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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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| DavidW says, "well, let's play Pegasus first and then we can discuss after what to do next." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask pegasus" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Trigger warning: drug use, mild bad language. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "They'll tell you I'm gone. They'll tell you I can't come back. Floyd | That's all true. Floyd | Floyd | But they'll also tell you it's best to forget me. Do me a favour, OK? Floyd | Don't believe them." Floyd | Floyd | Sarah's eyes meet yours, and she holds out her hand for your Redline. Floyd | Floyd | Pegasus Floyd | An Interactive Relationship by Michael Kielstra Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 180719 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Barricade Floyd | A few parked cars were all you and Sarah had on hand to block the Floyd | street. They make a simple barrier, not enough to buy safety, but Floyd | enough to buy some time. There are thirty of them out there, and just Floyd | the two of you. Technically, the deployment objective was fulfilled. Floyd | Now it's just about who's getting out alive. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Sarah here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well then." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're twenty-one: eighteen years of childhood, two of basic training, Floyd | six months of specialisation, and eight in the field. You're not a Floyd | hardened veteran, but you're not the fresh-faced kid you once were. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What's a redline?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "I guess we'll find out?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | armour (being worn) Floyd | a rifle Floyd | a death box (open) Floyd | a death needle Floyd | a Redline Floyd | a helmet (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x redline" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | > Floyd | > X REDLINE Floyd | Floyd | A thin red stick half as long as your thumb. They said it gave you Floyd | half an hour's grace. Half an hour of not feeling your wounds, of Floyd | blood clotting instantly, of thinking fast and acting faster. Then Floyd | you die. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah waits patiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. ick." | |
| DavidW says, "I didn't know this would be a war game." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Not a pleasant thing." | ||
| DavidW says, "I was expecting a winged horse and fluffy clouds." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "If you would be more comfortable stopping?" | ||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW asks, "uh, it's only a half-hour, right?" | |
| Taleslinger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Knight_Otu says, "Well, CF does tend to go longer." | |
| DavidW says, "And this might just be an intro scene before a venue change anyway." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "So we go on for a bit?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, but you drive." | ||
| Ellison arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give redline to sarah" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE REDLINE TO SARAH Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the Redline) Floyd | Sarah swallows the Redline, taking a moment to let it fully work Floyd | through her system. "Remember," she whispers. And you do. You Floyd | remember how everything started, back when life was so much simpler. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | 'Pro pace pugnamus.' Floyd | --Pegasus motto Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Knight_Otu asks, "Is that "We fight for peace"?" | |
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | "Trust yourself. Trust your body. Trust your instincts. Trust your Floyd | knowledge." That's the first thing the Sergeant told you. He then Floyd | spent ten minutes playing Mission: Impossible clips and Floyd | pointing out how none of the stunts would have been necessary if Tom Floyd | Cruise had trusted his skills enough for a frontal assault. Floyd | Floyd | "You're an Agent," he said. "Act like one. You are strong. Use your Floyd | strength." Floyd | Floyd | Then came basic training, weeks of it, and now you're ready for your Floyd | first evaluation. The mission, simulated though it is, is simple Floyd | enough: retrieve the laptop. Floyd | Floyd | Alcove Floyd | Sleek white walls enclose this small alcove off the main training Floyd | area. A car chassis, wheel-less and packed with cinder blocks, bars Floyd | the arch out. It must weigh thousands of pounds. The walls behind Floyd | you are sealed, and you can't even see where the gaps were they were Floyd | before they closed. No going back now. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe? My Latin is so rusty I might as well not have any." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't trust this Sergeant." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAR Floyd | Floyd | It's an SUV, but you don't know any more about cars than that. It's Floyd | all that stands between you and the training ground. The wheels are Floyd | gone, so it's not rolling anywhere. To add insult to injury, it's Floyd | filled with cinder blocks. It looks properly heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "inventory" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a rifle Floyd | armour (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x rifle" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > X RIFLE Floyd | Floyd | Your pride and joy: a Paragal-class mid-heavy assault electroplasma Floyd | accelerator. You love the way its weight feels in the crook of your Floyd | arm, the way its white ceramic casing, polished to a shine, looks Floyd | against your armour. The fact that every new recruit gets one of Floyd | these has in no way dulled your enthusiasm for yours. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x armour" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARMOUR Floyd | Floyd | The first thing they gave you, and the closest Pegasus has to a Floyd | uniform, your body armour is what marks you out as a proto-Agent and Floyd | not one of the techs, administrators, command staff, or other various Floyd | base hangers-on. The white hexagons that tile your chest have never Floyd | seen combat, but when they do it'll be great. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I'm guessing we either climb over or under the car?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look under car" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "crawl" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > CRAWL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "climb car" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB CAR Floyd | Floyd | It completely covers the door. All you'd be able to do is stand on Floyd | top of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "try that anyway." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "stand on car" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON CAR Floyd | Floyd | There's no space. It's not a maze, it's a barrier. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe there's a ceiling trapdoor?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I suspect not. I suspect we just shoot it." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Shoot the car?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > X CEILING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Really?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "search car" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CAR Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ats says, "I guess it's either that, or remove the cinderblocks one by one." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It seems rather dangerous to do, but yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x blocks" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLOCKS Floyd | Floyd | It's an SUV, but you don't know any more about cars than that. It's Floyd | all that stands between you and the training ground. The wheels are Floyd | gone, so it's not rolling anywhere. To add insult to injury, it's Floyd | filled with cinder blocks. It looks properly heavy. Floyd | Floyd | For some reason, you think it looks a bit like a phone booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get booth" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOOTH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to ats), "Worth trying." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get blocks" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BLOCKS Floyd | Floyd | They're fixed into the chassis. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I get it. 'pick up the phone booth and die'" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pick up car" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > PICK UP CAR Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "empty car" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > EMPTY CAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cinderblocks" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CINDERBLOCKS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take blocks" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BLOCKS Floyd | Floyd | They're fixed into the chassis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > X CEILING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Unfortunately, I don't think we get the options we'd like to have." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The chassis would fit through it, but there isn't space for you to Floyd | squeeze around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push car" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CAR Floyd | Floyd | Your muscles protest for a second before they remember whose body they Floyd | belong to. A month's worth of standard-issue Pegasus stimulants and Floyd | steroids pulses through your veins, and you force the chassis through Floyd | the door. Your innate sense of direction tells you that the doorway Floyd | you've just opened leads east, to the training ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm surprised." | ||
| DavidW says, "We are chemically augmented, I guess." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, it says so there. :/" | ||
| DavidW asks, "so, uh, east?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Training Ground Floyd | You've already spent a lot of time here, and you're surprised it Floyd | doesn't look any different from usual. At first glance, it could be a Floyd | school gymnasium set out for a judo lesson: plenty of high ceilings, Floyd | floor mats, and ropes and rings on the walls. Your second glance Floyd | takes in its sheer size, general cleanliness, and the variety of Floyd | equipment, ranging from target dummies to a huge projector screen Floyd | showing a second-order differential equation. A pedestal stands at Floyd | the end of the room. Floyd | Floyd | On the pedestal is a laptop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | A wooden box, about waist height. Floyd | Floyd | On the pedestal is a laptop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "I smell a trap, but is there one?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x laptop" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > X LAPTOP Floyd | Floyd | A standard Pegasus laptop: white, as always, with a fifteen-inch Floyd | screen. It's off. You remember someone calling it a Scorpion. Floyd | Agents doing advanced training in computer work are issued with the Floyd | more powerful Manticore, but there's no reason to use a £20,000 piece Floyd | of equipment just as a MacGuffin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Check out the projector" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x projector" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > X PROJECTOR Floyd | Floyd | The screen reads "d2y/dx2-3dy/dx+8=6x". Solving second-order Floyd | differential equations in your head is a standard Pegasus mental Floyd | exercise: it's not particularly taxing, once you know how, but it Floyd | takes concentration. This one must have been left up by the last Floyd | people to use the training room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "concentrate on projector" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > CONCENTRATE ON PROJECTOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "solve equation" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > SOLVE EQUATION Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "red herring, I guess." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Hope so." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | A wooden box, about waist height. Floyd | Floyd | On the pedestal is a laptop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | On the pedestal is a laptop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I forgot my math pills." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get laptop" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LAPTOP Floyd | Floyd | You reach for the laptop. "Hey!" A female voice comes out of Floyd | nowhere, followed by the female in question. "That's mine! Hello, by Floyd | the way. I'm Sarah." She leaps between you and the laptop, Floyd | stretching out her hand for it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, there's the trap." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "So it seems." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x sarah" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > X SARAH Floyd | Floyd | You know her from the lectures, but the two of you have never actually Floyd | spoken before. You're probably stronger physically, but she doesn't Floyd | look like she's too cut up about this. Her stance denotes agility, Floyd | speed, and reflexes that could more than make up for the difference. Floyd | She wears her hair long, her ponytail coming over her shoulder and Floyd | onto her armour. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about laptop" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK SARAH ABOUT LAPTOP Floyd | Floyd | Please TALK TO Sarah instead. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we still want the laptop." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to sarah" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SARAH Floyd | Floyd | "Right." Floyd | Floyd | 1) Introduce yourself. Floyd | Floyd | 2) "There must have been some mistake. I need the laptop." Floyd | Floyd | >> | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Neither response seems to fit the supersoldier in training, does it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Simpler times." | ||
| DavidW says, "Pick one of 'em." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | "I was told that was my evaluation. I had to get the laptop."
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "That's strange. They don't generally make mistakes like that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| Knight_Otu says, "Mistake, right." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm sure I'm in the right room, too. It must be a test of some
Floyd | sort."
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "We could fight for it."
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "Maybe if we wait a bit, they'll tell us what to do."
Floyd |
Floyd | 3) "We could grab it together?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 3
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now that's a good idea. I'll count down five seconds, and then we'll
Floyd | both take it at once. OK?"
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "Fine."
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "We could fight for it."
Floyd |
Floyd | 3) "Maybe if we wait a bit, they'll tell us what to do."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | She nods and starts counting. "Five..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Are you making us play this out, game?" | |
| DavidW says, "Watch a 3rd person come in." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Four..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Training Ground Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "One..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get laptop" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LAPTOP Floyd | Floyd | You and Sarah grab the laptop and lift it off the pedestal. You smile Floyd | a bit; she smirks. One of the walls slides open, letting you out to Floyd | the rest of the base. You drop the laptop on the stand and leave Floyd | together. You later learn that only twenty per cent of Agents manage Floyd | this sort of alliance. Floyd | Floyd | You are debriefed, your performance analysed, your psyche evaluated, Floyd | and you continue training. You meet Sarah again a few days later, in Floyd | entirely different circumstances. Floyd | Floyd | Chapel Floyd | A semi-circular wall surrounds the podium. Slots, mostly empty, wait Floyd | to receive the remains of those Agents who fall in the line of duty in Floyd | the future. A single curved pew completes the circle. Floyd | Floyd | Every month, there's a memorial service for dead Agents. When Pegasus Floyd | was founded, the service was compulsory and Roman Catholic, because Floyd | the government could not countenance any other kind. These days, it's Floyd | optional and non-denominational, for much the same reason. Floyd | Floyd | You were surprised, and a little pleased, when she showed up too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x slots" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel Floyd | > Floyd | > X SLOTS Floyd | Floyd | Looking something like the hole in a tape player, the slots, each Floyd | about one hand's breadth wide, line the wall behind the podium. A few Floyd | have coffins in them -- they look like VCRs from the outside, but the Floyd | Pegasus term is coffins. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x pews" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEWS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x pew" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEW Floyd | Floyd | A dark, varnished wooden bench with no handrails or dividers. It fits Floyd | about ten people. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x sarah" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel Floyd | > Floyd | > X SARAH Floyd | Floyd | You know her from the lectures, but the two of you have never actually Floyd | spoken before. You're probably stronger physically, but she doesn't Floyd | look like she's too cut up about this. Her stance denotes agility, Floyd | speed, and reflexes that could more than make up for the difference. Floyd | She wears her hair long, her ponytail coming over her shoulder and Floyd | onto her armour. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm guessing we TALK to her." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to her" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HER Floyd | Floyd | "Hello again. How've you been?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Fine. You?" Floyd | Floyd | 2) "You know, I've realised, I don't actually know much about you." Floyd | Floyd | >> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | She smiles. "I'm just me, I suppose. What's there to ask?"
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "What makes you an Agent?"
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "What was it like before you were an Agent?"
Floyd |
Floyd | 3) "How are you finding it here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | "I don't really want to talk about it. Sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "What makes you an Agent?"
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "How are you finding it here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "Of course I'd say that it's about doing some good in the world,
Floyd | helping people, et cetera et cetera." She pauses, considers. "That
Floyd | was never such a big thing for me. There's evil, sure, but it's way
Floyd | over there, and I'm over here." She spreads her hands wide, shaking
Floyd | first one, then the other, illustrating the point. "It's bad, and I
Floyd | want to stop it, but it's hard to care until I'm actually right in
Floyd | front of it, if you see what I mean?"
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "I get it."
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "I can't say I do."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "I guess I like the Agent thing because it gives me something to
Floyd | trust. The other Agents, the instructors, the support crew. The
Floyd | worse it gets, the more we're in it together." She checks herself
Floyd | with a grin. "Listen to me, talking like some kind of grizzled
Floyd | veteran when I haven't even deployed properly yet. Enough about me.
Floyd | If it's not too personal a question, why are you here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "It's my way of making a better world."
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "Someone has to."
Floyd |
Floyd | 3) "It's the coolest job I've ever had."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| DavidW says, "1, I guess" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "What we've seen from the protag, they seem to think 3, but okay." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah nods. "A better world. We could do with one of those."
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "You said something interesting earlier -- that you were an Agent
Floyd | so you could trust people."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah. I didn't, always."
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "If you want to talk about it..."
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "I understand."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "Thanks. I've got enough on my plate right now with the psych team,
Floyd | but thanks."
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "I understand."
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "Psych isn't always the best option. You sure you don't want to
Floyd | tell me what this is about?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| Knight_Otu asks, "Nosy, aren't we?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'd pick 1." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Chapel Floyd | >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks. Maybe I'll tell you about it one day. For now, let's listen Floyd | to the service." Floyd | Floyd | The pastor walks up to the lectern and unfolds his notes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sit on pew" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON PEW Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the pew. Floyd | Floyd | It seems so long ago now, but the memory of how you met Sarah is as Floyd | clear as if you were living it again. You remember more training, Floyd | together and apart. She specialised in tactical work: close-quarters Floyd | combat, computational analysis. You took command and grand strategy. Floyd | The two of you were paired through your final tests, and deploying Floyd | together was a natural choice. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | 'Battles are games of thought. Out-think your opponents, Floyd | and you will out-fight them automatically.' Floyd | --The Art and Science of Combat Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | Pegasus doesn't normally go in for assassinations, which means that Floyd | the average person's impression on seeing you and Sarah on the edge of Floyd | a rooftop with a rifle would likely have been wrong. You'd flown in Floyd | on a vertical-takeoff jet, now parked safely in a vacant lot a few Floyd | streets over. Your first deployment (Pegasus hates the term Floyd | "mission", but you all use it anyway) was one of reconnaissance, with Floyd | a view to protection. Watch the street for suspicious activity. The Floyd | VIP will be coming down the street in twenty-four hours. Make sure Floyd | it's safe. Walk away if anything serious starts going down -- if Floyd | worst comes to worst, the event can be cancelled. Floyd | Floyd | Rooftop Floyd | Dirty grey panels, punctured by air vents, form the roof of this tower Floyd | block. Far below, you see the street. The wind hums through the Floyd | gratings, making you just a little bit too cold for comfort. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Sarah here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to sarah" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SARAH Floyd | Floyd | "So. Keeping watch." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Yup." Floyd | Floyd | >> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "Not what you expected from your first deployment? Sitting on a
Floyd | roof?"
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "Not really."
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "Actually..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "You'd think they wouldn't need one Agent up here, let alone two.
Floyd | Couldn't they just do it with a drone?"
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "Or just use the street cameras."
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) "Command has its reasons."
Floyd |
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "It'd be safer, too." Sarah sighs. "To be honest, I'm not sure Floyd | Command thinks everything through before doing it." Floyd | Floyd | Before either of you can say any more, you hear a shot and press Floyd | yourself against the roof. The bullet flies over your head and out of Floyd | sight. Turning your head, you see your assailant, dressed in hitman Floyd | black and wielding a semi-automatic pistol. He is already turning to Floyd | point it at Sarah. She's heard the bullet, and she's dropped to the Floyd | roof, but you can see she won't get out of the way quickly enough Floyd | unless you do something. Floyd | Floyd | Your brain kicks into overdrive. Time stops. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "There's a official hitman black?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Seems like it would defeat the purpse." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "*purpose" | ||
| DavidW says, "uh, I'm the wrong person to ask about hitmen." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sorry, didn't mean to imply that." | ||
| DavidW says, "The author's trying for a tone and stumbled there, slightly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push sarah" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SARAH Floyd | Floyd | You spin and give Sarah an almighty shove. She rolls. The bullet Floyd | misses by a hair. As she recovers, you launch yourself at the hitman, Floyd | knocking the gun from his hand. He struggles, but you twist his arms Floyd | behind his back and kick in his knees. He falls. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah looks at you -- technically, you're in charge here. "We're Floyd | done," you say. "Get him out of here and I'll clean up the site. Floyd | Quick, before anyone else arrives." Sarah nods and produces a pair of Floyd | handcuffs from her armour, but, before she has a chance to do anything Floyd | more than open them, she stops. "Look at the street." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x street" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | > Floyd | > X STREET Floyd | Floyd | Half the people on the street have now stopped moving; the other half Floyd | are running. You can just about make out weapons, if you squint. "We Floyd | need a new way out", you mutter. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah cuffs the hitman to a grille. "I've got one. Give me a Floyd | second." She taps a code into the wrist of her armour. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x people" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah barely mutters, concentrating. "I can fly the jet remotely. Floyd | Grab my rifle. I won't be able to take it." You hear the hum of the Floyd | jet, distant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get rifle" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | > Floyd | > GET RIFLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly notice activity on the street, and swear. "They've got a Floyd | rocket launcher." "Can't let the jet hover, then," Sarah says. "How Floyd | are you for jumping?" It's not a question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You rock back and forth on the balls of your feet, preparing. Floyd | Floyd | Jumping onto a jet plane is a standard advanced extraction technique, Floyd | but that doesn't make it any easier to do in practice. "I'll count Floyd | you down," says Sarah. "Three..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Two..." You see the jet flying up over the roof's horizon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "One..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You bend your knees, tense your leg muscles, and propel yourself at Floyd | the jet. Training takes over. You remember doing this in simulators: Floyd | grab here, pull there. Suddenly, you're in the rear seat. Sarah is Floyd | in front of you, grabbing the joystick, taking physical control of the Floyd | jet. You scream away into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | You remember debriefings after that, questions from Internal Affairs, Floyd | a mole-hunt that went nowhere, and everyone finally deciding that you Floyd | and Sarah had just been on the wrong rooftop at the wrong time. You Floyd | remember a dozen or so successful deployments after that, some easy, Floyd | some less so, some with Sarah, some with other Agents. You remember Floyd | making Senior Agent, being given command of a full fireteam. Floyd | Floyd | Then, you remember why you're where you are now. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Roger says, "They do this so often that they have a simulator for it" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeaah." | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | 'If the currency of modern life is information, anyone who Floyd | knows someone else's secret is a thief. Secret agencies have always Floyd | been comfortable with theft.' Floyd | --Introductory lecture to Pegasus offensive computational Floyd | analysis programme Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "I'm not into black ops lore." | |
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | A radical far-left group planned, somehow, to attempt the Floyd | destabilisation of the government of a small southern European nation. Floyd | That was all you knew. The group had contacts within the national Floyd | police force, so the government had asked Pegasus for help. Once Floyd | again, the mission was reconnaissance, although a little bit more Floyd | actively this time. You were deploying into Zetola, the capital city. Floyd | There was an office building there where the group was known to keep Floyd | files. Get in, transmit the data to Pegasus, get out. Floyd | Floyd | A team of six would attract too much attention, so you and Sarah were Floyd | going in alone. As always, there was a risk of combat, so you were in Floyd | full armour. Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty for Floyd | some reason, which is good luck for you but strange. Exits lead in Floyd | all four cardinal directions, and the passageways are complex enough Floyd | that going in the direction you came from will not take you back the Floyd | way you came. Floyd | Floyd | Command comes in over the radio in your helmet. "Welcome to Zetola. Floyd | I have you on my map. You'll want to go north here." Floyd | Floyd | You can see Sarah here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | It's mostly silent as you and Sarah slip through the alleys. A cat Floyd | crosses your path before disappearing. Floyd | Floyd | Your earpiece squawks. "Go to the west." Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty. Floyd | Exits lead in all four cardinal directions Floyd | Floyd | Sarah follows you through the winding maze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You start to hear slight noises up ahead, but it's still mostly quiet. Floyd | Sarah speaks quickly into her helmet mic, listens to the answer. Floyd | "Command says they didn't foresee any problems." Floyd | Floyd | Command's instructions crackle in your earpiece. "Go to the west." Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty. Floyd | Exits lead in all four cardinal directions Floyd | Floyd | Sarah follows you through the winding maze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The noise builds slightly. It sounds a bit like shouting. Sarah is Floyd | getting jumpy. "You know, we might be able to find a different way Floyd | around," she says. "How about the east passage?" Floyd | Floyd | You hear Command over the radio. "Go to the south." Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty. Floyd | Exits lead in all four cardinal directions Floyd | Floyd | Sarah follows you through the winding maze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I am way too into it. This isn't terrible." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | It really does sound like shouting now, with some heavy machinery. Floyd | Floyd | Your earpiece squawks. "Go to the east." Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty. Floyd | Exits lead in all four cardinal directions Floyd | Floyd | Sarah follows you through the winding maze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You come to an opening and look through into an open city square. Floyd | Command burbles in your earpiece, saying something about getting to Floyd | the building on the other side of the square. You only half listen as Floyd | you take in the scene. Floyd | Floyd | "Well why the-" Sarah's visor slides down, muffling her conversation Floyd | with Control. It slides up again a long moment later. "Apparently Floyd | this only just got on the news back at base. They're 'working on Floyd | solutions' right now." Floyd | Floyd | Riot Floyd | A crowd of people fills the square, shouting and chanting. A line of Floyd | police tries to hold them back, pushing on the flagstones. Large Floyd | buildings surround the square, including an office block that you Floyd | recognise from the mission brief. There's no way you'll be able to Floyd | cross as it is. The sidewalks are covered with rubbish, obscuring Floyd | them almost completely. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Sarah here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a helmet (being worn) Floyd | a death box (closed) Floyd | a rifle Floyd | armour (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to sarah" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SARAH Floyd | Floyd | "We grab the files, we get out. I don't like this, but it's the Floyd | objective." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | You don't think about the death box much, but you've seen enough that Floyd | you're perfectly capable of saying the words "death needle" and Floyd | "Redline" without quivering. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We don't want to use death box stuff, I'm sure." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROWD Floyd | Floyd | Rioters struggle, pushing, shoving, chanting, waving signs. They're Floyd | mostly young men, but you see some women too. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I'm too." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x signs" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > X SIGNS Floyd | Floyd | You read the signs with some difficulty. There's the usual Floyd | we-want-change, and then there are some more specific slogans about Floyd | the government's over-reliance on international organisations to Floyd | manage its country. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x office" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > X OFFICE Floyd | Floyd | You remember it from the briefing: a fairly tall block with double Floyd | doors. It seems to be locked up and empty on account of the riot, Floyd | although you could probably shoulder or shoot the doors in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter it" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER IT Floyd | Floyd | It's on the other side of the crowd. You'll have to get past it, or Floyd | through it, first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump on the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The riot fills the whole square; any ways around would just lead you Floyd | to a different perspective on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ats says, "Can we join the crowd? (Maybe without armour, etc.)" | |
| DavidW asks, "You thought just because you can jump into a jet, that you could jump over people?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Who knows?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The riot fills the whole square; any ways around would just lead you Floyd | to a different perspective on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x helmet" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > X HELMET Floyd | Floyd | A combat helmet. Pegasus only brought them in recently. It locks Floyd | into your armour, extending your bullet-resistant area from the top of Floyd | your head down to your pelvis. The retractable face plate is gloss Floyd | black, contrasting against the white of the rest of your armour. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to control" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CONTROL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move litter" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE LITTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x street" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > X STREET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CROWD Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no sewer system." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Well, they aren't usually made for walking anyway." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Despite what games tell us." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "join crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > JOIN CROWD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | You scream, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to her" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HER Floyd | Floyd | (Sarah) Floyd | "We grab the files, we get out. I don't like this, but it's the Floyd | objective." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I'm not sure what to do here. Do we push the people? Shoot someone?" | |
| ats asks, "Fire into the air?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Shoot the door from here?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I should hope there's a nonviolent way... not that I'm confident of i." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "shoot up" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT UP Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh hello, myold nemesis." | |
| DavidW says, "No gas or fog grenades." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "shoot building" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT BUILDING Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the buildings or the office building? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No clothesline to rapel on" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x buildings" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUILDINGS Floyd | Floyd | Tall grey structures, some residential, some offices, all with at Floyd | least some graffiti. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We're not Batman, we're... I dunno." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter buildings" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER BUILDINGS Floyd | Floyd | They're mostly locked, and there's nothing you'd want in them that's Floyd | worth the time to search. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x police" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > X POLICE Floyd | Floyd | Black body armour and transparent shields are about all you can see of Floyd | the police from this distance. They're fighting a losing battle Floyd | keeping the protesters contained. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Not even a running start, game?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "run" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > RUN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "run east" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > RUN EAST Floyd | Floyd | The riot fills the whole square; any ways around would just lead you Floyd | to a different perspective on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "shoot in the air" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT IN THE AIR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to shoot inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CROWD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "chant" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > CHANT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to people" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | "We grab the files, we get out. I don't like this, but it's the Floyd | objective." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "boo" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to police" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO POLICE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think our options are shoot police, shoot protesters, or shoot office building." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "shoot office" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT OFFICE Floyd | Floyd | You probably shouldn't shoot the office building. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Ok, not that one." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "shoot buildings" | ||
Floyd ] Riot Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOOT BUILDINGS Floyd | Floyd | You probably shouldn't shoot the buildings. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Probably shouldn't shoot Sarah either." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "hit crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CROWD Floyd | Floyd | The documents are more important than a few broken bones. You set Floyd | your rifle to minimum penetration and get moving. Sarah follows a Floyd | second after. You cut a swathe through the crowd, kicking at legs and Floyd | necks as they present themselves. You reach the building, forcing Floyd | your way in through the lobby doors and pulling them shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | An empty wood-panelled lobby. Plush carpeted stairs lead up to the Floyd | offices. The reception desk has no chair, as Sarah has used it to Floyd | block the door. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Sarah here. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah rams a chair against the door handles. "We've only got a Floyd | minute." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Mah." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "*Meh, even." | ||
| DavidW asks, "so, up?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Stairwell Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stairwell Floyd | A utilitarian wood-panelled stairwell with a sign on the wall. Floyd | Offices open out east and west. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Archiving Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Archiving Floyd | Racks of files, paper and digital, along with a computer terminal, Floyd | jump out at you from the air-conditioned darkness of the storage room. Floyd | The heavy door locks behind you, which is an immediate relief. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | "You're the computer expert", you say. "Let's get to work." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "didn't read the sign?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "oops." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Stairwell Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Stairwell Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Guess you guessed correctly, though." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||
Floyd ] Stairwell Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SIGN Floyd | Floyd | Arrows point up, down, east, labelled Storage and Archiving, Floyd | and west, labelled Reformist Media Group. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Both could be right." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Archiving Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Archiving Floyd | Racks of files, paper and digital, along with a computer terminal, Floyd | jump out at you from the air-conditioned darkness of the storage room. Floyd | The heavy door locks behind you, which is an immediate relief. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | "You're the computer expert", you say. "Let's get to work." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd ] Archiving Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | Old and a little slow, but that doesn't seem to bother Sarah. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah hooks up the drives to the computer and links it with the Floyd | Pegasus network. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to sarah" | ||
Floyd ] Archiving Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SARAH Floyd | Floyd | You try, but the words won't come. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah finds the files she needs and starts the upload. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah suddenly turns to you. "You know, we might not get out of this, Floyd | and if we don't..." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "Yes?" Floyd | Floyd | >> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've been meaning to tell you this for a long time, but I didn't know
Floyd | what you'd think of me if I did." She checks the upload progress.
Floyd | "Guess it doesn't matter now. Anyway. I didn't want to be an Agent."
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "Didn't you sign up?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "My parents were military. I was on base one night when I was about
Floyd | sixteen. I decided to have a wander around. I got lost." Sarah
Floyd | gathers herself. "Well, once you find something as secret as the
Floyd | Pegasus operational command, either they kill you, or they keep you.
Floyd | I'm an Agent because it was that or life in some tiny off-the-grid
Floyd | prison cell."
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "Didn't they have guards and doors and things to stop you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Archiving Floyd | >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "I always wondered about that myself. They had enough once I was in, Floyd | and they were strong enough the time I tried to run." She rubs her Floyd | shoulder, grimacing at the memory. "Maybe I was just really good, or Floyd | maybe it was their way of headhunting me. I don't know how my life Floyd | would have turned out otherwise, so I can't say I've got good or bad Floyd | feelings one way or the other. Just thought someone should know." Floyd | The computer dings. "Upload's done. I never held it against them, in Floyd | principle. They were just being secret. They're good underneath. I Floyd | should say thank you. Thank you for being someone I could trust, all Floyd | the way through. It meant a lot to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to her" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HER Floyd | Floyd | (Sarah) Floyd | You don't have anything to say right now. Floyd | Floyd | Your earpiece explodes into life. "Control here. We have the files, Floyd | and we think we've found you a way out. Just do what we say." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "I'm listening." Floyd | Floyd | 2) "We've got something bigger to talk about first." Floyd | Floyd | >> | Knight_Otu asks, "Hrm, we really shouldn't take MC to task now, should we?" | |
| DavidW says, "Depends if it's really bigger or not." | ||
| DavidW says, "But I suspect our objections should wait unless Control is trying to kill us on purpose." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm assuming it's about Sarah's recruitment, which is an important thing, but..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | >>
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "We're going to fire a bomb from space to detonate over the city.
Floyd | It'll make a big noise and flash, but nobody gets hurt. That gives
Floyd | you a distraction, and you get out of there. Once you reach the
Floyd | suburbs, find an open space. A jet is on its way as we speak."
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) "You're sure this will work?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>
| ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Trust me. Please." Control ends the conversation. You explain the Floyd | plan to Sarah. A few minutes later, you hear an immense explosion Floyd | from high in the air and towards the city center. Floyd | Floyd | You nod at Sarah. "Let's get out of here. I think there's a back Floyd | door." Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty. Floyd | Exits lead in all four cardinal directions Floyd | Floyd | Sarah races after you. Floyd | Floyd | There's a shout behind you. It's a pack of armed police. They must Floyd | not have been told about the Pegasus intervention. You only have Floyd | enough time to see that they've got guns before one of their bullets Floyd | knocks Sarah's helmet off. Without thinking further, the two of you Floyd | dive headlong into the alleyways. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Why am I guessing the plan didn't go without casualties?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty. Floyd | Exits lead in all four cardinal directions Floyd | Floyd | Sarah races after you. Floyd | Floyd | You hear running feet and shouting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | > Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | They advertise both local and international brands, with varying Floyd | degrees of vigour and success. Floyd | Floyd | A few bullets ricochet off the corner you just turned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty. Floyd | Exits lead in all four cardinal directions Floyd | Floyd | Sarah races after you. Floyd | Floyd | You hear gasps, shouts, and pursuit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty. Floyd | Exits lead in all four cardinal directions Floyd | Floyd | Sarah races after you. Floyd | Floyd | Your pursuers yell something unintelligible but unfriendly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Backstreets Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Backstreets Floyd | Narrow alleys between grey buildings. Occasionally, a sign or Floyd | billboard will deliver a splash of colour. The streets are empty. Floyd | Exits lead in all four cardinal directions Floyd | Floyd | Sarah races after you. Floyd | Floyd | You hear running feet and shouting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dead End Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You stumble into a dead end. Cars line the streets. You hear Floyd | shouting, coming towards you. You need a plan. Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | A few cars are parked on the sidewalks of this alley. Buildings Floyd | surround three sides. There's no way out. Floyd | Floyd | "We need some kind of barrier!" shouts Sarah. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "push that car" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Ah ha." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push cars" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CARS Floyd | Floyd | You grab the chassis of one of the cars. Sarah gets the hint and Floyd | grabs another. You throw them into a barrier, muscles working at Floyd | maximum, metal screaming against metal. Bullets ricochet off the new Floyd | wall for a moment, before your pursuers realise you've put yourself in Floyd | a strong position. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah props her rifle up on top of the wall and start firing. After a Floyd | few minutes, she exhausts the magazine. There are just too many of Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | Barricade Floyd | A few parked cars were all you and Sarah had on hand to block the Floyd | street. They make a simple barrier, not enough to buy safety, but Floyd | enough to buy some time. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Sarah here. Floyd | Floyd | Sarah nods. "Give me your Redline." Floyd | Floyd | 1) "What? No. I can't let you do that." Floyd | Floyd | >> | Knight_Otu says, "We're back at the start." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You protest, but you open your death box at the same time. You know Floyd | it's true. "I'm the specialist," Sarah says. "We'll have the best Floyd | chance if I take it. They'll send in another team to collect my body Floyd | later, when this all blows over. You climb the buildings, get out Floyd | that way." She pauses. Floyd | Floyd | "They'll tell you I'm gone. They'll tell you I can't come back. Floyd | That's all true. Floyd | Floyd | But they'll also tell you it's best to forget me. Do me a favour, OK? Floyd | Don't believe them." Floyd | Floyd | Sarah's eyes meet yours, and she holds out her hand for your Redline. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh dear" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, now we can climb buildings." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give redline to sarah" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE REDLINE TO SARAH Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the Redline) Floyd | Sarah swallows the Redline, taking a moment to let it fully work Floyd | through her system. "Remember," she whispers, before leaping Floyd | backwards over the barrier. Floyd | Floyd | You notice a white glint in amongst the cars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "glint" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | > Floyd | > GLINT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x glint" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLINT Floyd | Floyd | It's Sarah's death box. She must not have lost it; she must have Floyd | dropped it on purpose, and it's broken open. You notice it still has Floyd | her Redline inside. Floyd | Floyd | You realise you could climb one of the buildings while Sarah distracts Floyd | the police and escape that way. Alternatively, you could swallow Floyd | Sarah's Redline. If you act fast, the chemicals in your death needle Floyd | will be enough to wash the poison out of her blood, but you'll have to Floyd | stay behind and cover her escape, and she won't be able to save you. Floyd | Floyd | Gunfire crackles through the cars that make up the barricade, one Floyd | round glancing off your armour. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "So, follow, or not?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm wondering why Sarah dropped her death box on purpose." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I have no idea, honestly." | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps she's never been who she claimed to be." | ||
| DavidW says, "And this is our real test." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So, unless things changed a lot, Eunice should be a nice diversion after this." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "eat redline" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT REDLINE Floyd | Floyd | You swallow the Redline, feel it pump new fire into your veins. You Floyd | are fast. You are strong. You are invincible. For a moment you Floyd | consider dying fighting alongside your friend, but dismiss that as Floyd | foolisnhesss -- why should two die when only one has to? You vault Floyd | the barricade, interrupt Sarah in her duel, pull her back, jam the Floyd | death needle into her neck. Her body shakes as the death needle Floyd | purges the Redline from her system. You throw her over the cars and Floyd | turn to face the enemy. You hear her over your radio-link. "I told Floyd | you not to. Why do you think I hid it?" You hear sobbing. Floyd | Floyd | And then, as you make your last stand, you hear the sounds of Sarah Floyd | climbing. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** She is safe. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Barricade Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "climb" | ||
Floyd ] Barricade Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB Floyd | Floyd | (the buildings) Floyd | You drop the death box and begin to climb, hauling yourself up by Floyd | outcroppings on the walls. There's no time to look back, and no Floyd | mindspace to think. You climb; that is all. You roll onto the roof, Floyd | find a skylight, drop into the building, leave by the other door. You Floyd | leave Zetola behind forever. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are safe. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "hmph." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Not a happy game." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder if that's as deep as the story goes." | ||
| DavidW asks, "so, Eunice next?" | ||
| ats asks, "What would have happened if we did EAT REDLINE right at the start?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It's a nicer game than this one." | ||
| DavidW says (to ats), "Probably the game would deny us." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That's what I'm expecting, yes. Not motivated enough to restart and check, though." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'll replay Pegasus another day and see if there are secrets in there." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask eunice" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fording seas of boredom, weathering storms of grief, and floods of Floyd | anger, you have arrived. This game is an introduction to Floyd | research-based Positive Psychology tools. For more information about Floyd | playing this game, type ABOUT. Floyd | Floyd | You look north, south, east, and west. There is something missing Floyd | here, as if all of nature is just ... sort of ... going through the Floyd | motions. Her heart isn't really in it. Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Eunice. Floyd | Floyd | Eunice Floyd | An Interactive Fiction Adventure in Positive Psychology by Gita Ryaboy Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 180928 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you is a neglected garden. Where once a caring hand tended Floyd | bushes and plants, now trash covers the garden. No one is left to tend Floyd | it now. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | The porch of the old house ends abruptly as the stairs have rotted Floyd | away beyond all use. There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the Floyd | old house. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take note" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE NOTE Floyd | Floyd | It's a tired, tattered piece of paper not good for anything but Floyd | reading. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | The note reads: Floyd | Floyd | Eunice is a shadow of its former glory. Floyd | Hope is lost, just a faint mem-ory Floyd | Whatever might have brought you here, Floyd | That Eunice needs you, it is clear. Floyd | Type out simple commands, and Floyd | Notice the changes in Eunice land. Floyd | Odd creatures and strange places require your aid. Floyd | You'll get as much out as the efforts you made. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | In the past couple of decades, there has been a surge of psychological Floyd | research into the type of questions usually reserved for sitting at Floyd | the edge of the ocean on a gray day: How can I feel more joy? What Floyd | does love mean? When am I truly fulfilling my purpose in life? This Floyd | research has been grouped into the subfield of Positive Psychology. Floyd | Data shows that some simple actions can improve mood, perspective, and Floyd | resilience. There are now online courses, popular books, research Floyd | journals, and yes, even games. Floyd | Interactive fiction is especially suited to trying out something Floyd | strange and new because it creates a space to experiment through play. Floyd | This game is in a fantasy land, but the player is you, no one else, no Floyd | mask or cloak or metaphor. You could consider this a trial run with Floyd | new, psychological hiking gear, and afterward set off to explore your Floyd | own vast and wild internal world. Floyd | Or, don't have any intentions except playing. Either way, take a Floyd | little time to enjoy Eunice. I certainly enjoyed making it. I'm Floyd | grateful for the experience and for the support from many people along Floyd | the way. Floyd | Type CREDITS to read about everyone who helped make this game Floyd | possible. Floyd | Type COMMANDS for a list of suggested instructions. Floyd | Type HELP for a list of topics with more information. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trash" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRASH Floyd | Floyd | Some old junk lies abandoned in the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Sometimes you can't take it with you. This is one of those times. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search trash" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH TRASH Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x garden" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | You look closer and recognize ragged lavender and a tired rose. The Floyd | plants have withered at the stem before ever blooming. Brown and gray, Floyd | they are barely surviving among the junk left in the yard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X POT Floyd | Floyd | It is dusty, cracked. It rests against the front porch where stairs Floyd | used to be. Those stairs are gone completely now, either torn up by Floyd | some strong arm or simply rotted away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "commands" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > COMMANDS Floyd | Floyd | Try: LOOK, TAKE, INVENTORY, move in any direction, LOOK in any Floyd | direction, TOPIC for conversation suggestions, and THANK. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POT Floyd | Floyd | It seems to be serving its intended purpose just where it is, thank Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x porch" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X PORCH Floyd | Floyd | The old wooden house is small and square. From out here, you can tell Floyd | there is likely only one room inside. The front porch is rotting and Floyd | slants away from the house, but the walls are strong. It looks as if Floyd | someone just left it to fall into disrepair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter house" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't walk up the stairs. They have rotted beyond all use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell rose" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL ROSE Floyd | Floyd | Your nose notices a smell that is mostly just dry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rose" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROSE Floyd | Floyd | You look closer and recognize ragged lavender and a tired rose. The Floyd | plants have withered at the stem before ever blooming. Brown and gray, Floyd | they are barely surviving among the junk left in the yard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell lavender" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL LAVENDER Floyd | Floyd | Your nose notices a smell that is mostly just dry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "water rose" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > WATER ROSE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of ats), "Okay if I try to see if there's other locations?" | |
| DavidW asks (of ats), "Or would you like to drive?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You look different in the Eunice light. A little more weather-beaten, Floyd | a little darker from the sun, a little stronger from the walking, you Floyd | look like an adventurer. Floyd | You look like you have grit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grit" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRIT Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadowland Floyd | The wind blows gently across the rolling meadow. This would be a sweet Floyd | place to sit for an afternoon in a hammock and listen to the birds Floyd | sing, except that there is no hammock and no birds singing. Floyd | Floyd | A whisk lies on the meadowland, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x whisk" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHISK Floyd | Floyd | Clean curves of metal, the whisk looks very useful for whisking Floyd | things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You reach down to retrieve the whisk, but no matter how hard you pull Floyd | it won't come up from the meadowland. Assuredly it doesn't belong, but Floyd | it seems that other things need to be taken care of before you can Floyd | return the whisk to its rightful place, wherever that might be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassland Floyd | Dry rustling grasses surround you. Floyd | Floyd | The only thing breaking the continuity is a huge and gnarled tree, Floyd | framed dark against the wide sky. Floyd | Floyd | A spatula rests on some grass, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spatula" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPATULA Floyd | Floyd | It is bright purple and made of semi-flexible silicone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You reach down to retrieve the spatula, but no matter how hard you Floyd | pull it won't come up from the grassland. Assuredly it doesn't belong, Floyd | but it seems that other things need to be taken care of before you can Floyd | return the spatula to its rightful place, wherever that might be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander south, but without the tree as a signpost you Floyd | would easily become lost in ever-shifting green grasses. If you were Floyd | lost, hope would never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander west, but without the tree as a signpost you would Floyd | easily become lost in ever-shifting green grasses. If you were lost, Floyd | hope would never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander east, but without the tree as a signpost you would Floyd | easily become lost in ever-shifting green grasses. If you were lost, Floyd | hope would never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadowland Floyd | The wind blows gently across the rolling meadow. This would be a sweet Floyd | place to sit for an afternoon in a hammock and listen to the birds Floyd | sing, except that there is no hammock and no birds singing. Floyd | Floyd | A whisk lies on the meadowland, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Plainfield Floyd | A broad field or plain with nothing particularly distinguishing about Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dusty Field Floyd | The field is mostly dust and grime beneath dark mountains looming to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | A round tin rests on the Dusty Field, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mountains" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X MOUNTAINS Floyd | Floyd | Tall and jagged, they look far off and faintly disapproving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tin" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X TIN Floyd | Floyd | A round metal tin, nine inches in diameter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You reach down to retrieve the round tin, but no matter how hard you Floyd | pull it won't come up from the dusty field. Assuredly it doesn't Floyd | belong, but it seems that other things need to be taken care of before Floyd | you can return the tin to its rightful place, wherever that might be. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is so exciting, this not being able to take anything." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rocky Field Floyd | You are in a broad, rocky field. Boulders are scattered haphazardly Floyd | all around. Floyd | Floyd | There is a large notice board clearly placed with more intention than Floyd | the rocks. On the notice board is a pad of paper and a few notes. Floyd | Farther west, tall mountains loom over you, threatening to overwhelm Floyd | the scene. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boulders" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOULDERS Floyd | Floyd | Heavy and oblong with weathered surfaces, they have been here a long Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Those are new additions." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x board" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOARD Floyd | Floyd | A large public notice board stands in the middle of the wide field. Floyd | You wonder why the builder decided to put it out here, far from any Floyd | road or town. Clearly some people came here, because there are Floyd | colorful notes stuck to the board, as well as a large pad of paper. Floyd | Floyd | Carved into the top of the board are the words: Floyd | Floyd | Simply type "Today I am grateful for {your gratitude} " on the pad. Floyd | Peace and serenity are yours to be had. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pad" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAD Floyd | Floyd | The pad of paper is titled "Gratitude List: " in shimmering in gold Floyd | leaf. The rest of the paper is inviting, ready to be typed in. Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x notes" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTES Floyd | Floyd | You pick one of the notes to read: "Today I am grateful for smiles Floyd | from strangers, dragon gold, my job". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You pick one of the notes to read: "Today I am grateful for my Floyd | children, a morning commute free from trolls and dragons, sunny Floyd | weather". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "Today I am grateful for peanuts"" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > TYPE "TODAY I AM GRATEFUL FOR PEANUTS" Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > TYPE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER Floyd | Floyd | You must supply a noun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use pad" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > USE PAD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pad" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAD Floyd | Floyd | The pad of paper is titled "Gratitude List: " in shimmering in gold Floyd | leaf. The rest of the paper is inviting, ready to be typed in. Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "peanuts" on pad" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > TYPE "PEANUTS" ON PAD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push boulders" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BOULDERS Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb boulders" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB BOULDERS Floyd | Floyd | Little is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You walk on to explore west of the notice board in the field beneath Floyd | rugged mountains. Floyd | Suddenly you see what the shadow of the mountains had hidden: the land Floyd | falls away in a steep cliff so deep that the bottom is hidden from Floyd | view. You scramble back from the edge. There is no way to go farther Floyd | west. With a pounding heart, you turn back to the notice board. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The rocky field ends at the edge of a dark wood. The forbidding trees Floyd | block your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander south into the prairie, but without a way to Floyd | navigate you would easily become lost. If that happened, hope would Floyd | never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREES Floyd | Floyd | The trees seem to crowd in together as if they were keeping a secret. Floyd | It is too dark to discover much from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dusty Field Floyd | The field is mostly dust and grime beneath dark mountains looming to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | A round tin rests on the Dusty Field, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Noticeboard is just "Today i am grateful for..."" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "today" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > TODAY Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rocky Field Floyd | You are in a broad, rocky field. Boulders are scattered haphazardly Floyd | all around. Floyd | Floyd | There is a large notice board clearly placed with more intention than Floyd | the rocks. On the notice board is a pad of paper and a few notes. Floyd | Farther west, tall mountains loom over you, threatening to overwhelm Floyd | the scene. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "today i am grateful for peanuts" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > TODAY I AM GRATEFUL FOR PEANUTS Floyd | Floyd | You write "peanuts" on the pad of paper. Floyd | Take a moment and look at the words that you wrote. Let the memory of Floyd | peanuts soak in. Floyd | When you write your gratitude note, a tiny folded paper bird flutters Floyd | down from above you and lands noiselessly in your hand. Floyd | The field looks a little greener. Floyd | The colorful gratitude notes posted on the board shine and twinkle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bird" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIRD Floyd | Floyd | An expertly folded paper bird, the GIFT of GRATITUDE. The colors seem Floyd | to change slightly in the Eunice light, but you think its blue. You Floyd | remember your Gratitude List: Floyd | Floyd | peanuts Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug goes home. | Knight_Otu says, "Somehow I didn't get the idea that type might be necessary, otherwise I'd have suggested that to the author." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "To recognice type "text", I mean." | ||
| DavidW says, "Type is fairly standard. Random phrases aren't." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "True, it is." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "today I am grateful for shelter" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > TODAY I AM GRATEFUL FOR SHELTER Floyd | Floyd | You write "shelter" on the pad of paper. Floyd | Take a moment and look at the words that you wrote. Let the memory of Floyd | shelter soak in. Floyd | When you add your gratitude note, you notice other notes pinned on the Floyd | board, written by people or animals before you. It almost seems like Floyd | there are more than before. The colorful notes add a trendy, party Floyd | atmosphere to the sign. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "today i am grateful for ifcomp" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > TODAY I AM GRATEFUL FOR IFCOMP Floyd | Floyd | You write "ifcomp" on the pad of paper. Floyd | Take a moment and look at the words that you wrote. Let the memory of Floyd | ifcomp soak in. Floyd | When you add your gratitude note, you notice other notes pinned on the Floyd | board, written by people or animals before you. It almost seems like Floyd | there are more than before. The colorful notes add a trendy, party Floyd | atmosphere to the sign. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREES Floyd | Floyd | The trees seem to crowd in together as if they were keeping a secret. Floyd | It is too dark to discover much from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dusty Field Floyd | The field has a hint of green as if the imposing mountains were Floyd | pushing up spring with their toes. Floyd | Floyd | A round tin rests on the Dusty Field, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tin" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TIN Floyd | Floyd | You reach down and easily pick up the round tin. Though you aren't Floyd | sure where it belongs, maybe a dancing rabbit needs a stage somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Yes, that's what I associate with tins. Dancing rabbits." | |
| DavidW says, "Frogs do limbo on top of toadstools here, I suppose." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The dusty field ends at the edge of a dark wood. The forbidding trees Floyd | block your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREES Floyd | Floyd | The trees seem to crowd in together as if they were keeping a secret. Floyd | It is too dark to discover much from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Plainfield Floyd | A broad field or plain with nothing particularly distinguishing about Floyd | it, except for the profusion of flowers Floyd | Floyd | Wildflowers cover the field in glorious color Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | Some are just tiny dots of color, others grow clustered in towers or Floyd | opened broad faces of brilliant color: blue sage and indigo, magenta, Floyd | gold and violet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | They are sweet and with a fresh lightness. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "These flowers are new." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Woods Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pine Woods Floyd | The dark pine wood is a solid wall. Yet, as you look you can see a Floyd | break in the trees where a path of pine needles leads west deeper into Floyd | the wood or south to an open field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x needles" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Woods Floyd | > Floyd | > X NEEDLES Floyd | Floyd | The straight towering pine trees rise darkly above you. Decades of Floyd | dropped pine needles thickly cover the path. Their strong scent fills Floyd | in the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell needles" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Woods Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL NEEDLES Floyd | Floyd | You bring your nose close to the pine needles and inhale deeply. The Floyd | scent of pine fills your lungs. You inhale deeply for a count of 5, Floyd | pausing for a moment at the top of your inhale: Floyd | Floyd | 1 Floyd | Floyd | 2 Floyd | Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | Exhale completely, feeling refreshed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Woods Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Trail Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You walk on with determination toward the light up ahead. Floyd | Floyd | Pine Trail Floyd | Your footfalls are silent in the thick carpet of pine needles. Floyd | Sunlight quickly disappears, unable to penetrate through the wood. The Floyd | path curves here and leads north or to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Steep Trail Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Like the brave explorers of old, you move through the quiet dimness. Floyd | Floyd | Steep Trail Floyd | The ground changes elevation drastically here, making your hike Floyd | considerable harder. The pines press in around you. The path leads Floyd | north or south. Floyd | Floyd | A measuring cup lies at the side of the path, looking very out of Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cup" | ||
Floyd ] Steep Trail Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUP Floyd | Floyd | The cup is simply made and has a marking of "1 cup" on the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Steep Trail Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You reach down to retrieve the measuring cup, but no matter how hard Floyd | you pull it won't come up from the steep trail. Assuredly it doesn't Floyd | belong, but it seems that other things need to be taken care of before Floyd | you can return the cup to its rightful place, wherever that might be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Valley Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | With resolve and determination, you press on. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Valley Floyd | The pines have blocked all light and you can hardly see the trail. The Floyd | comparative darkness halts your progress for a moment. Floyd | There is some light off to the northwest and the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You move forward out of the darkness and into a bright light. Floyd | Floyd | Forest Glen Floyd | A ray of sunshine cuts through the curtain of pines onto the path Floyd | before you. The dense wood opens to a small glen of prickly grass Floyd | Floyd | A dozen carved statues are placed around the little glen. They are Floyd | worn and covered in lichen, bird droppings, and fallen leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't expect this world to be quite so large. I expected a 5x5 grid at the most." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grass" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRASS Floyd | Floyd | itchy and uncomfortable Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie on grass" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > LIE ON GRASS Floyd | Floyd | On second thought, you decide against lying on Grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell grass" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL GRASS Floyd | Floyd | Even for all your sniffing efforts, it doesn't smell like much Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat grass" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT GRASS Floyd | Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x statues" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUES Floyd | Floyd | The sculptures are all of people hunched over and staring at a small Floyd | rectangles in their hands. Some are curled over themselves in office Floyd | chairs. Floyd | Floyd | Looking at them life-like and lifeless, frozen in various pretzel Floyd | positions, makes you want to loosen your limbs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake arms" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > SHAKE ARMS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exercise" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > EXERCISE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "loosen limbs" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOSEN LIMBS Floyd | Floyd | Lift your shoulders up to your ears. Feel the muscles tense. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | Stretch your shoulders back as far as is comfortable, pushing your Floyd | sternum forward and take a deep breath. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | Raise your arms over your head and feel your sides stretch. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen
Floyd | ...The stone statues are cracking.The figures come to life. They brush
Floyd | the dust and rocks off of themselves. Everyone is hugging and laughing
Floyd | and chattering. "Hello," they say, "it's been so long! Good to see
Floyd | you," they celebrate. They notice you and bring you into the circle.
Floyd | Many hands pat you on the back, thanking you.
Floyd |
Floyd | One gives you a little stone that broke off from his elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Lift your shoulders up to your ears. Feel the muscles tense. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | Stretch your shoulders back as far as is comfortable, pushing your Floyd | sternum forward and take a deep breath. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | Raise your arms over your head and feel your sides stretch. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stone" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen
Floyd | ...The happy group notices you stretching and jumps to join in. After
Floyd | a smiling round of calisthenics, the group noisily wishes you, "Good
Floyd | luck on your quest to free hope in Eunice!". Then they go back to
Floyd | their own stretches or sipping tea, and you remember your mission.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stone" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > X STONE Floyd | Floyd | The STONE of FLEXIBILITY is gray with little black specs. At this Floyd | moment, it is an oval rock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x statues" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUES Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Forest Glen Floyd | A ray of sunshine cuts through the curtain of pines onto the path Floyd | before you. The dense wood opens to a small glen of soft grass. The Floyd | sun shines strongly in the glen creating a little circle of bright Floyd | against the dark forest. Floyd | Floyd | The people who were statues are now enjoying the warm sun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x people" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | People are chatting and sipping tea. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "If I recall correctly, it's not that much larger than a 5x5, but don't quote me on that." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to people" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | "Eunice has very particular conversational etiquette. You can ASK Floyd | group chatting ABOUT something; TELL group chatting ABOUT something; Floyd | or ANSWER something to group chatting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask people about eunice" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PEOPLE ABOUT EUNICE Floyd | Floyd | You do a short sun salutation warm up before talking. Floyd | Floyd | The group has a lot to say about Eunice. Floyd | Floyd | "Our beautiful, beautiful home...though it looks just awful now." Floyd | "That is only because Hope is trapped and we were frozen, but now we Floyd | can move." A few of them do headstands in the grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask people about hope" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PEOPLE ABOUT HOPE Floyd | Floyd | "What happened to Hope?" you venture to ask. Floyd | Floyd | The party falls silent for a surprising moment. Then someone says in a Floyd | half whisper, "Only the troll knows." The group won't talk anymore Floyd | about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask people about hope" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PEOPLE ABOUT HOPE Floyd | Floyd | "What happened to Hope?" you venture to ask. Floyd | Floyd | The party falls silent for a surprising moment. Then someone says in a Floyd | half whisper, "Only the troll knows." The group won't talk anymore Floyd | about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask people about troll" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PEOPLE ABOUT TROLL Floyd | Floyd | "What do I need to face the troll," you ask, worried that you haven't Floyd | seen any swords or shields or axes lying around. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have any taller shoes?" someone quips, "if you really want to Floyd | be face to face..." Floyd | Floyd | There are some snorts and elbowing, and then someone says, "He just Floyd | disppeared and no one knows what happened." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask people about rabbit" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PEOPLE ABOUT RABBIT Floyd | Floyd | A few people begin to think about your comment and get distracted when Floyd | others do jumping jacks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a round tin Floyd | stone of flexibility and origami bird Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask people about stone" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PEOPLE ABOUT STONE Floyd | Floyd | "This is a strange stone," you observe, looking at it. Before your Floyd | eyes it changes momentarily into a donut shape, then back to a circle. Floyd | "It's our gift to you, and it might be just the perfect thing," one of Floyd | the group replies. Someone else adds, "it is one of those treasures Floyd | needed in the quest to free Hope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask people about bird" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PEOPLE ABOUT BIRD Floyd | Floyd | A few people begin to think about your comment and get distracted when Floyd | others do cartwheels. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Forest Glen Floyd | A ray of sunshine cuts through the curtain of pines onto the path Floyd | before you. The dense wood opens to a small glen of soft grass. The Floyd | sun shines strongly in the glen creating a little circle of bright Floyd | against the dark forest. Floyd | Floyd | The group chatting has created a happy little party. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grass" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRASS Floyd | Floyd | soft and inviting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie on grass" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > LIE ON GRASS Floyd | Floyd | On second thought, you decide against lying on Grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sunshine" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > X SUNSHINE Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREES Floyd | Floyd | The straight towering pine trees rise darkly above you. Decades of Floyd | dropped pine needles thickly cover the path. Their strong scent fills Floyd | in the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The forbidding trees block your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Forest Glen Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Valley Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Valley Floyd | The pines have blocked all light and you can hardly see the trail. The Floyd | comparative darkness halts your progress for a moment. Floyd | There is some light off to the northwest and the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Steep Trail Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steep Trail Floyd | The ground changes elevation drastically here, making your hike Floyd | considerable harder. The pines press in around you. The path leads Floyd | north or south. Floyd | Floyd | A measuring cup lies at the side of the path, looking very out of Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cup" | ||
Floyd ] Steep Trail Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CUP Floyd | Floyd | You reach down and easily pick up the measuring cup. Though you aren't Floyd | sure where it belongs, maybe a cat needs a hat somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Trail Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pine Trail Floyd | Your footfalls are silent in the thick carpet of pine needles. Floyd | Sunlight quickly disappears, unable to penetrate through the wood. The Floyd | path curves here and leads north or to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Woods Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pine Woods Floyd | The dark pine wood is a solid wall. Yet, as you look you can see a Floyd | break in the trees where a path of pine needles leads west deeper into Floyd | the wood or south to an open field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you is a neglected garden. Where once a caring hand tended Floyd | bushes and plants, now trash covers the garden. No one is left to tend Floyd | it now. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | The porch of the old house ends abruptly as the stairs have rotted Floyd | away beyond all use. There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the Floyd | old house. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't walk up the stairs. They have rotted beyond all use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Woods Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pine Woods Floyd | The dark pine wood is a solid wall. Yet, as you look you can see a Floyd | break in the trees where a path of pine needles leads west deeper into Floyd | the wood or south to an open field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Woods Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The forbidding trees block your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you is a neglected garden. Where once a caring hand tended Floyd | bushes and plants, now trash covers the garden. No one is left to tend Floyd | it now. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | The porch of the old house ends abruptly as the stairs have rotted Floyd | away beyond all use. There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the Floyd | old house. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quaking Bog Floyd | The air smells of mud and rotting plants. Flies buzz around your ears Floyd | and eyes. All your energy to explore is gone, as if sucked away by one Floyd | of the mosquitos you are trying to swat. You stand on the web of marsh Floyd | plants. There is some green here, but it is only a sparse layer over Floyd | deep, cold, dark waters. Floyd | Nearby is a dented park sign, titled "Quaking Bog Rules and Floyd | Regulations". Floyd | Floyd | You hear a muffled "ccrroOOAAAaakk" off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You sink a little lower into the bog, feeling the cold water on your Floyd | skin. What can you do, stuck here without Hope? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | Quaking Bog Rules and Regulations: Floyd | - Swimming is allowed and impossible Floyd | - Jumping is allowed and possible Floyd | - Take time to Appreciate Nature Floyd | - You can thank any bog creature Floyd | Floyd | You hear a muffled "ccrroOOAAAaakk" off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You sink a little lower into the bog, feeling the cold water on your Floyd | skin. What can you do, stuck here without Hope? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You muster the energy to jump a little, and come down hard on the Floyd | marsh moss and grasses. More cold water collects around you. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a muffled "ccrroOOAAAaakk" off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You sink a little lower into the bog, feeling the cold water on your Floyd | skin. What can you do, stuck here without Hope? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appreciate nature" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > APPRECIATE NATURE Floyd | Floyd | You look around and notice that everywhere around you is full of Floyd | living, growing things. Dragonflies and butterflies and plain flies Floyd | swoop between moss and grasses. Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | ...Long-legged shorebirds poke around in the mud. The air smells green Floyd | and rich. A sparkle catches your eye. A single dew drop balances on Floyd | the edge of a curved grass leaf. Slowly it grows in fullness, glinting Floyd | like a little star. The weight pulls the thin grass down, down until Floyd | it drops silently into the watery green at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | ...You take a deep breath. Breathe in and feel the breath fill from Floyd | your belly to your ribs to your collarbones. Floyd | Exhale; the grass flutters from the wind of your breath. You feel Floyd | happier, more relaxed, and ready to continue your exploration. Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog
Floyd | ...At the conclusion of your appreciation, an iridescent fly lying
Floyd | nearby catches your eye. It is colorful and shimmering, vaguely like
Floyd | sugarcoated hard candy.
Floyd | Odd, but you keep it for later.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a muffled "ccrroOOAAAaakk" off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fly" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLY Floyd | Floyd | Reflecting luminous colors, it is dead and rather large, about the Floyd | size of a cracker. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a muffled "ccrroOOAAAaakk" off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell mud" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL MUD Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a muffled "ccrroOOAAAaakk" off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mud" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MUD Floyd | Floyd | Sometimes you can't take it with you. This is one of those times. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a muffled "ccrroOOAAAaakk" off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plants" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANTS Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plant" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANT Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Quaking Bog Floyd | The air smells of mud and rotting plants. Flies buzz around your ears Floyd | and eyes. All your energy to explore is gone, as if sucked away by one Floyd | of the mosquitos you are trying to swat. You stand on the web of marsh Floyd | plants. There is some green here, but it is only a sparse layer over Floyd | deep, cold, dark waters. Floyd | Nearby is a dented park sign, titled "Quaking Bog Rules and Floyd | Regulations". Floyd | Floyd | You hear a muffled "ccrroOOAAAaakk" off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bog Heart Floyd | The ground quakes slightly with each footfall, in a pleasant Floyd | undulating manner. You are walking on water - or above it - on many Floyd | layers of moss that have grown over to form a living raft on the Floyd | surface of the bog. Floyd | Floyd | A toad is sleeping in the moss, as if he was nestled among many Floyd | overstuffed pillows. Floyd | Floyd | "ccrroOOAAAaakk". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toad" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOAD Floyd | Floyd | The toad is large and green and frowning. His protruding eyes are Floyd | closed and he makes a loud "ccrroOOAAAaakk" noise every so often. He Floyd | is snoring! Floyd | Floyd | "ccrroOOAAAaakk". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake toad" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > WAKE TOAD Floyd | Floyd | It does seem like the thing to do, but how? Floyd | Floyd | "ccrroOOAAAaakk". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss toad" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS TOAD Floyd | Floyd | You place your lips on the toad's cool skin, in your best guess of Floyd | where his cheek could be, and give a kiss. Floyd | Floyd | The toad stirs. Floyd | His right eye opens a fraction of a sixteenth of an inch, and closes Floyd | again. He spits just the tiniest bit, and then indulges in a terrific Floyd | snore. Floyd | Floyd | "ccrroOOAAAaakk". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give fly to toad" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE FLY TO TOAD Floyd | Floyd | You hold the iridescent fly in front of you. With perfect instinct, Floyd | and eyes still closed, the toad's sticky tongue shoots out and lifts Floyd | the fly from your palm. Floyd | The toad chews, snorts, and finally stirs. He fixes his large bulbous Floyd | eyes on you as if he can see you to your heart. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you," he says, "though Hope is caged in Eunice, the flies are Floyd | rather good." he pauses, considering you for a moment, "it has been Floyd | quite a while since sightseers came to the bog. What we really need is Floyd | an adventurer for a quest!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sorry, not a prince." | |
| DavidW says, "oh well. I had to try." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask toad about quest" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TOAD ABOUT QUEST Floyd | Floyd | "I have taken on the quest to free Hope from its cage!" you proclaim, Floyd | "can you help me?. Floyd | Floyd | "Glad to see you aren't off to kill some terrible princess and romance Floyd | a dragon horde, or whatever the kids do these days," the toad replies. Floyd | "Five treasures are required to free Hope from its cage and you will Floyd | have to explore Eunice to find them." he responds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask toad about treasures" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TOAD ABOUT TREASURES Floyd | Floyd | "What treasures will free Hope from its cage?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Five treasures are required to free Hope from its cage and I know of Floyd | one: a KEY of APPRECIATION." he announces in a self-important manner, Floyd | snuggling his rump deeper into the moss, ". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "I can help you get that key..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask toad about key" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TOAD ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "About that key of appreciation," you say, shifting your weight from Floyd | one foot to the other, "How would I find it?" Floyd | Floyd | The toad actually smiles, "You are so, so close; practically on top of Floyd | it. Search the water..."He shifts slightly and near his left forelimb Floyd | you see a narrow deep well of crystal clear water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search water" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH WATER Floyd | Floyd | You peer into the crystal clear water for a moment seeing your Floyd | reflection staring curiously back at you. Then its gone and far below Floyd | you think you see something down there, so you reach in. Floyd | The water is cool against your hand. This is just the beginning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Past the slime and the mud of the bog, past any worries and judgements Floyd | about whether you are doing enough or playing the game well, you go. Floyd | Something slimy flits by, maybe a fish? Floyd | Floyd | You are now in the bog up to your elbow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You crouch down to reach farther still. The water is still, like a Floyd | deep calmness in your own core. Then the tips of your fingers brush Floyd | against something solid. Floyd | Floyd | You are now in the bog up to your shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Straining, you stretch farther, bringing your face near the surface of Floyd | the thick bog. Finally you grab something solid! Pulling it up to the Floyd | surface, you see it is a heavy key. You keep the key for later. Floyd | Floyd | As you put the key away, you can feel the toad's eyes on you and his Floyd | wide mouth turns up in a slight smile. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh heck, I'm up to my neck" | |
| DavidW says, "oh dear, I'm up to my ear" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh ugh, I'm up to my blugh lugh ugh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | One of the five treasures: the KEY of APPRECIATION! It's a house key. Floyd | The key is heavy brass and old fashioned. It rests solidly in your Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a measuring cup Floyd | a round tin Floyd | house key, stone of flexibility and origami bird Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask toad about tin" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TOAD ABOUT TIN Floyd | Floyd | "I'd rather talk about bog politics than that," says the toad, "and I Floyd | hate politics". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask toad about cup" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TOAD ABOUT CUP Floyd | Floyd | "I'd rather talk about bog politics than that," says the toad, "and I Floyd | hate politics". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask toad about house" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TOAD ABOUT HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | (the house key) Floyd | "It is the KEY of APPRECIATION," the toad admits, "I haven't had the Floyd | confidence to look past my own reflection to search for it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reflection" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > X REFLECTION Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x moss" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > X MOSS Floyd | Floyd | Looks like a comfortable bed, for a toad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The thick moss dissolves farther east into a dark pool. There is no Floyd | way farther. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The thick moss dissolves farther north into a dark pool. There is no Floyd | way farther. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The thick moss dissolves farther south into a dark pool. There is no Floyd | way farther. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The toad sits quietly watching you go. Floyd | Floyd | Quaking Bog Floyd | The air smells of mud and both the growing and decaying plants. Floyd | Instead of being stuck, you notice how the whole bog is bursting with Floyd | life. Floyd | Nearby is a dented park sign titled "Quaking Bog Rules and Regulations Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SIGN Floyd | Floyd | Quaking Bog Rules and Regulations: Floyd | - Swimming is allowed and impossible Floyd | - Jumping is allowed and possible Floyd | - Take time to Appreciate Nature Floyd | - You can thank any bog creature Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bog Heart Floyd | The ground quakes slightly with each footfall, in a pleasant Floyd | undulating manner. You are walking on water - or above it - on many Floyd | layers of moss that have grown over to form a living raft on the Floyd | surface of the bog. Floyd | Floyd | There is a clear pool of water near the toad's forelimb. Floyd | Floyd | The large green toad is lounging on the moss, humming softly to Floyd | himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "thank toad" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > THANK TOAD Floyd | Floyd | He nods his wide head. And if he had a bowler hat, he would have Floyd | touched the brim as a jaunty "you're welcome". But things aren't as Floyd | they should be in Eunice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give cup to toad" | ||
Floyd ] Bog Heart Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CUP TO TOAD Floyd | Floyd | The toad doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The toad sits quietly watching you go. Floyd | Floyd | Quaking Bog Floyd | The air smells of mud and both the growing and decaying plants. Floyd | Instead of being stuck, you notice how the whole bog is bursting with Floyd | life. Floyd | Nearby is a dented park sign titled "Quaking Bog Rules and Regulations Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Quaking Bog Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The thick moss dissolves farther south into a dark pool. There is no Floyd | way farther. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you is a neglected garden. Where once a caring hand tended Floyd | bushes and plants, now trash covers the garden. No one is left to tend Floyd | it now. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | The porch of the old house ends abruptly as the stairs have rotted Floyd | away beyond all use. There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the Floyd | old house. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | The note reads: Floyd | Floyd | Eunice is a shadow of its former glory. Floyd | Hope is lost, just a faint mem-ory Floyd | Whatever might have brought you here, Floyd | That Eunice needs you, it is clear. Floyd | Type out simple commands, and Floyd | Notice the changes in Eunice land. Floyd | Odd creatures and strange places require your aid. Floyd | You'll get as much out as the efforts you made. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadowland Floyd | The wind blows gently across the rolling meadow. This would be a sweet Floyd | place to sit for an afternoon in a hammock and listen to the birds Floyd | sing, except that there is no hammock and no birds singing. Floyd | Floyd | A whisk lies on the meadowland, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take whisk" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WHISK Floyd | Floyd | You reach down to retrieve the whisk, but no matter how hard you pull Floyd | it won't come up from the meadowland. Assuredly it doesn't belong, but Floyd | it seems that other things need to be taken care of before you can Floyd | return the whisk to its rightful place, wherever that might be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander east into the green grasses, but without a way to Floyd | navigate you would easily become lost. If that happened, hope would Floyd | never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back.. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassland Floyd | Dry rustling grasses surround you. Floyd | Floyd | The only thing breaking the continuity is a huge and gnarled tree, Floyd | framed dark against the wide sky. Floyd | Floyd | A spatula rests on some grass, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take spatula" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SPATULA Floyd | Floyd | You reach down to retrieve the spatula, but no matter how hard you Floyd | pull it won't come up from the grassland. Assuredly it doesn't belong, Floyd | but it seems that other things need to be taken care of before you can Floyd | return the spatula to its rightful place, wherever that might be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander east, but without the tree as a signpost you would Floyd | easily become lost in ever-shifting green grasses. If you were lost, Floyd | hope would never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I should make a map, I guess." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander west, but without the tree as a signpost you would Floyd | easily become lost in ever-shifting green grasses. If you were lost, Floyd | hope would never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadowland Floyd | The wind blows gently across the rolling meadow. This would be a sweet Floyd | place to sit for an afternoon in a hammock and listen to the birds Floyd | sing, except that there is no hammock and no birds singing. Floyd | Floyd | A whisk lies on the meadowland, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander east into the green grasses, but without a way to Floyd | navigate you would easily become lost. If that happened, hope would Floyd | never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back.. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Plainfield Floyd | A broad field or plain with nothing particularly distinguishing about Floyd | it, except for the profusion of flowers Floyd | Floyd | Wildflowers cover the field in glorious color Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pick flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > PICK FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You wander through the field gathering wildflowers. The petals kiss Floyd | softly against your skin. Floyd | Floyd | After a while, your foot catches on a ridge of dirt and you catch Floyd | yourself before falling. Bending down, you notice a small round hole Floyd | of some little animal's home. After peering for a moment into the cool Floyd | darkness you stand again, not wanting to pry where you haven't been Floyd | invited. Floyd | Floyd | You walk on farther, discovering rocks and seed pods and animal Floyd | tracks, and then losing them again in your rambling. Floyd | A soft breeze smelling of high mountain air comes from the west and Floyd | you remember your quest. Floyd | Floyd | The flowers that you gathered were lost on your exploring, but it is Floyd | fine. The seeds you spread will grow to more flowers next year. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Plainfield Floyd | A broad field or plain with nothing particularly distinguishing about Floyd | it, except for the profusion of flowers Floyd | Floyd | Wildflowers cover the field in glorious color Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander south into the prairie, but without a way to Floyd | navigate you would easily become lost. If that happened, hope would Floyd | never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dusty Field Floyd | The field has a hint of green as if the imposing mountains were Floyd | pushing up spring with their toes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander south into the prairie, but without a way to Floyd | navigate you would easily become lost. If that happened, hope would Floyd | never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rocky Field Floyd | You are in a broad, rocky field. Boulders are scattered haphazardly Floyd | all around. Floyd | Floyd | There is a large notice board clearly placed with more intention than Floyd | the rocks. On the notice board is a pad of paper and a few notes. The Floyd | field looks slightly greener than before, as if spring is coming soon. Floyd | Farther west, tall mountains loom over you, threatening to overwhelm Floyd | the scene. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read notes" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTES Floyd | Floyd | You pick one of the notes to read: "Today I am grateful for a warm cup Floyd | of tea, house elves, catching up with an old friend". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You pick one of the notes to read: "Today I am grateful for picnics, Floyd | loving family, silly jokes." . Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You walk on to explore west of the notice board in the field beneath Floyd | rugged mountains. Floyd | Suddenly you see what the shadow of the mountains had hidden: the land Floyd | falls away in a steep cliff so deep that the bottom is hidden from Floyd | view. You scramble back from the edge. There is no way to go farther Floyd | west. With a pounding heart, you turn back to the notice board. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Field Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The rocky field ends at the edge of a dark wood. The forbidding trees Floyd | block your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dusty Field Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dusty Field Floyd | The field has a hint of green as if the imposing mountains were Floyd | pushing up spring with their toes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Plainfield Floyd | A broad field or plain with nothing particularly distinguishing about Floyd | it, except for the profusion of flowers Floyd | Floyd | Wildflowers cover the field in glorious color Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadowland Floyd | The wind blows gently across the rolling meadow. This would be a sweet Floyd | place to sit for an afternoon in a hammock and listen to the birds Floyd | sing, except that there is no hammock and no birds singing. Floyd | Floyd | A whisk lies on the meadowland, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you is a neglected garden. Where once a caring hand tended Floyd | bushes and plants, now trash covers the garden. No one is left to tend Floyd | it now. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | The porch of the old house ends abruptly as the stairs have rotted Floyd | away beyond all use. There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the Floyd | old house. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't walk up the stairs. They have rotted beyond all use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb porch" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB PORCH Floyd | Floyd | Little is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under porch" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER PORCH Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tend garden" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > TEND GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | You heft some of the larger pieces of trash to the side. Then you Floyd | clear the dead leaves, dropping them on the ground for mulch cover to Floyd | soak in the rain when it comes. As you clear and organize, your Floyd | thoughts settle. Each thing in its place, simply and easily. Floyd | Floyd | Soothing lavender sways in the breeze, now that the garden has been Floyd | tended. Fragrant plants cover the ground. The rose bush is budding and Floyd | will flower soon. Floyd | Floyd | You find a little flute among the trash, like a gift from the garden. Floyd | You decide to keep it for later. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flute" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | The little flute is simply carved. In the right moment it will play Floyd | the SONG of ORDER. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you the garden is beginning to return to life. The rose bush Floyd | has tiny pink buds, preparing to become flowers soon. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | The porch of the old house ends abruptly as the stairs have rotted Floyd | away beyond all use. There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the Floyd | old house. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell rose" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL ROSE Floyd | Floyd | Your nose notices a smell that is fragrant and flowery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rose" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROSE Floyd | Floyd | The bushes and plants are green with life. You notice a rose bush with Floyd | blush-pink buds, and not far away lavender scents the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "repair porch" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > REPAIR PORCH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fix porch" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > FIX PORCH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mend porch" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > MEND PORCH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X POT Floyd | Floyd | It is dusty, cracked. It rests against the front porch where stairs Floyd | used to be. Those stairs are gone completely now, either torn up by Floyd | some strong arm or simply rotted away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > CLEAN POT Floyd | Floyd | You rub the cracked flowerpot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make stairs" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > MAKE STAIRS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "build stairs" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > BUILD STAIRS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON POT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB POT Floyd | Floyd | Little is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH POT Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE POT Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH POT Floyd | Floyd | The cracked flowerpot is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a measuring cup Floyd | a round tin Floyd | flute, house key, stone of flexibility and origami bird Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tin" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X TIN Floyd | Floyd | A round metal tin, nine inches in diameter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open tin" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN TIN Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake tin" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > SHAKE TIN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | You place the little flute to your lips and blow a few experimental Floyd | notes. The sound is soft and a little melancholy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bird" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIRD Floyd | Floyd | An expertly folded paper bird, the GIFT of GRATITUDE. The colors seem Floyd | to change slightly in the Eunice light, but you think its blue. You Floyd | remember your Gratitude List: Floyd | Floyd | peanuts Floyd | shelter Floyd | ifcomp Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss bird" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS BIRD Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | The old house blocks your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Plainfield Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Plainfield Floyd | A broad field or plain with nothing particularly distinguishing about Floyd | it, except for the profusion of flowers Floyd | Floyd | Wildflowers cover the field in glorious color Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you the garden is beginning to return to life. The rose bush Floyd | has tiny pink buds, preparing to become flowers soon. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | The porch of the old house ends abruptly as the stairs have rotted Floyd | away beyond all use. There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the Floyd | old house. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander southeast into the prairie, but without a way to Floyd | navigate you would easily become lost. If that happened, hope would Floyd | never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I seem to be stuck, unable to find the fifth treasure." | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe I need to play this flute elsewhere." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadowland Floyd | The wind blows gently across the rolling meadow. This would be a sweet Floyd | place to sit for an afternoon in a hammock and listen to the birds Floyd | sing, except that there is no hammock and no birds singing. Floyd | Floyd | A whisk lies on the meadowland, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | You place the little flute to your lips and blow a few experimental Floyd | notes. The sound is soft and a little melancholy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take whisk" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WHISK Floyd | Floyd | You reach down and easily pick up the whisk. Though you aren't sure Floyd | where it belongs, someone always needs a whisk somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassland Floyd | Dry rustling grasses surround you. Floyd | Floyd | The only thing breaking the continuity is a huge and gnarled tree, Floyd | framed dark against the wide sky. Floyd | Floyd | A spatula rests on some grass, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "You tried something here that you need to do elsewhere." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | You place the little flute to your lips and blow a few experimental Floyd | notes. The sound is soft and a little melancholy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "By here i mean thegarden." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take spatula" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SPATULA Floyd | Floyd | You reach down to retrieve the spatula, but no matter how hard you Floyd | pull it won't come up from the grassland. Assuredly it doesn't belong, Floyd | but it seems that other things need to be taken care of before you can Floyd | return the spatula to its rightful place, wherever that might be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander southwest, but without the tree as a signpost you Floyd | would easily become lost in ever-shifting green grasses. If you were Floyd | lost, hope would never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadowland Floyd | The wind blows gently across the rolling meadow. This would be a sweet Floyd | place to sit for an afternoon in a hammock and listen to the birds Floyd | sing, except that there is no hammock and no birds singing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Woods Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pine Woods Floyd | The dark pine wood is a solid wall. Yet, as you look you can see a Floyd | break in the trees where a path of pine needles leads west deeper into Floyd | the wood or south to an open field. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take needles" | ||
Floyd ] Pine Woods Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE NEEDLES Floyd | Floyd | Sometimes you can't take it with you. This is one of those times. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you the garden is beginning to return to life. The rose bush Floyd | has tiny pink buds, preparing to become flowers soon. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | The porch of the old house ends abruptly as the stairs have rotted Floyd | away beyond all use. There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the Floyd | old house. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I tried a lot of things in the yard." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "If you want another poke?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | Lift your shoulders up to your ears. Feel the muscles tense. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | Stretch your shoulders back as far as is comfortable, pushing your Floyd | sternum forward and take a deep breath. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | Raise your arms over your head and feel your sides stretch. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | Ahhh, that felt good. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, please" | |
| DavidW says, "Suggest a location." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "You've been ignoring the tree." | ||
| DavidW asks, "What tree?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "To the south." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadowland Floyd | The wind blows gently across the rolling meadow. This would be a sweet Floyd | place to sit for an afternoon in a hammock and listen to the birds Floyd | sing, except that there is no hammock and no birds singing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassland Floyd | Dry rustling grasses surround you. Floyd | Floyd | The only thing breaking the continuity is a huge and gnarled tree, Floyd | framed dark against the wide sky. Floyd | Floyd | A spatula rests on some grass, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Never noticed it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREE Floyd | Floyd | The tree is dark against the gray-green of the sky and mostly bare, Floyd | with only a few yellow leaves. The trunk is thick and twisted. Low Floyd | branches create a wide crown on the horizon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x branches" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRANCHES Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||
Floyd ] Tree Crown Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB TREE Floyd | Floyd | You hook your arm around a low branch and hoist yourself up. From Floyd | there its an easy climb to the top with the wide horizontal branches Floyd | forming an rough ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Tree Crown Floyd | The wind blows strongly this high up and you grasp a branch for Floyd | stability. There are only a few leaves still holding on here and Floyd | there. Floyd | Floyd | The tree holds you high above Eunice in the palm of its dark branches. Floyd | Floyd | You aren't sure what you are looking for, until you see it. A small Floyd | yellow apple hangs on by a delicate twig which looks ready to snap in Floyd | the wind at any moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That would explain why you didn't interact with it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x apple" | ||
Floyd ] Tree Crown Floyd | > Floyd | > X APPLE Floyd | Floyd | It is a small yellow apple. As you look closer, you notice shades of Floyd | reds and browns and greens on the skin in a collection of all the Floyd | colors of fall. Your mouth begins to water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take apple" | ||
Floyd ] Tree Crown Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE APPLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell apple" | ||
Floyd ] Tree Crown Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL APPLE Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat apple" | ||
Floyd ] Tree Crown Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT APPLE Floyd | Floyd | With full awareness of your hand moving toward your mouth, you Floyd | appreciate the smell and colors of the fruit. Imagine what it took for Floyd | this to get to your hands: sunshine, water, warmth, and time. You take Floyd | a first bite and for a moment hold the tart sweet fruit in your mouth. Floyd | As you chew, you notice it fully as if it were your first time ever Floyd | eating an apple. Very slowly you chew, appreciating the change in Floyd | texture and the nourishment. You continue until you finish the apple Floyd | and feel completely sated. Floyd | A few brown seeds are all that is left. You keep them as a memory. Floyd | Floyd | Look at the seeds again anytime you want to remember mindful eating Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seeds" | ||
Floyd ] Tree Crown Floyd | > Floyd | > X SEEDS Floyd | Floyd | Some little brown SEEDS of MINDFULNESS that came from the apple you Floyd | ate. Floyd | Floyd | You remember holding it with full awareness of the weight in your Floyd | hand, appreciating the smell and colors of the fruit. You imagined Floyd | what it took for this to get to your hands: sunshine, water, warmth, Floyd | and time. You felt the fruit against your teeth and you took the first Floyd | bite. After chewing, you noticed the first burst of flavor and how it Floyd | gradually faded. Paying attention fully as if it is your first time Floyd | ever eating an apple. Floyd | Very slowly chewing, appreciating the change in texture and taste, you Floyd | finished the apple and felt completely sated. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Now you should also be able to take that spatula." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassland Floyd | Many grasses - wild oat, foxtail, ryegrass, and buffalo grass make up Floyd | an ocean of green rolling around you. Floyd | Floyd | The only thing breaking the continuity is a huge and gnarled tree, Floyd | framed dark against the wide sky. Floyd | Floyd | A spatula rests on some grass, looking very out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take spatula" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SPATULA Floyd | Floyd | You reach down and easily pick up the spatula. Though you aren't sure Floyd | where it belongs, maybe a seafaring mouse needs a paddle somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Grassland Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a spatula Floyd | a whisk Floyd | a measuring cup Floyd | a round tin Floyd | seeds, flute, house key, stone of flexibility and origami bird Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess I'm making a cake to celebrate my victory later." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadowland Floyd | The wind blows gently across the rolling meadow. You can just make out Floyd | the faint notes of far off birdsong, though you can see no birds here Floyd | yet. This is a lovely spot to sit for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | A hammock sways slightly in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hammock" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > X HAMMOCK Floyd | Floyd | The hammock is wide and cozy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie on it" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > LIE ON IT Floyd | Floyd | You hold the hammock steady and climb awkwardly into it, thinking with Floyd | some amusement that for all their comfort, hammocks are particularly Floyd | uncomfortable to get into... But now you are lying down, every limb Floyd | supported. Your skin warms in the sun. You are held and rocked gently. Floyd | As you sway, looking up to the great wide sky of Eunice. All this Floyd | cuddling into the hammock has succeeded in making you rather sleepy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You close your eyes for a moment. Thoughts that were loud and Floyd | distracting become quiet. You can hear your breath grow deeper and Floyd | more regular as you fall into a light sleep. Floyd | Birds and insects make a sweet lullaby around you. Floyd | After some unknown amount of time you wake up to Eunice, remembering Floyd | your quest. A line from a poem alights on your mind, "Hope is the Floyd | thing with feathers". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Meadowland Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You start to wander east into the green grasses, but without a way to Floyd | navigate you would easily become lost. If that happened, hope would Floyd | never return to Eunice. Thankfully, you turn back.. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the hammock) Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you the garden is beginning to return to life. The rose bush Floyd | has tiny pink buds, preparing to become flowers soon. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | The porch of the old house ends abruptly as the stairs have rotted Floyd | away beyond all use. There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the Floyd | old house. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put seeds in pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SEEDS IN POT Floyd | Floyd | You gently plant the seeds in the cracked flowerpot. Floyd | Quickly, tendrils sprout in the dirt. They grow into strong tangle of Floyd | vines, twisting and turning around each other until they form stairs Floyd | north to the porch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vines" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X VINES Floyd | Floyd | The tangle of vines form leafy green steps north to the front porch Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk gingerly up the green vine stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | It was always a humble porch, now looking only slightly worse for Floyd | wear, and it has been swept recently. Floyd | Floyd | There is a large front door to the old house on one side of the porch Floyd | Floyd | A metal mailbox sits off to one side and a mat lies near the front Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Now that you are on the porch, you realize just how large the wooden Floyd | front door is, truly monumental. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mat" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAT Floyd | Floyd | Woven grasses form a square mat in front of the door. It does not say Floyd | "welcome". It does not even give a very welcoming impression. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under mat" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER MAT Floyd | Floyd | You find dust and dirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean mat" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > CLEAN MAT Floyd | Floyd | You rub the welcome mat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | It is a metal box with the word "Mail" embossed on the front. It looks Floyd | polished and clean, and a little out of place on the porch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You pull open the front panel of the mailbox. A pair of beady eyes Floyd | glare back at you from a tiny wrinkled face. The elf, for she has Floyd | narrow pointy ears sticking up above a little green hat, screeches Floyd | loudly: "BAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x elf" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > X ELF Floyd | Floyd | The elf is about five inches high and looks at you with an unyielding Floyd | grumpiness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask elf about elf" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ELF ABOUT ELF Floyd | Floyd | The elf glares at you. Floyd | Floyd | "Bah, the elf," the elf yells, again. The elf is very yell-y. Floyd | Who knew elves would be so screechy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask elf about mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ELF ABOUT MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | The elf rolls her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask elf about eunice" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ELF ABOUT EUNICE Floyd | Floyd | "You want to know about Eunice?" the elf asks, though clearly it is a Floyd | rhetorical question, "it's dark, it's empty, and it's not going to Floyd | change." Floyd | Floyd | "That seems a little severe", you respond. Surprisingly, she doesn't Floyd | yell but just shrugs, "I am not one to compromise. People have told me Floyd | I need more flexibility, but where would I get that?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give stone to elf" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE STONE TO ELF Floyd | Floyd | The elf steps back to let you place the little stone inside the Floyd | mailbox. She stands for a moment with hands on her hips, looking at Floyd | it, and then with great effort she pushes it just slightly to the Floyd | left. Now that it is in the perfect place, she sits on the stone of Floyd | flexibility just like a bean bag chair. The elf is now grinning Floyd | happily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask elf about eunice" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ELF ABOUT EUNICE Floyd | Floyd | "Can you tell me more about this place?" you inquire. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't get around Eunice much," the elf admits, "though before the Floyd | Troll shut himself away, this was a happy place - when Hope was free. Floyd | I visited the group in the woods and the toad long, long ago back when Floyd | Hope was here and we knew "how to kneel down in the grass, how to be Floyd | idle and blessed"..." She clears her throat and awkwardly wipes her Floyd | face with the back of her hand. "So much has changed since Hope was Floyd | lost."." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask elf about hope" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ELF ABOUT HOPE Floyd | Floyd | You mention Hope. Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe things won't always be as they are now, maybe things can change Floyd | for the better." she shrugs, "if you can succeed." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask elf about troll" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ELF ABOUT TROLL Floyd | Floyd | "So do I have to fight the troll or something?" You ask worriedly. Floyd | Floyd | ""Fight the troll? why would you do that?" the elf gasps, "he is going Floyd | through a really tough time right now, but I don't think he would ever Floyd | fight anyone." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask elf about mat" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ELF ABOUT MAT Floyd | Floyd | "Sounds interesting. Haven't got the foggiest idea about that," Floyd | replies the elf, "I'm just a tiny elf in a mailbox, after all." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a spatula Floyd | a whisk Floyd | a measuring cup Floyd | a round tin Floyd | flute, house key and origami bird Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask elf about cage" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ELF ABOUT CAGE Floyd | Floyd | "Sounds interesting. Haven't got the foggiest idea about that," Floyd | replies the elf, "I'm just a tiny elf in a mailbox, after all." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the front door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door swings open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The elf waves goodbye. Floyd | Floyd | Old House Floyd | The whole house has the feeling of neglect and something more... as if Floyd | the place were holding its breath. Floyd | Floyd | The front door is open, letting in rays of golden light. Floyd | Floyd | A huge troll looms in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x troll" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X TROLL Floyd | Floyd | The troll is standing rock-like in the middle of the one room house. Floyd | He is large and the house is rather little, so he takes up a lot of Floyd | space. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Interesting that I haven't seen the cage yet." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask troll about troll" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TROLL ABOUT TROLL Floyd | Floyd | The troll can feel your eyes on him, and... s l o w l y... turns ... Floyd | his head .... toward you. Floyd | Floyd | "Hhhrrmmmm" says the Troll, "hhrrrmmmm" then he seems to forget what Floyd | you were talking about. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "It'll come." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bird" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIRD Floyd | Floyd | An expertly folded paper bird, the GIFT of GRATITUDE. The colors seem Floyd | to change slightly in the Eunice light, but you think its blue. You Floyd | remember your Gratitude List: Floyd | Floyd | peanuts Floyd | shelter Floyd | ifcomp Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | You place the little flute to your lips and blow a few experimental Floyd | notes. The sound is soft and a little melancholy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flute" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | The little flute is simply carved. In the right moment it will play Floyd | the SONG of ORDER. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask troll about hope" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TROLL ABOUT HOPE Floyd | Floyd | After your long journey you can't resist asking, "what really happened Floyd | to Hope?" Floyd | The troll looks at you and remains frozen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask troll about eunice" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TROLL ABOUT EUNICE Floyd | Floyd | "Hhhrrmmmm" says the Troll, "hhrrrmmmm" then he seems to forget what Floyd | you were talking about. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask troll about house" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TROLL ABOUT HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | (the house key) Floyd | "Hhhrrmmmm" says the Troll, "hhrrrmmmm" then he seems to forget what Floyd | you were talking about. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a spatula Floyd | a whisk Floyd | a measuring cup Floyd | a round tin Floyd | flute, house key and origami bird Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give bird to troll" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BIRD TO TROLL Floyd | Floyd | The troll doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give flute to troll" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE FLUTE TO TROLL Floyd | Floyd | The troll doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmm" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | "Goodbye for now," you say. The troll watches you worriedly as you Floyd | leave. Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | It was always a humble porch, now looking only slightly worse for Floyd | wear, and it has been swept recently. Floyd | Floyd | There is a large front door to the old house on one side of the porch Floyd | Floyd | A metal mailbox sits off to one side and a mat lies near the front Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You walk gingerly down the green vine stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Around you the garden is beginning to return to life. The rose bush Floyd | has tiny pink buds, preparing to become flowers soon. Floyd | Just north of you is an old, wooden house. At one time it was a dearly Floyd | loved home, a place of comfort and laughter. Now it stands silent. Floyd | Floyd | There is a cracked flowerpot leaning against the old house. A tangle Floyd | of great, green vines is growing up to form stairs of the front porch. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered note flutters, caught in one of the nearby bushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in pot" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN POT Floyd | Floyd | The cracked flowerpot is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seeds" | ||
Floyd ] Front Yard Floyd | > Floyd | > X SEEDS Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk gingerly up the green vine stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | It was always a humble porch, now looking only slightly worse for Floyd | wear, and it has been swept recently. Floyd | Floyd | There is a large front door to the old house on one side of the porch Floyd | Floyd | A metal mailbox sits off to one side and a mat lies near the front Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mat" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MAT Floyd | Floyd | It seems to be serving its intended purpose just where it is, thank Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm. This section seems to have changed." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wipe feet" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > WIPE FEET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "welcome" | ||
Floyd ] Front Porch Floyd | > Floyd | > WELCOME Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Old House Floyd | The whole house has the feeling of neglect and something more... as if Floyd | the place were holding its breath. Floyd | Floyd | The front door is open, letting in rays of golden light. Floyd | Floyd | A huge troll looms in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss troll" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS TROLL Floyd | Floyd | The troll might not like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x house" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | One of the five treasures: the KEY of APPRECIATION! It's a house key. Floyd | The key is heavy brass and old fashioned. It rests solidly in your Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Now that you are on the porch, you realize just how large the wooden Floyd | front door is, truly monumental. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | Lift your shoulders up to your ears. Feel the muscles tense. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | Stretch your shoulders back as far as is comfortable, pushing your Floyd | sternum forward and take a deep breath. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | Raise your arms over your head and feel your sides stretch. Floyd | Then release. Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | Ahhh, that felt good. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "greet troll" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET TROLL Floyd | Floyd | "Hello," you squeak out a greeting. Floyd | Floyd | The troll can feel your eyes on him, and... s l o w l y... turns ... Floyd | his head .... toward you. Floyd | Floyd | (You could ask him about Quest, Hope, Poem or Joke.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask troll about quest" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TROLL ABOUT QUEST Floyd | Floyd | "I am still on a quest to free Hope!" you proclaim, "w-will you help Floyd | me?" The troll stares at you unmoving which seems intimidating at Floyd | first and then you see he really isn't able to move. Floyd | Floyd | "Got frzen whin Hofe traffd." he says and hardly moves his lips as he Floyd | talks. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh no," your voice sounds weak and tiny in the little house. You Floyd | don't have anything prepared for this. "How can I help?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | The Troll looks around, thinking, his eyeballs the only thing that has Floyd | free movement, "Laughng...kno any gud jokes? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask troll about joke" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TROLL ABOUT JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "Hhhrrmmmm" says the Troll, "hhrrrmmmm" then he seems to forget what Floyd | you were talking about. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell troll about joke" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL TROLL ABOUT JOKE Floyd | Floyd | You remember a few silly jokes, and tell one to the Troll. "What gets Floyd | wetter the more it dries? A towel." Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's belly shakes and he makes a barking-burping noise. He is Floyd | laughing! Floyd | He shakes himself vigorously and begins puttering around the old Floyd | house. Floyd | Floyd | Things begin to look a little brighter in the old wooden house. The Floyd | Troll makes a series of complicated taps on the wall and is able to Floyd | open numerous little cupboards. Floyd | "Now that I can move about again I feel like celebrating." He talks at Floyd | you from over his shoulder, "Hope might actually be freed with you Floyd | here, and I know what would be perfect for a little celebration!" Floyd | Floyd | The Troll begins to take out ingredients from all sorts of hidden Floyd | places: bright red berries, a crock of butter, dark chocolate, a bowl Floyd | of flour, and a jar of honey. Floyd | "Where did that cake tin go?" he wonders aloud. Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | ...You take out the cake tin and put it on the table about to say Floyd | something, when the Troll glances up, "ah ha!", he says, and then Floyd | butters the tin, "to remove the cake easily," he explains, "now if you Floyd | were a measuring cup, where would you be?" Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | ...You take out the measuring cup and put it on the table about to say Floyd | something, when the Troll glances up, "ah ha!", he says, and begins to Floyd | measure out all the ingredients needed. When everything is in he wipes Floyd | his hands on his pants, "now where is that whisk?" Floyd | Once again, you take out the whisk and put it on the table about to Floyd | say something, when the Troll glances up, "ah ha!", he says, and Floyd | begins to mix with an expert hand, "Now, now, now, one last Floyd | thing...the spatula..." Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Old House
Floyd | ...You take out the spatula and put it on the table without saying a
Floyd | word. When the Troll happens to glance up, he says "ah ha!" and takes
Floyd | the spatula in his hand. He uses it to transfer all the batter from
Floyd | the bowl to the baking tin. Then he puts the cake in a little oven
Floyd | hidden in a corner.
Floyd | In no time at all, the utensils and ingredients are cleared away, and
Floyd | a wonderful smell of butter and sugar fills the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | The smells coming from the hidden oven grow more and more delicious.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X OVEN Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | The house smells clean and fresher than before. Floyd | Floyd | The smells coming from the hidden oven grow more and more delicious. Floyd | Floyd | As you watch with your mouth watering, the Troll takes out a perfectly Floyd | baked cake, removes it from the tin, and covers it in pale pink Floyd | frosting. Floyd | "Please, don't wait on ceremony," the Troll graciously invites you Floyd | toward the cake, and then proceeds to take a large handful of the Floyd | dessert himself. It is only then that you notice something new has Floyd | appeared from all of the Troll's puttering and opening of secret Floyd | compartments. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Ah ha. I was about to say that this would get hard if the troll didn't talk about his problem." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Old House Floyd | The house feels comfortable and homey. Everything is better with cake. Floyd | Floyd | Now you notice a large steamer trunk in one corner of the little Floyd | house. It shouldn't be suspicious, even a troll needs some storage Floyd | space...but there is no denying that it feels incredibly suspicious. Floyd | The snake coiled on top might be adding to your discomfort. Floyd | Floyd | A beautifully frosted and perfectly baked cake sitting atop an Floyd | overturned round tin on the floor the Old House. Almost half is Floyd | already gone and a few moist crumbs lie scattered around it. Floyd | Floyd | The front door is open, letting in rays of golden light. Floyd | Floyd | The troll is puttering around the little house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x snake" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X SNAKE Floyd | Floyd | A coil of reptilian muscle, you shudder and decide not to disturb it. Floyd | Floyd | "Bit intimidating," the Troll admits, "I'm much too afraid to do Floyd | anything with him myself." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask snake about snake" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK SNAKE ABOUT SNAKE Floyd | Floyd | "SSSSssssssss" saysss the ssnake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | You place the little flute to your lips and blow a few experimental Floyd | notes. The sound is soft and a little melancholy. Floyd | The snake waves its head side to side as you play, turning jeweled Floyd | eyes to you, and flicking his delicate tongue. Then he wiggles from Floyd | off the steamer trunk and through the open window out into the Floyd | perfumed garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat cake" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CAKE Floyd | Floyd | Since there isn't a dessert plate or a cake serving set handy, you Floyd | wipe your hand on your pants and, as genteelly as possible, take a Floyd | handful of pink frosted cake. Floyd | Floyd | You remember mindfully eating the apple and again pause just one Floyd | moment before taking a first bite, smelling the treat and even Floyd | enjoying the feel of cake in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Then you take a bite. It is sweet and buttery and still warm from the Floyd | oven. You imagined what it took for this to get to your hands: from Floyd | growing the wheat and sugar cane to waiting while the troll frosted Floyd | the layers. You notice the first burst of flavor and how it gradually Floyd | fades at the end of each mouthful; paying attention fully as if it Floyd | were your first time ever eating cake. Floyd | Very slowly chewing, appreciating the change in texture and taste, you Floyd | finished the handful and felt completely satisfied Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open trunk" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN TRUNK Floyd | Floyd | You open the steamer trunk, revealing a bird's nest and an egg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nest" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X NEST Floyd | Floyd | A nest of paper and ribbons might seem nice, but this is part of Floyd | Hope's prison. It was built from starving gratitudes until they Floyd | shriveled up and died. Though an inanimate object, it seethes with Floyd | resentment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > X EGG Floyd | Floyd | The egg is cream colored and the size of a ball. The shell is dimpled Floyd | slightly all over. Part of Hope's prison, the longer you look at it Floyd | the colder you feel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take nest and egg" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE NEST AND EGG Floyd | Floyd | bird's nest: You don't want to get too close to that tangle. Floyd | egg: That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask troll about nest" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TROLL ABOUT NEST Floyd | Floyd | The troll can feel your eyes on him, and... s l o w l y... turns ... Floyd | his head .... toward you. Floyd | Floyd | "Hhhrrmmmm" says the Troll, "hhrrrmmmm" then he seems to forget what Floyd | you were talking about. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask troll about hope" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TROLL ABOUT HOPE Floyd | Floyd | After your long journey you can't resist asking, "what really happened Floyd | to Hope?" Floyd | The troll pauses a moment thinking, "it wasn't any one thing thing in Floyd | particular. All of Eunice slowly grew grayer and darker. I thought Floyd | that it was just happening to me alone, so I didn't say anything, and Floyd | began to think maybe it was my fault. I didn't know what to do. I Floyd | guess none of us did. It got worse. It got to where I couldn't do any Floyd | of the things I used to love, like reading poetry." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask troll about poem" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TROLL ABOUT POEM Floyd | Floyd | You mention poetry and troll recites in a pleasing deep voice, "For Floyd | oft, when on my couch I lie Floyd | In vacant or in pensive mood, Floyd | They flash upon that inward eye Floyd | Which is the bliss of solitude; Floyd | And then my heart with pleasure fills, Floyd | And dances with the daffodils." he sighs, "good stuff, good stuff." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | flute, house key and origami bird Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bird in nest" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BIRD IN NEST Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bird on nest" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BIRD ON NEST Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the bird's nest would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bird on egg" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BIRD ON EGG Floyd | Floyd | You carefully take the folded paper bird, remembering some things you Floyd | were grateful for, and place the little paper bird on top of the Floyd | enormous egg. It balances, just a little lopsided. For the moment, Floyd | nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | Then the paper bird flutters and settles in to warm the egg. Slowly Floyd | the egg begins to wobble, then shake. The paper bird flaps away Floyd | through the window and out into Eunice. Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | ...A crack forms in the shell. The crack expands and spreads. Floyd | Floyd | After what feels like hours, you can see a tiny beak poking through. Floyd | As Hope breaks free of its prison, sunlight fills the house. Floyd | Floyd | ... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Old House
Floyd | ...The hatchling is a delicate thing with feathers. It makes a shrill
Floyd | chirp and shuffles its baby bird body. Slowly, it spreads its wings.
Floyd | Before your eyes it grows and grows. It flies across all of Eunice
Floyd | like a cloud, yet filling it with sunlight. Hope has returned to the
Floyd | land.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** You have succeeded in returning Eunice to its glory!
Floyd | From the mountains and fields to the woods and marshes, Hope fills the
Floyd | land. It is now time to return to your own world. Thank you for your
Floyd | grit, appreciation, humor, mindfulness, flexibility, and gratitude.
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "hooray" | |
| DavidW says, "A little awkward in places, but ultimately satisfying." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm. The cake sidequest wasn't in the version I tested, but I may be responsible for it." | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suggested that certain rooms may be too empty in the version I played." | ||
| DavidW says, "ah. Well, then you did improve the game, if so." | ||
| DavidW says, "All rooms should have *some* purpose to them and not just empty spaces." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm not sure if the "can't take it" mechanic is a winner, though." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Old House Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, yes, that's one of the awkward bits." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to my beta-testers: Oliver Frank, Ryan Houldin, Andrew Cantino, Floyd | Marie Broadway, Jenny Brooks, Lillian Egloff, and most especially Floyd | Dmitriy Ryaboy. This would be a collection of poorly written Python Floyd | functions without all of you, and I appreciate your time and Floyd | contributions immensely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | In the past couple of decades, there has been a surge of psychological Floyd | research into the type of questions usually reserved for sitting at Floyd | the edge of the ocean on a gray day: How can I feel more joy? What Floyd | does love mean? When am I truly fulfilling my purpose in life? This Floyd | research has been grouped into the subfield of Positive Psychology. Floyd | Data shows that some simple actions can improve mood, perspective, and Floyd | resilience. There are now online courses, popular books, research Floyd | journals, and yes, even games. Floyd | Interactive fiction is especially suited to trying out something Floyd | strange and new because it creates a space to experiment through play. Floyd | This game is in a fantasy land, but the player is you, no one else, no Floyd | mask or cloak or metaphor. You could consider this a trial run with Floyd | new, psychological hiking gear, and afterward set off to explore your Floyd | own vast and wild internal world. Floyd | Or, don't have any intentions except playing. Either way, take a Floyd | little time to enjoy Eunice. I certainly enjoyed making it. I'm Floyd | grateful for the experience and for the support from many people along Floyd | the way. Floyd | Type CREDITS to read about everyone who helped make this game Floyd | possible. Floyd | Type COMMANDS for a list of suggested instructions. Floyd | Type HELP for a list of topics with more information. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger goes home. | ||
| Roger has disconnected. | Knight_Otu says, "Okay, I think there were no important meta-commands here." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "tell joke" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL JOKE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "tell joke to troll" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL JOKE TO TROLL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "tell troll a joke" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL TROLL A JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "Hhhrrmmmm" says the Troll, "hhrrrmmmm" then he seems to forget what Floyd | you were talking about. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "tell troll a joke" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL TROLL A JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "Hhhrrmmmm" says the Troll, "hhrrrmmmm" then he seems to forget what Floyd | you were talking about. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I used TELL TROLL ABOUT JOKE." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "tell troll about joke" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL TROLL ABOUT JOKE Floyd | Floyd | You remember a few silly jokes, and tell one to the Troll. "A wizard Floyd | was driving down the street, what went wrong? He turned into a Floyd | driveway!" Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's belly shakes and he makes a barking-burping noise. He is Floyd | laughing! Floyd | He shakes himself vigorously and begins puttering around the old Floyd | house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You remember a few silly jokes, and tell one to the Troll. "What did Floyd | the 0 say to the 8? Nice belt." Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's belly shakes and he makes a barking-burping noise. He is Floyd | laughing! Floyd | He shakes himself vigorously and begins puttering around the old Floyd | house. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Odd, tell troll a joke worked in the original." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Anyway, I found this a cute little game, and thought it would be the ideal change of pace after Pegasus." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes. Thank you." | ||
| DavidW says, "Also good to end on a happy note." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Old House Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You remember a few silly jokes, and tell one to the Troll. "What bow Floyd | can't be tied? A rainbow." Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's belly shakes and he makes a barking-burping noise. He is Floyd | laughing! Floyd | He shakes himself vigorously and begins puttering around the old Floyd | house. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If there's a sequel, I wanna see that dancing rabbit." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | ||
| DavidW says, "afk for a few minutes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I was wondering if that rabbit really exists, or just the protagonist's flight of fancy." | ||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||
| DavidW says, "There were flights of fancy for all the kitchen implements." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "There were, but the rabbit was the first." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah. I think the spatula suggests maybe a seafaring mouse needs a paddle." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The cup was to be a cat hat." | ||
| DavidW says, "And the measuring cup was ... yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "I forget what the whisk was supposedly for." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Seems it was just something people may need." | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. I wonder why the land is called Eunice? Maybe named after someone the author knows?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "U nice?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Kidding." | ||
| DavidW says, "ouch" | ||
| DavidW says, "You want wordplay, play Ailihphilia or Dream Pieces 2." | ||
