirage was walking to the middle of the room. A bucket Floyd | of water stood there. In an instant, just like in a nightmare where Floyd | you feel something horrible is about to happen for no reason, I knew Floyd | she was going to drink from it. In an instant I knew, as if I had seen Floyd | the whole scene before, it was deadly poisonous. I yelled at her: Floyd | Floyd | "No! Don't do that!" Floyd | Floyd | ...and she stopped her arm, as if she had heard me. She looked Floyd | everywhere, as if searching the source of the warning. Soon the whole Floyd | image disappeared as before. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | I was in the kitchen. Floyd | There were exits north, south, and west, to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm sure this can all be explained with quantum theory." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "North or south?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I feel as if there's nothing we can do except explore and have more visions." | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess south? Right hand on wall traversal" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Copy that." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Breakfast room 23 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Breakfast room Floyd | I thought I got it then... Rooms were actually indistinguishable from Floyd | each other in that overwhelming dust and web mess, but somehow I Floyd | clearly knew where I was, just like if... I really had that crazy Floyd | feeling, the house itself was showing me around its well guarded Floyd | secrets. I was in a breakfast room at that moment. Exits were north, Floyd | to the kitchen and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall I go east?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "This house is haunted by dust." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Servant's quarters 24 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Servant's quarters Floyd | I was in the servant's quarters. There was a closed cabinet in one Floyd | wall. I could go west, to the breakfast room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "cabinet!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Servant's quarters 25 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINET Floyd | Floyd | It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Servant's quarters 26 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | I opened the cabinet... I saw a key inside... and then I almost had a Floyd | heart attack! Floyd | I suddenly saw a shiny female hand just erupting from my own chest. It Floyd | was Rose's image going through my flesh as if I wasn't there at all. Floyd | She grabbed the key. I could see her curious gesture while examining Floyd | it. She went away with it, her ghostly vision vanishing as fast as she Floyd | appeared. Even when I was shocked to death, I couldn't help but have Floyd | some warm feelings. Somehow she had just been inside me... so close... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Creeeeepy. In multiple creepy ways." | |
| DavidW asks, "But did the key go with her?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think so." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But look." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Servant's quarters 27 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | The cabinet was empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd ] Servant's quarters 28 Floyd | Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | I was sure I saw a key inside the cabinet, but it seemed to have Floyd | vanished with Rose's vision... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Servant's quarters 29 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE CABINET Floyd | Floyd | It was fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Go back to the kitchen and north from there?" | |
| Jacqueline shrugs. "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Breakfast room 30 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Breakfast room Floyd | I was in the breakfast room. Exits were north, to the kitchen and Floyd | east, to the servant's quarters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 31 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | I could see the bucket of water again on the kitchen's floor. Behind, Floyd | Rose's dissolved image was coming from the opposite side. She looked Floyd | so different this time... decades older. Her golden hair turned into a Floyd | silver untidy mane. She kneeled before the bucket and aimed her arm as Floyd | if to pick it up. I screamed again: Floyd | Floyd | "No, Rose! Don't drink from it!" Floyd | Floyd | ...and, for a few seconds, she looked directly to where I was, her Floyd | eyes loaded with such vast, infinite sadness, as if she had been Floyd | roaming the house for an eternity trying in vain to find an escape... Floyd | all hope lost. She stared at me so firmly I hadn't a chance to notice Floyd | she had grabbed the bucket and moved it to her mouth. She drunk the Floyd | liquid inside it without hesitation. In a moment, her body softly fell Floyd | without a sound, without a sign of pain. When I reacted, she was lying Floyd | as a broken doll. When I reached her, she was no longer there... Floyd | Floyd | Was that our true destiny? Had I foreseen the way it all would Floyd | definitively end for us... for her? Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | I was in the kitchen. Floyd | There were exits north, south, to the breakfast room, and west, to the Floyd | corridor. Floyd | Floyd | I could see a crumpled piece of paper there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 32 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 33 Floyd | Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | Now I could easily understand the hand written note "Magic word: say Floyd | PLUGH" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, looks like this is going to be a long game." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "OR CAN WE CHANGE THE FUTURE?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Save and try PLUGH?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, sure. Good idea." | ||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Kitchen 33 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Let's be eternally trapped too." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 34 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUGH Floyd | Floyd | "PLUGH...!" Floyd | I could not say what I was expecting... Nothing happened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 35 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | No, no, I didn't do that... Did I? I was too stressed trying to make Floyd | sense of what was happening. The way I looked was so irrelevant in Floyd | that endless dark... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bucket" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 36 Floyd | Floyd | > X BUCKET Floyd | Floyd | No, no, I couldn't see the bucket of water any more. Perhaps it would Floyd | be there in some future time, when Rose... No, no... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dining room 37 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining room Floyd | That had to be the dining room. I was surprised by a quick vision of Floyd | Rose... Floyd | ... alive... Floyd | ... and as young as vital as she was at the house entrance not long Floyd | ago, like a flash, writing something with her finger in the dust that Floyd | laid over a big old wooden table. Floyd | Exits led south, to the kitchen, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Dining room 38 Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | Written in the layer of dust I could read the word "UPSTAIRS"... Was Floyd | Rose trying to send me a message? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think Rose is indeed trying to send us a message." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Have we had the option to get upstairs yet?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Not yet." | ||
| DavidW says, "But better to go upstairs than *shudder* downstairs." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||
Floyd ] Dining room 39 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE Floyd | Floyd | I found nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Living room 40 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living room Floyd | I could figure out that was the living room. Right after entering Floyd | there I had one of those strange visions again. That one was such a Floyd | nonsense it could easily have been ripped off from a cartoon. It was Floyd | Doc running while being chased by a levitating knife. Even in an eerie Floyd | environment like that I could laugh at it, but then, I was so Floyd | scared... Floyd | There seemed to be exits east and west, to the foyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 41 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | I was in the foyer. Floyd | I could go south, to the den, east, to the living room, and west from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "West?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] East end of hall 42 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East end of hall Floyd | I was in a hall. It was huge, and it seemed I was in its east end. I Floyd | could go north, east, to the foyer, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Keep on truckin'" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] West end of hall 43 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West end of hall Floyd | That was the other end of the huge hall. Exits were north, south, to Floyd | a door, and east, to the east end of the hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] West end of hall 44 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I saw the door. It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] West end of hall 45 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I felt that warm feeling again. A light flowing out from myself as I Floyd | saw Rose's ghostly hand unlocking the door with the key she took from Floyd | the cabinet. Somehow I knew then that our fate was not sealed to stay Floyd | in the house forever. It didn't matter how much we were apart in space Floyd | or time, we were working it out all together. We would find a way... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I kinda guessed that would happen." | |
| Jacqueline says, "This is where the music gets hopeful." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 46 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the door) Floyd | Master bedroom Floyd | The master bedroom... I could see a bed. Exits were north, to the Floyd | hall, and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 47 Floyd | Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | I wasn't sure what could have happened to it, the light was so dim and Floyd | there was that continuous dust and cobweb mess... but it looked like Floyd | it had been burnt a long time ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 48 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH BED Floyd | Floyd | There was nothing on the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Look under it? Because it is IF?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 49 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | Just dust. Burnt dust. A lot of it... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "...burnt dust?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x burnt dust" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 49 Floyd | Floyd | > X BURNT DUST Floyd | Floyd | No, no... I couldn't see any such thing there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dust" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 50 Floyd | Floyd | > X DUST Floyd | Floyd | Cobwebs and a thick layer of dust made a gallery of surreal forms Floyd | everywhere I looked at. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move bed" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 51 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE BED Floyd | Floyd | It was fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 52 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | OH MY GOD, IT BURNS!!! Floyd | Floyd | I got paralysed when I heard Rose's desperate cry. Then I saw her Floyd | brilliant image coming from the east, her clothes in flames! She ran Floyd | blindly into the bed and then I saw the bed engulfed in a giant ball Floyd | of consuming fire. Soon there was nothing but the darkness and the Floyd | burnt remains of the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 53 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | I was too damn shocked to even think of doing something at all... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Master bedroom 54 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | No, no... I didn't do that, did I? I just felt like sitting right Floyd | there and let myself be consumed by the dark just like Rose had been Floyd | consumed by the flames... Floyd | No, no... I had to find the strength to react. I had seen Rose die Floyd | before in a weird, horrible way, so there was a chance it hadn't been Floyd | for real... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Library 55 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Slowly I recovered my breath... I had to move on... Floyd | ... so I tried going east. Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Deformed shelves suggested that was once a library. Leaning against a Floyd | wall, a wooden ladder reached into a gap in the ceiling which once Floyd | belonged to a working trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "In terms of game pacing (perhaps I am just impatient), it seems like now would be a good time for a clue as to how to progress beyond these hallucinations." | |
| DavidW says, "Here's a way upstairs." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||
Floyd ] Library 56 Floyd | Floyd | > X LADDER Floyd | Floyd | A wooden ladder leading upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Dimly lit room 57 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | I carefully began to step onto the ladder when Doc's vision entered Floyd | the library. He dropped a rope right under the hole. It magically Floyd | raised itself to the ceiling while he cheerfully exclaimed "TA-DAA, Floyd | beat that, silly Mikie!" and quickly began to make a skilful rope Floyd | climbing exhibition. Floyd | I knew he wasn't actually there, but couldn't help answering "Now, Mr. Floyd | know-it-all, what's so wrong with using a ladder to go upstairs?" Floyd | He was talking to himself, but the timing was so surprisingly precise Floyd | that I could swear he was addressing me while both of us were reaching Floyd | upside "Yeah, yeah... I wonder who the hell was the moron who screwed Floyd | the ladder..." Floyd | ... Floyd | ...Oops! I realized then that the wooden ladder was so rotten that it Floyd | was on the verge of collapsing under my weight. I desperately jumped Floyd | towards the ceiling hole, miraculously reaching upstairs in the last Floyd | moment before the ladder turned into a pile of shreds on the lower Floyd | floor... That was close...! Floyd | Floyd | Dimly lit room Floyd | I was in a dimly lit room upstairs. Some light entered from the Floyd | corridor to the west, but it still wasn't enough to move without the Floyd | torch. Floyd | Exits led east, to a door, west, to a corridor, and down. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we fancy west or east here?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Let's not go down." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Beyond that I leave it to you." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dimly lit room 58 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | I entered a corridor... and then hell broke loose. It all seemed a Floyd | scene from a medieval fantasy film. I saw... that was it... an army of Floyd | ghosts. They were just an indescribable legion of formless shadows I Floyd | could just refer to as ghosts. At the other end of the corridor Doc Floyd | stood defiantly carrying a shining sword "Now, minions of hell, you're Floyd | going to taste my ghost slayer blade" and with a barbarian-like howl Floyd | he charged against them all... smashing them apart while he kept Floyd | running. "Wait..." I thought. Perhaps he got too carried away, as he Floyd | didn't stop in the corridor and entered the room in an unstoppable Floyd | rush which lead him directly to the trapdoor hole... Floyd | "Yiaaaahhh...!!" CRASH!! Floyd | "Ouch... That must have hurt!!" I thought, and looked into the hole to Floyd | see Doc's shiny vision lying on the floor below... in time to see Floyd | Rose's fuzzy image running towards him... Floyd | "It's okay, it's okay" he said "It's been just some scrapes... You're Floyd | not to worr..." But she wouldn't let him finish. Giving away a side of Floyd | herself I would never have wanted to see, she embraced him tenderly Floyd | until they both merged in a long, passionate kiss. Floyd | Floyd | And I knew then, being the unnoticed witness of their privacy, that as Floyd | certain as there was a real world outside of the house, any wish, any Floyd | hope I had concerning Rose would never, ever, fit in it. Floyd | Floyd | Their images vanished again as I realized they were stuck downstairs, Floyd | and if there were an exit to the house it was on my side, so it was up Floyd | to me to find it and eventually come back to their rescue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, we could just leave now." | |
| Jacqueline says, "(Kidding.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps Rose has four sisters." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Perhaps." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 59 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | I was in a corridor. Light entered from a near balcony. Floyd | I could see a bedroom to the north, a dimly lit room to the east, and Floyd | a balcony to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Why four?" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, I was trying to make an off colour joke. I suppose five would've made more sense." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm afraid of the balcony." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's probably a way down if there's rope." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Also, how dusty can a balcony be?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "When I was a child there was a haunted house in my town that if you went out on the balcony it dropped suddenly to scare the poop out of you." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(A commercial haunted house, I mean.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "goodness" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, let's hope that doesn't happen. I think the house secretly loves us." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 60 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | I was in a balcony. Couldn't say whether it was day or night, as the Floyd | cloudy sky colour was just... unnatural. I gazed down to see Rose's Floyd | corpse impaled at the iron gate in the house entrance. Horror made me Floyd | jump back to the corridor in a reflex move. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Okay, so far Rose has been poisoned, burnt, and impaled." | |
| Jacqueline says, "How many ways has she died now? Three? I'm starting to lose track." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 61 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | I didn't want to see. But I had to be sure. I stepped onto the balcony Floyd | once again and... there were two corpses of Rose impaled at the iron Floyd | gate. Two different dead bodies in different dead postures. I went Floyd | back again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 62 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Then I saw three impaled Roses and one Doc hanging from a nearby tree. Floyd | I blinked... and suddenly all surrounding trees were full of hanged Floyd | Docs. Gruesome. I entered the house again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 63 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | I was just losing my mind, as I went onto the balcony again and again Floyd | until a mountain of dead Roses and Docs filled the horizon. Suddenly Floyd | the horror was gone, as I had the strong feeling that somehow the Floyd | house, or whoever was inside, was just doing its best to suggest to me Floyd | that jumping from the balcony was not a safe way of leaving. Well, Floyd | black humour was also to be considered. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, now I'm laughing. Sorry." | |
| DavidW asks, "Shall we go north now?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 64 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs bedroom Floyd | I was in a bedroom. Floyd | I could go south, to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | I could see a bed, a desk and a wardrobe (closed) there. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "My goodness. Actual furnishings." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 65 Floyd | Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | An old bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 66 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | Just dust. A lot of it... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 67 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | An old wooden desk. There was a closed drawer in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 68 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | I opened the drawer, revealing a pile of mail and a handful of press Floyd | clippings. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It is okay for an abandoned house to not really have furniture." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mail" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 69 Floyd | Floyd | > X MAIL Floyd | Floyd | Lots of invoices and receipts dated up to the mid fifties addressed to Floyd | some Shirley McDaniel. Last envelope seemed to be a handwritten Floyd | letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x letter" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 70 Floyd | Floyd | > X LETTER Floyd | Floyd | A yellowing handwritten letter dated November 1956. Floyd | Floyd | "My dearest, my sweetheart, my love..." Floyd | Floyd | ... Uh, that was... I nervously skipped from one line to another Floyd | without any order... Floyd | Floyd | "...time of our most difficult choice, let the world know I'll allow Floyd | no one to stand in the way of our one dream, our true heart desire..." Floyd | "... convince you to take that little step, I promise you, my dear, Floyd | that you'll never be afraid any more of whatever people say..." Floyd | "... fulfil my deepest wish... devoted to you beyond any hope..." Floyd | Floyd | It was all about not being afraid from scandals, about finding a way Floyd | to live together, about pure love agony... the way just old styled Floyd | love letters could do. I felt I got it then. Somehow I knew what was Floyd | all about with that stranger who came to visit a cold Autumn day many Floyd | years ago, just before the house got abandoned... Somehow I just knew Floyd | what was going on with all that madness... As in response, I could Floyd | hear the door in the near room with the hole on the floor creaking Floyd | open... as if the house was inviting me to a rendezvous with its final Floyd | inner secret. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think I missed part of the story thread here." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Inviting us to a rendezvous with its final inner secret? Goodness." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Oh?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x letter" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 71 Floyd | Floyd | > X LETTER Floyd | Floyd | A love letter... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The cold autumn day was mentioned back at the beginning." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I do kind of wish our PC would have just read the letter from beginning to end." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 72 Floyd | Floyd | > READ LETTER Floyd | Floyd | A love letter... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clippings" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 73 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLIPPINGS Floyd | Floyd | Society news from the mid fifties regarding Shirley McDaniel, heiress Floyd | of the McDaniel fortune. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read clippings" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 74 Floyd | Floyd | > READ CLIPPINGS Floyd | Floyd | Society news from the mid fifties regarding Shirley McDaniel, heiress Floyd | of the McDaniel fortune. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 75 Floyd | Floyd | > X WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | An old wooden wardrobe almost covered by the continuous cobweb layer. Floyd | It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 76 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | I opened the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 77 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN IT Floyd | Floyd | The wardrobe was empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter it" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 78 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER IT Floyd | Floyd | That was not something I could enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 79 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | That was not something I could enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Timing. Darn." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 80 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | The wardrobe was empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move it" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 81 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE IT Floyd | Floyd | It was fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 82 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs bedroom Floyd | I was in a bedroom. Floyd | I could go south, to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | I could see a bed, a desk and a wardrobe (empty) there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lie on bed" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs bedroom 82 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE ON BED Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to retrace our steps a bit" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are we done here?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 83 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Floyd | I was in a corridor. Light entered from a near balcony. Floyd | I could see a bedroom to the north, a dimly lit room to the east, and Floyd | a balcony to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dimly lit room 84 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dimly lit room Floyd | I was in a dimly lit room. Floyd | Exits led east, to a door, west, to a corridor, and down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 85 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Attic Floyd | Then something difficult to describe happened. With my first step, I Floyd | was entering into an attic room, with the next, it was just like the Floyd | room itself was entering into my head. It was hard to discern whether Floyd | I was in two different locations at the same time or having two Floyd | totally different perceptions of a same place. Floyd | One was a dark room where I could hardly distinguish a window that, Floyd | for no reason, I thought led the way to the landscape of another Floyd | world. I was afraid to look into it, thinking that just gazing there Floyd | would get me lost forever. Other than that it didn't matter where I Floyd | turned the torchlight to, it was all a deep hole of inscrutable Floyd | blackness. Floyd | The other one was a sea of shining blue where I just couldn't measure Floyd | any distance or have any reliable notion of location. Simultaneously Floyd | in both of them, or somewhere in between, or just floating around me, Floyd | a pale blue presence. When it somehow spoke to me, the amount of Floyd | shocking sensory nonsense went far beyond my coping capacity: I think Floyd | I lost my consciousness for a while... Floyd | When I came back I was greeted by a female voice... Floyd | Floyd | "Hello there... you're an unwelcome guest, and my name is Indy". Floyd | Floyd | I was so shaken and exhausted after all the previous sequence of Floyd | surrealist nightmares that I just wasn't aware, or couldn't care less, Floyd | if I was taking it too casually given the circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | "Indy for Indiana? Indy for independent? Indy as in..." Floyd | Floyd | "...Indigo" Floyd | Floyd | And I was still surrounded by the dark, but it was just like her voice Floyd | made the whole room change its colour. Floyd | Floyd | I could see a window and Indigo there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x indigo" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 86 Floyd | Floyd | > X INDIGO Floyd | Floyd | I looked at her, and just like she could read my mind she answered to Floyd | what I was thinking... Floyd | "No, I don't know what happened to Shirley McDaniel. I just came here Floyd | after she and her lover flew away. As far as I know, their love story Floyd | could have ended tragically, or perhaps they are now happily spending Floyd | the best of their old age as a de facto couple on an exotic island. Floyd | Dunno. You know, we just search for empty houses." Floyd | "We?" I was surprised... Floyd | "No, no, it's just me here" I thought she was smiling "I meant my Floyd | people tend to settle in abandoned places 'cause they are the best to Floyd | give time a chance, to forget, maybe forgive, whichever happened, Floyd | whatever they did to us..." Floyd | And I didn't see it, but I could sense her finger pointing close to my Floyd | nose while she firmly stated Floyd | "And-don't-even-think-of-asking-me-what-it-was." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yay Indigo." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask indigo about plugh" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 87 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK INDIGO ABOUT PLUGH Floyd | Floyd | I tried to... No, no... I couldn't tell what happened first, could I? Floyd | I got paralysed. Darkness got darker than dark. The air around me Floyd | suddenly disappeared, and somehow I felt, though I couldn't exactly Floyd | see, Indigo's furious face insanely jumping towards me at an Floyd | impossible, inhuman, speed... Floyd | ... and then I instinctively tried to cover my face, but lost my Floyd | balance and fell backwards, yelling like a child and shaking Floyd | frantically arms and legs in panic... until I heard her voice in a Floyd | tongue in cheek tone saying... Floyd | Floyd | "...PLUGH!" Floyd | Floyd | ...Damn ghostly girl, she had just booed me. No, she gave me the Floyd | fright of my life. No, no, she frightened the death out of my very own Floyd | soul and then hammered it a bit. And I fell for it like a kid in the Floyd | nightly camp fire after the scary tale-telling run... Floyd | When I got my breath back I noticed I was lying on the floor while she Floyd | was also sitting on it a few yards in front of me. We stared a each Floyd | other for a few instants, and then I tried to speak... but her answer Floyd | came before I could articulate a single word... Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, you've made all the way up here, watching the many deaths of Floyd | Rose and... the other guy, and now here we are, just chatting like Floyd | long time friends having tea beside the stone fountain in the Floyd | beautiful garden and..." Floyd | Floyd | ...and I felt like I was in one of those dreams when you're close to a Floyd | warm, comfortable, company and would like to stay like that forever... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 88 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | No, I dared not... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Attic 88 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 89 Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | No, I dared not... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 90 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | No, I dared not... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aw" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 91 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Attic Floyd | I was in the attic. Floyd | Floyd | I could see a window and Indigo there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask indigo about indigo" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 92 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK INDIGO ABOUT INDIGO Floyd | Floyd | Even before I finished thinking of it she interrupted me: Floyd | Floyd | "...Plugh again?" Floyd | Floyd | ...and I could hear first a tiny laugh... then I could feel, though Floyd | again I couldn't exactly see, her smile... and it was all so Floyd | contagious that in no time we both couldn't help laughing out pretty Floyd | loud until we lost notion of time... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 93 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUGH Floyd | Floyd | No, no... I didn't do that, did I? Perhaps I tried to, but I was so Floyd | mesmerized under Indigo's presence that the only thing I could do, or Floyd | the only thing I felt I wanted to do, was examine her intensely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x indigo" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 94 Floyd | Floyd | > X INDIGO Floyd | Floyd | She was a formless blue shadow, but I felt I could visualize her the Floyd | way I wanted. I thought I could think of her as an attractive woman. Floyd | At that point, I realized that what I saw between Rose and Doc had Floyd | struck me harder than what I would like to recognize. I felt Floyd | miserable. She noticed. Floyd | "Your friends have suffered no harm at all. We use to play tricks with Floyd | unwanted visitor's imaginations to make sure they don't even consider Floyd | coming back. Other than that, everything was real..." Floyd | ... Floyd | "Ow, sorry..." She added on realizing I didn't want to hear that last Floyd | one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x indigo" | ||
Floyd ] Attic 94
Floyd |
Floyd | > X INDIGO
Floyd |
Floyd | I tried to discern a form in her formless shadowy blue image. I
Floyd | noticed then that, if I focused hard enough on the spot she seemed to
Floyd | be, I could move without my head getting dizzy for the space
Floyd | strangeness all around me. I advanced towards her, and then, even as
Floyd | she was just like a cloud, I could hear her nervous step back on the
Floyd | floor. I had the craziest of all ideas. I extended my arm. I wasn't
Floyd | aware of how rude, mindlessly I was trying to breach into her privacy
Floyd | until I could sense the anxiety, the loneliness... and then the cold,
Floyd | the death...
Floyd |
Floyd | ...and then, for the very first time in my life, I was slapped by a
Floyd | ghost.
Floyd |
Floyd | Not only slapped as being hit in your cheek, but also as being grabbed
Floyd | in the air, literally kicked in the ass, and thrown away through a
Floyd | closed window.
Floyd | First I panicked, about the other world sighting and that stuff. I
Floyd | closed my eyes, but soon I couldn't help opening them again and I saw
Floyd | I was landing into the entrance of the house, where some very puzzled
Floyd | Rose and Doc, eyes wide open, were just dumbstruck watching my free
Floyd | fall from the first floor.
Floyd | ...CRASH!
Floyd |
Floyd | ... Press any key.
| DavidW says, "hey Ma, I found the way down." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, so much for >KISS INDIGO" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Outside of the house 94 Floyd | Floyd | "..Ouch! That must have hurt!" Floyd | Rose's comforting voice received me before Doc's strident comment Floyd | ruined it all. Floyd | "Oh! you silly Mikie, I thought you would throw yourself out of a Floyd | window just if you were ordered to do so, now I know you would do it Floyd | even if no one told you to!" Floyd | Floyd | And that was all about the house mystery: there was no mystery at all, Floyd | at least not the way I thought about mysteries since then. The mansion Floyd | was abandoned when rich heiress powerful dumb airhead Shirley McDaniel Floyd | fell in love with a married man. There were no monsters in the Floyd | basement, but I met a ghost in the attic. She happened to be just a Floyd | random squatter called Indigo, and was there for the same reason Floyd | ghosts like to roam quiet isolated places. They are empty, giving them Floyd | time to heal whatever wounds tie them to the wrong side of the Floyd | after-life... alone... Floyd | Floyd | Rose and Doc helped me to stand, each to one side of me, while my leg Floyd | hurt like hell, just a bad sprain. I enjoyed that brief moment in the Floyd | centre of our improbable friends trio, whose balance, I knew then, was Floyd | as close to an irreversible end as summer itself... Floyd | The following days we had trouble discerning real events from ghost Floyd | pranks. At first, we talked about it all as an actual series of Floyd | weird, strange, supernatural events... or so I think... Later, it was Floyd | just a scary trip into an old mansion where we got lost in the dark Floyd | and had to struggle to come back, as if nothing out of the ordinary Floyd | had happened in between, or no one dared to mention... It's tempting Floyd | to believe that's what the ghost-girl wanted... Did I ever tell my Floyd | friends about her? Can't clearly remember... Floyd | In the end, it was the day we went into an abandoned house, Rose and Floyd | Doc started their intense and short-lived relatioship, and I fell off Floyd | a window... Floyd | Floyd | Now I'm not sure which part of it all is a real memory and which my Floyd | own recreation. Teenagers are known to make up stories to calm their Floyd | angsts just like ghosts searching abandoned houses to ease their own, Floyd | immortal pains, aren't they? Floyd | Unexpectedly, I still keep with me the crumpled paper. Sometimes I Floyd | just say "plugh" to see if something happens. Of course, it does not. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** END *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some AMUSING Floyd | facts about the differences with the original "Haunted House" game, Floyd | QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We missed a couple locations. We never went north from West End or East End of Hall." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||
Floyd ] Outside of the house 94 Floyd | Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | As explained with more detail in the accompanying booklet, this story Floyd | was originally written for the 2011 Indigo New Language speed-IF Floyd | competition, which required authors to make their entries with an Floyd | Interactive Fiction creation tool they had never used before (and, Floyd | incidentally, to add a reference to the word "Indigo" anywhere inside Floyd | it). It's also a remake of a 1979 text adventure game, also called Floyd | "Haunted House", where a single character must find a way out from an Floyd | abandoned old mansion. The major difference between both works is that Floyd | in the remake the player character will spend most of the time Floyd | witnessing through blurry visions how his missing friends are dealing Floyd | with the puzzles from the original. This is a brief summary of most of Floyd | them: Floyd | Floyd | The crumpled piece of paper and the "plugh" word. Floyd | In the original work a "crumpled piece of paper" could be spotted at Floyd | the very first location of the game with the word "plugh" written on Floyd | it. Using "PLUGH" or "SAY PLUGH" as a command would just teleport the Floyd | player directly into the mansion foyer. The word "plugh" itself was, Floyd | in this case, a well known legacy from Crowther and Woods' Colossal Floyd | Cave Adventure game, where it also worked as a teleportation key Floyd | between certain cavern locations. Floyd | Floyd | The levitating knife in the living room. Floyd | In the 1979 game player could see a levitating knife just floating in Floyd | the living room. Any action other than getting it would result in the Floyd | knife suddenly slashing player's throat causing an instant death. In Floyd | this new version player can see one of his friends being chased by it Floyd | in the same room. Floyd | Floyd | A message in a scroll. Floyd | Originally, an abandoned scroll was also lying on the ground of the Floyd | living room. A message written on it succinctly indicated that "there Floyd | is escape from the second floor". This hint was replaced in the new Floyd | story by a whole scene in the adjacent room where the player character Floyd | and Rose try, not quite successfully, to communicate through messages Floyd | written on the surface of a dusty table and she suggests going Floyd | "upstairs" and searching the library. Floyd | Floyd | The bucket of poisoned water in the kitchen. Floyd | A bucket of water was on the kitchen floor in the first game. Its Floyd | only purpose was killing the player right after drinking from it, so Floyd | the only thing the player actually had to do about it was just not to Floyd | do so! In this remake, player witnesses a dramatic scene where a Floyd | desperate and noticeably aged Rose commits suicide by drinking the Floyd | poison after having been roaming around the house apparently for a Floyd | whole life. Floyd | Floyd | The animated suit of armour. Floyd | An animated suit of armour blocked the way from the kitchen to the Floyd | breakfast room in the original game if the player was not carrying the Floyd | knife that was levitating at the living room. If the knife was Floyd | carried, it would just flee away. In this remake, the walking armour Floyd | can be seen chasing Doc at the den. Floyd | Floyd | The cabinet with a key at the servants quarters. Floyd | Originally, in what was a very disorienting puzzle, player had to Floyd | walk in an arbitrary series of directions at the servants quarters to Floyd | be able to reach the key inside the cabinet which would open the Floyd | locked door at the west end of the hall. In this version player has Floyd | just to watch the ghostly vision of Rose doing all the job. Floyd | Floyd | The rope in the secret passage. Floyd | A rope was lying abandoned on the floor of the secret passage between Floyd | the green and blue bedrooms in the original game. Player should get it Floyd | in order to reach the upper floor later. Now he just sees a vision of Floyd | Doc picking it up and going away with it. Floyd | Floyd | Fire in the Master bedroom. Floyd | A raging wall of fire originally blocked the way east from the master Floyd | bedroom. If player tried to go through it the program would ominously Floyd | ask for confirmation, but there wasn't actually any danger, as going Floyd | east would make the player safely appear in the library without any Floyd | harm, and without any explanation of what had happened, letting smart Floyd | players figure out themselves that it was just a hallucination. This Floyd | worked surprisingly well in a 1979 home-computing context, where Floyd | sparse text was taken for granted and players assumed that filling the Floyd | gaps with their imagination was part of the fun. Floyd | In this version, the whole scene has been replaced by the player Floyd | getting shocked in a traumatic way after seeing Rose dying consumed in Floyd | a ball of fire, which is later revealed to be just another illusion. Floyd | Floyd | Reaching upstairs. Floyd | In the first game, dropping the rope in the library revealed it was a Floyd | magic cord which would rise itself up to the hole in the ceiling, Floyd | letting the player climb to get to the second floor. In this remake Floyd | the player just sees his friend Doc doing the trick, while he uses an Floyd | old ladder that collapses in the last second, letting him stuck Floyd | upstairs. At this point, memory restrictions made the TRS-80 computer Floyd | load the second part of the game containing the rooms and events in Floyd | this second floor, where the player just had no option to get back Floyd | downstairs again. Floyd | Floyd | Wait a minute! A hole in the ceiling? Floyd | Reaching upstairs climbing a cord to a hole in the ceiling seemed Floyd | appropiate for a Heidi's Hut like scenario, but this was supposed to Floyd | be a rich family's mansion, so the whole corridor scene was made up to Floyd | suggest the way to a hall with proper stairs leading to the upper Floyd | floor was blocked. Floyd | Floyd | An army of ghosts. Floyd | Once upstairs, in the original game, player could see and get a magic Floyd | "ghost killer" sword which he could use to slain several spirits Floyd | scattered along the rooms blocking the way to the final exit. Now he Floyd | watches a vision of Doc charging against them with the sword in a Floyd | rather theatrical way, which leads to the scene where the player Floyd | character realizes simultaneously that he has a crush on Rose, though Floyd | he had never openly admitted it before, but there's no point in even Floyd | considering it anyway. Floyd | Floyd | Dying again and again. Floyd | Successfully leaving the house in the 70's game implied a long trial Floyd | and error process in which the player had to find the right spot where Floyd | he had to jump from a balcony without dying in the fall, which meant Floyd | dying a lot of times before getting it right. This sequence is somehow Floyd | reflected in the remake in a surrealistic scene where the player sees Floyd | a growing amount of corpses of both his friends every time he steps Floyd | into the balcony. Floyd | Floyd | The McDaniel mansion story. Floyd | Even when the old TRS-80 game could be summarized as "you just Floyd | entered an abandoned house, now find your way out" its leaflet had a Floyd | short text with a bit of an introduction story where it is mentioned Floyd | that some McDaniel family inhabited the house until they all Floyd | mysteriously disappeared "that cold autumn day, when a stranger came Floyd | to visit many years ago..." This is briefly referred to a couple of Floyd | times in this modern version, and is used to connect the story with Floyd | real events from the author's teen years, as exposed in the included Floyd | booklet. Floyd | Floyd | The other characters and Indigo. Floyd | All the other non player characters appearing in this version have Floyd | been created specifically for it and have no relation with anything in Floyd | the original work, save the stated fact that the player is seeing his Floyd | friends handling with its challenges. The character of Indigo was Floyd | expressly created to meet the competition requirement of having some Floyd | reference to that word, so a female ghost called "Indigo" was added Floyd | and was made responsible for all the weird phenomena inside the house Floyd | in her attempt to stay alone just for being what she is, perhaps not Floyd | so certain whether her isolation is something actually desired, Floyd | imposed, or just inherent to her very own nature, while silently Floyd | longing, though she would never openly admit it, for even the briefest Floyd | form of contact with anyone out there. Floyd | Floyd | Examining the shelves at the library. Floyd | If player reaches to Rose's message on the table referring to the Floyd | library, examining the shelves at that room will reveal a pile of Floyd | books carefully set apart, probably by Rose herself, or that's the Floyd | player character's best guess. They're some classic literary works Floyd | (and recommended readings) related to the subject of haunted houses. Floyd | In case you missed that bit, they're listed in the booklet last page. Floyd | Floyd | And of course, if you just reached here, many thanks for playing Floyd | Haunted House. I sincerely hope you enjoyed it. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some AMUSING Floyd | facts about the differences with the original "Haunted House" game, Floyd | QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Thanks for playing that with me, DavidW." | |
| Jacqueline says, "That was a trippy fun romp." | ||
| DavidW says, "Thanks for suggesting it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm going to try to go work on transcripts." | ||
| DavidW says, "Okay." | ||
| DavidW says, "Neat that that was basically a Back to the Future Part II version of a game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh. Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It was a clever idea." | ||
| DavidW asks, "And aren't you glad I visited the balcony?" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "hahaha. YES!" | ||
