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The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask ic18implements" | ||
Floyd ] Health 5/20; Wealth 0 copper; Down in the Dumps Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Content notice - Violence, mention of nudity, alcohol. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your head is killing you. Pain stings your brain like a thousand Floyd | burning needles as you struggle to your feet, trying to remember just Floyd | what happened. Bandits were swarming you, and you felt you had to take Floyd | a dangerous action - hitting the ground with your staff, while it Floyd | stored a thunder spell. Every arcanist knows to avoid using a staff Floyd | this way unless you take precautions. Floyd | Right, precautions. Your circlet is storing a healing spell right now, Floyd | so that helps, but it didn't help enough. Said circlet and the clothes Floyd | on your person are the only things left of your possessions. They Floyd | surely did seem valueless to the bandits, not knowing enough about the Floyd | arcane to remove the circlet from a seemingly mortally-wounded Floyd | arcanist. Floyd | Being alive is a mixed blessing right now. Every move is a torture, Floyd | and without most of your implements, you are basically just a Floyd | harder-to-kill peasant. But the greater part of being alive right now Floyd | - you can claw yourself back up. All you have to do is to get a new Floyd | collection of ... Floyd | Floyd | Intro to Implements of the Arcane Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Oliver Frank Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 180721 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Down in the Dumps Floyd | The dirt hole you are standing in does not match your last conscious Floyd | memory - did your staff of thunder really cause such a crater? It must Floyd | have, and you *know* that hitting the ground with a staff containing a Floyd | damaging spell is a dangerous affair. This was the first time you Floyd | resorted to this move (and considering your state, you aren't keen on Floyd | a repeat, even if you had your staff), so the aftermath is new to you. Floyd | Speaking of your staff, you see its sorry remains littering the ground Floyd | of the hole. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can begin clawing yourself up, by doing exactly that Floyd | - going up. Floyd | Floyd | If this is your first time playing Intro to Implements of the Arcane, Floyd | you should type ABOUT first (there is no need to type it in capitals - Floyd | they are just used for emphasis). Also, you should type CREDITS to see Floyd | the testers for this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Golly" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Long load time" | ||
| DavidW says, "Floyd crashed the mud a few days ago." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Huh." | ||
| DavidW says, "He was playing something called 'parrots' that went into an endless error message loop." | ||
| DavidW says, "So, anyway, vimes updated Floyd to be wary of some formats." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yikes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Something like what happened during bunch of keys?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know. But talk to vimes. I think Floyd has a new flag option now." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Health 5/20; Wealth 0 copper; Down in the Dumps Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Intro to Implements of the Arcane Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Oliver Frank Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 180721 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Standard Rules version 3/120430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Extended Grammar version 8/140501 by Aaron Reed Floyd | Floyd | Intro to Implements of the Arcane is a fantasy interactive fiction Floyd | game. This is the IntroComp version, meaning that it is incomplete, Floyd | ending after a relatively short time. You are an arcanist, a type of Floyd | mage, who has been attacked by bandits. While you managed to fend off Floyd | many with a risky move, more of them were there to rob you blind while Floyd | you were unconscious. They left you for dead with nothing more than Floyd | your clothes and a seemingly worthless wooden circlet. Floyd | This circlet though is the reason you are still alive - it is an Floyd | implement of the arcane, an object that functions while holding a Floyd | spell. The circlet in particular provides its spell's effect to you - Floyd | and the circlet currently holds a healing spell. Floyd | The arcane, or arcanism, is a class of magic that holds the reputation Floyd | of being the most destructive, but it has become the most Floyd | self-destructive over the centuries. You had hoped to reach an ancient Floyd | ruin that supposedly holds powerful implements of the arcane from an Floyd | older age. These might help elevate arcanism from the sorry state it Floyd | has fallen to, and even expand beyond just being "destructive." Floyd | Over the course of the game, you need to find a new set of basic Floyd | implements and spells to survive the challenges ahead of you. Managing Floyd | which spells are held in which implements will be an important task to Floyd | overcome obstacles and foes, and you will need to learn the Floyd | limitations and features of what you have to effectively do so. Floyd | This is my second released game, the first being Finish your Foe!, Floyd | released as part of the Eleventh Hour New Year's minicomp. Floyd | Floyd | Intro to Implements of the Arcane uses several nonstandard verbs that Floyd | you really should know. The game will try to tell you about them over Floyd | the course of the story, but for convenience, they will be listed here Floyd | as well. Floyd | Floyd | CREDITS wil show you the banner text, the extensions used in Intro to Floyd | Implements of the Arcane, and most importantly, will show the testers Floyd | for the game. Floyd | Floyd | SEARCH (an object) - while search is a standard verb, it is often seen Floyd | as the same as EXAMINE. This is not the case here - search is a more Floyd | thorough task, often involving touch, where examine is primarily Floyd | vision. Searching is not vital, but it can yield useful results. Floyd | TALK TO (a person) - You can talk to anyone you meet. Most people Floyd | won't have a whole lot to say, but in some cases, you will enter a Floyd | conversation mode where you are presented with a list of questions to Floyd | ask, and can type the corresponding number to ask that question. Floyd | THINK ABOUT (a topic) - As a fantasy game, you will encounter terms Floyd | you are unfamiliar with, but which the protagonist knows. You can Floyd | think about these things and learn about them. Don't restrain yourself Floyd | to unfamiliar term, either - fantasic beings you know about might be Floyd | slightly different from what you expect. Finally, a few topics you Floyd | know about can change as you learn more about them and the world Floyd | around you. Floyd | SHIFT (spell) TO (implement) - As you find implements and spells, you Floyd | will find the need to move spells from one implement to another to Floyd | better utilize them. To do so, you need to shift the spell to the Floyd | implement it should end up in. For example, you could say SHIFT Floyd | HEALING TO TOME once you have the tome (though you probably should Floyd | keep the healing spell in the circlet for the time being). Floyd | POINT AT (target) / POINT WAND AT (target) - With this command, you Floyd | point at the target, though you'll need a wand holding a spell for Floyd | this to be useful. Floyd | HIT GROUND / HIT GROUND WITH STAFF - If you have a staff holding a Floyd | spell, this will activate the spell. If not, you're just pointlessly Floyd | stomping the ground. Floyd | WIELD (a weapon) - If you carry a weapon, you should wield it to Floyd | improve your combat performance. Floyd | PUSH (an enemy) - Pushing an enemy can cause them to lose their Floyd | balance. This may help RETREATing if you fear the enemy may hit you Floyd | when you flee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sorry for the text dumps." | |
| DavidW says, "'THINK ABOUT topic' is quite helpful." | ||
| DavidW says (to KO), "Also, congrats on finding (and implementing) a new twist on magic systems in IF." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Thanks." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "'Don't restrain yourself to unfamiliar term, either' - missing something there" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes, an s. Good spotting." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Mmkay. Caught up." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] Health 5/20; Wealth 0 copper; Down in the Dumps Floyd | > Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Intro to Implements of the Arcane Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Oliver Frank Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 180721 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Standard Rules version 3/120430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Extended Grammar version 8/140501 by Aaron Reed Floyd | Floyd | This game would be much worse without the awesome work of Małgorzata Floyd | Reczko and Mike Carletta, who tested it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Fwiw, when there was a combat sequence, I mostly cheated by using UNDO whenever the combat wasn't going my way." | |
| DavidW says, "(i really wanted to win)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I have a question" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hrn. I really don't want to forbid undo." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "What's the question?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I should probably replay to find a way where UNDO isn't necessary." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Other than legacy of gaming, what is the reason for needing to wield? Like, if I'm already holding an axe, and I say >ATTACK TROLL WITH AXE, why do we need an extra turn to >WIELD AXE? I generally find this extra step in games annoying, unless it's a roguelike where I have many weapons and need to specify which weapon." | ||
| DavidW says, "There are at least two weapons in this game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||
| DavidW says, "but yeah, I dislike using WIELD as well." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "And so if I say >ATTACK X WITH Y... is >WIELD just so I don't have to keep typing WITH Y?" | ||
| DavidW says, "(I dislike UNWIELD even more, though.)" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "They have different strengths and weaknesses. I probably should allow attack x with y." | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x circlet" | ||
Floyd ] Health 5/20; Wealth 0 copper; Down in the Dumps Floyd | > Floyd | > X CIRCLET Floyd | Floyd | It is a simple wooden band, apparently designed to keep hair out of Floyd | the wearer's face. In truth, of course, it is an implement of the Floyd | arcane, designed to provide a spell effect to its wearer, either Floyd | directly, or as an aura. That it looks so cheap probably saved your Floyd | life. Floyd | Floyd | Currently, the wooden circlet seems to hold a spell of healing. Floyd | Floyd | (The protagonist of the game knows information about things you will Floyd | encounter that you don't. If you feel that you are in such a Floyd | situation, try typing commands like THINK ABOUT MAGIC or THINK ABOUT Floyd | IMPLEMENTS.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about circlet" | ||
Floyd ] Health 5/20; Wealth 0 copper; Down in the Dumps Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT CIRCLET Floyd | Floyd | The circlet is the implement that has been kept secret the best, and Floyd | today you are very glad that it has been. The circlet provides the Floyd | spell's effects to its wearer, either directly or as an aura. Many Floyd | arcanists wear decoy implements, such as rings, designed to shut off Floyd | the visible effects of their circlets when removed, but you prefer to Floyd | just use subtle spells, such as healing. You like to think that this Floyd | has paid off. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Over time, the Health value will gradually go up as long as you wear the circlet of healing." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So the spell of healing is just a passive spell that we need to leave in place, or do we need to activate it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Got it." | ||
| DavidW says, "Passive." | ||
| DavidW says, "Each implement works differently. That's the genious of this game." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crater" | ||
Floyd ] Health 5/20; Wealth 0 copper; Down in the Dumps Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRATER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "genius" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take staff" | ||
Floyd ] Health 5/20; Wealth 0 copper; Down in the Dumps Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE STAFF Floyd | Floyd | These remains are junk now. Let them rot and return to nature. That is Floyd | a better use for them than being a memento of self-pity. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "nice" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Health 5/20; Wealth 0 copper; Dirt Road Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | This dirt road more aligns with your last memories of your Floyd | surroundings. What is new is the strewn-about corpses of about ten Floyd | bandits, clearly already picked clean of their weapons and valuables. Floyd | This was presumably done by their surviving comrades - perhaps you Floyd | ought to alert the authorities of a nearby settlement? The road runs Floyd | north to south, and is bounded east and west by nasty-looking thorn Floyd | bushes. You know that, not too far to the south, lies a village, but Floyd | you don't know what exactly lies to the north beyond a city and a Floyd | mountain range - you were exploring in the hope of finding ancient Floyd | implements, and maybe new spells. While that is a higher priority now Floyd | than it was before, maybe if you can find some money you could get Floyd | some more gear to the south. Not to mention that what might be the Floyd | footprints of the remaining bandits lead north. Floyd | Not for the first time you notice how broad this road is. Even with Floyd | the hole to the eastern side, a typical ox cart still has a Floyd | comfortable amount of space to maneuver. It might still be enough for Floyd | two carts, even. Floyd | Floyd | Discarded by your assailants as if it were junk, your tome lies in the Floyd | dirt. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe overlooked by the bandits, you see a copper coin sticking out of Floyd | the dirt. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north, south and down (to Down in the Dumps) Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | Wait, your tome is lying there? Praise to Ashnar! Needless to say, you Floyd | eagerly grab it up. Floyd | Floyd | Taken! Floyd | Floyd | Quickly, you open it... and freeze. Where the fire spell should rest, Floyd | blank space stares back at you. In a panic, you leaf through the rest Floyd | of the book. Ice, gone. Laughter, eradicated. All the spells that Floyd | should be lying dormant in your tome, set free. That is the only Floyd | explanation. How would a bandit know how to do this, but not know that Floyd | a circlet is an implement of the arcane? Though you suppose the Floyd | circlet is the implement that has been kept secret the best. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about Ashnar" | ||
Floyd ] Health 6/20; Wealth 0 copper; Dirt Road Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT ASHNAR Floyd | Floyd | Demideity of pyromancy and warding spells, Ashnar once was a mortal Floyd | man. Then wild magic turned Ashnar into a woman, and was occasionally Floyd | referred to as Ashna. When Ashnar obtained the power to turn back into Floyd | a man, they declined to use it, stating that they had better use for Floyd | it. Now as a demideity, Ashnar has manifested as male and female Floyd | avatars, and as avatars showing no clear gender, showing no preference Floyd | for any of these forms. They have however made clear their distaste Floyd | for illusions, mind control, and the idea that there is such a thing Floyd | as destiny. No destiny, just duty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about tome" | ||
Floyd ] Health 6/20; Wealth 0 copper; Dirt Road Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT TOME Floyd | Floyd | A spell can be likened to a spirit, a pixie with a fixed idea. They do Floyd | one thing over and over again, and most implements can only hold one Floyd | at a time. The tome is a rare exception, in that it can allow multiple Floyd | spells to rest within, literally. Spells in a tome are dormant - they Floyd | do nothing at all until shifted back into another implement. In their Floyd | dormant form, they appear as alien glyphs that no one has deciphered, Floyd | even with translation spells. Whether that is because the glyphs are Floyd | not actually writing or because spells are protecting their secrets Floyd | has yet to be shown. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Very nice, KO. I see what DW means." | |
| Knight_Otu hides even deeper. | ||
| DavidW says, "It's amazing and lovely and rich and I want more. No pressure." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| DavidW says, "Feel free to bug whoever wrote Spellbound to finish their game first." | ||
| DavidW says, "Anyway, you can see that our Health is now 6." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Adam Perry?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Health 6/20; Wealth 0 copper; Dirt Road Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your tome Floyd | a wooden circlet of healing (being worn) Floyd | your robes (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | You have absolutely no coin on you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x robes" | ||
Floyd ] Health 6/20; Wealth 0 copper; Dirt Road Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROBES Floyd | Floyd | Worse for the wear and tear of travel and combat, but still Floyd | serviceable. Nothing untoward is showing through, and if you can get a Floyd | Mending spell and a wand, they will be as good as new. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take coin" | ||
Floyd ] Health 6/20; Wealth 1 copper; Dirt Road Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE COIN Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You have coins in a total value of 1 copper. Floyd | In this game, your material wealth will not be represented by an Floyd | inventory item. Rather, the status bar will tell you your wealth in Floyd | copper coins. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we shifted the healing into the tome, we would stop healing, but if we shift it back into the circlet, we'd heal slowly again." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "And we can't shift it into the robe for greater effect, I'm assuming?" | ||
| DavidW says, "The robe is not an implement." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "No, the robe is not... right." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about implements" | ||
Floyd ] Health 6/20; Wealth 1 copper; Dirt Road Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT IMPLEMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Implements are tools of the mage's trade, crafted according to Floyd | mystical specifications. Not just any object can act as an implement, Floyd | after all. They hold a spell, and shape the spell's effects by their Floyd | rules. Among the most important implements known to your trade, the Floyd | arcanist's, are the staff, the wand, and of course the tome common to Floyd | most mages. There are also the bowl, the circlet, naturally, and the Floyd | dagger, which are less well known. Of course other, rarer implements Floyd | exist, and research into new ones takes place almost constantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Got it." | |
| DavidW says (to KO), "And thank you for including one of the implements not mentioned in this list to be discovered." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Health 6/20; Wealth 1 copper; Dirt Road Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | You stand at the fateful dirt road where you were accosted by those Floyd | bandits. Still, the corpses of the bandits slain by your thunderblast Floyd | lie about, an ugly reminder of an ugly moment, clearly already picked Floyd | clean of their weapons and valuables. This was presumably done by Floyd | their surviving comrades - perhaps you ought to alert the authorities Floyd | of a nearby settlement? The road runs north to south, and is bounded Floyd | east and west by nasty-looking thorn bushes. You know that, not too Floyd | far to the south, lies a village, but you don't know what exactly lies Floyd | to the north beyond a city and a mountain range - you were exploring Floyd | in the hope of finding ancient implements, and maybe new spells. While Floyd | that is a higher priority now than it was before, maybe if you can Floyd | find some money you could get some more gear to the south. Not to Floyd | mention that what might be the footprints of the remaining bandits Floyd | lead north. Floyd | Not for the first time you notice how broad this road is. Even with Floyd | the hole to the eastern side, a typical ox cart still has a Floyd | comfortable amount of space to maneuver. It might still be enough for Floyd | two carts, even. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north, south and down (to Down in the Dumps) Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x corpses" | ||
Floyd ] Health 6/20; Wealth 1 copper; Dirt Road Floyd | > Floyd | > X CORPSES Floyd | Floyd | These poor souls were certainly killed by the blast of your staff. Floyd | There is no sign of rot, so you're sure you can't have been Floyd | unconscious for long. They ought to get at least some burial, but you Floyd | surely aren't strong enough to move them alone, let alone dig a grave Floyd | for them. Furthermore, it would take you ages that you don't have Floyd | available. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice thought. I like how the descriptions help us understand the PC beter." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Better, even" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, it's quite nice, that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, I'm thinking south" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Toward the town, away from the bandits" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm, ok. That's what I did too." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Health 7/20; Wealth 1 copper; Breach in the Thornbushes Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | It's a long road. Floyd | Floyd | Breach in the Thornbushes Floyd | This is odd. There is a breach in the surrounding thornbushes leading Floyd | east. You are certain that there was no such breach when you came by Floyd | here earlier. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Dirt Road), south and east (through Floyd | the breach) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Health 7/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thorn Clearing Floyd | This is a strange sight - the otherwise invasive thornbushes have left Floyd | a circular clearing here, around the ruins of a small keep, excepting Floyd | one impertinent and thorny branch jutting into the clearing. A strong Floyd | pole has been driven into the earth, and attached to it, a rope. Or Floyd | rather, what is left of that rope, its frayed end dangling into a deep Floyd | hole in the floor past the broken gate into the stronghold. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go west (to Breach in the Thornbushes through the Floyd | breach) and down (through the deep hole) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x branch" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRANCH Floyd | Floyd | A branch that defies the otherwise unbroken circle of the clearing, Floyd | jutting out of the thornbushes. On the second look, you see some kind Floyd | of leather straps hanging from it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x leather" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > X LEATHER Floyd | Floyd | They seem to have been part of a backpack or something similar, and Floyd | may have been a side pocket. Floyd | Floyd | In the leather straps is a healing potion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take potion" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POTION Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The fragrance of flowers floats over the land. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x potion" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > X POTION Floyd | Floyd | A still red liquid in a bottle of fadeglass. It will heal damage you Floyd | may have suffered. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suggest saving it." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'm assuming our character is sure of this. That it is not poison." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Mmkay" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Thorn Clearing Floyd | This is a strange sight - the otherwise invasive thornbushes have left Floyd | a circular clearing here, around the ruins of a small keep, excepting Floyd | one impertinent and thorny branch jutting into the clearing. A strong Floyd | pole has been driven into the earth, and attached to it, a rope. Or Floyd | rather, what is left of that rope, its frayed end dangling into a deep Floyd | hole in the floor past the broken gate into the stronghold. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go west (to Breach in the Thornbushes through the Floyd | breach) and down (through the deep hole) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pole" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > X POLE Floyd | Floyd | The rope tied to the pole looks rather old, which would explain why it Floyd | frayed and snapped. It rubbing against the hard stone of the keep's Floyd | cellar walls certainly did not help matters. You can only hope that no Floyd | one was seriously hurt in that incident. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're in no danger for quite some time, unless we're really foolhardy." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x rope" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROPE Floyd | Floyd | The rope tied to the pole looks rather old, which would explain why it Floyd | frayed and snapped. It rubbing against the hard stone of the keep's Floyd | cellar walls certainly did not help matters. You can only hope that no Floyd | one was seriously hurt in that incident. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > X GATE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of KO), "Should that be implemented?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You do not feel particularly comfortable with throwing yourself down a Floyd | deep dark hole. Floyd | Floyd | Something rustles within the thorn bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Probably as a synonym of the keep, yes." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bushes" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUSHES Floyd | Floyd | Tall bushes with wicked thorns, naturally. You hear that they were Floyd | cultivated by the locals to keep the wildlife off the roads.... to Floyd | mixed results. Floyd | Floyd | A terrifying, pained roar shakes the thorn bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search bushes" | ||
Floyd ] Health 8/20; Wealth 26 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BUSHES Floyd | Floyd | Very carefully, you peer deeper into the bushes. A silvery glint grabs Floyd | your attention... Floyd | ... and you manage to reach it unharmed - a silver quarter, worth 25 Floyd | copper coins! Floyd | Remember, your wealth will be printed in the status bar, rather than Floyd | being represented by an item. Floyd | You have coins in a total value of 26 copper. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, yay, except I was trying to locate the source of the noise" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Health 9/20; Wealth 26 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | An eagle shrieks high above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x roar" | ||
Floyd ] Health 9/20; Wealth 26 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROAR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "The source of the noise will come into play later." | |
| jenrexrode disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "yes." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Should I leave? Am I about to die?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x eagle" | ||
Floyd ] Health 9/20; Wealth 26 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > X EAGLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You're in no danger." | |
| Jacqueline chills out. | ||
| jenrexrode says, "blah friend wants a ride to the airport - bye" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Bye, Jen" | ||
| * jenrexrode has left the channel. | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Bye!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I will be right back. Getting a headache, going to take something." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'll use that pause as well then." | ||
| DavidW says, "I should too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am back. Let me know when y'all are back." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay, I'm back." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "back." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I guess I can't do much here without the rope intact." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "And I should move on?" | ||
| Jacqueline looks at DW. | ||
| Jacqueline leans toward DW a little bit. | ||
| DavidW asks, "mm, you want me to say?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "You should move on." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Health 9/20; Wealth 26 copper; Breach in the Thornbushes Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Breach in the Thornbushes Floyd | This is odd. There is a breach in the surrounding thornbushes leading Floyd | east. You are certain that there was no such breach when you came by Floyd | here earlier. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Dirt Road), south and east (to Thorn Floyd | Clearing through the breach) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | It's a long road. Floyd | Floyd | Watchtower Floyd | The thornbushes are slowly giving way to the fields of the village, Floyd | and the watchtower for the northern side of Houndsback village stands Floyd | here, and you can see the palisades of the village farther to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands closed. Floyd | Floyd | Up in the tower, a tower guard keeps watch for any troubles that may Floyd | be coming in this direction. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Breach in the Thornbushes) from Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The long and (not) winding road." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Better than a long load." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > X GUARD Floyd | Floyd | A well-armed and armored human. She keeps a signal horn at her side to Floyd | give alarm signals to the village. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x palisades" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > X PALISADES Floyd | Floyd | These tall wood walls should keep most dangers out while closed. Floyd | Currently, the gate is closed. Floyd | Floyd | The surroundings of the watchtower hold the murmurs of the wild, Floyd | tempered by the proximity of civilization. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wave at guard" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > WAVE AT GUARD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Just talk to her." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to buard" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BUARD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to guard" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GUARD Floyd | Floyd | [1] Greet the tower guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You greet the guard and ask her why the palisade gates are closed. Floyd | "Small alarm standards," she answers, "there was a blast further Floyd | north, but so far nothing but you came here. Anything to tell?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] Tell her about the bandits. Floyd | [2] Ask the guard how she would get to safety with the Floyd | palisades closed. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, ">TELL GUARD I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING WHATSOEVER ABOUT THAT BLAST SHE HEARD" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "That was me, I'm afraid," you admit. "I was accosted by several Floyd | bandits, and that was the only way to defend myself. There is now a Floyd | hole in the road - not big enough to hinder traffic, mind you, and Floyd | several bandit corpses litter it." Floyd | "I see." The guard sizes you up. "I suppose I believe you." Floyd | She raises a horn to her lips and blows a short sequence of signals. Floyd | Apparently in response, the palisade rattles open. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask the guard about the bandit corpses's fate. Floyd | [2] Ask the guard about the keep you saw. Floyd | [3] Ask the guard how she would get to safety with the Floyd | palisades closed. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It was you, fess up, it'll be good." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Can you do anything about the bandit corpses?" you ask. Floyd | "Me, not so much. No horn signal for corpse disposal, I'm afraid. You Floyd | oughta meet with the mayor's secretary in the village." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask the guard about the bandit corpses's fate again. Floyd | [2] Ask the guard about the keep you saw. Floyd | [3] Ask the guard how she would get to safety with the Floyd | palisades closed. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Such bureaucracy" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 10/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "On my way back here, I saw a keep. Can you tell me more about it?" Floyd | you ask. Floyd | The guard raises an eyebrow. "They found it? That surprises me. Floyd | Anyway, the keep was that of a tyrannical giant that ruled the lands a Floyd | few hundred years ago. Or so the most popular story goes, at least. Floyd | I'm not sure if anyone still knows who lived once in that keep. Maybe Floyd | Dusky and Synkarya, the village witches." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask the guard about the bandit corpses's fate again. Floyd | [2] Ask the guard how she would get to safety with the Floyd | palisades closed. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 11/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "Wait, if the palisades get closed, how would the tower guards get to Floyd | safety?" you ask, concerned. Floyd | "We have our ways," she smiles, "that are not made public, naturally." Floyd | You think it better to drop the subject. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask the guard about the bandit corpses's fate again. Floyd | [2] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 11/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | You say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Health 11/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Watchtower Floyd | The thornbushes are slowly giving way to the fields of the village, Floyd | and the watchtower for the northern side of Houndsback village stands Floyd | here, and you can see the palisades of the village farther to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands open. Floyd | Floyd | Up in the tower, a tower guard keeps watch for any troubles that may Floyd | be coming in this direction. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Breach in the Thornbushes) and south Floyd | (through the palisades) from here. Floyd | Floyd | The fields seem to have recently been fertilized. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fields" | ||
Floyd ] Health 11/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIELDS Floyd | Floyd | Recently harvested, the fields lie empty at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search fields" | ||
Floyd ] Health 11/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH FIELDS Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No lone turnip today." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search bushes" | ||
Floyd ] Health 11/20; Wealth 26 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BUSHES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. I thought the bushes were slowly giving way, not gone. Just sayin'" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Health 12/20; Wealth 26 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Village Outskirts Floyd | Inside the palisades, the village proper prospers. A dwarven herbalist Floyd | has taken up business in a stall, away from the bustle of the market Floyd | place. A carriage with three broken wheels stands nearby, as it did Floyd | when you first left for the north. If it had been in business, your Floyd | journey might have been much more peaceful. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands open. Floyd | Floyd | One large hut, nestled away at the edge of the palisades, sports a Floyd | sign reading "Synkarya's and Dusky's - Potions and More" Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Watchtower through the palisades), Floyd | south and west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "You've left Thornbush Country." | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe it'll turnip tomorrow." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "You need a time out." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hut" | ||
Floyd ] Health 12/20; Wealth 26 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > X HUT Floyd | Floyd | The sign reads "Synkarya's and Dusky's - Potions and More" and hangs Floyd | at the hut of the witches you had a short talk with before you left Floyd | for the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That may be a synonym too much." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter hut" | ||
Floyd ] Health 12/20; Wealth 26 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HUT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hm" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "The hut is to the west." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Health 12/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Witches' Hut Floyd | The hut is separated into a few rooms, clearly, but only the actual Floyd | shop is open to customers. A counter holding various trinkets is Floyd | prominently sitting in the center of the room, and shelves with a Floyd | bunch of fadeglass flasks on them line the wall. A curtain in Floyd | particular separates the shop from a back room in which the witches Floyd | must keep their cauldrons, judging by the sounds and smells wafting in Floyd | from that room. Floyd | Floyd | The proprietors, Synkarya and Dusky vaguely discuss some ancient crime Floyd | arcanists committed at the expense of witches, as their cat plays Floyd | around. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go east (to Village Outskirts) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The hut is west, but 'enter hut' ought to work." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Agreed. Thanks!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It really should, yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cat" | ||
Floyd ] Health 12/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAT Floyd | Floyd | A mischievous cat with stripes of red and light brown. Floyd | Floyd | With a defiant "mew!", the cat jumps up on the counter, carefully not Floyd | stepping on any of the trinkets. "Rascal!" Dusky exclaims, "watch out Floyd | with those charms!" The cat simply licks her paws. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x charms" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHARMS Floyd | Floyd | A variety of charms, amulets, and other trinkets that, for reasons you Floyd | have never bothered to explore, do not work if the user possesses Floyd | useful magical knowledge. As such, they are worthless to you. Floyd | Floyd | From the back room, you hear fire crackling. Probably the witches' Floyd | cauldrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to witches" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WITCHES Floyd | Floyd | (Synkarya) Floyd | [1] Greet the witches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You greet Dusky and Synkarya. "Ah, hello again," Dusky replies, while Floyd | the other says "You look terrible. Trouble on the road?" Floyd | Floyd | Chasing after an imaginary fly, Rascal rears up on her hind legs, Floyd | loses her balance, and falls off the counter. She shakes herself and Floyd | licks her paw as if to say that this was intentional on her part. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Tell the witches about the bandit attack. Floyd | [2] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Trouble is putting it mildly. I was attacked by bandits on the north Floyd | road, and while I killed several of them, it was with a blast from my Floyd | staff. The rest robbed me blind and left me for dead." Floyd | "Terrible news," Synkarya says. "You should visit the mayor's house if Floyd | you haven't already. There ought to be a bounty on those bandits that Floyd | can help you recover at least a few of those losses. Not that we can Floyd | help with implements," she adds, glancing at Dusky. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask the witches about their cat. Floyd | [3] Ask the witches about implements anyway. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "It occurs to me that I never asked about your cat last time I was Floyd | here." Floyd | Synkarya smiles and says "Rascal is still pretty young, and she is Floyd | very playful. We got her from a local farmer family when their cat had Floyd | kittens." Floyd | "So she's not, like, some poor villager you cursed after she stole Floyd | potions from you or something?" Floyd | Dusky glowers at you. "If we did things like that, you'd be the next Floyd | candidate for asking that question." Floyd | "Sorry, sorry, that came out wrong... err, can she talk?" Floyd | Synkarya chuckles. "Why don't you ask her yourself?" Floyd | Floyd | Rascal meows for your attention. As you bow down to her and pet her, Floyd | she purrs and delights for a moment, then paws your hand away, Floyd | thankfully without claws. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask the witches about implements anyway. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "What was that glance? Is there something you aren't telling me?" Floyd | Synkarya sighs. "I suppose it is unfair not telling you. One of the Floyd | implements of witchcraft is very well known to arcanists. Centuries Floyd | ago, one arcanist tricked a witch into lending them an implement, and Floyd | the arcanist turned and spread the secrets of that implement. Floyd | Naturally, it is less effective for you than it is for us, but still. Floyd | That breach of trust means we are to keep our implements to Floyd | ourselves..." Floyd | "But since that particular implement is in the hands of arcanists Floyd | already..." Dusky continues, "Under two conditions, we can part with Floyd | one of that implement. Firstly, you have to guess which it is. You Floyd | have two tries only." Floyd | "Secondly," Synkarya speaks again "we have to insist on a nominal fee. Floyd | 25 copper." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Guess the bowl. Floyd | [3] Guess the circlet. Floyd | [4] Guess the dagger. Floyd | [5] Guess the staff. Floyd | [6] Guess the wand. Floyd | [7] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "7" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 7 Floyd | Floyd | You say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bowl" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOWL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dagger" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X DAGGER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "um" | |
| DavidW says, "You can THINK ABOUT those." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was hoping that ... oh" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "They're not keeping the implement in question in the room." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hrm. okay" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about bowl" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT BOWL Floyd | Floyd | A curious implement, the bowl requires that star root is placed within Floyd | it and burned. Then it creates an area where the spell's effect is Floyd | present in a diminished, but enduring fashion. Used mostly for Floyd | temperature control, it has been ridiculed by arcanists for ages... Floyd | yet almost every one of them has one, just in case. Of course, you had Floyd | a silver bowl... until recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about circlet" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT CIRCLET Floyd | Floyd | The circlet is the implement that has been kept secret the best, and Floyd | today you are very glad that it has been. The circlet provides the Floyd | spell's effects to its wearer, either directly or as an aura. Many Floyd | arcanists wear decoy implements, such as rings, designed to shut off Floyd | the visible effects of their circlets when removed, but you prefer to Floyd | just use subtle spells, such as healing. You like to think that this Floyd | has paid off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about dagger" | ||
Floyd ] Health 13/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT DAGGER Floyd | Floyd | The dagger is the combat implement of the arcanist's choice. The fact Floyd | that one needs to hit the intended target with the dagger explains why Floyd | arcanists seldomly enter combat at close range - few have the agility Floyd | to pull it off, and many are too vain to perform such "undignified", Floyd | "brutish" activities. You've considered them foolish, but your dagger Floyd | held no spell suitable for a large group of bandits, either. Must be Floyd | why so many people travel in groups. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about staff" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT STAFF Floyd | Floyd | The staff is a powerful implement. When the arcanist HITs the GROUND Floyd | with it, it creates a localized, strengthened burst of the spell - Floyd | which can be a powerful last resort, if properly shielded. Even then, Floyd | as you've painfully experienced, this is usually a bad idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about wand" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT WAND Floyd | Floyd | The wand is an important, if limited implement of the arcane. Floyd | Arcanists do not like to advertise this fact, but wands cannot Floyd | directly affect living creatures. If they contain damaging spells, Floyd | they simply do not work if POINTed at a creature, requiring a more Floyd | indirect approach. Healing spells in wands are simply a waste of time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline goes back to read those. | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Something I don't think has been said yet - it *should* be impossible to make the game unwinnable." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Really?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Like, this intro part is quite gentle, but there is a combat scene later." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "There's some silly tricks I did to do that, but yes." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to witches" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WITCHES Floyd | Floyd | (Synkarya) Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Guess the bowl. Floyd | [3] Guess the circlet. Floyd | [4] Guess the dagger. Floyd | [5] Guess the staff. Floyd | [6] Guess the wand. Floyd | [7] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | "I'm not certain, but maybe the wand? I... honestly, I'm not sure what Floyd | made me guess that." Floyd | Synkarya shakes her head. "Unfortunately, we have to count that guess. Floyd | What did make you guess that? It makes no sense. You have one guess Floyd | left." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Guess the bowl. Floyd | [3] Guess the circlet. Floyd | [4] Guess the dagger. Floyd | [5] Guess the staff. Floyd | [6] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "IT MAKES TOTAL SENSE" | |
| Knight_Otu eeps. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "DO NOT BE SO CONDESCENDING, SYNKARYA" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "It's the bowl, maybe? I suspect it's an offshot of your witches' Floyd | cauldrons in that case." Floyd | Synkarya shakes her head. "An interesting guess, and I suppose it Floyd | might be the case that bowls aren't implements of your trade either, Floyd | but I wouldn't know either way. Unfortunate. That was both of your Floyd | guesses." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask the witches if they have any spells to spare. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | You say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | Rascal purrs as she rubs her head on the counter, then prompty stops Floyd | as she realizes you see her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "I almost didn't save, I was so sure. Huh." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to witches" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WITCHES Floyd | Floyd | (Synkarya) Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Guess the bowl. Floyd | [3] Guess the circlet. Floyd | [4] Guess the dagger. Floyd | [5] Guess the staff. Floyd | [6] Guess the wand. Floyd | [7] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 26 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | "It's the dagger, isn't it? I've often thought that it is strange and Floyd | weak. If it is, I do wonder what it can do in the right hands." Floyd | Synkarya chuckles. "That's the right answer. As for what we can do Floyd | with it... it's a ranged implement similar to your wands, except they Floyd | can affect living creatures." Floyd | "That is quite a revelation... but not enough of one to reveal Floyd | myself." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Buy a dagger for 25 copper. Floyd | [3] Ask the witches if they have any spells to spare. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline shrugs. | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 1 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | You hand Synkarya the requested 25 copper. She goes into the back Floyd | room, bringing back an unadorned dagger. As she puts it onto the Floyd | counter, she hesitates. "Actually, I will give a spell in the dagger. Floyd | A floating spell. I am unsure whether it will be useful, but you can Floyd | consider it a gift. We have more of that spell." Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 1 copper remaining. Floyd | Floyd | (Now that you are carrying a few implements, you could try to SHIFT Floyd | HEALING TO YOUR TOME.) Floyd | Floyd | (Now that you are carrying a weapon, you should try to WIELD DAGGER.) Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask the witches if they have any spells to spare. Floyd | [2] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 1 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Say, is there any chance that you have any spells to spare?" you ask. Floyd | Dusky scratches his chin. "Thinking about it... there is very little Floyd | demand for accuracy potions right now, and our storage should hold for Floyd | a while. You will have to cover the ritual costs for it though, which Floyd | come out to... I think 2 silver." Synkarya nods in agreement. "That Floyd | sounds about right." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Silver is about 1000 coppers." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 1 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | Rascal purrs as she rubs her head on the counter, then prompty stops Floyd | as she realizes you see her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "think about silver" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 1 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT SILVER Floyd | Floyd | The local currency uses coins of copper, silver, and rarely gold. Floyd | Copper coins are the lowest denomination, followed by silver quarters Floyd | (25 copper), silver crowns (100 copper), gold principalities (25 Floyd | silver), and gold empires (100 silver). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, only 100." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pet rascal" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 1 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > PET RASCAL Floyd | Floyd | Rascal purrs loudly as you pet her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take rascal" | ||
Floyd ] Health 14/20; Wealth 1 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE RASCAL Floyd | Floyd | I don't suppose Rascal would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | Rascal purrs as she rubs her head on the counter, then prompty stops Floyd | as she realizes you see her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dagger" | ||
Floyd ] Health 15/20; Wealth 1 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X DAGGER Floyd | Floyd | A rather plain steel dagger with an oakwood handle. You estimate that Floyd | you could hit an enemy three times out of four with this weapon, Floyd | dealing 1 damage. Floyd | Nonetheless, you recognize that it is no simple dagger - it is an Floyd | implement. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Currently, the dagger seems to hold a spell of floating. Floyd | Floyd | Rascal purrs as she rubs her head on the counter, then prompty stops Floyd | as she realizes you see her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about floating" | ||
Floyd ] Health 15/20; Wealth 1 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT FLOATING Floyd | Floyd | Floating has so far been the best attempt at defeating gravity among Floyd | most mages. Witches have managed better, though you have been given to Floyd | understand that there are limitations - limitations that the witches Floyd | are not eager to share. Floyd | Floyd | Rascal purrs as she rubs her head on the counter, then prompty stops Floyd | as she realizes you see her. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Can I float down the hole?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Health 15/20; Wealth 1 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Health 15/20; Wealth 1 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Village Outskirts Floyd | Inside the palisades, the village proper prospers. A dwarven herbalist Floyd | has taken up business in a stall, away from the bustle of the market Floyd | place. A carriage with three broken wheels stands nearby, as it did Floyd | when you first left for the north. If it had been in business, your Floyd | journey might have been much more peaceful. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands open. Floyd | Floyd | One large hut, nestled away at the edge of the palisades, sports a Floyd | sign reading "Synkarya's and Dusky's - Potions and More" Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Watchtower through the palisades), Floyd | south and west (to Witches' Hut) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW returns to time out. | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Note to KO: maybe make >OUT work in the hut?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Health 16/20; Wealth 1 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Watchtower Floyd | The thornbushes are slowly giving way to the fields of the village, Floyd | and the watchtower for the northern side of Houndsback village stands Floyd | here, and you can see the palisades of the village farther to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands open. Floyd | Floyd | Up in the tower, a tower guard keeps watch for any troubles that may Floyd | be coming in this direction. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Breach in the Thornbushes) and south Floyd | (to Village Outskirts through the palisades) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Noted by way of keeping a transcript." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Health 17/20; Wealth 1 copper; Breach in the Thornbushes Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Breach in the Thornbushes Floyd | This is odd. There is a breach in the surrounding thornbushes leading Floyd | east. You are certain that there was no such breach when you came by Floyd | here earlier. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Dirt Road), south (to Watchtower) Floyd | and east (to Thorn Clearing through the breach) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Health 17/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thorn Clearing Floyd | This is a strange sight - the otherwise invasive thornbushes have left Floyd | a circular clearing here, around the ruins of a small keep, excepting Floyd | one impertinent and thorny branch jutting into the clearing. A strong Floyd | pole has been driven into the earth, and attached to it, a rope. Or Floyd | rather, what is left of that rope, its frayed end dangling into a deep Floyd | hole in the floor past the broken gate into the stronghold. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go west (to Breach in the Thornbushes through the Floyd | breach) and down (through the deep hole) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "weild knife" | ||
Floyd ] Health 17/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > WEILD KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wield knife" | ||
Floyd ] Health 17/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > WIELD KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | You ready the dagger for combat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Health 17/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You do not feel particularly comfortable with throwing yourself down a Floyd | deep dark hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Iria arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "float" | ||
Floyd ] Health 17/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > FLOAT Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about knife" | ||
Floyd ] Health 17/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Racing through your memories, you determine that you know nothing Floyd | interesting about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "think about dagger, you mean." | |
| Jacqueline says, "oh, right" | ||
| DavidW says, "Daggers work by stabbing the target." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about dagger" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT DAGGER Floyd | Floyd | The dagger is the combat implement of the arcanist's choice. The fact Floyd | that one needs to hit the intended target with the dagger explains why Floyd | arcanists seldomly enter combat at close range - few have the agility Floyd | to pull it off, and many are too vain to perform such "undignified", Floyd | "brutish" activities. You've considered them foolish, but your dagger Floyd | held no spell suitable for a large group of bandits, either. Must be Floyd | why so many people travel in groups. Now that you know that it is Floyd | actually an implement of witchcraft, things make quite some more Floyd | sense. But since it doesn't suit yourself to unsuit yourself, this Floyd | won't make a difference in the near future. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So if you stabbed a pig, you'd make the pig float." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I have an idea." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Intro to Implements of the Arcane Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Oliver Frank Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 180721 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Standard Rules version 3/120430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Extended Grammar version 8/140501 by Aaron Reed Floyd | Floyd | Intro to Implements of the Arcane is a fantasy interactive fiction Floyd | game. This is the IntroComp version, meaning that it is incomplete, Floyd | ending after a relatively short time. You are an arcanist, a type of Floyd | mage, who has been attacked by bandits. While you managed to fend off Floyd | many with a risky move, more of them were there to rob you blind while Floyd | you were unconscious. They left you for dead with nothing more than Floyd | your clothes and a seemingly worthless wooden circlet. Floyd | This circlet though is the reason you are still alive - it is an Floyd | implement of the arcane, an object that functions while holding a Floyd | spell. The circlet in particular provides its spell's effect to you - Floyd | and the circlet currently holds a healing spell. Floyd | The arcane, or arcanism, is a class of magic that holds the reputation Floyd | of being the most destructive, but it has become the most Floyd | self-destructive over the centuries. You had hoped to reach an ancient Floyd | ruin that supposedly holds powerful implements of the arcane from an Floyd | older age. These might help elevate arcanism from the sorry state it Floyd | has fallen to, and even expand beyond just being "destructive." Floyd | Over the course of the game, you need to find a new set of basic Floyd | implements and spells to survive the challenges ahead of you. Managing Floyd | which spells are held in which implements will be an important task to Floyd | overcome obstacles and foes, and you will need to learn the Floyd | limitations and features of what you have to effectively do so. Floyd | This is my second released game, the first being Finish your Foe!, Floyd | released as part of the Eleventh Hour New Year's minicomp. Floyd | Floyd | Intro to Implements of the Arcane uses several nonstandard verbs that Floyd | you really should know. The game will try to tell you about them over Floyd | the course of the story, but for convenience, they will be listed here Floyd | as well. Floyd | Floyd | CREDITS wil show you the banner text, the extensions used in Intro to Floyd | Implements of the Arcane, and most importantly, will show the testers Floyd | for the game. Floyd | Floyd | SEARCH (an object) - while search is a standard verb, it is often seen Floyd | as the same as EXAMINE. This is not the case here - search is a more Floyd | thorough task, often involving touch, where examine is primarily Floyd | vision. Searching is not vital, but it can yield useful results. Floyd | TALK TO (a person) - You can talk to anyone you meet. Most people Floyd | won't have a whole lot to say, but in some cases, you will enter a Floyd | conversation mode where you are presented with a list of questions to Floyd | ask, and can type the corresponding number to ask that question. Floyd | THINK ABOUT (a topic) - As a fantasy game, you will encounter terms Floyd | you are unfamiliar with, but which the protagonist knows. You can Floyd | think about these things and learn about them. Don't restrain yourself Floyd | to unfamiliar term, either - fantasic beings you know about might be Floyd | slightly different from what you expect. Finally, a few topics you Floyd | know about can change as you learn more about them and the world Floyd | around you. Floyd | SHIFT (spell) TO (implement) - As you find implements and spells, you Floyd | will find the need to move spells from one implement to another to Floyd | better utilize them. To do so, you need to shift the spell to the Floyd | implement it should end up in. For example, you could say SHIFT Floyd | HEALING TO TOME once you have the tome (though you probably should Floyd | keep the healing spell in the circlet for the time being). Floyd | POINT AT (target) / POINT WAND AT (target) - With this command, you Floyd | point at the target, though you'll need a wand holding a spell for Floyd | this to be useful. Floyd | HIT GROUND / HIT GROUND WITH STAFF - If you have a staff holding a Floyd | spell, this will activate the spell. If not, you're just pointlessly Floyd | stomping the ground. Floyd | WIELD (a weapon) - If you carry a weapon, you should wield it to Floyd | improve your combat performance. Floyd | PUSH (an enemy) - Pushing an enemy can cause them to lose their Floyd | balance. This may help RETREATing if you fear the enemy may hit you Floyd | when you flee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shift heal to tome" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > SHIFT HEAL TO TOME Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "healing" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shift healing to tome" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > SHIFT HEALING TO TOME Floyd | Floyd | You shift the healing spell to your tome. Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Smells like dry weather. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shift floating to tome" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > SHIFT FLOATING TO TOME Floyd | Floyd | You shift the floating spell to your tome. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shift floating to circlet" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > SHIFT FLOATING TO CIRCLET Floyd | Floyd | You shift the floating spell to the wooden circlet. Floyd | You feel strangely taken afloat. Floyd | Floyd | The fragrance of flowers floats over the land. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Your flotation does not allow you to change altitude. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "moo" | |
| Jacqueline stamps her foot. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Smells like dry weather. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "can't stamp. Can't reach ground." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stab davidw" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > STAB DAVIDW Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Spells can be mean in the wrong implement." | |
| says, "I did a WHO of Floyd, but the name doesn't make any sense." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Iria), "IntroComp 18 Implements of the Arcane" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The game's Implements of the Arcane, my IntroComp submission." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shift floating to tome" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > SHIFT FLOATING TO TOME Floyd | Floyd | You shift the floating spell to your tome. Floyd | You settle back on the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shift healing to circlet" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Thorn Clearing Floyd | > Floyd | > SHIFT HEALING TO CIRCLET Floyd | Floyd | You shift the healing spell to the wooden circlet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria says, "Boy do I feel stupid." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Another thought, KO: Once you've said 'This is odd. There is a breach in the surrounding thornbushes leading east. You are certain that there was no such breach when you came by earlier' you should not have the character think that again." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Health 18/20; Wealth 1 copper; Breach in the Thornbushes Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Breach in the Thornbushes Floyd | This is odd. There is a breach in the surrounding thornbushes leading Floyd | east. You are certain that there was no such breach when you came by Floyd | here earlier. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Dirt Road), south (to Watchtower) Floyd | and east (to Thorn Clearing through the breach) from here. Floyd | Floyd | Hm. Smells like dry weather. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "True." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Health 19/20; Wealth 1 copper; Watchtower Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | It's a long road. Floyd | Floyd | Watchtower Floyd | The thornbushes are slowly giving way to the fields of the village, Floyd | and the watchtower for the northern side of Houndsback village stands Floyd | here, and you can see the palisades of the village farther to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands open. Floyd | Floyd | Up in the tower, a tower guard keeps watch for any troubles that may Floyd | be coming in this direction. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Breach in the Thornbushes) and south Floyd | (to Village Outskirts through the palisades) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I'll have to spice up the room description anyway there." | |
| DavidW says, "almost full health" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Health 19/20; Wealth 1 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Village Outskirts Floyd | Inside the palisades, the village proper prospers. A dwarven herbalist Floyd | has taken up business in a stall, away from the bustle of the market Floyd | place. A carriage with three broken wheels stands nearby, as it did Floyd | when you first left for the north. If it had been in business, your Floyd | journey might have been much more peaceful. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands open. Floyd | Floyd | One large hut, nestled away at the edge of the palisades, sports a Floyd | sign reading "Synkarya's and Dusky's - Potions and More" Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Watchtower through the palisades), Floyd | south and west (to Witches' Hut) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Market Place Floyd | This bustling place in the center of the village is well-paved with Floyd | stone and quite large, allowing ample space for all sorts of traders, Floyd | peddlers, and buyers to sell and purchase their goods. Floyd | Floyd | A throng of people populates the market place today, moving you along Floyd | with it. Floyd | Floyd | Something about the wares of a havbar peddler catches your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Village Outskirts), east (through Floyd | the Inn Door) and west (through the the door into the mayor's house) Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | The varied scents of the village are hard to separate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x havbar" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X HAVBAR Floyd | Floyd | Who do you mean, the passersby or the havbar peddler? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hm" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x havbar peddler" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X HAVBAR PEDDLER Floyd | Floyd | Of small stature as all his people, the peddler seems to have a Floyd | variety of wares, most uninteresting to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sorry about that." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x passerby" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X PASSERBY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "(passersby)" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x passersby" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X PASSERSBY Floyd | Floyd | Every species imaginable seems to have congregated here to shop today. Floyd | Elves, dwarves, encars, havbari, and many more. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ah" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about havbari" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT HAVBARI Floyd | Floyd | A small people, often also called halflings (though the havbari Floyd | protest this moniker). They are usually content to live their lives at Floyd | home, but almost every havbar gets possessed by what they call the Floyd | Wanderwill at least once, and goes on travels of varying lengths. Floyd | Floyd | Two children, apparently chasing each other, are yelling "You're the Floyd | arcanist!" - "No, I'm the hero!" Floyd | Hey now, that's uncalled for! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about encars" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT ENCARS Floyd | Floyd | A reptilian people that live in the mountains and lowlands. Every Floyd | encar is born with a distinction - a feather, signifying mental Floyd | prowess, a crest, signifying martial prowess, or horns, signifying Floyd | great strength. Rumors abound about twiceborn encars that have two of Floyd | these distinctions, and even thriceborn, supposedly creatures of great Floyd | destiny. Floyd | Floyd | The varied scents of the village are hard to separate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about dwarves" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT DWARVES Floyd | Floyd | A small and stout people, dwarves are expert craftsmen. From what you Floyd | heard, dwarves do not sleep like humans do - they enter a state called Floyd | "rigor" where they rest standing up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I always feel the ambience events hit a bit too often." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about witches" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT WITCHES Floyd | Floyd | Witchcraft, like arcanism, is a classification of magic, with its own Floyd | implements and spell-coaxing rituals. You have heard that their Floyd | implements include things like brooms, cauldrons, and doll effigies, Floyd | but you know little else about them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "It's a hard thing to get right" | |
| Jacqueline says, "You could adjust that, true." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's it currently set at?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about elves" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT ELVES Floyd | Floyd | A proud people of the forests. Supposedly, elves have a special Floyd | rapport with trees, which act as implements only for them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think 1 in 25, for sound and smell separately." | |
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Feels more frequent" | ||
| Jacqueline shrugs. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about humans" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT HUMANS Floyd | Floyd | Racing through your memories, you determine that you know nothing Floyd | interesting about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about golems" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT GOLEMS Floyd | Floyd | Racing through your memories, you determine that you know nothing Floyd | interesting about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about wizards" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT WIZARDS Floyd | Floyd | Racing through your memories, you determine that you know nothing Floyd | interesting about this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about arcanism" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT ARCANISM Floyd | Floyd | Arcanism is a classification of magic, and importantly, it is the one Floyd | you follow. It has the reputation of being the most destructive, which Floyd | is true, from a certain point of view. Part of the reason you are Floyd | traveling is because rumors speak of implements of the arcane that may Floyd | have created the reputation in a more deserved way. Perhaps you can Floyd | find them. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Was just about to do that. :)" | |
| DavidW says, "oops, sorry" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No worries at all" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Market Place Floyd | This bustling place in the center of the village is well-paved with Floyd | stone and quite large, allowing ample space for all sorts of traders, Floyd | peddlers, and buyers to sell and purchase their goods. Floyd | Floyd | A throng of people populates the market place today, moving you along Floyd | with it. Floyd | Floyd | Something about the wares of a havbar peddler catches your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Village Outskirts), east (through Floyd | the Inn Door) and west (through the the door into the mayor's house) Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The world feels rich." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well done." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Thanks." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wares of havbar" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X WARES OF HAVBAR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the wares. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wares" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X WARES Floyd | Floyd | A great variety of things that seem useless for your quest, except Floyd | maybe a bowl and a rusty longsword. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bowl" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOWL Floyd | Floyd | (the bowl) Floyd | From all appearances, this is a cheap copper bowl, but your trained Floyd | eye recognizes it as the make of an arcanist. Not only that, it holds Floyd | a spell - light. Floyd | Floyd | In the bowl is nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Currently, the bowl seems to hold a spell of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sword" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X SWORD Floyd | Floyd | Though rusty, the longsword is still serviceable, and while you have Floyd | little training with blades, it might be a good idea to keep some Floyd | actual arms at the ready. Floyd | You estimate that, under normal circumstances, you'd hit about 1 in 5 Floyd | times, dealing 5 damage each time. You also feel it will allow you to Floyd | parry better. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a dagger (being wielded) Floyd | a healing potion Floyd | your tome Floyd | a wooden circlet of healing (being worn) Floyd | your robes (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | You have coins in a total value of 1 copper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unwield dagger" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > UNWIELD DAGGER Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show dagger to havbar" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW DAGGER TO HAVBAR Floyd | Floyd | Who do you mean, the passersby or the havbar peddler? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show dagger to peddler" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW DAGGER TO PEDDLER Floyd | Floyd | The havbar peddler is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You pass through the corridors to the secretary's office. Floyd | Floyd | Mayor's House Floyd | Austere, yet definitely finely crafted, this room in the mayor's house Floyd | acts as the mayor's secretary's office. A desk covered in a modest Floyd | amount of paperwork stands opposite the entry door, behind which the Floyd | beleaguered seeming secretary sits. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go east (to Market Place through the the Floyd | corridors to the main door) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x secretary" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > X SECRETARY Floyd | Floyd | A short human of narrow frame clad in a fine shirt and trousers, the Floyd | mayor's secretary seems to be an overworked man, rubbing his temples Floyd | periodically. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So there are humans in this game." | |
| DavidW says, "oh yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And yet we don't even think about them." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Such privilege" | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "But humans are bo-ring!" | ||
| DavidW says, "If you want to know more about humans, you should examine the witches." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm just sayin'" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to secretary" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SECRETARY Floyd | Floyd | [1] Greet the mayor's secretary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You bow slightly in front of the man and greet him. Floyd | "Ah, you are that mage that passed through recently, aren't you? What Floyd | brings you to my office, then?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] Tell the secretary about the bandit attack. Floyd | [2] Ask the secretary about the keep. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I mean, yeah, think about humans shoul say something." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "I've been attacked by bandits on the road north. I've managed to kill Floyd | several, but they overpowered me anyway." - "Ah, then that was the Floyd | source of the alarm? North, you say..." Floyd | The secretary produces a bell from the desk and rings it. He tells the Floyd | servant arriving to send a small troop out on the northern road to Floyd | check your story. Floyd | Soon, a lieutenant comes in, gives a short report, and also mentions Floyd | that further north, a wounded jag is blocking the road. Floyd | Floyd | The secretary sighs and rubs his temples. "Always something troubling. Floyd | It'll take... ugh, way too long. Well, tell you something. Here's ten Floyd | silver. Three are the bounty on the bandits. Seven for supplies you Floyd | might need to get the jag off our road. It's in your best interests to Floyd | do so anyway, and as a mage, you have the best chance to achieve the Floyd | task quickly." Floyd | You have coins in a total value of 1001 copper. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask the secretary whether the village is in the habit of Floyd | giving money to strangers. Floyd | [2] Ask the secretary about jags. Floyd | [3] Ask the secretary about the keep. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "But most IF players are humans themselves, aren't they?" | |
| DavidW says, "mostly" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we have a mouse." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||
| Iria says, "I forgot when IntroComp was happening. Now I really feel stupid." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Iria), "There is still time." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "I'd rather not give out money blindly, of course. If you can't do it, Floyd | I expect the money back. And if you don't give it back, the village Floyd | witches have ways to find people. Such as mages with a grudge." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask the secretary about jags. Floyd | [2] Ask the secretary about the keep. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Is there anything helpful you can tell me about jags?", you ask the Floyd | secretary. Floyd | "Well...", he starts. "you probably know that they are massive eyeless Floyd | beasts. They have light-sensitive blotches of skin. Seems this Floyd | particular one was stabbed in one, at the very least. If that wound Floyd | could be healed, the jag might get up." Floyd | He rubs his forehead, thinking. "There's one more thing - I've heard Floyd | rumors about the jags having... strange and dangerous reactions to Floyd | levitation magic. Don't ask me the details, I don't know anything Floyd | about magic, really." Floyd | Floyd | With a smile, the secretary finishes up some paperwork, and rings a Floyd | bell to summon a servant. His face drops as the servant not only takes Floyd | the finished paperwork, but delivers twice as much. With a sigh, he Floyd | sorts it into the pile. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask the secretary about jags again. Floyd | [2] Ask the secretary about the keep. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "I've seen a keep on my way back here. Can you tell me about it?" Floyd | "Ah, so those adventurers found it after all? It is an old keep, and Floyd | many legends have grown around it. Some claim it was home to a giant Floyd | tyrant, some that it became a dragon's lair. The village witches say Floyd | it was an arcanist's hideout, but I'm given to understand that they Floyd | may have prejudices against arcanists, so... Floyd | Either way, the truth of the matter is that I don't think anyone knows Floyd | who truly resided in the keep. Perhaps all of the legends were true at Floyd | some point in time. Perhaps all of them are myth, beyond the keep's Floyd | existence, naturally." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask the secretary about jags again. Floyd | [2] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria says (to Jacqueline), "Long story. I'll tell you more later." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Iria), "mmkay" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | You say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Mayor's House Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | A busy cascade runs through the rooms of the house, but even if you Floyd | wanted to hear any details, you wouldn't be able to make them out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Noted." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I knew that would not work, but I am lazy" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You pass through the corridors back to the market place. Floyd | Floyd | Market Place Floyd | This bustling place in the center of the village is well-paved with Floyd | stone and quite large, allowing ample space for all sorts of traders, Floyd | peddlers, and buyers to sell and purchase their goods. Floyd | Floyd | A throng of people populates the market place today, moving you along Floyd | with it. Floyd | Floyd | Something about the wares of a havbar peddler catches your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Village Outskirts), east (through Floyd | the Inn Door) and west (to Mayor's House through the the door into the Floyd | mayor's house) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "buy longsword" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY LONGSWORD Floyd | Floyd | [1] Greet the havbar peddler. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You greet the peddler and ask him about his wares. Floyd | "Feel free to browse through them, my friend, but I realize that these Floyd | wares are nothing special." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Make an offer for the bowl. Floyd | [2] Make an offer for the longsword. Floyd | [3] Ask the peddler about the origins of his wares. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | Casually picking up a cup standing near the bowl and looking at it Floyd | from all angles, you ask "Out of curiosity, where do you get your Floyd | wares?" Floyd | "Here and there, really. Sometimes in trade, sometimes I receive the Floyd | remains of households that died out from community officials for a Floyd | price... sometimes I actually manage to find sell-worthy stuff just on Floyd | the road, even." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Make an offer for the bowl. Floyd | [2] Make an offer for the longsword. Floyd | [3] Ask the peddler about the origins of his wares again. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | Casually picking up a cup standing near the bowl and looking at it Floyd | from all angles, you ask "Out of curiosity, where do you get your Floyd | wares?" Floyd | "Here and there, really. Sometimes in trade, sometimes I receive the Floyd | remains of households that died out from community officials for a Floyd | price... sometimes I actually manage to find sell-worthy stuff just on Floyd | the road, even." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Make an offer for the bowl. Floyd | [2] Make an offer for the longsword. Floyd | [3] Ask the peddler about the origins of his wares again. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Iria goes home. | DavidW asks, "ware my implements at?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "I want to haggle for something," you announce. Floyd | "I'm all ears," the peddler jokes, "even though I'm no elf." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Offer 1 copper. Floyd | [2] Offer 5 copper. Floyd | [3] Offer 10 copper. Floyd | [4] Don't make an offer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 1001 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "I'll offer five copper for that bowl there." you indicate the object Floyd | of your desire. Floyd | "Five copper!" the peddler gestures overdramatically with a grin on Floyd | his face. "I'll never hear the end of it if I overcharge my customers Floyd | this much! Three coppers is a much fairer price!" Floyd | (Buy the bowl for three copper? Type yes or no.) | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 998 copper; Market Place Floyd | (Buy the bowl for three copper? Type yes or no.) Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you for your business." the peddler bows as he hands over the Floyd | bowl. Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 998 copper remaining. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Make an offer for the longsword. Floyd | [2] Ask the peddler about the origins of his wares again. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 998 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "I want to haggle for something," you announce. Floyd | "I'm all ears," the peddler jokes, "even though I'm no elf." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Offer 5 copper. Floyd | [2] Offer 10 copper. Floyd | [3] Offer 15 copper. Floyd | [4] Don't make an offer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 998 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "I'll offer five copper for that rusty sword there." you indicate the Floyd | object of your desire. Floyd | "Five copper!" the peddler gestures overdramatically with a grin on Floyd | his face. "It's just a little rust! A little care and love, and it's Floyd | as good as new! Fifteen copper, I say!" Floyd | "Fifteen copper for a pile of rust! Surely you're joking! Ten copper Floyd | at most!" - "That's a deal!" Floyd | (Buy the sword for 10 copper? Type yes or no.) | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Market Place Floyd | (Buy the sword for 10 copper? Type yes or no.) Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you for your business." the peddler bows as he hands over the Floyd | sword. Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 988 copper remaining. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you for your patronage!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Huh. So it closed out the dialog all on its own?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "When I played, I shifted the light spell out of the bowl into my bowl without buying it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "That seems less than ethical" | ||
| DavidW says, "Well, he didn't know it was there!" | ||
| Jacqueline gives DavidW a look. | ||
| DavidW asks, "I, er, bought the bowl later?" | ||
| Jacqueline raises her eyebrows. | ||
| DavidW says, "Remember, you'll need star root to activate the bowl with." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Market Place Floyd | This bustling place in the center of the village is well-paved with Floyd | stone and quite large, allowing ample space for all sorts of traders, Floyd | peddlers, and buyers to sell and purchase their goods. Floyd | Floyd | A throng of people populates the market place today, moving you along Floyd | with it. Floyd | Floyd | The havbar peddler is busy with the throng of passersby. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Village Outskirts), east (through Floyd | the Inn Door) and west (to Mayor's House through the the door into the Floyd | mayor's house) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | Bustling with patrons as the last time you were here, the Lazy Boots Floyd | Inn offers drink, meals and a safe (if not actually quiet) room for Floyd | the night. Clanks of mugs, laughter, chatterings, and rumors fly Floyd | through the main room from the various patrons. Every once in a while, Floyd | the tall innkeeper yells at a particular rowdy patron, tossing them Floyd | out of the door if necessary. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go west (to Market Place through the Inn Door) Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen to rumors" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN TO RUMORS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aw" | |
| Jacqueline says, "That would be cool" | ||
| DavidW says, "Well....." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The din of the den doesn't allow you to hear specifics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x innkeeper" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > X INNKEEPER Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is a tall woman with muscles that make you assume that Floyd | she is an army veteran. A scar over her left eye suggests a likely Floyd | explanation for her retirement. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I appreciate that you are not calling out women on first description. Thank you for that." | |
| Jacqueline says, "It's a nice touch, and one that's rare." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to innkeeper" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO INNKEEPER Floyd | Floyd | [1] Greet the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You greet the innkeeper. She replies with a short "Welcome." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask for a drink. Floyd | [2] Ask for a room for the night. Floyd | [3] Ask about rumors. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I used to be an adventurer before I took an arrow to the eyesocket" | |
| Jacqueline says, "HA" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder if it is always necessary to greet the person to whom you plan to speak" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Feels like an extra step" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 988 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | "Are there any rumors of note to share?" you ask the innkeeper. "That Floyd | worth a round of our patrons?" she asks, quickly scanning over and Floyd | counting the crowd that has been coming and going. Floyd | "That'd be 18 copper, one for every two drinks in a round." Floyd | (Pay 18 copper for a rumor?) | Knight_Otu says, "I suppose it's an unneccessary step." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "18 copper when I could just sit and eavesdrop?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Man, only in games." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I may start trying that in real life." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Only if you're an innkeeper. ;)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I mostly ignored the inn when I played. I didn't want to waste my funds." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "What's new, Jacq? Oh, a few things. For a dime, I'll share them with you." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It... kind of feels like I have a shitload of money for this universe." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 970 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | (Pay 18 copper for a rumor?) Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | To the roaring approval of the crowd, the innkeeper gives out drinks Floyd | to everyone, then turns back to you. Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 970 copper remaining. Floyd | "There's a group of strange bandits on the northern roads." Great. If Floyd | you had known that sooner... "And they will take money and life. Seem Floyd | to be mostly foreigners, not knowing much beyond the roads. Heard they Floyd | attacked wildlife best left alone." Floyd | One of the patrons chuckles and says "One of the local merchants Floyd | claims to have seen them from a distance. Said their leader was some Floyd | kind of shapeshifter. Also,that merchant smelled worse than the whole Floyd | room here. That oughta tell you all you need about that." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask for a drink. Floyd | [2] Ask for a room for the night. Floyd | [3] Ask about more rumors. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The witches sell potions. I think that's what the money's mostly for." | |
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha. Nice touch." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I see a missing space there..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 970 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You ask the innkeeper what a drink would cost you. "One copper." she Floyd | replies. Floyd | (Get a drink for 1 copper?) | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 969 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | (Get a drink for 1 copper?) Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Requesting some beer, you drink it immediately. It's a bit stronger Floyd | than you expected, but also tastes much better than expected. Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 969 copper remaining. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask for another drink. Floyd | [2] Ask for a room for the night. Floyd | [3] Ask about more rumors. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 969 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | "Are there any more rumors of note to share?" you ask the innkeeper. Floyd | "That worth a round of our patrons?" she asks, quickly scanning over Floyd | and counting the crowd that has been coming and going. Floyd | "That'd be 23 copper, one for every two drinks in a round." Floyd | (Pay 23 copper for a rumor?) | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 946 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | (Pay 23 copper for a rumor?) Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | To the roaring approval of the crowd, the innkeeper gives out drinks Floyd | to everyone, then turns back to you. Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 946 copper remaining. Floyd | "There's been adventurers with an old map to the keep nearby. Map Floyd | looked real, but their equipment? Rubbish. If they're not badly Floyd | wounded or even dead by now, they're lucky." Floyd | One of the patrons comes close and adds her observations. "They were a Floyd | group of two. An elf and a human, definitely overconfident, no idea Floyd | how old their stuff was. I agree, they're goners if they aren't dead Floyd | already." A third patron begins a song of adventurers traveling to Floyd | their doom, and soon the whole inn joins in. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask for another drink. Floyd | [2] Ask for a room for the night. Floyd | [3] Ask about more rumors. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "How's come I didn't get beer when I bought everybody a round?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Uhm uhm reasons uhm uhm." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Like, because you didn't think of it?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or real reasons?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If this were real Tolkien, instead of just pseudotolkien, I feel like I'd get to experience the poetry of the song." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think I didn't think of it. Maybe I didn't think of the protagonist as a patron when they ask questions." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I love you, KO, or else I wouldn't be willing to poke fun with you here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm not a good enough author to write a song." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, neither was Tolkien." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Didn't stop him." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Unfortunately." | ||
| Roger says, "Thy humps, thy humps" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Roger, what are we paying you these days? Feels like you're due a raise." | ||
| Jacqueline pays Roger 946 coppers. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Like, you usually don't take part in the game, but you're here to entertain us at key moments." | ||
| DavidW says, "One thing I never even tried is renting a room." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I saved a while back, so, um..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 946 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | "Are there any more rumors of note to share?" you ask the innkeeper. Floyd | "That worth a round of our patrons?" she asks, quickly scanning over Floyd | and counting the crowd that has been coming and going. Floyd | "That'd be 22 copper, one for every two drinks in a round." Floyd | (Pay 22 copper for a rumor?) | Knight_Otu says, "You shouldn't yet." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Shouldn't what?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Buy another rumor?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Rent a room." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or a room?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Renting a room is mostly a signal to the game to reset certain things." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Got it" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | (Pay 22 copper for a rumor?) Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | To the roaring approval of the crowd, the innkeeper gives out drinks Floyd | to everyone, then turns back to you. Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 924 copper remaining. Floyd | "There's talk an arcanist was around searching for magic items. Heard Floyd | they swindled the village witches out of some potions, too." Now Floyd | that's just slander, you think to yourself. Floyd | "Actually, I heard they saved their hut from a fire." someone from the Floyd | crowd offers up. Nothing like that happened either, but it's at least Floyd | a positive rumor about you. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask for another drink. Floyd | [2] Ask for a room for the night. Floyd | [3] Ask about more rumors. Floyd | [4] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | You say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROWD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | Bustling with patrons as the last time you were here, the Lazy Boots Floyd | Inn offers drink, meals and a safe (if not actually quiet) room for Floyd | the night. Clanks of mugs, laughter, chatterings, and rumors fly Floyd | through the main room from the various patrons. Every once in a while, Floyd | the tall innkeeper yells at a particular rowdy patron, tossing them Floyd | out of the door if necessary. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go west (to Market Place through the Inn Door) Floyd | from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f x patrons" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > F X PATRONS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Noted. I named them patrons." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x patrons" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Lazy Boots Inn Floyd | > Floyd | > X PATRONS Floyd | Floyd | They are a loud, drunken lot, but surprisingly not particularly Floyd | rowdy... most of the time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Market Place Floyd | This bustling place in the center of the village is well-paved with Floyd | stone and quite large, allowing ample space for all sorts of traders, Floyd | peddlers, and buyers to sell and purchase their goods. Floyd | Floyd | A throng of people populates the market place today, moving you along Floyd | with it. Floyd | Floyd | The havbar peddler is busy with the throng of passersby. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Village Outskirts), east (to Lazy Floyd | Boots Inn through the Inn Door) and west (to Mayor's House through the Floyd | the door into the mayor's house) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x traders" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRADERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x peddlers" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Market Place Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEDDLERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oops." | |
| DavidW says, "So let's hurry up and find the crystal ball and the nasty bird." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd just make those note the havbar" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably, yes." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Wrong game?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "yes?" | ||
| Jacqueline makes a face at David. | ||
| DavidW says, "After the intro, we get into a battle with an alchemist and his assistant." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Village Outskirts Floyd | Inside the palisades, the village proper prospers. A dwarven herbalist Floyd | has taken up business in a stall, away from the bustle of the market Floyd | place. A carriage with three broken wheels stands nearby, as it did Floyd | when you first left for the north. If it had been in business, your Floyd | journey might have been much more peaceful. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands open. Floyd | Floyd | One large hut, nestled away at the edge of the palisades, sports a Floyd | sign reading "Synkarya's and Dusky's - Potions and More" Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Watchtower through the palisades), Floyd | south (to Market Place) and west (to Witches' Hut) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Witches' Hut Floyd | The hut is separated into a few rooms, clearly, but only the actual Floyd | shop is open to customers. A counter holding various trinkets is Floyd | prominently sitting in the center of the room, and shelves with a Floyd | bunch of fadeglass flasks on them line the wall. A curtain in Floyd | particular separates the shop from a back room in which the witches Floyd | must keep their cauldrons, judging by the sounds and smells wafting in Floyd | from that room. Floyd | Floyd | The proprietors, Synkarya and Dusky are idly pondering why trinkets Floyd | and charms only work when their user have no useful magical knowledge, Floyd | as their cat plays around. Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go east (to Village Outskirts) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to witches" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WITCHES Floyd | Floyd | (Synkarya) Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask to buy an accuracy potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [3] Ask to buy an agility potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [4] Ask to buy a strength potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [5] Ask the witches about that potion swindling rumor. Floyd | [6] Purchase the accuracy spell from the witches. Floyd | [7] Tell the witches about the jag blocking the road. Floyd | [8] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | "There is that rumor running around in the inn that I swindled you out Floyd | of a bunch of potions. What is that about?" Floyd | Dusky holds his forehead. "Gossipmongers. They're conflating your Floyd | visit with that of another arcanist two, three months ago. She helped Floyd | us with a fire that we later learned she set herself, and we only Floyd | realized that several days later. Yes, she did get some potions from Floyd | us for that help." Floyd | Floyd | Rascal meows for your attention. As you bow down to her and pet her, Floyd | she purrs and delights for a moment, then paws your hand away, Floyd | thankfully without claws. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask to buy an accuracy potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [3] Ask to buy an agility potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [4] Ask to buy a strength potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [5] Purchase the accuracy spell from the witches. Floyd | [6] Tell the witches about the jag blocking the road. Floyd | [7] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, typical cat." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | "There's a wounded jagwuudan blocking the road to the north. Is there Floyd | anything you can do to help?" you ask. Floyd | Synkarya grimaces. "If it's wounded enough to block the road, our Floyd | whole supply of healing balm will not be nearly enough to heal it, and Floyd | brewing enough will take weeks. I'm sorry, but that's just not in the Floyd | cards." Floyd | "If you have a staff and a healing spell, you're the best chance the Floyd | poor creature has." Dusky adds. Floyd | Floyd | Rascal purrs as she rubs her head on the counter, then prompty stops Floyd | as she realizes you see her. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask to buy an accuracy potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [3] Ask to buy an agility potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [4] Ask to buy a strength potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [5] Purchase the accuracy spell from the witches. Floyd | [6] Ask the witches about a staff. Floyd | [7] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'll note that our tome had a fire spell before it was wiped clean." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 924 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | "Since you mentioned a staff... as you can probably guess, I lost my Floyd | staff to the bandits. Do you have any idea where I might get a new Floyd | one?" Floyd | Synkarya frowns. "I don't think there is any arcanist around right Floyd | now, and certainly none that would have a spare staff lying around... Floyd | but..." Floyd | Dusky continues for her. "But there is an old keep some short walk to Floyd | the north. The bad news is that it lies in Thornbush Country. It must Floyd | be overgrown by now. The good news is that a pair of adventurers set Floyd | out very recently to find it. If you can find them and arrange Floyd | yourself with them..." Floyd | "Wait, why would there be a staff in the old keep?" you interject. Floyd | Synkarya coughs with an awkward smile. "The story goes that it was the Floyd | stronghold of a tyrant... arcanist. Which may mean you could find Floyd | implements or even spells there." Floyd | Floyd | With a defiant "mew!", Rascal jumps up on the counter, carefully not Floyd | stepping on any of the trinkets. "Rascal!" Dusky exclaims, "watch out Floyd | with those charms!" The cat simply licks her paws. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask to buy an accuracy potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [3] Ask to buy an agility potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [4] Ask to buy a strength potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [5] Purchase the accuracy spell from the witches. Floyd | [6] Ask the witches to repeat where a staff might be found. Floyd | [7] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So I need to get down there (unsurprisingly)" | |
| Jacqueline is not shocked. | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "But but shocking twist!" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Before I ask you this, yes, you have permission to answer. Have I thus far revealed anything that leads me to want any of these spells? Or do I not know yet?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do you mean accuracy, agility, and strength?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I also like the touch that the witches don't yet know that the thorny keep has been uncovered." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Wait, all three?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume they're all spells, like fire, ice, laughter, light, etc." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I mean, I'm know I'm filthy rich and all, but should I wait?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The witches only sell you the accuracy spell." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or just blow it -- why?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do they not like me?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 849 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | "I'd like to buy an agility potion. I assume the price didn't change Floyd | from the last time I asked, 75 copper?" Floyd | "Yes." Synkarya confirms and grabs a flask of fadeglass from below the Floyd | counter, handing it to you. Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 849 copper remaining. Floyd | Floyd | Sniffing at a charm, Rascal picks it up in her mouth, takes a few Floyd | steps, drops it, then picks up a trinket lying there and puts it where Floyd | she got the charm from. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask to buy an accuracy potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [3] Ask to buy an agility potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [4] Ask to buy a strength potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [5] Purchase the accuracy spell from the witches. Floyd | [6] Ask the witches to repeat where a staff might be found. Floyd | [7] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "As far as I know, the agility and strength spells aren't available anywhere." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "They need their spells for their cauldrons, to brew their potions." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, it's a potion not a spell. Got it." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | DavidW says, "And, as I mentioned earlier, I cheated with the combat. I never bought the accuracy spell." | |
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 649 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | "I guess I can part with two silver for that spell." you say as you Floyd | drop the requested amount on the counter. Floyd | Dusky holds out his hand. "I am going to need your tome to shift the Floyd | spell into it." With some concern, you nevertheless turn it over, and Floyd | soon he returns, handing you the tome back with all spells intact, and Floyd | the accuracy spell added. Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 649 copper remaining. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask to buy an accuracy potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [3] Ask to buy an agility potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [4] Ask to buy a strength potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [5] Ask the witches to repeat where a staff might be found. Floyd | [6] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I should do the potion purchase in a separate submenu, similar to the haggling with the peddler." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 574 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | "I'd like to buy a strength potion. I assume the price didn't change Floyd | from the last time I asked, 75 copper?" Floyd | "Yes." Synkarya confirms and grabs a flask of fadeglass from below the Floyd | counter, handing it to you. Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 574 copper remaining. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Ask to buy a healing potion for 20 copper. Floyd | [2] Ask to buy an accuracy potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [3] Ask to buy an agility potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [4] Ask to buy a strength potion for 75 copper. Floyd | [5] Ask the witches to repeat where a staff might be found. Floyd | [6] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 574 copper; Witches' Hut Floyd | > Floyd | > 6 Floyd | Floyd | You say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I would like some rope, please." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 574 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Village Outskirts Floyd | Inside the palisades, the village proper prospers. A dwarven herbalist Floyd | has taken up business in a stall, away from the bustle of the market Floyd | place. A carriage with three broken wheels stands nearby, as it did Floyd | when you first left for the north. If it had been in business, your Floyd | journey might have been much more peaceful. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands open. Floyd | Floyd | One large hut, nestled away at the edge of the palisades, sports a Floyd | sign reading "Synkarya's and Dusky's - Potions and More" Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Watchtower through the palisades), Floyd | south (to Market Place) and west (to Witches' Hut) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Don't spend all your money here, though. You'll need a little bit for something else." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x herbalist" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 574 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > X HERBALIST Floyd | Floyd | A bald dwarf with a long red beard sits in the stall selling his Floyd | wares. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(by 'here', I meant the hut.)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I figured." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I need some star anise or something-or-other" | ||
| DavidW says, "star root" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Right" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about dwarves" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 574 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK ABOUT DWARVES Floyd | Floyd | A small and stout people, dwarves are expert craftsmen. From what you Floyd | heard, dwarves do not sleep like humans do - they enter a state called Floyd | "rigor" where they rest standing up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to dwarf" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 574 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DWARF Floyd | Floyd | [1] Greet the dwarven herbalist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 574 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You greet the herbalist and ask him about his wares. Floyd | "Feel free to browse through them, my friend, but I see you have Floyd | something specific in mind." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Make an offer for a piece of star root. Floyd | [2] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "do not confused with their state of "roger"" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 574 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "I'd like to make an offer for a piece of star root", you indicate the Floyd | object of your desire. Floyd | The herbalist sighs and offers an apologetic smile. "I was afraid Floyd | you'd say it like this. Unfortunately, the new herbalist guild has Floyd | mandated a fixed price for our produce. The matter has been sent to Floyd | the mayor, but considering how busy everyone there is..." Floyd | "Anyway, the mandated price of a piece of star root is 49 copper. Floyd | Understand please that I cannot allow any haggling if I want to remain Floyd | able to sell things on the market. It's that price or nothing." Floyd | (Buy a piece of star root for 49 copper? Type yes or no) | DavidW says, "Dwarves in a state of roger might be alarming." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Star root is the object of my desire, iykwimaityd - wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 525 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | (Buy a piece of star root for 49 copper? Type yes or no) Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Now you have coins in a total value of 525 copper remaining. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Make an offer for a piece of star root. Floyd | [2] Ask the herbalist about the guild. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, I am blowing through the coppers." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bowl" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 525 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOWL Floyd | Floyd | (the bowl) Floyd | From all appearances, this is a cheap copper bowl, but your trained Floyd | eye recognizes it as the make of an arcanist. Not only that, it holds Floyd | a spell - light. Floyd | Floyd | In the bowl is nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Currently, the bowl seems to hold a spell of light. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Make an offer for a piece of star root. Floyd | [2] Ask the herbalist about the guild. Floyd | [3] Say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 525 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | You say your farewells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Health 20/20; Wealth 525 copper; Village Outskirts Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Village Outskirts Floyd | Inside the palisades, the village proper prospers. A dwarven herbalist Floyd | has taken up business in a stall, away from the bustle of the market Floyd | place. A carriage with three broken wheels stands nearby, as it did Floyd | when you first left for the north. If it had been in business, your Floyd | journey might have been much more peaceful. Floyd | Floyd | The gate in the village palisades stands open. Floyd | Floyd | One large hut, nestled away at the edge of the palisades, sports a Floyd | sign reading "Synkarya's and Dusky's - Potions and More" Floyd | Floyd | As it seems, you can go north (to Watchtower through the palisades), Floyd | south (to Market Place) and west (to Witches' Hut) from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, I am getting somewhat tired and in need of a break, and I'm not sure if I'm close or if I need to deal with the critter in the road (probably). But I have played enough of this game to vote on it." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Would folks be okay with calling it for today?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm okay, yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at KO), "Thanks for making this game!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Good luck." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Thanks." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Please be sure to play the non-Floydable games and vote, peeps." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I still need to work on those later today. Tonight." | ||
