ClubFloyd Transcript:
Duckman by Wade
As played on ifMUD on August 6, 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 Duckman written by Wade. Duckman was an entry in the 2017 IntroComp, in which it earned an Honorable Mention. 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 ic17duckman"
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Duckman
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Peregrine Wade
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 170728 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dead End
Floyd | The dark north-south alleyway ends here with a brutal dead end. A
Floyd | blind man would break his nose against a solid brick wall, if he were
Floyd | unlucky enough to be running this way. Good thing you're not a blind
Floyd | man.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
says, "I hope that the game I want to write makes it onto Floyd. I have noticed that there aren't very many cat games, so that's the type of game that I wish to write."
Jacqueline asks, "Wow. Interesting way to start. Callista, can I ask how that intro makes you feel?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Let's face the facts: you are a giant, anthropomorphic duck wearing a
Floyd | weatherworn trenchcoat and a black sombrero. You are Duckman, or so
Floyd | the local newspapers have nicknamed you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Callista says (to Jacqueline), "I'd hate to be rude to the author, but that makes me feel a little insulted. Blind people don't just stumble around; that seems to be everyone's misconception. I'm just like anybody else."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was kind of wondering. Thanks for sharing that."
Roger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. Jacqueline says, "I think that's good feedback for the author to have, actually."
Jacqueline says, "So if we are an anthropomorphic duck, can we fly"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | The alleyway end suddenly to the south. There are only two ways out:
Floyd | north... or up. Your choice. Isn't it all about choices, anyway? You
Floyd | can't save everyone, after all, no matter how hard you try.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Callista says (to Jacqueline), "Is that what you were asking about? Well, that was certainly an odd intro, I have to say."
Jacqueline says (to Callista), "Yep, that's what I was asking about."
Jacqueline asks, "So, did we go up or not? Maybe it was thinking we wouldn't think to go up?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Dead End
Floyd | The dark north-south alleyway ends here with a brutal dead end. A
Floyd | blind man would break his nose against a solid brick wall, if he were
Floyd | unlucky enough to be running this way. Good thing you're not a blind
Floyd | man.
Floyd |
Floyd | Frank arrives from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I don't think we actually went up."
Jacqueline says, "Weird."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | The alleyway end suddenly to the south. There are only two ways out:
Floyd | north... or up. Your choice. Isn't it all about choices, anyway? You
Floyd | can't save everyone, after all, no matter how hard you try.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone -- you reckon his name is Frank -- appears to be trying to
Floyd | punch down a brick wall with his bare fists. "Argh!" he groans,
Floyd | nursing his sore knuckles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Callista says (to Jacqueline), "Yeah, I would probably have a guide dog, so I probably wouldn't run into anything."
Jacqueline nods.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x frank" Benjamin says, "What an odd game."
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FRANK
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark-haired guy wearing dirty jeans and a kingfisher T-shirt. You've
Floyd | seen him before. Maybe even heard his name? People call him Frank,
Floyd | right? Yup.
Floyd |
Floyd | Frank -- if you've got his name right -- is staring at a brick wall.
Floyd | He turns around suddenly and sees you. "Duckman! Shit! I haven't done
Floyd | anything wrong!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Wait a second --" you begin, but the guy in question decides to make
Floyd | a run for it, and disappears up Blind Man's Alley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "huh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "follow frank]"
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOLLOW FRANK]
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "follow frank"
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOLLOW FRANK
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Dead End
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | The alleyway end suddenly to the south. There are only two ways out:
Floyd | north... or up. Your choice. Isn't it all about choices, anyway? You
Floyd | can't save everyone, after all, no matter how hard you try.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjamin asks, "Can we go north?"
Callista has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. Jacqueline says, "So, I think that's supposed to read 'the alleyway ends suddenly' and the game implied we can go up, but I don't think we actually can."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Blind Man's Alley
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Blind Man's Alley
Floyd | Blind Man's Alley heads further down to the south. Main Street lies to
Floyd | the north, a seething mass of nocturnal pedestrians and overspeeding
Floyd | cars. To the east, you can plainly see that a seedy-looking joint
Floyd | seems to be still open at this time of night. Its billboard proclaims
Floyd | it to be "The Real Thing".
Floyd |
Floyd | The Spoonatic dances around you, taunting you with his teaspoons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x spoonatic"
Floyd ]  Blind Man's Alley
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SPOONATIC
Floyd |
Floyd | Your average insane supervillain, minus the actual super-powers. He
Floyd | has a formidable arsenal of silver spoons with which to stab poor
Floyd | innocent tax-paying citizens, and wears a pink wig and a scarlet
Floyd | cloak.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Wasn't there a movie called Duckman?"
Jacqueline asks, "A silly movie?"
Jacqueline says, "Ah. There was a TV series, but it is not the thing I'm thinking of"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to spoonatic"
Floyd ]  Blind Man's Alley
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO SPOONATIC
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask spoonatic about spoons"
Floyd ]  Blind Man's Alley
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK SPOONATIC ABOUT SPOONS
Floyd |
Floyd | "I love spoons. Don't you?" he confides in you briefly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask spoonatic about spoonatic"
Floyd ]  Blind Man's Alley
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK SPOONATIC ABOUT SPOONATIC
Floyd |
Floyd | The Spoonatic merely laughs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask spoonatic about me"
Floyd ]  Blind Man's Alley
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK SPOONATIC ABOUT ME
Floyd |
Floyd | The Spoonatic merely laughs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x spoons"
Floyd ]  Blind Man's Alley
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SPOONS
Floyd |
Floyd | They glisten in the light with a crimson hue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks (of Benjamin), "Ideas?"
Benjamin asks, "Go east?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Real Thing
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Real Thing
Floyd | Yep. It's a seedy joint, all right. Filled with the wrong kind of
Floyd | people, all drinking the wrong kind of alcohol and having a thoroughly
Floyd | good time. The way out is to the west, and there are apparently toilet
Floyd | facilities to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | "...word's on the street that there's a new hero in town, dude..."
Floyd |
Floyd | The Spoonatic arrives from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjamin says, "He's following us."
Jacqueline says, "yeah"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "buy alcohol"
Floyd ]  Real Thing
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BUY ALCOHOL
Floyd |
Floyd | The bartender pours some beer for you, and you dip your beak
Floyd | tentatively in the stuff. You immediately wish you hadn't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I guess it would be difficult to drink from a glass if you had a duckbill."
Jacqueline says, "You'd probably just need a straw, maybe."
Benjamin says, "Probably."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x people"
Floyd ]  Real Thing
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PEOPLE
Floyd |
Floyd | They are so drunk, they barely notice the fact that a rather
Floyd | conspicuous anthropomorphic duck has just barged his way into their
Floyd | part of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink beer"
Floyd ]  Real Thing
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRINK BEER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "So, um, I'm happy to keep playing this if you want to, but I also kind of have an idea of what my vote is going to be already, which I realize is a little quick to judgment, but..."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save people"
Floyd ]  Real Thing
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE PEOPLE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to save.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "capture spoonatic"
Floyd ]  Real Thing
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CAPTURE SPOONATIC
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "defeat spoonatic"
Floyd ]  Real Thing
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DEFEAT SPOONATIC
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "attack spoonatic"
Floyd ]  Real Thing
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ATTACK SPOONATIC
Floyd |
Floyd | With one blow of your wing, you send him flying out of sight.
Floyd | "Wheeeee!" he screams, delighted that you are finally giving him your
Floyd | full and undivided attention. You do not see him land, however you
Floyd | know that he'll be back soon enough to pester you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Benjamin says, "It's fine by me if we go on to the next one."
Jacqueline logs into [LINK] to vote
Jacqueline says, "I usually don't vote in introcomp, but since this is my last year organizing it, I think I will."
Jacqueline asks, "Would you like... ack, am I alone now?"
Jacqueline looks around.
Jacqueline says, "Hi, Roger."
Jacqueline asks, "Are you actually here?"
Jacqueline takes that as a no and goes to write feedback for Duckman and then she'll go back to uploading transcripts, which may in fact be finished up today, particularly since CF seems to have spontaneously fizzled.
Guenni arrives, full of funk, but no fun. Guenni says, "Looks I didn't miss any floyding after all."
Guenni says, "Did just nobody watch the clock? Or is today a general celebration of summer lazyness."
Genevieve says, "looks like you missed one introcomp game. So did I, but for good reason. Was on the phone with my mum, whom I hadn't talked to in a week."
Genevieve says, "Also, I didn't see that game, but I too take objection to the idea of blind people stumbling around."
Jacqueline says, "If you recap you'll see that everyone abandoned me."




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