  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
ANOTHER WARNING! A lot (most!) of the transcripts contained on this site are, shall we say, family-friendly. This is not one of those family-friendly transcripts. Just so we're clear. |
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| **** SESSION ONE **** | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask devilindetails" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jerry Ford (c) 2017 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pre-game options: H for game-playing tips and the Help Floyd | Getting Started menu (if Floyd | you've never played an Interactive Fiction game, this would be a good Floyd | place to Floyd | start) Floyd | Floyd | Q to quit Floyd | Floyd | R to restore a saved game Floyd | Floyd | X to start game with extra on enabled (for Interactive Floyd | Fiction newcomers-- Floyd | spontaneous display of help tips when the game senses you are in Floyd | trouble; enter Floyd | [More] | Knight_Otu says, "Looks to be working." | |
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [More] | ||
| Floyd says, "the command extra off to disable)" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Any other key to start a new game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Note: This game contains scenes with sexually agressive behavior Floyd | which some Floyd | people may find offensive. For information about how to avoid these Floyd | scenes Floyd | without impacting the final outcome of the game, choose H for Floyd | Help.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details version 1.0 (2017-04-17) | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 0 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jerry Ford (c) 2017 Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | "Damn," you mutter, shivering on the sidewalk. Floyd | Floyd | Newly arrived in San Francisco, you know nobody, have no job Floyd | prospects, no Floyd | place to live, nothing more than a letter of introduction given to you Floyd | by your Floyd | Aunt Ophelia. Floyd | Floyd | Now you stand in a strange neighborhood in a strange city wearing Floyd | clothes that Floyd | clearly mark you as not from around here. Floyd | Floyd | Your aunt's parting admonition is still fresh on your mind: "Even Floyd | though you're Floyd | all grown up now, no longer a child, you're going to be far from home Floyd | and there Floyd | will be some who only want to take advantage of you. Guard this Floyd | letter Floyd | [More] | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [More] | ||
| Floyd says, "carefully and give it only to the person to whom it is" | ||
Floyd | addressed."
Floyd |
Floyd | It took your last two dollars to ride the bus to the Bernal Heights
Floyd | neighborhood. After wandering around looking at street signs for what
Floyd | seemed
Floyd | like hours, you now find yourself at the corner of Coleridge and
Floyd | Eugenia,
Floyd | clutching the envelope in your hand tightly, wondering what to do
Floyd | next.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or
Floyd | up a
Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing
Floyd | Coleridge.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 1 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | You are at the intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia, where the Bernal Floyd | Heights Floyd | neighborhood starts to rise up from the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | Once a Mexican land grant rancho owned by Jose Cornelio de Bernal, for Floyd | whom the Floyd | area is named, the mostly residential Bernal Heights neighborhood Floyd | anchors the Floyd | sunny southeastern corner of the modern city, just north of Hunter's Floyd | Point and Floyd | Candlestick, and just south and east of the Mission district. Floyd | Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or Floyd | up a Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing Floyd | Coleridge. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'letter of introduction' eh?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Oops." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Anyone want to drive? I've driven in most recent sessions, I should give up the wheel." | ||
| Guenni grabs it. :-) | ||
| DavidW says, "go ahead, Guenni" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 2 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | The flimsy clothing you wear--a tee shirt, a pair of flip flops, and a Floyd | pair of Floyd | cargo pants--provides little protection against the cold, damp fog Floyd | that Floyd | frequently rolls in from the ocean to cover the city, to the Floyd | consternation of Floyd | tourists and resulting amusement of the local population. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 3 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing a tee shirt, a pair of flip flops, and a pair of cargo Floyd | pants, Floyd | and carrying an envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 4 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > X ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | The envelope is of a high-quality linen-based paper, the kind seldom Floyd | seen any Floyd | more. It is a light pink in color and smells faintly of roses. Floyd | Floyd | It was given to you by your Aunt Ophelia when you left to find fame Floyd | and fortune Floyd | in California. Floyd | Floyd | "It's a letter of introduction that will be sure to open doors for Floyd | you," she Floyd | told you as you bade her goodbye. "It was written by my dearest Floyd | friend's Floyd | daughter's boyfriend's mother. Guard it as a most prized possession Floyd | and only Floyd | give it to someone you are certain can advance your station." Floyd | Floyd | With that, she closed the door and left you standing on the front Floyd | porch. Floyd | Floyd | The envelope is open. Floyd | Floyd | Neatly printed on the face of the envelope is the following... Floyd | Floyd | To Whom it May Concern Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Street Floyd | Floyd | San Francisco, California Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "I'm here! I'm awake!" | |
| DavidW asks, "I assume we go up?" | ||
| DavidW says, "hey Jacqueline!" | ||
| Guenni waves. | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Hey Jacq!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But ... I'm going to be a second because I literally just woke up in an OMG CF panic." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Want us to wait?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Yea, Jacqueline is here." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can I have 5??" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Stay calm, don't panic." | ||
| Guenni says, "Course." | ||
| DavidW says, "of course." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "YAY" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Peril-sensitive sunglasses..." | ||
| DavidW asks (of wordsmith), "Are you having connection problems, by the way?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "self-induced... I was annoyed by the HTML in my PuTTY window, and tried two other clients. But I ended up back with PuTTY." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I'll stick with it for now." | ||
| Guenni says, "You could try to let your client cast qidle in regular intervalls to avoud to get dropped off." | ||
| DavidW says, "The HTML is on purpose. For Perry to use in the transcript." | ||
| wordsmith asks, "So your IFMUD clients don't support HTML either?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Not mine." | ||
| Guenni says, "Mine neither" | ||
| wordsmith says, "OK, cool." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm currently using something called Potato." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "You may be able, depending on the client, to get it to recognize them and change the text accordingly." | ||
| DavidW says (to wordsmith), "Also, what time zone are you in? We're all over the planet here. I'm in Ontario, Canada." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I'm in MDT - 12:23 pm here." | ||
| DavidW says, "I mention this partly to say that Jacqueline's in Hawai'i, and it's something like 8:23 am for her." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or maybe even 7:23 am. I forget." | ||
| Guenni says, "Switch the "A" for a "p" and you have Knight's and my time. :-)" | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "Wow!" | ||
| Knight_Otu nods. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "jacq's going to be a couple more minutes" | ||
| DavidW says, "Thanks, Sam." | ||
| DavidW says (to wordsmith), "If you've been reading the transcripts, they're not quite up to date because we spent half a year on just one game, Cragne Manor, and formatting that collection of sessions is a bit time-consuming on its own, even with bots doing half the work." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Yes, I realized there's always a lag, but wasn't sure how to know what had been happening." | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Cragne Manor is the game with a thousand (hundred, whatever) authors?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Close. 84." | ||
| DavidW says, "More like 83 ish." | ||
| DavidW says, "ah. thanks." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I might be the one off." | ||
| DavidW says, "The last three sessions, we played Superluminal Vagrant Twin, I think it was called." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "So many planets. So little examining." | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "Oh, I liked that one!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "As in, no examining." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I like most of Pacian's works I've tried." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah, I think that sumarizes it perfectly. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "It is good, Pacian is a god, but I have trouble adjusting to a game that disables examining." | ||
| wordsmith says, "They usually feel like a palate cleanser, and fun." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Guenni), "Oh, remember that other author we talked about? Robin Johnston, who wrote Aunts and Butlers?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "He's working on a new game about pirates for IF Comp." | ||
| Guenni hums the song from the treasure island audiodrama. | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, the one version she knows." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry folks. Actually back now." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ok." | ||
| Guenni says, "We just had started so you didn't miss that much." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "We started a game called "Devil in the Details"." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh. I... appear to not be 'here'" | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "There I am." | |
| DavidW says, "We're in San Francisco with a letter of introduction from our aunt." | ||
| Guenni says, "We're in san francisco with no money and no real prospects except a letter of recomendation from our aunt." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks. And you started Perry? Or this is Perry from last time." | ||
| DavidW says, "New Perry." | ||
| Guenni says, "We started it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||
| Guenni says, "We should work on our synchronizing. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "And wordsmith is a new player with us." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Hello, Wordsmith!" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Ok, off we are?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not normally this scattered." | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "Hello!" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Yes! Sorry for the !!!" | ||
| Guenni says, "For now I'm driving, unless you want to." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nah. I'm in pain, so please proceed. :)" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 5 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > READ LETTER Floyd | Floyd | With a whisper of guilt echoing in the back of your mind--it's not Floyd | addressed to Floyd | me, it's someone else's mail, I shouldn't be doing this--you Floyd | remove the letter Floyd | from the envelope and read the simple almost childlike yet neatly Floyd | written Floyd | cursive: Floyd | Floyd | Please allow me to introduce a very dear friend thrice removed who Floyd | I just know Floyd | from the very bottom of my heart to be honorable, honest, Floyd | trustworthy, and Floyd | kind, and a hardworking person who I'm sure you will find perfect Floyd | for any task Floyd | you may wish to assign. Floyd | Floyd | You quickly refold the letter and put it back in the envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're at the intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia, and I think we're likely at the address on the envelope." | |
| Guenni asks, "Well let's find out, shall we?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, please." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 6 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You cross the street, flip flops flapping beneath your feet making a Floyd | muffled Floyd | slap-slap-slapping sound with each step, and climb the long flight of Floyd | steps up Floyd | to the entry way. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | As you face the building, you see three doors standing side by side by Floyd | side. Floyd | Floyd | Brass numbers identify the door to the north (on your left) as 300a, Floyd | the door Floyd | straight ahead as 300b, and the door to the south (on your right) as Floyd | 300c. Floyd | Each door has an accompanying door bell next to it. Floyd | Floyd | Back down the steps is the street corner. Floyd | Floyd | Centered about waist high on each door is a horizontal opening covered Floyd | by a Floyd | hinged, brass flap, an old-fashioned mail slot. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "The letter is addressed to 300b." | |
| Jacqueline says, "What platform is this? Inform or something else? Just curious about the hard returns." | ||
| DavidW says, "TADS 3" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ring 300b" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 7 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > RING 300B Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button for the doorbell to 300b, you hear a faint Floyd | ding dong Floyd | from behind the door. There is no answer. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe I should come back later, you think. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put letter in slot" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 7 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | Which do you want to put it in, the mail slot for 300a, the mail slot Floyd | for 300b, Floyd | or the mail slot for 300c? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put letter in slot 300b" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 8 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN SLOT 300B Floyd | Floyd | You turn to face the building. You raise the brass flap that covers Floyd | the mail Floyd | slot and insert the envelope into the opening. When you release the Floyd | flap, it Floyd | snaps shut with a loud clap and the envelope disappears. Floyd | Floyd | You take a half step back to ponder your next move, and... Floyd | Floyd | Click! You hear what sounds like a door latch and the door Floyd | to 300b swings Floyd | open, almost as if you were being invited in. Except you see nobody Floyd | at the Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "spooky" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | |
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 9 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here you could go down or in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 10 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You step through the open door. Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | Just inside the door, a flight of stairs leads up to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads out to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Interesting layout for a flat." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 11 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I feel we should hold on to the letter." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sconces are also interesting for a flat" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh wow. I seem to have lagged." | ||
| DavidW says, "We used the letter to get into the place." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 12 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > X SOFA Floyd | Floyd | Along the wall opposite and facing the desk is an upholstered leather Floyd | couch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 13 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest on the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "the decorator here really likes leather" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 14 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A large, polished wood desk befitting a banker or stock broker is the Floyd | most Floyd | prominent piece of furniture in the room. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suspect we need to go southwest." | |
| DavidW says, "This seems oddly familiar as if I've somehow already played this." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You likely have." | ||
| Guenni says, "Than please curb your helpful urges. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I tried to pick a game I hadn't played!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You've played enough IF for three lifetimes, DW." | ||
| wordsmith says, "It was bound to happen..." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "search desk" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 15 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH DESK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello, hello, hello," a deep feminine voice booms out from...you Floyd | don't quite Floyd | know where, but it sounds oddly remote, yet somehow close. The next Floyd | room, Floyd | perhaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 16 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The bedroom contains no bed, only a dresser, a free-standing wardrobe, Floyd | a full- Floyd | length mirror on a stand, and three brass floor lamps evenly spaced Floyd | around a Floyd | plush, deep-piled, solid black circular rug. Floyd | Floyd | An overhead light hanging on a chain gives the illusion of a spotlit Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads northeast to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I bet that's Lucy. Lucy Fur." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Ow." | ||
| Guenni says, "Probably." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x rug" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 17 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > X RUG Floyd | Floyd | Some six feet in diameter, the black circular rug appears at first Floyd | glance to be Floyd | a bottomless pit in the center of the room. But as your eyes adjust Floyd | to the Floyd | light, you see it is a very plush, deep pile carpet. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "pull carpet" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 18 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > PULL CARPET Floyd | Floyd | Pulling the rug has no effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sit on carpet" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (sitting on the rug) Floyd | 19 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON CARPET Floyd | Floyd | You sit on the rug. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh dear. I think the mirror and wardrobe may be ... unsettling." | |
| Jacqueline says, "It's like we're playing with a medium." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 20 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You stand up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline) DavidW says, "I sense... a presence in the wardrobe. Maybe." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "get rug" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 21 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > GET RUG Floyd | Floyd | A puff of dust escapes from beneath the rug as you lift an edge. Floyd | "Phew!" you Floyd | say, wrinkling your nose. "Better not be moving that." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe call out or go back a room?" | |
| Guenni asks, "Are you in a hurry?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 22 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > X WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | A free-standing wardrobe some six feet tall by six feet wide by three Floyd | feet deep Floyd | stands against one wall of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 23 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Standing in a corner between the dresser and the wardrobe is a Floyd | six-foot tall Floyd | three-foot wide mirror on a stand that tilts in its stand, on pivots Floyd | at either Floyd | side. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I'd say since she's the one calling she'll do it again if it's urgent. :-)" | |
| Guenni says, "As long as there are things to x it can't hurt to do that." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Or chases us gun in hand?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Unless we're on a timer, but I don't get the sense that we are." | ||
| Guenni says, "Me neither." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 24 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Staring back at you from within the mirror is a person wearing a pair Floyd | of cargo Floyd | pants, the dirty old tee shirt you have been wearing since leaving Floyd | home, and a Floyd | pair of flip flops. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 25 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You step out of the circle of light, off of the rug. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Sit, sit, sit," the voice commands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Echo echo echo we hear the voice." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sit on sofa" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the sofa) Floyd | 26 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON SOFA Floyd | Floyd | The soft leather caresses your legs luxuriously as you sink into the Floyd | sofa's Floyd | deep cushions. Ahhhh, you sigh, this feels so right! Floyd | Maybe I should stay here Floyd | and wait for awhile and see what happens. Floyd | Floyd | You wait. You start to fidget. A flash of light floods the room then Floyd | immediately subsides. Floyd | Floyd | When your eyes readjust, you see a woman seated in the leather chair Floyd | behind the Floyd | desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't sit so far away," she says in a regal tone of voice, "Sit over Floyd | here, in Floyd | the light. In front of the desk. In the director's chair." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DJ arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sit in director's" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 27 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT IN DIRECTOR'S Floyd | Floyd | You sit in the director's chair. Floyd | Floyd | "Not from around here, are you? Well, never mind." She waves the Floyd | envelope you Floyd | shoved through the mail slot then takes a thick file out of her desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Standard contract I assure you, I'll just fill in some blanks while Floyd | we talk," Floyd | she says as she opens the folder. Floyd | Floyd | "First things first, boy or girl? Don't get your panties in a bunch, Floyd | there's a Floyd | place on the form, it's gotta be, boy, girl--oh, don't huff, I know Floyd | we're all Floyd | adults here, just my way of speaking is all--or you could decline to Floyd | state. I Floyd | don't advise that, it would severely limit my options to help, you Floyd | know? So. Floyd | Boy? Girl? Or--and I say this with nothing but the utmost Floyd | respect--are you Floyd | going to ignore my counsel and decline to state?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say male, say female or decline to state) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover enters from the south, through an unauthorized orange door. | Guenni asks, "What's the verdict?" | |
| wordsmith says, "I say, female. Umm, girl." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'd like to decline and see what happens." | ||
| wordsmith says, "You are driving, so that's fine." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I second declining." | ||
| Knight_Otu shrugs. | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, we're still a comitee here. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Guenni), "Feel free." | ||
| Guenni asks, "So, any other votes?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "She was enough of a jerk about it that I want to make a point, even though most forms really, really, really do not need to know gender." | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "wordsmith" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 28 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > WORDSMITH Floyd | Floyd | "No, dear. It's boy, girl, or...?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say male, say female or decline to state) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Aw. Wordsmith isn't a gender option?!" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "decline" | Jacqueline says, "Oh, that was Plover. Hi, Plover." | |
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 29 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > DECLINE Floyd | Floyd | Her head snaps up. Floyd | Floyd | "Doesn't matter to me what you think you ought to be, but either you Floyd | go to the Floyd | boy's room or you go to the girl's room when you gotta pee, right? Floyd | Only other Floyd | option is out back by the garbage cans but you don't want to go there, Floyd | do you? Floyd | Of course not. So, again, boy, girl, or...?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say male, say female or decline to state) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "decline" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 30 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > DECLINE Floyd | Floyd | "And your first name is...?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your first name) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wow, I guess this game is trying to make us hate this woman. If so, well done." | |
| * DJ has joined the channel. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Plover runs out of the room, with a smile on his face. | wordsmith says, "Apparently we are about to sign a contract, so..." | |
| Guenni says, "Well, she's the ultimate bad girl, but she could be more subtle about it. :P" | ||
| DavidW says, "I do believe this is the devil we're negotiating with." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "decline" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 31 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > DECLINE Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, Decline," Lucy says. "Last name?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your last name) Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni exclaims, "OOps!" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 30 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | One turn undone: decline Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh... right. You make a good point." | |
| Guenni asks, "So, what's our first name?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Surferjette" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Decline. Wait, no." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Club, last name Floyd?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh. Sure." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I like it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Knight), "yay" | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm for Knight's suggestion." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Though we did that last week too." | ||
| Guenni says, "So? It's still true." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Then it's tradition." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "club" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 31 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > CLUB Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, Club," Lucy says. "Last name?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your last name) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Then let's, I guess." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "floyd" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 32 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > FLOYD Floyd | Floyd | "All righty," Lucy says. "You are a person named Club Floyd, a Floyd | personage of no Floyd | particular gender. Is that correct?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YUP" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Accurate" | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Yeah!" | ||
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 33 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent. Excellent." she says in a voice that is almost a purr. Floyd | Floyd | "So, now, Club, my love, here's where the rubber meets the road." Lucy Floyd | winks at Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | "You get to tell me your most precious secret longing. What turns you Floyd | on, Floyd | presses your buttons, makes you quiver all over with desire? Fame? Floyd | Fortune? Floyd | Power? 'Happiness'?" (making air quotes with her fingers) Floyd | "Tell me!" Floyd | Floyd | You are dazzled. Your head swims. She persists. Floyd | Floyd | "Tell me, dear, what do you want out of life?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your most cherished desire) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | |
| Guenni says, "I think we have to choose one from the list." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, so we can't pick interactive fiction." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't want any of those badly enough to sell my soul, sorry." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ooh. Try interactive fiction." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe we just rent our soul." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Just to see." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "interactive fiction" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 34 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > INTERACTIVE FICTION Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, no, dear," Lucy says. "Fame, fortune, power or Floyd | happiness--those are Floyd | the things I offer. Now, what'll it be?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your most cherished desire) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "AW" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Darnit." | ||
| DavidW says, "I vote either fortune or happiness." | ||
| Guenni says, "Let's choose happiness? I mean, that includes all the others, possibly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm. I'm lagging again." | ||
| Guenni says, "Fortune might bring the jealousy of othèrs" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I heard a great joke like this (sort of) yesterday: a man finds a genie in a bottle. The genie says, 'There are three rules: you can't bring back anyone from the dead, can't make anyone love you, and no wishing for death.' So the man replies, 'I wish spiders could fly.' The genie replies, 'There are four rules.'" | ||
| DavidW says, "ha" | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Heh!" | ||
| wordsmith says, "snrk" | ||
| wordsmith snrk | wordsmith snrk | |
| Guenni asks, "So happiness it is?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "happiness." | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 35 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > HAPPINESS. Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent choice." Lucy beams. "Excellent. It's exactly Floyd | what I would have Floyd | chosen for you! Now that's settled, we need to move on to the boring Floyd | stuff. Floyd | Are you ready? Oh, no, dear, you don't need to bother with that, it'd Floyd | take way Floyd | too long to read every little bitty detail in that big old contract, Floyd | it's just Floyd | technical legalese, all you need to do is just sign, let me take care Floyd | of the Floyd | details. So now then, are you ready to sign?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | An outstretched arm offers you a pen. Floyd | Floyd | (You could take the pen; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I care not, since apparently we're selling our Club's soul against my expressed objection." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 36 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | "I...really, I should read it first," you say haltingly. "I mean, Floyd | read first, Floyd | sign after, isn't that what lawyers always say?" Floyd | Floyd | "Lawyers, pfah!" she replies angrily. "Dear, if you're not Floyd | going to trust me, Floyd | our relationship is not going to work. If you want a lifetime of Floyd | happiness, Floyd | sign that contract, otherwise stop wasting my time. Go on back to Floyd | Kansas or Floyd | Nebraska or wherever it is you're from and fry hamburgers for a Floyd | living. So, Floyd | now, what'll it be, sweetie, are you going to sign?" Floyd | Floyd | An outstretched arm offers you a pen. Floyd | Floyd | (You could take the pen; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "NO" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Even if it finds us an ending." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to readwrite: Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 36 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I guess that's one possible end. But let's try it." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 37 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | "Trust me, dear," Lucy says, "it's for the best. Now, will you please Floyd | take the Floyd | pen?" Floyd | Floyd | An outstretched arm offers you a pen. Floyd | Floyd | (You could take the pen; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nevertheless, persist." | |
| DJ asks, "What's the difference between take the pen and yes?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not sure. Possibly no difference." | ||
| Guenni says, "I don't think either." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 38 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | "Here," Lucy says with some exasperation. "Will you please take the Floyd | pen?" Floyd | Floyd | An outstretched arm offers you a pen. Floyd | Floyd | (You could take the pen; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am now seriously wondering if we can push the game to no." | |
| Guenni asks, "Ok, want to see if that leads somewhere, or give in already?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm willing to keep trying until she repeats herself." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 39 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | "Please stop wasting my time," she says with growing annoyance. "Are Floyd | you going Floyd | to take the pen?" Floyd | Floyd | An outstretched arm offers you a pen. Floyd | Floyd | (You could take the pen; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 40 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "I'm getting tired of this, dear," she says. "My help comes with a Floyd | price, you Floyd | either sign the contract or we will have to part ways. Now. Are you Floyd | or are Floyd | you not going to take take the pen?" Floyd | Floyd | An outstretched arm offers you a pen. Floyd | Floyd | (You could take the pen; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 41 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "If you're not serious about receiving my help, dear, I have other Floyd | things to Floyd | do," she says in a low, menacing voice. "Now. Are you going take the Floyd | pen?" Floyd | Floyd | An outstretched arm offers you a pen. Floyd | Floyd | (You could take the pen; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Menacing, eh?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Bring it, woman." | ||
| Guenni says, "Soon, the horns will be visible." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | She sits back in her chair and glares at you through narrowed eyes. Floyd | Her smile Floyd | has become frozen, humorless. Then her face softens and she says... Floyd | Floyd | "Why of course, dearie, of course you can read it like they Floyd | say you should, you Floyd | just take it on back to Nebraska or Kansas or wherever it is you came Floyd | from, and Floyd | you read to your heart's content. Then when you think you've Floyd | understood all of Floyd | the lawyerly convulations and obfuscations and clausifications and you Floyd | are Floyd | ready to sign up for a life of happiness beyond the wildest Floyd | imaginations your Floyd | drab little homebody surroundings can conjure, then you come on back Floyd | here, and Floyd | I'll see if I can't squeeze out some precious time from my Floyd | very busy schedule Floyd | to revisit this most generous offering that we've worked so Floyd | very hard on here Floyd | today." Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | Lucy stands, walks to the head of the stairs, and says, "As for right Floyd | now, Floyd | thanks for playing dear, come back again sometime when you're serious Floyd | about Floyd | achieving everlasting happiness. In the meantime, if you don't mind, Floyd | I have Floyd | some more meaningful work to do." Floyd | Floyd | She waves in the direction of the door. You stand, thank her for her Floyd | time, and Floyd | walk out the door and back onto the street corner, wondering what you Floyd | will do Floyd | next. Floyd | [More] | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 41 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | The End Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART the story, UNDO the last move, Floyd | see the CREDITS, Floyd | RESTORE a saved position, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Heh. Lucy" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Part of me thinks that's clever, and then part of me thinks that 'Lucy' is so obvious that surely it's been done before." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Some would say that's a good ending." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I like it. We won." | ||
| Guenni says, "It probably is." | ||
| DavidW) Lucy says, "oh, and I'm keeping the football." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I suppose you all would like to play again/" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "Ha!" | ||
| wordsmith says (to DW), "nice" | ||
| Guenni says, "Since I just ran over the saving whoever did it will have to restore." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > R Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 41 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Failed: the position could not be restored. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART the story, UNDO the last move, Floyd | see the CREDITS, Floyd | RESTORE a saved position, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "One sec. Let me go look." | |
| DavidW says, "I think we should try again. You might even want to see what happens if we use the other mail slots." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Should be the correct save." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it is the correct save." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, um, I guess we start over." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Weird. And good to know." | ||
| Guenni says, "Sometimes, floyd needs a second try." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > R Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 41 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Failed: the position could not be restored. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART the story, UNDO the last move, Floyd | see the CREDITS, Floyd | RESTORE a saved position, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hrrm." | |
| Guenni asks, "Hmm, perhaps saving in the midst of a dialogue isn't really possible?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That could be." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Though the game did say it saved..." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ok, than from the start we go." | ||
| Guenni says, "Computers, the things nobody really understands." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTART Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jerry Ford (c) 2017 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pre-game options: H for game-playing tips and the Help Floyd | Getting Started menu (if Floyd | you've never played an Interactive Fiction game, this would be a good Floyd | place to Floyd | start) Floyd | Floyd | Q to quit Floyd | Floyd | R to restore a saved game Floyd | Floyd | X to start game with extra on enabled (for Interactive Floyd | Fiction newcomers-- Floyd | spontaneous display of help tips when the game senses you are in Floyd | trouble; enter Floyd | [More] | Jacqueline says, "Computers understand computers." | |
| DavidW says, "Now that we know the setup, we can sit in the director's chair right away." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||
| DavidW says, "Or even sit in Lucy's chair." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I think maybe the game was saved as 'no'" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You're a cheeky one, DW." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | wordsmith says, "...after reviewing the scrollback" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [More] | ||
| Floyd says, "the command extra off to disable)" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Any other key to start a new game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Note: This game contains scenes with sexually agressive behavior Floyd | which some Floyd | people may find offensive. For information about how to avoid these Floyd | scenes Floyd | without impacting the final outcome of the game, choose H for Floyd | Help.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details version 1.0 (2017-04-17) | DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "You think she'll appear on our lap?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I would say, 'You WISH!' but, um..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Failed: the position could not be restored. Floyd | Floyd | Game not restored; start from beginning? (Y or N) Floyd | Runtime error: wrong number of arguments Floyd | cheaptads quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Jacqueline says, "WHOA" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, that wasn't it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, Guenni." | ||
| wordsmith says, "oh well, worth a try" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll start it back up." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I guess you all were using sleepmask?" | ||
| DavidW says, "we were, yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We were." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yes,." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask devilindetails" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jerry Ford (c) 2017 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pre-game options: H for game-playing tips and the Help Floyd | Getting Started menu (if Floyd | you've never played an Interactive Fiction game, this would be a good Floyd | place to Floyd | start) Floyd | Floyd | Q to quit Floyd | Floyd | R to restore a saved game Floyd | Floyd | X to start game with extra on enabled (for Interactive Floyd | Fiction newcomers-- Floyd | spontaneous display of help tips when the game senses you are in Floyd | trouble; enter Floyd | [More] | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [More] | ||
| Floyd says, "the command extra off to disable)" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Any other key to start a new game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Note: This game contains scenes with sexually agressive behavior Floyd | which some Floyd | people may find offensive. For information about how to avoid these Floyd | scenes Floyd | without impacting the final outcome of the game, choose H for Floyd | Help.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details version 1.0 (2017-04-17) | Jacqueline says, "There. I'll stpe back now." | |
| Guenni says, "What's wrong with my restart? Not that it really matters." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nothing at all, actually." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Let's test it, before it matters." | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 0 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jerry Ford (c) 2017 Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | "Damn," you mutter, shivering on the sidewalk. Floyd | Floyd | Newly arrived in San Francisco, you know nobody, have no job Floyd | prospects, no Floyd | place to live, nothing more than a letter of introduction given to you Floyd | by your Floyd | Aunt Ophelia. Floyd | Floyd | Now you stand in a strange neighborhood in a strange city wearing Floyd | clothes that Floyd | clearly mark you as not from around here. Floyd | Floyd | Your aunt's parting admonition is still fresh on your mind: "Even Floyd | though you're Floyd | all grown up now, no longer a child, you're going to be far from home Floyd | and there Floyd | will be some who only want to take advantage of you. Guard this Floyd | letter Floyd | [More] | Jacqueline says (to ws), "True" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Holy poo - this was written by a former, deceased President?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I bet Jerry gets that a lot, poor guy." | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [More] | ||
| Floyd says, "carefully and give it only to the person to whom it is" | ||
Floyd | addressed."
Floyd |
Floyd | It took your last two dollars to ride the bus to the Bernal Heights
Floyd | neighborhood. After wandering around looking at street signs for what
Floyd | seemed
Floyd | like hours, you now find yourself at the corner of Coleridge and
Floyd | Eugenia,
Floyd | clutching the envelope in your hand tightly, wondering what to do
Floyd | next.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or
Floyd | up a
Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing
Floyd | Coleridge.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 1 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You cross the street, flip flops flapping beneath your feet making a Floyd | muffled Floyd | slap-slap-slapping sound with each step, and climb the long flight of Floyd | steps up Floyd | to the entry way. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | As you face the building, you see three doors standing side by side by Floyd | side. Floyd | Floyd | Brass numbers identify the door to the north (on your left) as 300a, Floyd | the door Floyd | straight ahead as 300b, and the door to the south (on your right) as Floyd | 300c. Floyd | Each door has an accompanying door bell next to it. Floyd | Floyd | Back down the steps is the street corner. Floyd | Floyd | Centered about waist high on each door is a horizontal opening covered Floyd | by a Floyd | hinged, brass flap, an old-fashioned mail slot. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Guenni), "Can I try something real quick?" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ring 300a" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 2 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > RING 300A Floyd | Floyd | You turn to face the building. Ding dong you hear from Floyd | within. It is Floyd | unanswered. Perhaps nobody is home. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Guenni), "Can I try something real quick?" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put letter in slot 300a" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 3 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN SLOT 300A Floyd | Floyd | You raise the brass flap covering the slot and insert the letter of Floyd | introduction into the opening. As the flap snaps shut, you experience Floyd | a moment Floyd | of panic. Floyd | Floyd | My letter of introduction! you think. I don't have it Floyd | any more! Did I do the Floyd | right thing? What if I put it in the wrong slot? Floyd | Floyd | You feel a tingling sensation in the vicinity of your pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It's baaack." | ||
| DavidW says, "Spidey-pocket!" | ||
| Guenni says, "Go ahead." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to readwrite: Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 3 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | (rq) Floyd | %% Enter a data filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 3 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Reading commands from ":178005440"... Floyd | Failed; the script input file could not be opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay. So we can't save." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Hrm." | ||
| DavidW says, "That tingling almost certainly means something's in our pocket." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think it may be a sleepmask TADS3 thing. But now we know." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Carry on." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ring 300c" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 4 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > RING 300C Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing from inside other than the faint sound of the Floyd | doorbell Floyd | chiming. Nobody comes to the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "'Is that something in your pocket, or...'" | |
| DavidW asks, "... or a spider that can fly?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to wordsmith), "I can see you're going to fit in here just fine." | ||
| Guenni sticks out tongue at Knight. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Aieee" | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims (at Guenni), "Hey!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pocket" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 4 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > X POCKET Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the left pocket or the right pocket? Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says (to Jacq), "Yah, I've been catching up on some of the older transcripts." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in left pocket" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 5 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN LEFT POCKET Floyd | Floyd | In the pocket you see an envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 6 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > X ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | The envelope is of a high-quality linen-based paper, the kind seldom Floyd | seen any Floyd | more. It is a light pink in color and smells faintly of roses. Floyd | Floyd | It was given to you by your Aunt Ophelia when you left to find fame Floyd | and fortune Floyd | in California. Floyd | Floyd | "It's a letter of introduction that will be sure to open doors for Floyd | you," she Floyd | told you as you bade her goodbye. "It was written by my dearest Floyd | friend's Floyd | daughter's boyfriend's mother. Guard it as a most prized possession Floyd | and only Floyd | give it to someone you are certain can advance your station." Floyd | Floyd | With that, she closed the door and left you standing on the front Floyd | porch. Floyd | Floyd | The envelope is open. Floyd | Floyd | Neatly printed on the face of the envelope is the following... Floyd | Floyd | To Whom it May Concern Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Street Floyd | Floyd | San Francisco, California Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Ok, I didn't try it, because I thought it's obvious, but no we know for sure. :-)" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess we got it back by the power of authorial intent." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put letter in 300b" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 7 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN 300B Floyd | Floyd | You raise the brass flap that covers the mail slot and insert the Floyd | envelope into Floyd | the opening. When you release the flap, it snaps shut with a loud Floyd | clap and the Floyd | envelope disappears. Floyd | Floyd | You take a half step back to ponder your next move, and... Floyd | Floyd | Click! You hear what sounds like a door latch and the door Floyd | to 300b swings Floyd | open, almost as if you were being invited in. Except you see nobody Floyd | at the Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Return to sender, adress unknown..." | |
| wordsmith says, "Maybe we could ask Lucy for that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm still impressed with how long it took us to say 'no' last game." | ||
| wordsmith asks (of Jacq), "You mean, how many times?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 8 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You step through the open door. Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | Just inside the door, a flight of stairs leads up to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads out to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Like, the author made that very, very hard." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Intentionally." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x director's" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 8 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > X DIRECTOR'S Floyd | Floyd | You see no director's, either because there is nothing here Floyd | to see or perhaps Floyd | you just need to look around your environment more closely. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "upstairs" | |
| wordsmith says, "weird layout, as noted before" | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Oops!" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 9 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Maybe not so uncommon in SF." | |
| DavidW asks, "Do we sit in the executive chair?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True. It makes sense for SF" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x director's" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 10 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > X DIRECTOR'S Floyd | Floyd | A chrome and leather director's chair is placed directly in front of Floyd | the desk. Floyd | The desk lamp is tilted so that the chair is in the spotlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm down with DW's idea, but my guess is it won't work until we sleep on the couch" | |
| Guenni says, "I think we have at least spend enough time here until the voice calls." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 11 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think if we sit down right away, Lucy will respond." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sit in executive" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 12 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT IN EXECUTIVE Floyd | Floyd | You slowly lower yourself into the luxurious leather cushion. You Floyd | soon become Floyd | uncomfortable, thought, sitting in such a chair--clearly someone Floyd | else's Floyd | chair&mdashbehind such a desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sit in director's" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 13 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT IN DIRECTOR'S Floyd | Floyd | You sit in the director's chair. Floyd | Floyd | You fidget. You squirm. You feel uncomfortable sitting so long, Floyd | waiting. You Floyd | stand up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 13 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > X LAMP Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the desk lamp or the wall sconce? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "desk" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 14 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > DESK Floyd | Floyd | A lamp made of polished brass, with a translucent, green clamshell Floyd | shade, rests Floyd | on one corner of the desk, its shade tilted so that the focal point of Floyd | the Floyd | projected light is on the leather and chrome director's chair in front Floyd | of the Floyd | desk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Hello, hello, hello," a deep feminine voice booms out from...you Floyd | don't quite Floyd | know where, but it sounds oddly remote, yet somehow close. The next Floyd | room, Floyd | perhaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Guess we need to have the voice call out." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm getting rather tired." | ||
| Guenni says, "I guess we have to enter the other room also, I mean as an author I'd like to make sure all my work has been seen. :-)" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 15 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The bedroom contains no bed, only a dresser, a free-standing wardrobe, Floyd | a full- Floyd | length mirror on a stand, and three brass floor lamps evenly spaced Floyd | around a Floyd | plush, deep-piled, solid black circular rug. Floyd | Floyd | An overhead light hanging on a chain gives the illusion of a spotlit Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads northeast to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 16 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Sit, sit, sit," the voice commands. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm almost certain that after we sign the contact, the next order of business will be us getting a new wardrobe in the bedroom." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Because clothes equal happiness?" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sit on director's" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 17 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON DIRECTOR'S Floyd | Floyd | "No, dear, not there, not yet," the voice says. "Over there, over Floyd | there!" Floyd | Floyd | You look around for a place to sit and see an executive chair behind Floyd | the desk, Floyd | a director's chair in front of the desk, and a sofa pushed against a Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Because you need to dress for you new job appropriately." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh. Fair." | ||
| DavidW says, "This is also, essentially, a job interview." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Gee, picky voice." | ||
| Guenni Rolls eyes about the sitting game Lucy plays. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sit on sofa" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the sofa) Floyd | 18 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON SOFA Floyd | Floyd | The soft leather caresses your legs luxuriously as you sink into the Floyd | sofa's Floyd | deep cushions. Ahhhh, you sigh, this feels so right! Floyd | Maybe I should stay here Floyd | and wait for awhile and see what happens. Floyd | Floyd | You wait. You start to fidget. A flash of light floods the room then Floyd | immediately subsides. Floyd | Floyd | When your eyes readjust, you see a woman seated in the leather chair Floyd | behind the Floyd | desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't sit so far away," she says in a regal tone of voice, "Sit over Floyd | here, in Floyd | the light. In front of the desk. In the director's chair." Floyd | Floyd | "Ahhh..." you groan, "I just..." Floyd | Floyd | "My house, my rules," she says with a hint of smugness. "You're my Floyd | guest, you Floyd | do as I tell you. Sit in the chair." Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "also using 'there' when you are a disembodied voice..." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sit in director's" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 19 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT IN DIRECTOR'S Floyd | Floyd | You sit in the director's chair. Floyd | Floyd | "Not from around here, are you? Well, never mind." She waves the Floyd | envelope you Floyd | shoved through the mail slot then takes a thick file out of her desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Standard contract I assure you, I'll just fill in some blanks while Floyd | we talk," Floyd | she says as she opens the folder. Floyd | Floyd | "First things first, boy or girl? Don't get your panties in a bunch, Floyd | there's a Floyd | place on the form, it's gotta be, boy, girl--oh, don't huff, I know Floyd | we're all Floyd | adults here, just my way of speaking is all--or you could decline to Floyd | state. I Floyd | don't advise that, it would severely limit my options to help, you Floyd | know? So. Floyd | Boy? Girl? Or--and I say this with nothing but the utmost Floyd | respect--are you Floyd | going to ignore my counsel and decline to state?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say male, say female or decline to state) Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Let's do same choices, but sign the contract." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "decline" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 20 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > DECLINE Floyd | Floyd | Her head snaps up. Floyd | Floyd | "Doesn't matter to me what you think you ought to be, but either you Floyd | go to the Floyd | boy's room or you go to the girl's room when you gotta pee, right? Floyd | Only other Floyd | option is out back by the garbage cans but you don't want to go there, Floyd | do you? Floyd | Of course not. So, again, boy, girl, or...?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say male, say female or decline to state) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 21 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "Well, you gotta at least have a name...you gotta have a name, right? Floyd | Everybody's got a name...mine's Lucy. What's yours?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your first name) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "club" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 22 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > CLUB Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, Club," Lucy says. "Last name?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your last name) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "floyd" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 23 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > FLOYD Floyd | Floyd | "All righty," Lucy says. "You are a person named Club Floyd, a Floyd | personage of no Floyd | particular gender. Is that correct?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 24 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent. Excellent." she says in a voice that is almost a purr. Floyd | Floyd | "So, now, Club, my love, here's where the rubber meets the road." Lucy Floyd | winks at Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | "You get to tell me your most precious secret longing. What turns you Floyd | on, Floyd | presses your buttons, makes you quiver all over with desire? Fame? Floyd | Fortune? Floyd | Power? 'Happiness'?" (making air quotes with her fingers) Floyd | "Tell me!" Floyd | Floyd | You are dazzled. Your head swims. She persists. Floyd | Floyd | "Tell me, dear, what do you want out of life?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your most cherished desire) Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "> sit on desk" | |
| Guenni says, "Not an option right now." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "happiness" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 25 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > HAPPINESS Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent choice." Lucy beams. "Excellent. It's exactly Floyd | what I would have Floyd | chosen for you! Now that's settled, we need to move on to the boring Floyd | stuff. Floyd | Are you ready? Oh, no, dear, you don't need to bother with that, it'd Floyd | take way Floyd | too long to read every little bitty detail in that big old contract, Floyd | it's just Floyd | technical legalese, all you need to do is just sign, let me take care Floyd | of the Floyd | details. So now then, are you ready to sign?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | An outstretched arm offers you a pen. Floyd | Floyd | (You could take the pen; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take pen" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 26 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PEN Floyd | Floyd | In your haste to take the instrument, the pen point jabs your thumb. Floyd | Floyd | "Ow!" you say quietly, putting the thumb to your mouth. "That burns!" Floyd | Floyd | Lucy pushes the contract toward you. "Sign right here." Floyd | Floyd | "Trust me, dear," Lucy says, "it's for the best. Now, will you please Floyd | just Floyd | sign the contract?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 27 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent, excellent," Lucy says. "You've made a wise and sensible Floyd | choice, Floyd | Club my dear, and I just know the happiness headed your way at this Floyd | very moment Floyd | will do us both proud. Now sign the contract" -- she points to a Floyd | signature Floyd | line -- "right here and be on your way to a fabulous life of never Floyd | ending Floyd | happiness! Oh, you lucky person!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "read contract" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 28 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > READ CONTRACT Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, don't bother with that," Lucy says brusquely. "Standard Floyd | whereases and Floyd | wherefores and so on and so forth--say, you're not the kind of person Floyd | who reads Floyd | every EULA of every app in your phone, are you? No, me neither, Floyd | that's all Floyd | just meaningless gobbledygook no one but a lawyer can ever hope to Floyd | understand. Floyd | You and I, we're better than that, we have a person to person Floyd | understanding Floyd | that transcends all that blather. Just the last page, darling, just Floyd | sign Floyd | right...there," she says, tapping the signature block on the last page Floyd | of the Floyd | stack. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "Want me to try again, or give in?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess give in this time." | ||
| DavidW says, "I need to lie down for at 15 minutes. Continue without me." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I doubt it matters if you say no 3x, and then sign." | ||
| wordsmith says, "> x contract" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x contract" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 29 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > X CONTRACT Floyd | Floyd | A stack of papers half an inch thick fills a file folder spread out on Floyd | the Floyd | desk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Half an inch thick, probably not there in detail in the game." | |
| wordsmith says, "I think just sign it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Same" | ||
| Guenni sighs. Ok. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sign contract" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 30 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIGN CONTRACT Floyd | Floyd | With a slightly trembling hand, you sign the document. Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent!" Lucy says, putting the contract away in her desk. "Now. Floyd | Let's Floyd | see about sprucing you up a bit. Come on, follow me into the next Floyd | room." Floyd | Floyd | You get off of the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Yeah, it's all very railroad-y so far." | |
| wordsmith says, "And even other choices aren't real choices." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 31 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | "Not so fast there," Lucy says, reaching an arm out to bar your way. Floyd | "My Floyd | house, my rules. I said follow me." Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I assume just the power/happiness/etc. choice matters." | |
| Guenni says, "You're very right." | ||
| Guenni says, "About the railroad." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "follow lucy" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOLLOW LUCY Floyd | Floyd | You follow Lucy. Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The bedroom contains no bed, only a dresser, a free-standing wardrobe, Floyd | a full- Floyd | length mirror on a stand, and three brass floor lamps evenly spaced Floyd | around a Floyd | plush, deep-piled, solid black circular rug. Floyd | Floyd | An overhead light hanging on a chain gives the illusion of a spotlit Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads northeast to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, now, let's take a look at you," Lucy says, shaking her head, Floyd | pouting Floyd | like a disapproving mother rejecting a child's choice of dress. Floyd | Floyd | "No, this won't do at all. Get over there, on the rug!" She gives you Floyd | a nudge Floyd | in the direction of the rug in the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | "Step into the light and strip," she commands. Floyd | Floyd | "Strip?" you say in surprise. "You mean..." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, I mean..." she says. "Oh, come on, Club. We're adults, right? Floyd | If I'm Floyd | [More] | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 32 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | to help you get everlasting happiness, you need to look like Floyd | you deserve it. Floyd | Which means you need to shed those ugly rags so I can outfit you Floyd | appropriately. Floyd | Now strip, then pick out something better." Floyd | Floyd | (You could ask her about some privacy) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeesh." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ask about privacy" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 33 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT PRIVACY Floyd | Floyd | "Uh...here? Um...in front of you?" you ask shyly. "Um, isn't Floyd | that...uh, can I Floyd | have some privacy, please?" Floyd | Floyd | She looks at you quizzically. "Oh, my, why...I thought you Floyd | were...well, Floyd | perhaps I misjudged you. Of course you can have some privacy, if you Floyd | really Floyd | think you need it. It might alter our relationship some, if I knew Floyd | you Floyd | couldn't...won't trust me. Oh, don't worry, it doesn't mean we can't Floyd | work Floyd | together, just...a little bit differently than I expected, that's all. Floyd | So. Floyd | Really, dear? Do you really need me to leave the room?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say stay; or ask her what will change; or say yes) Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "> what will change" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ask about change" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 34 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT CHANGE Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, dear," Lucy says. "We don't have all day." Floyd | Floyd | (You could say stay; or ask her what will change; or say yes) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ask what will change" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 35 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WHAT WILL CHANGE Floyd | Floyd | "Changes? Between us? I don't want..." you say. "I mean, what would Floyd | change?" Floyd | Floyd | She waves a hand casually in the air as though dismissing the thought. Floyd | "Oh, I Floyd | just meant, choices made often have unintended consequences, that's Floyd | all. Don't Floyd | worry, nothing of substance will change, you'll still get your Floyd | happiness. Floyd | Things will just be different. Some things, grownup things, things of Floyd | a more Floyd | mature nature, may happen to us--any of us--other things may not Floyd | happen, based Floyd | on what we decide at any moment of any day. But if you're Floyd | uncomfortable with Floyd | the idea of consensual adult behaviors, such as, for one example, you Floyd | and me in Floyd | the same room while you dress, well, perhaps you'll feel more Floyd | uncomfortable as Floyd | time and circumstances evolve. Maybe it's best we establish Floyd | boundaries now Floyd | rather than later. So, do you want me to go?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say stay; or say yes) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 36 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, please," you reply. "I'm sure." Floyd | Floyd | "Very well, then," she says, leaving the room. "I'll be in the next Floyd | room. Floyd | Strip, get dressed in some new things, and come on out when you're Floyd | ready." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Interesting" | |
| Jacqueline says, "That's like the LGOF bathroom, perhaps." | ||
| wordsmith says, "TADS usually s; :)" | ||
| wordsmith says, "oops, nvm" | ||
| wordsmith asks (of Jacq), "LGOP, right?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "brb bio break" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 37 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | You step onto the rug and open the closet. Floyd | Floyd | The closet contains a collection of jeans, shirts, men's shoes and Floyd | women's Floyd | shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ws), "Oh, yes. LGOP" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "jeans" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 38 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > JEANS Floyd | Floyd | The jeans are blue, low waisted, made of the finest corduroy with a Floyd | classic Floyd | pattern. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "As in, you make a choice but that choice has other consequences or signals other things, whether you think it does or not." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take jeans" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 39 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE JEANS Floyd | Floyd | You take a pair of blue corduroy classic low waisted jeans out of the Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I guess Happiness requires jeans..." | |
| Guenni says, "In my personal case, it mighn.-t detract from it." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear jeans" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 40 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR JEANS Floyd | Floyd | The jeans won't fit over what you are already wearing. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I bet the wardrobe contents are different for Power, etc." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "strip" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 41 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > STRIP Floyd | Floyd | You remove your clothing and toss everything into a dark corner. You Floyd | hear a Floyd | soft sound almost like a hiss, and you think you detect a scent Floyd | of...sulfurous Floyd | smoke? The smell quickly dissipates. The clothing you just removed Floyd | is no Floyd | longer visible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear jeans" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 42 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR JEANS Floyd | Floyd | You put the jeans on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x shirts" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 43 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > X SHIRTS Floyd | Floyd | The shirt is yellow, traditional, made of the finest knit with a Floyd | solid-color Floyd | pattern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear shirt" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 44 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | You take a yellow knit solid-color traditional shirt out of the Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the shirt on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 45 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Staring back at you from within the mirror is a person wearing a pair Floyd | of jeans Floyd | and a shirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "It's a collection of jeans and shirts, but they are all the same." | |
| Guenni says, "Probably. Or we just took the one on top of the stack." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear shoes" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 45 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SHOES Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the black penny loafer polka dot leather women's Floyd | shoes or Floyd | the tan penny loafer solid finish canvas men's shoes? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu blinks | |
| Guenni says, "So, how big are our feet? :-)" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Forcing gender choice yet again..." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I think one size fits all. Because, devil magic." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Can we go barefooted?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, the npc's have to been cast. And I guess that makes more sense if the pc also has a gender." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear man's" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 45 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR MAN'S Floyd | Floyd | Your request was not clear. Can you rephrase it? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x shoes" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 45 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > X SHOES Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the black penny loafer polka dot leather women's Floyd | shoes or Floyd | the tan penny loafer solid finish canvas men's shoes? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear women's" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 46 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR WOMEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You take a pair of black leather polka dot penny loafer women's shoes Floyd | out of Floyd | the closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the women's shoes on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You step out of the circle of light, off of the rug. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You stand in the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Lucy stands at the top of the stairs leading to the exit. "Now you Floyd | look Floyd | presentable," she says, waving her hand toward the door, indicating Floyd | it's time Floyd | [More] | Jacqueline says, "back" | |
| Guenni says, "back in a sec, just have to switch on some light around here." | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 47 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | | ||
| Floyd says, "for you to leave." | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 48 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | "My pen?" Lucy asks with outstretched hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "> x pen" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x pen" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 49 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > X PEN Floyd | Floyd | The pen is the first fountain pen you've ever actually seen much less Floyd | touched, Floyd | an elegant, sleek writing instrument from another age, a dark cherry Floyd | wood Floyd | cylinder with gold tip. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "give pen to lucy" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 50 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE PEN TO LUCY Floyd | Floyd | "That's a valuable family heirloom. It belonged to Daniel Webster," Floyd | Lucy says Floyd | as she takes the pen, "and a crochety old money-lender in colonial Floyd | Boston name Floyd | of Tom Walker before that." Floyd | Floyd | "Webster, huh?" you say. "The dictionary guy? Sweet!" Floyd | Floyd | She flashes a look as though she sees baby drool dribbling off your Floyd | chin, then Floyd | she says brightly, "Google it, dear..." and her voice trails off into Floyd | the Floyd | ether. Floyd | Floyd | Then, after a moment's silence, her face brightens once again with a Floyd | broad Floyd | smile as she waves toward the front door at the bottom of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | "All righty, then, sweetie, let's see about getting you some Floyd | happiness." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 51 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Lucy follows you down the stairs from the living room to the front Floyd | door. At Floyd | the bottom of the stairs, she reaches around you and opens the door. Floyd | Floyd | She shoves an old brown leather wallet and an envelope into your Floyd | pocket. Floyd | Floyd | "What's this? What do I do?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "The bus, dear," Lucy smiles. "Take the bus. Maybe in time, if you Floyd | climb up Floyd | high enough on the ladder of life, get a place in, say, Pacific Floyd | Heights, why, Floyd | you'd be able to go in style, ride everywhere in taxis. We'll see, Floyd | we'll see-- Floyd | but for now, the bus will have to do." Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can go out to the landing, then down the stairs to the Floyd | street Floyd | corner. Or, you could go back up, to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | Just inside the door, a flight of stairs leads up to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads out to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lucy stares at you with a critical eye as though appraising your new Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "brb" | |
| Guenni says, "I wonder if it would have been possible to put the pen in our pocket and get it dissolved with our old pants." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Guenni says, "Well than I'll go for busy floyders as well. :-)" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's an interesting idea." | ||
| wordsmith says, "back" | ||
| Guenni says, "Also back." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 52 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You step out onto the landing at the top of the steps from the street, Floyd | in front Floyd | of the building. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | Behind you, as you stand looking over the intersection below, are Floyd | three doors Floyd | standing side by side by side. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs go down to the street corner at the intersection of Coleridge Floyd | and Floyd | Eugenia. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, then, good bye, dear, and good luck," Lucy says. She steps Floyd | back inside Floyd | and closes the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 53 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You go down the steps to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | You are at the intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia, where the Bernal Floyd | Heights Floyd | neighborhood starts to rise up from the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | Once a Mexican land grant rancho owned by Jose Cornelio de Bernal, for Floyd | whom the Floyd | area is named, the mostly residential Bernal Heights neighborhood Floyd | anchors the Floyd | sunny southeastern corner of the modern city, just north of Hunter's Floyd | Point and Floyd | Candlestick, and just south and east of the Mission district. Floyd | Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or Floyd | up a Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing Floyd | Coleridge. Floyd | Floyd | "Well," you say aloud, "what now?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Exactly my question? :-)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "RULE THE WORLD THROUGH HAPPINESS" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x wallet" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 54 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > X WALLET Floyd | Floyd | The bifold wallet is closed. It shows frayed corners and cracks of Floyd | age etched Floyd | into the brown leather. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 55 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You take the wallet out of your pocket and flip it open. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the wallet reveals a credit card, a debit card, a driver's Floyd | license, a Floyd | note, and MUNI fast pass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x muni" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 56 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > X MUNI Floyd | Floyd | The San Francisco Municipal Railway Fast Pass, with the optional BART Floyd | extension, provides unlimited use of all buses, streetcars and cable Floyd | cars. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says (to Guenni), "I tested, and you can actually get the game 'stuck' if you put the pen in your pocket before you strip..." | |
| Guenni laughs. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to wordsmith), "Oh my." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 57 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | The sticky note bears a handwritten inscription. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says (to Guenni), "Lucy demands the pen, but you don't have it to give." | |
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Darn" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, good for the author to know if he sees this." | ||
| Guenni says, "Interesting." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 58 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | 01123 Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Locker combination?" | |
| Guenni asks, "phone number?" | ||
| wordsmith asks, "IQ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Nah, that's not happiness." | ||
| wordsmith says, "You'd feel like Marvin the robot." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Happiness, as they say, is good health and a bad memory." | ||
| Guenni says, "That high? They would have found a way around signing the contract without reading it." | ||
| Guenni says, "The upper testing limit so far is about 180 so no way near four digits. :-)" | ||
| wordsmith says, "It IS the beginning of the Fibonacci series... sort of." | ||
| Guenni says, "f i" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 59 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing a shirt, a pair of women's shoes, and a pair of jeans Floyd | (on which Floyd | are two pockets), and carrying a wallet (in which are a credit card, a Floyd | debit Floyd | card, a driver's license, a note, and MUNI fast pass). Floyd | Floyd | Where is that envelope? you wonder. Lucy said she...oh, Floyd | yeah, she put it in a Floyd | pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "get envelope" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 60 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > GET ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You take the letter of introduction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 61 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | The stationary is made of a plain white stock of the type commonly Floyd | used for Floyd | business correspondence. Floyd | Floyd | The letter is open. Floyd | Floyd | Neatly printed on the face of the envelope is the following... Floyd | Floyd | Mr. Bill Sabub Floyd | Floyd | William Sabub Associates Realty Floyd | Floyd | 1872 Lombard Street Floyd | Floyd | San Francisco, California Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "The mathematician said, 'Listen to this Fibonacci joke... it's worse than the last two ones combined!'" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 61 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > READ LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the letter text or the envelope? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "text" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 62 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > TEXT Floyd | Floyd | Mr. Bill Sabub Floyd | Floyd | William Sabub Associates Realty Floyd | Floyd | 1872 Lombard Street Floyd | Floyd | San Francisco, California Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dear Bill, Floyd | Floyd | Please allow me to introduce Club Floyd, an ambitious young person Floyd | seeking Floyd | happiness, who I hold in highest esteem and hope you will Floyd | too. Floyd | Floyd | I'm interested in moving my friend into something nice. And Floyd | remember a favor Floyd | for Club is a favor for me. Floyd | Floyd | XOXOXO, Lucy Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 63 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | You are at the intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia, where the Bernal Floyd | Heights Floyd | neighborhood starts to rise up from the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or Floyd | up a Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing Floyd | Coleridge. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | 64 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You walk down a slight hill to the northwest. The relative quiet of Floyd | residential Coleridge gives way to the cacophony of commerce. Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | From Mission Street, Coleridge is a short walk up a slight hill to the Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Mission is a busy four-lane thoroughfare, two in each direction all of Floyd | them Floyd | full--trucks, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, all jostling for position, Floyd | running Floyd | from the northeast to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | In the bus stop enclosure on the curb, a crowd of people huddles out Floyd | of the Floyd | wind. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "> in" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | 65 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here you could go northeast or southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "Hu?" | |
| wordsmith asks, "> enter bus stop ?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "I thought 'IN' would work" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "enter bus stop" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 66 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER BUS STOP Floyd | Floyd | "Please," you say, "excuse me, can I just..." Floyd | Floyd | You wiggle into the crowded enclosure. Floyd | Floyd | "Yo, watch where you step, huh?" grunts a young guy with stringy brown Floyd | hair, a Floyd | wispy goatee and thickly muscled arms and neck. He turns sideways to Floyd | let you Floyd | pass into the shelter and out of the wind. "Not on the toes, yo?" Floyd | Floyd | "How long until the next bus?" you ask no one in particular. Floyd | Floyd | An anonymous voice in the crowd answers, "It's MUNI. Who knows how Floyd | long? Floyd | Wait, wait, and wait some more!" A murmur of quiet laughter ripples Floyd | through the Floyd | gathering. Floyd | Floyd | You stand elbow to elbow with your fellow bus patrons and wait. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hehehe aw" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x patrons" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 67 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > X PATRONS Floyd | Floyd | The enclosure offers a promise of shelter from the weather--wind and Floyd | cold fog, Floyd | or hot sun, depending. It is already full of people. There is little Floyd | space on Floyd | the bench to sit, hardly any space to stand without stepping on Floyd | someone's toes. Floyd | Floyd | You are cold. You wear blue corduroy jeans, a yellow knit shirt and Floyd | black Floyd | leather women's shoes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Where 'at damn bus, anyhow?" a voice in the crowd grumbles. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I'm surprised there is ANY space on the bench." | |
| Guenni says, "That's what I thought." | ||
| wordsmith says, "But maybe 'little' means 'not enough for another person.'" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "There's always another millimeter." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 68 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "> l at schedule" | |
| Guenni asks, "Wait or use shoemakers' horse?" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x schedule" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 68 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > X SCHEDULE Floyd | Floyd | You see no schedule, either because there is nothing here to Floyd | see or perhaps you Floyd | just need to look around your environment more closely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 69 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop enclosure) Floyd | From Mission Street, Coleridge is a short walk up a slight hill to the Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Mission runs from the northeast to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | In the bus stop enclosure on the curb, a crowd of people huddles out Floyd | of the Floyd | wind. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are in the bus stop enclosure. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Damn bus not never on time," grumbles a voice in the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Does >wait for bus work?" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wait for bus" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 70 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > WAIT FOR BUS Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think this is maybe what hell feels like." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Hell is other peoples' bus stops?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Ima gonna try Google Maps..." | ||
| Guenni says, "Only if you have small kids around that want to play and parents that have to proove how efficient they are and permanently scold them." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, hell is other people, and there are a shitload of people in this bus shelter." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x letter" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 70 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > X LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the letter text or the envelope? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "envelope" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 71 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | The stationary is made of a plain white stock of the type commonly Floyd | used for Floyd | business correspondence. Floyd | Floyd | The letter is open. Floyd | Floyd | Neatly printed on the face of the envelope is the following... Floyd | Floyd | Mr. Bill Sabub Floyd | Floyd | William Sabub Associates Realty Floyd | Floyd | 1872 Lombard Street Floyd | Floyd | San Francisco, California Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A bus pulls up to the curb, destination sign above the windshield Floyd | proclaiming, Floyd | 49 Rte: Van Ness to Lombard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "enter bus" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 72 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER BUS Floyd | Floyd | You step back out of the designated waiting area. Floyd | Floyd | You step aboard the bus, take the bus pass out of your wallet, show Floyd | the driver Floyd | the pass, and move into the interior of the bus. There are no empty Floyd | seats. Floyd | Floyd | You put the pass back into your wallet and the wallet back into your Floyd | pocket, Floyd | then quickly reach for a pole. The bus lurches away from the curb and Floyd | muscles Floyd | its way into traffic. Floyd | Floyd | "Ow! Watch the toes, huh?" grumbles the person next to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "There it is!" | |
| wordsmith exclaims, "Looks good!" | ||
| wordsmith asks, "But do we have $2.75?" | ||
| Guenni says, "We're entitled we have a permanent ticket, so to speak." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We have the bus pass." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Surely Satan gave us at least that much-- oh, right." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Happiness is a bus pass from Satan." | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Heh!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 73 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You are thrown off balance as the bus swoops into the curb for a brief Floyd | reload, Floyd | then sweeps back out into traffic. Floyd | Floyd | The bus jounces along through heavy traffic. As passengers bounce Floyd | into one Floyd | another, you feel a hand groping you. Floyd | Floyd | A hot breath blows in your ear. You turn your head slightly and smell Floyd | stale Floyd | cigarettes and beer. Floyd | Floyd | "Yo, bitch, give it up." Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 24th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | (You could say help or say you don't want any trouble) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Should have put on the guy shoes." | |
| Guenni says, "Probably." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "say don't want any trouble" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 74 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > SAY DON'T WANT ANY TROUBLE Floyd | Floyd | "I don't want trouble," you say. "I just want to ride quietly, mind Floyd | my own Floyd | business, you know? Please. Let me go." Floyd | Floyd | "Shee-ite," he chortles. "You just wanna...here, gimme that, huh?" He Floyd | tugs at Floyd | the wallet in your pocket. Floyd | Floyd | As the bus zigs and zags through traffic, you bump first one then Floyd | another Floyd | fellow passenger. Floyd | Floyd | (You could say help) Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "> say help" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Ugh. David posted the ways to avoid that, but I don't remember them." | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Yeahhh!" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "say help" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 75 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > SAY HELP Floyd | Floyd | "Please, somebody, help me?" you plead, as the bus lurches away from Floyd | the curb Floyd | to continue its journey. Floyd | Floyd | Yanking the wallet out of your pocket, the thug takes the envelope Floyd | Lucy gave Floyd | you for good measure then pushes you into the pole next to the door. Floyd | Your Floyd | clothing rips. You scrape your jaw. An elderly woman screams, "I Floyd | just called Floyd | 911, you better get yo butt outta here 'fo the cops come 'n throw yo Floyd | bony ass Floyd | in jail." Floyd | Floyd | The thug snarls, "Dumb ass cops be here in maybe an hour Floyd | if you lucky." Floyd | Floyd | He thrusts a knee into your groin. He pushes open the doors and leaps Floyd | off the Floyd | bus as it is still rolling up to the curb. Floyd | Floyd | You are thrown off balance as the bus swoops into the curb for a brief Floyd | reload, Floyd | then sweeps back out into traffic. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 13th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 76 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing a shirt, a pair of women's shoes, and a pair of jeans Floyd | (on which Floyd | are two pockets). Floyd | Floyd | Passengers jostle you as they stream for the doors, then a fresh horde Floyd | crowds Floyd | in. You grip the pole tightly, unwilling to give up space. Floyd | Floyd | The woman who came to your aid approaches you. "Child, your face is Floyd | bleeding, Floyd | your clothes are torn, is there somewhere you need to go to get some Floyd | help?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'll be all right," you reply, though you're not sure if that's true. Floyd | "Maybe Floyd | Lucy can help. I need to go back to Lucy's flat" Floyd | Floyd | "All right, dear," she says, "you go on to this Lucy person, and god Floyd | bless her Floyd | if she can help. If you just wait here on the bus, it'll take you Floyd | back to Floyd | where you started. Otherwise, you'll have to pay another fare and, Floyd | well, I'm Floyd | afraid that thug stole your wallet, didn't he? Now I got to be on my Floyd | way." She Floyd | fades into the crowd and disappears from view. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Actually, the hints didn't mention this situation..." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess they didn't." | ||
| wordsmith says, "They mentioned real estate agent, and theatrical agent." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right." | ||
| Guenni says, "No, the guy didn' want into our metaphorical pants." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Just our wallet." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 77 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You sway from side to side as the bus vies for a share of the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Lombard at Van Ness. You could get out Floyd | or you Floyd | could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 78 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You are thrown off balance as the bus swoops into the curb for a brief Floyd | reload, Floyd | then sweeps back out into traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 79 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You sway from side to side as the bus vies for a share of the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 13th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 80 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You sway from side to side as the bus vies for a share of the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 81 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "Ow! Watch the toes, huh?" grumbles the person next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 24th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "The combination of groping and 'give it up' felt like a sexual situation rather than being mugged..." | |
| Guenni asks, "Erm, where did we get in?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ws), "yes" | ||
| DJ goes home. | wordsmith says, "Mission at Eugenia" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Mission/Eugenie, I think." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ok, so I didn't just let it pass." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Or Eugenia." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 82 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "Ooof! Hey! Watch it, huh, bub," you hear a growl in your ear as you Floyd | stumble Floyd | into someone's chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 83 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You sway from side to side as the bus vies for a share of the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at Eugenia. You could Floyd | get out or Floyd | you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "get off bus" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | 84 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > GET OFF BUS Floyd | Floyd | You get off of the bus at Mission at Eugenia. Floyd | Floyd | The doors close behind you. The bus remains at the curb. Must be Floyd | the driver's Floyd | break time, you think. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 85 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | You are at the intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia, where the Bernal Floyd | Heights Floyd | neighborhood starts to rise up from the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or Floyd | up a Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing Floyd | Coleridge. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Or a convenient way to have the bus wait for us..." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 86 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You go up the steps to the entry way. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | As you face the building, you see three doors standing side by side by Floyd | side. Floyd | Floyd | Brass numbers identify the door to the north (on your left) as 300a, Floyd | the door Floyd | straight ahead as 300b, and the door to the south (on your right) as Floyd | 300c. Floyd | Each door has an accompanying door bell next to it. Floyd | Floyd | Back down the steps is the street corner. Floyd | Floyd | Centered about waist high on each door is a horizontal opening covered Floyd | by a Floyd | hinged, brass flap, an old-fashioned mail slot. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ring 300b" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 87 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > RING 300B Floyd | Floyd | You ring the bell and wait for what seems like an eternity. Finally, Floyd | you hear Floyd | a click as the latch turns, and a voice booms loud from behind the Floyd | opening Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't get your buns in an uproar, I'm coming, I'm coming." Floyd | Floyd | Lucy opens the door and exclaims, "My god, child, what happened to Floyd | you!? Just Floyd | look at those clothes, I give you new things and you bring them back Floyd | damaged Floyd | and soiled beyond repair! And you, all bloody and bruised! Come Floyd | inside, let's Floyd | go up and see what we can do about all this!" Floyd | Floyd | She takes a step in the direction of the stairs, gesturing at you to Floyd | follow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "You make it sound like our fault, Lucy." | |
| Guenni says, "Interesting priorities." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 88 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here you could go down or in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 89 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | "Not so fast there," Lucy says, reaching an arm out to bar your way. Floyd | "My Floyd | house, my rules. I said follow me." Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "; > follow lucy" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "follow Lucy" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 90 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > FOLLOW LUCY Floyd | Floyd | You follow Lucy. Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | Just inside the door, a flight of stairs leads up to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads out to the street. Floyd | Floyd | You shudder as you feel Lucy's piercing eyes assess the state of your Floyd | clothing. Floyd | Floyd | She starts up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | "I swear, this city has gone to hell in a handbasket," Lucy mutters as Floyd | much to Floyd | herself as to you as she waits for you to continue following her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You follow Lucy. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You shudder as you feel Lucy's piercing eyes assess the state of your Floyd | clothing. Floyd | Floyd | Lucy glares at you with an angry scowl. Floyd | Floyd | [More] | wordsmith says, "Nah, that's a different game..." | |
| Knight_Otu scowls at Lucy. | ||
| Guenni asks, "Is it ok if I switch the game to brief?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Yep" | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 91 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | "Now, child, no further until you've told me what happened," Floyd | Lucy demands. Floyd | "Talk!" Floyd | Floyd | (You could tell her about the mugging) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "brief" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 91 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > BRIEF Floyd | Floyd | The game is now in BRIEF mode. Full room descriptions will now only Floyd | be shown Floyd | on the first visit to a room or in response to an explict LOOK Floyd | command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "tell about mugging" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 92 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > TELL ABOUT MUGGING Floyd | Floyd | "On the bus..." you begin. "...grabs me...steals my...nobody to help. Floyd | Well, Floyd | one woman...911 but...too late! Nobody helped stop it!" Floyd | Floyd | "No, they wouldn't, would they?" Lucy says. "Well. Now it's my turn Floyd | at the Floyd | plate, dear. Tell me what you want me to do--let it slide, let the Floyd | police deal Floyd | with it, or...." Floyd | Floyd | She looks at you with a piercing stare than makes you squirm. Floyd | Floyd | (You could say render justice, say let him go or say call the cops) Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "> render justice ?" | |
| Guenni says, "I think we should call the cops. Just because." | ||
| wordsmith says, "shoot, we didn't need to sell our soul for that..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suspect neither option will truly bring happiness." | ||
| Guenni says, "I also think we are kind of collecting carma points." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm, maybe." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure, call the cops." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "call the cops" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 93 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > CALL THE COPS Floyd | Floyd | "Let the police handle it. We can't just take the law into our own Floyd | hands, that Floyd | wouldn't be right! But we can't let him get away with it, either!" Floyd | Floyd | "You fool," she sneers. "I'm sorry, I thought you were serious when Floyd | we signed Floyd | the contract. Now you're...what, afraid you'll get your hands dirty? Floyd | Don't Floyd | worry, child, I do your dirty work for you. That's my job. Now. Are Floyd | you sure Floyd | you want to piss away your chance at everlasting happiness and let the Floyd | cops Floyd | take charge of your future?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say let him go or say render justice; or say yes; or say Floyd | no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exhales. | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "call the cops" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 94 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > CALL THE COPS Floyd | Floyd | "Let the police handle it. We can't just take the law into our own Floyd | hands, that Floyd | wouldn't be right! But we can't let him get away with it, either!" Floyd | Floyd | "You fool," she sneers. "I'm sorry, I thought you were serious when Floyd | we signed Floyd | the contract. Now you're...what, afraid you'll get your hands dirty? Floyd | Don't Floyd | worry, child, I do your dirty work for you. That's my job. Now. Are Floyd | you sure Floyd | you want to piss away your chance at everlasting happiness and let the Floyd | cops Floyd | take charge of your future?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say let him go or say render justice; or say yes; or say Floyd | no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 95 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "We can deal with that sort of thing later," she says. "Right now, Floyd | let's focus Floyd | on the task at hand." Floyd | Floyd | (You could say let him go or say render justice; or say yes; or say Floyd | no) Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "Hmm, another non-option option?" | |
| Guenni says, "Let's try to be pacifistic to spite her." | ||
| Guenni says, "But you might be right." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "let it go" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 96 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > LET IT GO Floyd | Floyd | "No, Lucy, this guy...he's a thug, to be sure, but he'll meet justice Floyd | in the Floyd | end, they always do, don't they?" you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, dear child, you idiot," Lucy says. "If you truly want the Floyd | happiness that Floyd | I'm prepared to grant you, you have to grow some spine." Floyd | Floyd | Her expression turns dark, menacing. Floyd | Floyd | "You know, happiness doesn't just fall out of the sky. Sometimes, you Floyd | have to Floyd | fight for what you want. Are you sure you want to turn the other Floyd | cheek?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say render justice; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "dang, Lucy. You seem unhappy." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 97 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, Lucy! I'm sure! I do want happiness! I do want your help! Floyd | But I'm not Floyd | sure I'd sell my soul to get it!" Floyd | Floyd | She lifts an eyebrow. "Hmmm, we may have misread each other, dear," Floyd | she says. Floyd | Then, "Very well. You can have this round. I'll catch up to him Floyd | another time, Floyd | I'm sure. Meanwhile, let's get you cleaned up. Follow me." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Interesting reference... 'turn the other cheek.'" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Intentional." | ||
| wordsmith says, "yep" | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "follow lucy" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 98 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > FOLLOW LUCY Floyd | Floyd | You follow Lucy. Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | You stand once again facing the black carpet, just outside the ring of Floyd | lights, Floyd | wearing blue corduroy jeans, a yellow knit shirt and black leather Floyd | women's Floyd | shoes. Nothing seems to fit quite right any more. You feel Floyd | disheveled. Floyd | Floyd | She looks disapprovingly at your damaged clothes, then touches you on Floyd | the Floyd | shoulder. Miraculously, as she withdraws her hand, all of your aches Floyd | disappear. Floyd | Floyd | "How...?" you start to ask, but she shakes her head slightly and says Floyd | quietly, Floyd | "Never mind how, just accept it as part of the service I'm able to Floyd | render. Floyd | Now. Strip off those damaged clothes and get into something nice. Floyd | Again." Floyd | Floyd | She walks to the door. "Oh, that's right, you want your privacy, Floyd | don't you? Floyd | Well, I'll be in the next room. Get dressed and come out when you're Floyd | ready." Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith exclaims, "nice!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. Nice touch." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "strip" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 99 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > STRIP Floyd | Floyd | You remove your clothing and toss everything into a dark corner. You Floyd | hear a Floyd | soft sound almost like a hiss, and you think you detect a scent Floyd | of...sulfurous Floyd | smoke? The smell quickly dissipates. The clothing you just removed Floyd | is no Floyd | longer visible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Instand healing might be at least worth half of the "s\"." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 100 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > X WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | A free-standing wardrobe some six feet tall by six feet wide by three Floyd | feet deep Floyd | stands against one wall of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x clothing" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 101 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > X CLOTHING Floyd | Floyd | You look for something new to wear, but the closet and dresser drawers Floyd | are all Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni sighs. | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 102 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | You step onto the rug and open the closet. Floyd | Floyd | The closet contains a collection of men's shoes, jeans, shirts and Floyd | women's Floyd | shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear shirt" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 103 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | You take a black cotton floral golf shirt out of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the shirt on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear jeans" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 104 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR JEANS Floyd | Floyd | You take a pair of black corduroy hand-stitched embroidered loose fit Floyd | jeans out Floyd | of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the jeans on. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Yeah, that could be better. TADS can handle implicit actions pretty well." | |
| DavidW goes home. | ||
| DavidW has disconnected. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear men's" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 105 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You take a pair of tan canvas solid finish penny loafer men's shoes Floyd | out of the Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the men's shoes on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 106 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You step out of the circle of light, off of the rug. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Floyd | You stand in the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Lucy stands at the top of the stairs leading to the exit. "Now you Floyd | look Floyd | presentable," she says, waving her hand toward the door, indicating Floyd | it's time Floyd | for you to leave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "follow lucy" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 107 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > FOLLOW LUCY Floyd | Floyd | You start to follow, and bump into Lucy's back; Lucy glares at you in Floyd | disdain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 108 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Lucy follows you down the stairs from the living room to the front Floyd | door. At Floyd | the bottom of the stairs, she reaches around you and opens the door. Floyd | Floyd | She shoves the wallet and the letter you thought had been lost into Floyd | your Floyd | pocket. Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can go out to the landing, then down the stairs to the Floyd | street Floyd | corner. Or, you could go back up, to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lucy stares at you with a critical eye as though appraising your new Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 109 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You step out onto the landing at the top of the steps from the street, | wordsmith says, "> look in wallet" | |
Floyd | in front Floyd | of the building. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | Floyd | "Well, then, good bye, dear, and good luck," Lucy says. She steps Floyd | back inside Floyd | and closes the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x wallet" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 110 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > X WALLET Floyd | Floyd | The bifold wallet shows frayed corners and cracks of age etched into Floyd | the brown Floyd | leather. Floyd | Floyd | The wallet is open and contains a debit card, a driver's license, MUNI Floyd | fast Floyd | pass, a credit card, and a note. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Happiness is a bus pass from Satan." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry. That's just my new favorite quote." | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Kinda begs to be a bumper sticker, don't it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It does." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Do we give the bus another try? Or do we move past the bus stop?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Except if I had a bumper I wouldn't need the bus as much." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "You mean just walk to our destination?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Lucy told us we have to take the bus." | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Next time punch the person." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Google says it's an hour BY BUS... so much longer to walk." | ||
| Guenni says, "Punching wasn't an option. We were led pretty closely." | ||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Guenni asks, "Better?" | |
| wordsmith says, "Only another 30 minutes to walk. I guess MUNI really IS slow." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, MUNI is making stops." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 111 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You go down the steps to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | 112 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You walk down a slight hill to the northwest. The relative quiet of Floyd | residential Coleridge gives way to the cacophony of commerce. Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | You can see a bus here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A crowd of people is in the bus stop enclosure. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm awake again. I hope Perry's okay." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Why would Perry not be okay?" | ||
| Guenni says, "He watches as dutyfully as ever." | ||
| Guenni says, "But the game doesn't to be saved. Or more precisely, refuses to be restored." | ||
| DavidW says, "My computer slept soon after I did." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If you set him up using PuTTY it stays on independent of your connection." | ||
| Guenni says, "Doesn't want." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, good" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "He's running on Plover, not your computer. That's part of the charm." | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "nohup strikes again!" | ||
| wordsmith says, "making the world a better place" | ||
| Guenni says, "David was disconnected about ten minutes ago, I think." | ||
| wordsmith says, "> enter bus stop" | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not." | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "Oh, the bus is still here!" | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Driver still on break?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Probably." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at 24th Street Floyd | 113 Floyd | Exits: north east south west Floyd | down Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You walk the half dozen or so blocks up Mission to 24th Street. Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at 24th Street Floyd | The red brick plazas on all four corners of the intersection of Floyd | Mission and Floyd | 24th streets mark this as a hub of commercial activity. Floyd | Floyd | Escalators in the sidewalk go down to the underground BART station. Floyd | Floyd | To east of where you stand, you see a bus stop on Mission Street. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is another bus stop, on 24th. Floyd | Floyd | To the north, Mission Street continues to 13th Street where it meets Floyd | Van Ness, Floyd | the major north-south thoroughfare on the way to Lombard and the Floyd | Golden Gate Floyd | Bridge. Floyd | Floyd | A few blocks to the south, walking distance, is Mission and Eugenia, Floyd | near Floyd | Lucy's Bernal Heights flat. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not driving. :)" | |
| wordsmith says, "I meant the bus driver, not the CF driver. :)" | ||
| Guenni smiles. | ||
| Guenni asks, "Ok, straight to the adress on the letter, or looking around on the way?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess straight to the address." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | 114 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You head north on Mission. After a long walk, you cross under the Floyd | elevated Floyd | freeway to 13th Street. Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | You are standing under the freeway at Mission and 13th Streets. Floyd | Floyd | The concrete and steel framework that elevates the Central Freeway is Floyd | above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | To the north, Mission meets Van Ness, the arterial connector between Floyd | the Floyd | freeway and the Golden Gate Bridge, via Lombard Street. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, Mission Street traverses the neighborhood that shares Floyd | its name, Floyd | the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | A red-painted curb marks a bus stop waiting area. There is no bus Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | South Van Ness at Mission Floyd | 115 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk north to where Mission disappears beneath the elevated Floyd | freeway. Floyd | Floyd | South Van Ness at Mission Floyd | North of the elevated freeway, Mission crosses Van Ness as it curves Floyd | from a Floyd | north/south orientation to a southwest/northeast orientation, parallel Floyd | to Floyd | Market Street. Floyd | Floyd | From Mission and Van Ness, you can go north on Van Ness, to Market, or Floyd | south to Floyd | Mission at 13th, on the way to Bernal Heights and Lucy's flat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Market at Van Ness Floyd | 116 Floyd | Exits: north south northeast Floyd | southwest Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Market at Van Ness Floyd | Van Ness, part of U.S. Highway 101, is one of the major cross-town Floyd | thoroughfares from Market Street north to the bay. A long walk to the Floyd | north, Floyd | the arterial veers left on Lombard and continues to the Golden Gate Floyd | Bridge. Floyd | Floyd | South of Market, Van Ness crosses over Mission and becomes known as Floyd | South Van Floyd | Ness, south to Bernal Heights. Market continues northeast and Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Market at McAllister Floyd | 117 Floyd | Exits: west northeast southwest Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Market at McAllister Floyd | McAllister Street runs through Civic Center and between City Hall and Floyd | the Floyd | California Superior Courthouse. Floyd | Floyd | Market Street continues northeast to Golden Gate Ave. and southwest to Floyd | Van Floyd | Ness. McAllister goes west from Market Street, to Polk Street. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "We're about halfway there." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Market at Golden Gate Floyd | 118 Floyd | Exits: northeast northwest southwest Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Market at Golden Gate Floyd | The Warfield Theater, an icon of the city's Floyd | theatrical/musical/cultural Floyd | community, is located at 982 Market Street, where Market Street and Floyd | Golden Gate Floyd | Avenue and Taylor Street come together. Floyd | Floyd | Market continues southwest to McAllister Street and northeast to Floyd | Hallidie Floyd | Plaza. Floyd | Floyd | To your immediate northwest is an entrance to the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of ws), "Are you literally following this on Google?" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Hallidie Plaza Floyd | 119 Floyd | Exits: north northeast southwest Floyd | down Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Hallidie Plaza Floyd | Hallidie Plaza is a large, triangular patch of red brick sidewalks and Floyd | bronzed Floyd | aluminum fencing surrounding a big pit in the ground--a subterranean Floyd | entrance Floyd | to the massive Powell Street Station. This dual level transit station Floyd | serves Floyd | both the city's MUNI streetcars and the regional BART commuter train. Floyd | Floyd | Market Street, a main thoroughfare though the heart of downtown San Floyd | Francisco, Floyd | runs from the Ferry Building, whose clock tower you can see rising up Floyd | from the Floyd | mist some distance to the northeast, to Civic Center, beyond Van Ness Floyd | to the Floyd | Castro, to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Escalators down lead into the transit station. Floyd | Floyd | To the north, a long line of tourists encircles the cable car Floyd | turntable, a Floyd | giant rotating disc in the street on which a street car is being Floyd | turned around Floyd | for a return trip up Powell Street to Fisherman's Wharf. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Yes, but we should be going more NW now." | |
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Hallidie Plaza Floyd | 120 Floyd | Exits: north northeast southwest Floyd | down Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here you could go north, northeast, Floyd | southwest or Floyd | down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Cable Car Turntable, Hallidie Plaza Floyd | 121 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Cable Car Turntable, Hallidie Plaza Floyd | You see a round disk in the street, steel rails on it aligned with Floyd | rails in the Floyd | center of the street. While you watch, a cable car rolls down Powell Floyd | Street Floyd | onto the disk. Two men in transit sytem uniforms jump off the car and Floyd | push on Floyd | its side causing the disc to turn around like a giant Lazy Susan. Floyd | When the car Floyd | is facing the opposite direction, the men jump back on board and the Floyd | car rolls Floyd | off the turntable and stops in the street to let passengers climb Floyd | aboard. Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can go northeast on Market to Montgomery Street or Floyd | southeast Floyd | back to Hallidie Plaza. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Market At Montgomery Streets Floyd | 122 Floyd | Exits: north southwest Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Market At Montgomery Streets Floyd | Montgomery Street, the Wall Street of the West because of all the Floyd | lawyers, Floyd | bankers, stock brokers, and accounting firms with Montgomery Street Floyd | addresses, Floyd | runs north from Market Street until it ends at Columbus in North Floyd | Beach, and the Floyd | TransAmerica pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | Market continues southwest to Powell Street. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Montgomery at California Streets Floyd | 123 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Montgomery at California Streets Floyd | Montgomery, in the heart of the financial district goes north to North Floyd | Beach Floyd | and south to Market. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Montgomery at Columbus Avenue Floyd | 124 Floyd | Exits: south southeast Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Montgomery at Columbus Avenue Floyd | The TransAmerica pyramid rises up from Montgomery Street at Columbus Floyd | Avenue, Floyd | where the Financial District meets North Beach meets Chinatown. Floyd | Floyd | From here, Montgomery goes south to California Street. Floyd | Floyd | Southeast of your current location is the entrance to 600 Floyd | Montgomery--the Floyd | pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Goodness, there's a lot of streets in this game." | |
| Guenni says, "Yeah, I also think I got us lost." | ||
| wordsmith says, "You are still OK" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Try NW on Columbus" | ||
| Guenni says, "I had hoped our adress would get mentioned occasionally on the way." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I wonder if it has more roads than the World's Fair game." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd | Montgomery at Columbus Avenue Floyd | 124 Floyd | Exits: south southeast Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | From here you could go south or southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Exit Listing can be adjusted with the following commands: Floyd | EXITS ON - show exits in both the status line and in room Floyd | descriptions. Floyd | EXITS OFF - show exits neither in the status line nor in room Floyd | descriptions. Floyd | EXITS STATUS - show exits in the status line only. Floyd | EXITS LOOK - show exits in room descriptions only. Floyd | EXITS COLOR ON - show unvisited exits in a different colour. Floyd | EXITS COLOR OFF - don't show unvisited exits in a different colour. Floyd | EXITS COLOR RED / BLUE / GREEN / YELLOW - show unvisted exits in the Floyd | specified Floyd | colour. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Then when we get to Lombard, go W" | |
| DavidW says, "One of nm's games has a lot of roads, but at least they're in a grid." | ||
| Guenni says, "Hm, s is where we came from. se is entering the pyramid." | ||
| wordsmith says, "The game is actually taking us pretty big jumps between locations, not interestion by intersection." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Or is the pyramid also a street?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Nope, just a landmark." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well than let's backtrack." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | Montgomery at California Streets Floyd | 125 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Montgomery at California Streets Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "OK" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Montgomery at California Streets Floyd | 126 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Montgomery at California Streets Floyd | Montgomery, in the heart of the financial district goes north to North Floyd | Beach Floyd | and south to Market. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | Market At Montgomery Streets Floyd | 127 Floyd | Exits: north southwest Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Market At Montgomery Streets Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Market At Montgomery Streets Floyd | 128 Floyd | Exits: north southwest Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here you could go north or southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Hallidie Plaza Floyd | 129 Floyd | Exits: north northeast southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Hallidie Plaza Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Market at Golden Gate Floyd | 130 Floyd | Exits: northeast northwest southwest Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Market at Golden Gate Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | 982 Market St. Lobby Floyd | 131 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast southwest Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | 982 Market St. Lobby Floyd | The lobby is decorated with gilded cornices and crystal chandeliers, Floyd | yet it is Floyd | less elaborate than you might expect for being in a building with its Floyd | history, Floyd | one of San Francisco's premiere music venues from the 1920s. Floyd | Floyd | The exit to Market Street is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A doorway to the southwest leads into the auditorium. Floyd | Floyd | An elevator is located to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Market at Golden Gate Floyd | 132 Floyd | Exits: northeast northwest southwest Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Market at Golden Gate Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "> NW ?" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | 982 Market St. Lobby Floyd | 133 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast southwest Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | 982 Market St. Lobby Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Oh, we are still in the lobby." | |
| Guenni says, "It's the entrance to a theatre." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "long" | ||
Floyd | 982 Market St. Lobby Floyd | 133 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast southwest Floyd | Floyd | > LONG Floyd | Floyd | Your request was not clear. Can you rephrase it? Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "What's the opposite of brief?" | |
| DavidW says, "verbose" | ||
| wordsmith says, "verbose" | ||
| Guenni says, "thanks." | ||
| DavidW says, "long works in Inform games." | ||
| Guenni says, "I guess until we're arrived somewhere, it's needed. :-)" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||
Floyd | 982 Market St. Lobby Floyd | 133 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast southwest Floyd | Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | The game is now in VERBOSE mode. Full room descriptions be shown each Floyd | time a Floyd | room is visited. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Market at Golden Gate Floyd | 134 Floyd | Exits: northeast northwest southwest Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Market at Golden Gate Floyd | The Warfield Theater, an icon of the city's Floyd | theatrical/musical/cultural Floyd | community, is located at 982 Market Street, where Market Street and Floyd | Golden Gate Floyd | Avenue and Taylor Street come together. Floyd | Floyd | Market continues southwest to McAllister Street and northeast to Floyd | Hallidie Floyd | Plaza. Floyd | Floyd | To your immediate northwest is an entrance to the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Market at McAllister Floyd | 135 Floyd | Exits: west northeast southwest Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Market at McAllister Floyd | McAllister Street runs through Civic Center and between City Hall and Floyd | the Floyd | California Superior Courthouse. Floyd | Floyd | Market Street continues northeast to Golden Gate Ave. and southwest to Floyd | Van Floyd | Ness. McAllister goes west from Market Street, to Polk Street. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "I think go SW on Market a little. Then North from ___?" | |
| Guenni says, "let's try." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | McAllister at Polk Streets Floyd | 136 Floyd | Exits: east south northwest Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | McAllister at Polk Streets Floyd | McAllister and Polk Streets intersect at the heart of Civic Center, Floyd | surrounded Floyd | by state and federal courthouses, civic auditoriums, the city's main Floyd | library, Floyd | the opera house, and its crown jewel, San Francisco's ornate, Floyd | gilded-domed City Floyd | Hall, across the street to the south of your location. Floyd | Floyd | The California Superior Courthouse is to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | From your location, you could go east to Market or south across Floyd | McAllister to Floyd | City Hall or northwest into the California Superior Courthouse. Floyd | Floyd | Across the street to the south, in front of City Hall, you see a row Floyd | of Floyd | reserved parking, posted with signs reading Taxis Only. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Another dead end." | |
| wordsmith asks, "Can we go N on Van Ness?" | ||
| Guenni says, "It was mentioned." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Market at McAllister Floyd | 137 Floyd | Exits: west northeast southwest Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Market at McAllister Floyd | McAllister Street runs through Civic Center and between City Hall and Floyd | the Floyd | California Superior Courthouse. Floyd | Floyd | Market Street continues northeast to Golden Gate Ave. and southwest to Floyd | Van Floyd | Ness. McAllister goes west from Market Street, to Polk Street. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Market at Van Ness Floyd | 138 Floyd | Exits: north south northeast southwest Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Market at Van Ness Floyd | Van Ness, part of U.S. Highway 101, is one of the major cross-town Floyd | thoroughfares from Market Street north to the bay. A long walk to the Floyd | north, Floyd | the arterial veers left on Lombard and continues to the Golden Gate Floyd | Bridge. Floyd | Floyd | South of Market, Van Ness crosses over Mission and becomes known as Floyd | South Van Floyd | Ness, south to Bernal Heights. Market continues northeast and Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "> N" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Lombard at Van Ness Floyd | 139 Floyd | Exits: east south west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Lombard at Van Ness Floyd | Going west from Van Ness, Lombard Street is a busy thoroughfare, six Floyd | lanes of Floyd | traffic lined with business establishments as it cuts roughly east to Floyd | west Floyd | through some of the priciest real estate in San Francisco. Floyd | Floyd | East of Van Ness, Lombard is residential as it climbs up and over Floyd | Russian Hill Floyd | then down the eastern slope into the city's financial/business/retail Floyd | core. Floyd | Floyd | A sign mounted on a lamp post says 1400 Lombard with an arrow Floyd | indicating Floyd | ascending street numbers pointing west. Lower-numbered street Floyd | addresses are to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | A red-painted curb marks a bus stop. There is no bus here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Ooh, close." | |
| wordsmith says, "> W" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Lombard at Laguna Street Floyd | 140 Floyd | Exits: east south west Floyd | southwest Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You walk a couple of blocks west. Floyd | Floyd | Lombard at Laguna Street Floyd | The street sign at the corner shows it to be the intersection of Floyd | Lombard and Floyd | Laguna. The next block continuing west is the 1800 block of Lombard. Floyd | Floyd | To the east, Lombard crosses the busy north/south arterial Van Ness. Floyd | Floyd | To the south on Laguna takes you to Union Street. Floyd | Floyd | There is a bus stop here, to the southwest of where you are standing. Floyd | A sign Floyd | posted nearby says it is Route 28, to the Golden Gate Bridge. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith exclaims, "Next block!" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | 1800 Block, Lombard Floyd | 141 Floyd | Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you continue walking, your eye is drawn to a rather plain looking Floyd | clapboard Floyd | building. Something about it strikes a chord in your mind. You pause Floyd | for a Floyd | closer look. Floyd | Floyd | 1800 Block, Lombard Floyd | Lombard continues west, or you could go back from where you started, Floyd | to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | To the north a door provides entrance into a business establishment. Floyd | Black Floyd | framed, reddish-gold lettering on the glass door identifies the Floyd | business. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This has been an awesome sequence." | |
| wordsmith says, "We are getting close, so each step is short-ish." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This is also my sarcastic voice." | ||
| Guenni says, "On that hopeful note. I leave the wheel and my chair for today." | ||
| wordsmith asks, "What's the character to use to mean 'sarcastic'?" | ||
| Guenni says, "No specific here." | ||
| DavidW says, "<sarcasm> ... </sarcasm>" | ||
| Guenni says, "It's about 60% what is said." | ||
| wordsmith says, "> read sign" | ||
| Guenni says, "You get used to it. :-)" | ||
| wordsmith says, "> read door" | ||
| DavidW says, "Emoting as Zach would work too." | ||
| Guenni says, "Like I said. I'm done for today." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read door" | ||
Floyd | 1800 Block, Lombard Floyd | 142 Floyd | Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > READ DOOR Floyd | Floyd | William L. Sabub & Associates Realty Floyd | Floyd | B.L. Sabub, Proprietor Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "It's rather late in the middle of middle europe." | |
| wordsmith says, "; OK. Thanks, Guenni." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We're at the three hour mark, and we... right." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know where we're supposed to go." | ||
| Guenni says, "But you might want to go on, since saving isn't an option." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Past the mark, even." | ||
| wordsmith says, "We have a letter for this person." | ||
| wordsmith says, "..DW" | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 143 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | As you push the door open, you hear the old-fashioned sound of chimes Floyd | being Floyd | pushed aside by the opening door--tinkle, tinkle, tinkle. Floyd | Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | The interior of the real estate office is a somewhat ordinary, Floyd | utilitarian Floyd | space with a small reception area in front. A sofa and stuffed chair Floyd | stand Floyd | behind a small coffee table. Floyd | Floyd | One wall is covered with framed photos of available properties. Floyd | Floyd | A counter divides the room. Floyd | Floyd | A man sits at a desk behind the counter. He is talking on his Floyd | cellphone Floyd | through the bluetooth hands-free device stuck in his ear. While he Floyd | talks, he Floyd | gestures prolifically with his hands. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | As the chimes tinkle your arrival, the man looks up at you, smiles Floyd | broadly and Floyd | continues talking. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of wordsmith), "We only commit to two hours. Would you like to call it a night and we can pick it back up next week?" | |
| wordsmith says, "Sure, that's fine." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Erm, picking up isn't really an option?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "We can't exactly pick it back up if we can't save can we?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. That all right with everyone." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh. Oh crap." | ||
| Guenni says, "I mean, unless you put a big "forbidden" sign on floyd for the week." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh oh oh I forgot about that." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm okay with stopping, yes, but we can't restore this session." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Poop. In addition to uploading tons of transcripts I really do need to get on the idea of an alternate Floyd just for us." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 143 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | Success in The Devil in the Details is not measured by Floyd | points, it's measured by Floyd | where you end up at the story's end. Floyd | Floyd | You can either beat the devil at his--that is, her--game and achieve Floyd | salvation Floyd | by having your contract declared null and void, or the contract Floyd | declared valid Floyd | at the final judgment. Floyd | Floyd | Which it will be depends on choices you make during the course of the Floyd | game. Floyd | Floyd | But, as in life, there is no system in place which awards you Floyd | quality of life Floyd | points. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're not the only ones who use Floyd." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I've been meaning to see about having another instance of him set up in a room that we can lock and unlock." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or that's just hidden." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or, well, not hidden." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But hard to stumble upon unless you're really here for ClubFloyd." | ||
| DavidW says, "Keep him in your mini-fridge. :)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That would be a good thing. Then poor Sandon won't have to flee from us again." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| wordsmith says, "; We could probably get back here pretty quickly."" | ||
| Guenni says, "Heh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, I do not foresee us solving this game in one sitting, to be honest." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It feels like we just started." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Guenni says, "Hmpf someone who can't be bothered to even say hello and goodbye ever doesn't get any pity from me." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are we okay with breaking and then if the game isn't still running next week we just do a quick repeat of commands to get back here?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| **** SESSION TWO **** | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So apparently no sleepmask crashes the game..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask devilindetails" | ||
Floyd | VM Error: error reading file Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jerry Ford (c) 2017 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pre-game options: H for game-playing tips and the Help Floyd | Getting Started menu (if Floyd | you've never played an Interactive Fiction game, this would be a good Floyd | place to Floyd | start) Floyd | Floyd | Q to quit Floyd | Floyd | R to restore a saved game Floyd | Floyd | X to start game with extra on enabled (for Interactive Floyd | Fiction newcomers-- Floyd | spontaneous display of help tips when the game senses you are in Floyd | trouble; enter Floyd | [More] | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [More] | ||
| Floyd says, "the command extra off to disable)" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Any other key to start a new game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Note: This game contains scenes with sexually agressive behavior Floyd | which some Floyd | people may find offensive. For information about how to avoid these Floyd | scenes Floyd | without impacting the final outcome of the game, choose H for Floyd | Help.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details version 1.0 (2017-04-17) | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "That makes zero sense to me" | ||
| wordsmith says, "That's all, just sleepmask and no sleepmask. :)" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 0 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Devil in the Details Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Jerry Ford (c) 2017 Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | "Damn," you mutter, shivering on the sidewalk. Floyd | Floyd | Newly arrived in San Francisco, you know nobody, have no job Floyd | prospects, no Floyd | place to live, nothing more than a letter of introduction given to you Floyd | by your Floyd | Aunt Ophelia. Floyd | Floyd | Now you stand in a strange neighborhood in a strange city wearing Floyd | clothes that Floyd | clearly mark you as not from around here. Floyd | Floyd | Your aunt's parting admonition is still fresh on your mind: "Even Floyd | though you're Floyd | all grown up now, no longer a child, you're going to be far from home Floyd | and there Floyd | will be some who only want to take advantage of you. Guard this Floyd | letter Floyd | [More] | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [More] | ||
| Floyd says, "carefully and give it only to the person to whom it is" | ||
Floyd | addressed."
Floyd |
Floyd | It took your last two dollars to ride the bus to the Bernal Heights
Floyd | neighborhood. After wandering around looking at street signs for what
Floyd | seemed
Floyd | like hours, you now find yourself at the corner of Coleridge and
Floyd | Eugenia,
Floyd | clutching the envelope in your hand tightly, wondering what to do
Floyd | next.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or
Floyd | up a
Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing
Floyd | Coleridge.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Plover says, "what does sleepmask mean? I've heard it from previous transcripts." | |
| wordsmith asks, "shows the status line?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Everyone okay with me just using ws's commands to get us back to where we were?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Aye, aye" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's an interpreter that was created just for Floyd to use." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Jacq), "Sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Plover), "In addition to the status line it marks up transcripts with html so that they capture special text." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 1 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You cross the street, flip flops flapping beneath your feet making a Floyd | muffled Floyd | slap-slap-slapping sound with each step, and climb the long flight of Floyd | steps up Floyd | to the entry way. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | As you face the building, you see three doors standing side by side by Floyd | side. Floyd | Floyd | Brass numbers identify the door to the north (on your left) as 300a, Floyd | the door Floyd | straight ahead as 300b, and the door to the south (on your right) as Floyd | 300c. Floyd | Each door has an accompanying door bell next to it. Floyd | Floyd | Back down the steps is the street corner. Floyd | Floyd | Centered about waist high on each door is a horizontal opening covered Floyd | by a Floyd | hinged, brass flap, an old-fashioned mail slot. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring 300b" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 2 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > RING 300B Floyd | Floyd | As you press the button for the doorbell to 300b, you hear a faint Floyd | ding dong Floyd | from behind the door. There is no answer. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe I should come back later, you think. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put letter in slot 300b" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 3 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN SLOT 300B Floyd | Floyd | You turn to face the building. You raise the brass flap that covers Floyd | the mail Floyd | slot and insert the envelope into the opening. When you release the Floyd | flap, it Floyd | snaps shut with a loud clap and the envelope disappears. Floyd | Floyd | You take a half step back to ponder your next move, and... Floyd | Floyd | Click! You hear what sounds like a door latch and the door Floyd | to 300b swings Floyd | open, almost as if you were being invited in. Except you see nobody Floyd | at the Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 4 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You step through the open door. Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | Just inside the door, a flight of stairs leads up to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads out to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 5 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 6 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 7 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 8 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 9 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello, hello, hello," a deep feminine voice booms out from...you Floyd | don't quite Floyd | know where, but it sounds oddly remote, yet somehow close. The next Floyd | room, Floyd | perhaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 10 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Sit, sit, sit," the voice commands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sleepmask to my understanding provides the status line, html, probably quotations(?) and a few other QoL improvements." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit on sofa" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the sofa) Floyd | 11 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON SOFA Floyd | Floyd | The soft leather caresses your legs luxuriously as you sink into the Floyd | sofa's Floyd | deep cushions. Ahhhh, you sigh, this feels so right! Floyd | Maybe I should stay here Floyd | and wait for awhile and see what happens. Floyd | Floyd | You wait. You start to fidget. A flash of light floods the room then Floyd | immediately subsides. Floyd | Floyd | When your eyes readjust, you see a woman seated in the leather chair Floyd | behind the Floyd | desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't sit so far away," she says in a regal tone of voice, "Sit over Floyd | here, in Floyd | the light. In front of the desk. In the director's chair." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit in director's chair" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 12 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIT IN DIRECTOR'S CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You sit in the director's chair. Floyd | Floyd | "Not from around here, are you? Well, never mind." She waves the Floyd | envelope you Floyd | shoved through the mail slot then takes a thick file out of her desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Standard contract I assure you, I'll just fill in some blanks while Floyd | we talk," Floyd | she says as she opens the folder. Floyd | Floyd | "First things first, boy or girl? Don't get your panties in a bunch, Floyd | there's a Floyd | place on the form, it's gotta be, boy, girl--oh, don't huff, I know Floyd | we're all Floyd | adults here, just my way of speaking is all--or you could decline to Floyd | state. I Floyd | don't advise that, it would severely limit my options to help, you Floyd | know? So. Floyd | Boy? Girl? Or--and I say this with nothing but the utmost Floyd | respect--are you Floyd | going to ignore my counsel and decline to state?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say male, say female or decline to state) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "decline" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 13 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > DECLINE Floyd | Floyd | Her head snaps up. Floyd | Floyd | "Doesn't matter to me what you think you ought to be, but either you Floyd | go to the Floyd | boy's room or you go to the girl's room when you gotta pee, right? Floyd | Only other Floyd | option is out back by the garbage cans but you don't want to go there, Floyd | do you? Floyd | Of course not. So, again, boy, girl, or...?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say male, say female or decline to state) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "decline" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 14 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > DECLINE Floyd | Floyd | "Well, you gotta at least have a name...you gotta have a name, right? Floyd | Everybody's got a name...mine's Lucy. What's yours?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your first name) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Club" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 15 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > CLUB Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, Club," Lucy says. "Last name?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your last name) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Floyd" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 16 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > FLOYD Floyd | Floyd | "All righty," Lucy says. "You are a person named Club Floyd, a Floyd | personage of no Floyd | particular gender. Is that correct?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 17 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent. Excellent." she says in a voice that is almost a purr. Floyd | Floyd | "So, now, Club, my love, here's where the rubber meets the road." Lucy Floyd | winks at Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | "You get to tell me your most precious secret longing. What turns you Floyd | on, Floyd | presses your buttons, makes you quiver all over with desire? Fame? Floyd | Fortune? Floyd | Power? 'Happiness'?" (making air quotes with her fingers) Floyd | "Tell me!" Floyd | Floyd | You are dazzled. Your head swims. She persists. Floyd | Floyd | "Tell me, dear, what do you want out of life?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say your most cherished desire) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "happiness" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 18 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > HAPPINESS Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent choice." Lucy beams. "Excellent. It's exactly Floyd | what I would have Floyd | chosen for you! Now that's settled, we need to move on to the boring Floyd | stuff. Floyd | Are you ready? Oh, no, dear, you don't need to bother with that, it'd Floyd | take way Floyd | too long to read every little bitty detail in that big old contract, Floyd | it's just Floyd | technical legalese, all you need to do is just sign, let me take care Floyd | of the Floyd | details. So now then, are you ready to sign?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | An outstretched arm offers you a pen. Floyd | Floyd | (You could take the pen; or say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pen" | ||
Floyd | Living Room (sitting on the chair) Floyd | 19 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PEN Floyd | Floyd | In your haste to take the instrument, the pen point jabs your thumb. Floyd | Floyd | "Ow!" you say quietly, putting the thumb to your mouth. "That burns!" Floyd | Floyd | Lucy pushes the contract toward you. "Sign right here." Floyd | Floyd | "Trust me, dear," Lucy says, "it's for the best. Now, will you please Floyd | just Floyd | sign the contract?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say yes; or say no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sign contract" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 20 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > SIGN CONTRACT Floyd | Floyd | With a slightly trembling hand, you sign the document. Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent!" Lucy says, putting the contract away in her desk. "Now. Floyd | Let's Floyd | see about sprucing you up a bit. Come on, follow me into the next Floyd | room." Floyd | Floyd | You get off of the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "follow Lucy" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOLLOW LUCY Floyd | Floyd | You follow Lucy. Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The bedroom contains no bed, only a dresser, a free-standing wardrobe, Floyd | a full- Floyd | length mirror on a stand, and three brass floor lamps evenly spaced Floyd | around a Floyd | plush, deep-piled, solid black circular rug. Floyd | Floyd | An overhead light hanging on a chain gives the illusion of a spotlit Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads northeast to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, now, let's take a look at you," Lucy says, shaking her head, Floyd | pouting Floyd | like a disapproving mother rejecting a child's choice of dress. Floyd | Floyd | "No, this won't do at all. Get over there, on the rug!" She gives you Floyd | a nudge Floyd | in the direction of the rug in the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | "Step into the light and strip," she commands. Floyd | Floyd | "Strip?" you say in surprise. "You mean..." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, I mean..." she says. "Oh, come on, Club. We're adults, right? Floyd | If I'm Floyd | [More] | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask for privacy" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 21 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | to help you get everlasting happiness, you need to look like Floyd | you deserve it. Floyd | Which means you need to shed those ugly rags so I can outfit you Floyd | appropriately. Floyd | Now strip, then pick out something better." Floyd | Floyd | (You could ask her about some privacy) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask for privacy" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 22 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > ASK FOR PRIVACY Floyd | Floyd | "Uh...here? Um...in front of you?" you ask shyly. "Um, isn't Floyd | that...uh, can I Floyd | have some privacy, please?" Floyd | Floyd | She looks at you quizzically. "Oh, my, why...I thought you Floyd | were...well, Floyd | perhaps I misjudged you. Of course you can have some privacy, if you Floyd | really Floyd | think you need it. It might alter our relationship some, if I knew Floyd | you Floyd | couldn't...won't trust me. Oh, don't worry, it doesn't mean we can't Floyd | work Floyd | together, just...a little bit differently than I expected, that's all. Floyd | So. Floyd | Really, dear? Do you really need me to leave the room?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say stay; or ask her what will change; or say yes) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 23 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, dear," Lucy says. "We don't have all day." Floyd | Floyd | (You could say stay; or ask her what will change; or say yes) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "xchs" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 24 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > XCHS Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, dear," Lucy says. "We don't have all day." Floyd | Floyd | (You could say stay; or ask her what will change; or say yes) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 25 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, dear," Lucy says. "We don't have all day." Floyd | Floyd | (You could say stay; or ask her what will change; or say yes) Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 26 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, please," you reply. "I'm sure." Floyd | Floyd | "Very well, then," she says, leaving the room. "I'll be in the next Floyd | room. Floyd | Strip, get dressed in some new things, and come on out when you're Floyd | ready." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Plover), "Please let me drive for now." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 27 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing a tee shirt, a pair of flip flops, and a pair of cargo Floyd | pants, Floyd | and carrying a pen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "strip" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 28 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > STRIP Floyd | Floyd | You remove your clothing and toss everything into a dark corner. You Floyd | hear a Floyd | soft sound almost like a hiss, and you think you detect a scent Floyd | of...sulfurous Floyd | smoke? The smell quickly dissipates. The clothing you just removed Floyd | is no Floyd | longer visible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in cloest" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 29 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN CLOEST Floyd | Floyd | (look in closet) Floyd | You step onto the rug and open the closet. Floyd | Floyd | The closet contains a collection of jeans, shirts, men's shoes and Floyd | women's Floyd | shoes. Floyd | Floyd | The closet contains a collection of jeans, shirts, men's shoes and Floyd | women's Floyd | shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear jeans and shirt and men's" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 30 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR JEANS AND SHIRT AND MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You take a pair of white denim classic low waisted jeans out of the Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the jeans on. Floyd | Floyd | You take a black corduroy Hawaiian-patterned traditional shirt out of Floyd | the Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the shirt on. Floyd | Floyd | You take a pair of white canvas snakeskin wing tip men's shoes out of Floyd | the Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the men's shoes on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You step out of the circle of light, off of the rug. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You stand in the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Lucy stands at the top of the stairs leading to the exit. "Now you Floyd | look Floyd | presentable," she says, waving her hand toward the door, indicating Floyd | it's time Floyd | [More] | Plover asks, "does ClubFloyd pause for the IFComp still?" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 31 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | | ||
| Floyd says, "for you to leave." | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pen" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 32 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > X PEN Floyd | Floyd | The pen is the first fountain pen you've ever actually seen much less Floyd | touched, Floyd | an elegant, sleek writing instrument from another age, a dark cherry Floyd | wood Floyd | cylinder with gold tip. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give it to lucy" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 33 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE IT TO LUCY Floyd | Floyd | "That's a valuable family heirloom. It belonged to Daniel Webster," Floyd | Lucy says Floyd | as she takes the pen, "and a crochety old money-lender in colonial Floyd | Boston name Floyd | of Tom Walker before that." Floyd | Floyd | "Webster, huh?" you say. "The dictionary guy? Sweet!" Floyd | Floyd | She flashes a look as though she sees baby drool dribbling off your Floyd | chin, then Floyd | she says brightly, "Google it, dear..." and her voice trails off into Floyd | the Floyd | ether. Floyd | Floyd | Then, after a moment's silence, her face brightens once again with a Floyd | broad Floyd | smile as she waves toward the front door at the bottom of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | "All righty, then, sweetie, let's see about getting you some Floyd | happiness." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 34 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Lucy follows you down the stairs from the living room to the front Floyd | door. At Floyd | the bottom of the stairs, she reaches around you and opens the door. Floyd | Floyd | She shoves an old brown leather wallet and an envelope into your Floyd | pocket. Floyd | Floyd | "What's this? What do I do?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "The bus, dear," Lucy smiles. "Take the bus. Maybe in time, if you Floyd | climb up Floyd | high enough on the ladder of life, get a place in, say, Pacific Floyd | Heights, why, Floyd | you'd be able to go in style, ride everywhere in taxis. We'll see, Floyd | we'll see-- Floyd | but for now, the bus will have to do." Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can go out to the landing, then down the stairs to the Floyd | street Floyd | corner. Or, you could go back up, to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | Just inside the door, a flight of stairs leads up to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads out to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lucy stares at you with a critical eye as though appraising your new Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in wallet" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 35 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN WALLET Floyd | Floyd | You take the wallet out of your pocket and flip it open. Floyd | Floyd | In the wallet you see a credit card, a debit card, a driver's license, Floyd | a note, Floyd | and MUNI fast pass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Are you going to take the bus, or take the walking route?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 36 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing a shirt, a pair of men's shoes, and a pair of jeans Floyd | (on which Floyd | are two pockets), and carrying a wallet (in which are a credit card, a Floyd | debit Floyd | card, a driver's license, a note, and MUNI fast pass). Floyd | Floyd | Where is that envelope? you wonder. Lucy said she...oh, Floyd | yeah, she put it in a Floyd | pocket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get envelope" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 37 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > GET ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You take the letter of introduction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 38 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | Neatly printed on the face of the envelope is the following... Floyd | Floyd | Mr. Bill Sabub Floyd | Floyd | William Sabub Associates Realty Floyd | Floyd | 1872 Lombard Street Floyd | Floyd | San Francisco, California Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 39 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You step out onto the landing at the top of the steps from the street, Floyd | in front Floyd | of the building. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | Behind you, as you stand looking over the intersection below, are Floyd | three doors Floyd | standing side by side by side. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs go down to the street corner at the intersection of Coleridge Floyd | and Floyd | Eugenia. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, then, good bye, dear, and good luck," Lucy says. She steps Floyd | back inside Floyd | and closes the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 40 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You go down the steps to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | You are at the intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia, where the Bernal Floyd | Heights Floyd | neighborhood starts to rise up from the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | Once a Mexican land grant rancho owned by Jose Cornelio de Bernal, for Floyd | whom the Floyd | area is named, the mostly residential Bernal Heights neighborhood Floyd | anchors the Floyd | sunny southeastern corner of the modern city, just north of Hunter's Floyd | Point and Floyd | Candlestick, and just south and east of the Mission district. Floyd | Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or Floyd | up a Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing Floyd | Coleridge. Floyd | Floyd | "Well," you say aloud, "what now?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I found you *have* to take the bus the first time..." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | 41 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You walk down a slight hill to the northwest. The relative quiet of Floyd | residential Coleridge gives way to the cacophony of commerce. Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | From Mission Street, Coleridge is a short walk up a slight hill to the Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Mission is a busy four-lane thoroughfare, two in each direction all of Floyd | them Floyd | full--trucks, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, all jostling for position, Floyd | running Floyd | from the northeast to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | In the bus stop enclosure on the curb, a crowd of people huddles out Floyd | of the Floyd | wind. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter bus stop" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 42 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER BUS STOP Floyd | Floyd | "Please," you say, "excuse me, can I just..." Floyd | Floyd | You wiggle into the crowded enclosure. Floyd | Floyd | "Hee, hee, you ain't from here, huh?" grins a young woman with heavy Floyd | makeup and Floyd | sporting a crude crucifix tattoo on her neck. Floyd | Floyd | "How long until the next bus?" you ask no one in particular. Floyd | Floyd | An anonymous voice in the crowd answers, "It's MUNI. Who knows how Floyd | long? Floyd | Wait, wait, and wait some more!" A murmur of quiet laughter ripples Floyd | through the Floyd | gathering. Floyd | Floyd | You stand elbow to elbow with your fellow bus patrons and wait. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 43 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Where 'at damn bus, anyhow?" a voice in the crowd grumbles. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 44 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 45 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Damn bus not never on time," grumbles a voice in the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 46 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia (standing up in the bus stop Floyd | enclosure) 47 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bus pulls up to the curb, destination sign above the windshield Floyd | proclaiming, Floyd | 49 Rte: Van Ness to Lombard. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "The game wouldn't let me walk far until I took the bus, got mugged, etc." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Well then." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter bus" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 48 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER BUS Floyd | Floyd | You step back out of the designated waiting area. Floyd | Floyd | You step aboard the bus, take the bus pass out of your wallet, show Floyd | the driver Floyd | the pass, and move into the interior of the bus. There are no empty Floyd | seats. Floyd | Floyd | You put the pass back into your wallet and the wallet back into your Floyd | pocket, Floyd | then quickly reach for a pole. The bus lurches away from the curb and Floyd | muscles Floyd | its way into traffic. Floyd | Floyd | You are thrown off balance as the bus swoops into the curb for a brief Floyd | reload, Floyd | then sweeps back out into traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 49 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | As the bus zigs and zags through traffic, you bump first one then Floyd | another Floyd | fellow passenger. Floyd | Floyd | The bus jounces along through heavy traffic. As passengers bounce Floyd | into one Floyd | another, you feel a hand groping you. Floyd | Floyd | A hot breath blows in your ear. You turn your head slightly and smell Floyd | stale Floyd | cigarettes and beer. Floyd | Floyd | "Yo, bitch, give it up." Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 24th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | (You could say help or say you don't want any trouble) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I missed the mugging last week." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say help" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 50 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > SAY HELP Floyd | Floyd | "Please, somebody, help me?" you plead. Floyd | Floyd | Yanking the wallet out of your pocket, the thug takes the envelope Floyd | Lucy gave Floyd | you for good measure then pushes you into the pole next to the door. Floyd | Your Floyd | clothing rips. You scrape your jaw. An elderly woman screams, "I Floyd | just called Floyd | 911, you better get yo butt outta here 'fo the cops come 'n throw yo Floyd | bony ass Floyd | in jail." Floyd | Floyd | The thug snarls, "Dumb ass cops be here in maybe an hour Floyd | if you lucky." Floyd | Floyd | He thrusts a knee into your groin and his hand to your mouth. "You Floyd | shut up Floyd | now, bitch, hear?" With his hand clamped over your mouth, you nod Floyd | acquiescence. Floyd | Floyd | "Ooof! Hey! Watch it, huh, bub," you hear a growl in your ear as you Floyd | stumble Floyd | into someone's chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 51 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | "Ooof! Hey! Watch it, huh, bub," you hear a growl in your ear as you Floyd | stumble Floyd | into someone's chest. Floyd | Floyd | As the bus nears a stop, the thug pushes you to the side and shoves Floyd | his way out Floyd | the door before the vehicle has reached the curb. Floyd | Floyd | The woman who came to your aid approaches you. "Child, your face is Floyd | bleeding, Floyd | your clothes are torn, is there somewhere you need to go to get some Floyd | help?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'll be all right," you reply, though you're not sure if that's true. Floyd | "Maybe Floyd | Lucy can help. I need to go back to Lucy's flat" Floyd | Floyd | "All right, dear," she says, "you go on to this Lucy person, and god Floyd | bless her Floyd | if she can help. If you just wait here on the bus, it'll take you Floyd | back to Floyd | where you started. Otherwise, you'll have to pay another fare and, Floyd | well, I'm Floyd | afraid that thug stole your wallet, didn't he? Now I got to be on my Floyd | way." She Floyd | fades into the crowd and disappears from view. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 13th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 52 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You are thrown off balance as the bus swoops into the curb for a brief Floyd | reload, Floyd | then sweeps back out into traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 53 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | "Ooof! Hey! Watch it, huh, bub," you hear a growl in your ear as you Floyd | stumble Floyd | into someone's chest. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Lombard at Van Ness. You could get out Floyd | or you Floyd | could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 54 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Passengers jostle you as they stream for the doors, then a fresh horde Floyd | crowds Floyd | in. You grip the pole tightly, unwilling to give up space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 55 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You are thrown off balance as the bus swoops into the curb for a brief Floyd | reload, Floyd | then sweeps back out into traffic. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 13th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 56 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You sway from side to side as the bus vies for a share of the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 57 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You sway from side to side as the bus vies for a share of the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 24th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 58 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | As the bus zigs and zags through traffic, you bump first one then Floyd | another Floyd | fellow passenger. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, ";#belated spoiler alert" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 59 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | As the bus zigs and zags through traffic, you bump first one then Floyd | another Floyd | fellow passenger. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at Eugenia. You could Floyd | get out or Floyd | you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "So we have to ask Lucy fer help." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oops" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 60 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You are thrown off balance as the bus swoops into the curb for a brief Floyd | reload, Floyd | then sweeps back out into traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 61 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Passengers jostle you as they stream for the doors, then a fresh horde Floyd | crowds Floyd | in. You grip the pole tightly, unwilling to give up space. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 24th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 62 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Passengers jostle you as they stream for the doors, then a fresh horde Floyd | crowds Floyd | in. You grip the pole tightly, unwilling to give up space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 63 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | "Ow! Watch the toes, huh?" grumbles the person next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 13th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "You shouldve got off at Mission, no?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Looking for Mission and Eugenia" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 64 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | As the bus zigs and zags through traffic, you bump first one then Floyd | another Floyd | fellow passenger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 65 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You sway from side to side as the bus vies for a share of the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Lombard at Van Ness. You could get out Floyd | or you Floyd | could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait" | |
| DavidW says, "The bus doesn't stop at that corner." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 64 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | One turn undone: z Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "duno" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 64 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > DUNO Floyd | Floyd | Your request was not clear. Can you rephrase it? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 63 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | One turn undone: z Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 62 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | One turn undone: z Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 63 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | The vehicle is in motion. Floyd | Floyd | You are in the bus. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The driver grips the steering wheel as she threads through traffic, Floyd | occasionally lifting a fist and grumbling an epithet at a passing Floyd | driver. She Floyd | pays no attention to the crowd of passengers in her vehicle. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Ooof! Hey! Watch it, huh, bub," you hear a growl in your ear as you Floyd | stumble Floyd | into someone's chest. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 13th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | 64 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get off of the bus at Mission at 13th. Floyd | Floyd | The bus, apparently ahead of schedule, remains at the curb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | 65 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here you could go north or south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "How did you get back on the bus without a MUNI card?" | |
| Jacqueline asks (of ws), "Did I screw up your directions?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "I am not seeing the output from Floyd..." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of ws), "Are you in the Toyshop?" | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Do I need to type something else in my client?" | ||
| wordsmith asks, "@joinc Toyshop ?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "You're still in the dorm." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No, just type toyshop" | ||
| wordsmith says, "OK, thanks." | ||
| wordsmith arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "There we go" | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, hm. I may have gotten off at the wrong stop. I got off at Mission and 13th, not Mission and Eugenia as it says in your directions." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But DW was saying that the bus doesn't stop at Eugenia" | ||
| DavidW says, "Mission and 13th is two steps north of Mission and Eugenia." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | 66 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | You are standing under the freeway at Mission and 13th Streets. Floyd | Floyd | The concrete and steel framework that elevates the Central Freeway is Floyd | above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | To the north, Mission meets Van Ness, the arterial connector between Floyd | the Floyd | freeway and the Golden Gate Bridge, via Lombard Street. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, Mission Street traverses the neighborhood that shares Floyd | its name, Floyd | the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | A bus waits at the curb. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bus here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm confused too. There is a stop at Eugenia." | |
| DavidW says, "But maybe there's two bus routes. I have no idea." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm getting back on the bus, I think." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think there are likely multiple routes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess I was relying on the timing of his walkthrough" | ||
| Jacqueline is a failure as a driver. | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't hear how you kept the MUNI card." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I think it's in our wallet." | ||
| DavidW says, "I tried playing at home and the mugger took everything." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You go back to Lucy" | ||
| DavidW says, "So I didn't have a wallet." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Yeah, you get it back from Lucy." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | 65 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | One turn undone: look Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | 64 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | One turn undone: se Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 63 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | One turn undone: out Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Also, if you don't look in your wallet, you don't know you have the pass, and can't get on the bus." | |
| wordsmith says, "At least the first time." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm going to see if the bus comes back around to the stop we want." | ||
| DavidW asks, "If you got it back from Lucy, which I missed, why are we heading back to her?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We haven't yet, not in this playthrough" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's where I'm trying to get to" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Then how do you have the card?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think I do." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I've not gotten off of the bus yet." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 64 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing a shirt, a pair of men's shoes, and a pair of jeans Floyd | (on which Floyd | are two pockets). Floyd | Floyd | As the bus zigs and zags through traffic, you bump first one then Floyd | another Floyd | fellow passenger. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We can stay on the bus without the card." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. I got pulled off the bus by the mugger." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, one sec. Forgot to take pain meds. Will be right back." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Back" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, I'm going to experiment with staying on the bus" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 65 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You sway from side to side as the bus vies for a share of the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Lombard at Van Ness. You could get out Floyd | or you Floyd | could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess the game has all sorts of little tricks." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 66 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You sway from side to side as the bus vies for a share of the asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 67 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | "Ooof! Hey! Watch it, huh, bub," you hear a growl in your ear as you Floyd | stumble Floyd | into someone's chest. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 13th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 68 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Passengers jostle you as they stream for the doors, then a fresh horde Floyd | crowds Floyd | in. You grip the pole tightly, unwilling to give up space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 69 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | As the bus zigs and zags through traffic, you bump first one then Floyd | another Floyd | fellow passenger. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at 24th Street. You Floyd | could get Floyd | out or you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 70 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | "Ow! Watch the toes, huh?" grumbles the person next to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | In transit (standing up in the bus) Floyd | 71 Floyd | Exits: out Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | As the bus zigs and zags through traffic, you bump first one then Floyd | another Floyd | fellow passenger. Floyd | Floyd | The vehicle comes to a stop at Mission Street at Eugenia. You could Floyd | get out or Floyd | you could wait for the next stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | 72 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get off of the bus at Mission at Eugenia. Floyd | Floyd | The bus, apparently ahead of schedule, remains at the curb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 73 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | You are at the intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia, where the Bernal Floyd | Heights Floyd | neighborhood starts to rise up from the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or Floyd | up a Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing Floyd | Coleridge. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 74 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You go up the steps to the entry way. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | As you face the building, you see three doors standing side by side by Floyd | side. Floyd | Floyd | Brass numbers identify the door to the north (on your left) as 300a, Floyd | the door Floyd | straight ahead as 300b, and the door to the south (on your right) as Floyd | 300c. Floyd | Each door has an accompanying door bell next to it. Floyd | Floyd | Back down the steps is the street corner. Floyd | Floyd | Centered about waist high on each door is a horizontal opening covered Floyd | by a Floyd | hinged, brass flap, an old-fashioned mail slot. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring 300b" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 75 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > RING 300B Floyd | Floyd | You ring the bell and wait for what seems like an eternity. Finally, Floyd | you hear Floyd | a click as the latch turns, and a voice booms loud from behind the Floyd | opening Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't get your buns in an uproar, I'm coming, I'm coming." Floyd | Floyd | Lucy opens the door and exclaims, "My god, child, what happened to Floyd | you!? Just Floyd | look at those clothes, I give you new things and you bring them back Floyd | damaged Floyd | and soiled beyond repair! And you, all bloody and bruised! Come Floyd | inside, let's Floyd | go up and see what we can do about all this!" Floyd | Floyd | She takes a step in the direction of the stairs, gesturing at you to Floyd | follow. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Fun fact, according to Google Maps the Pride Parade is happening now. Hope it doesn't disrupt the bus route. :)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 76 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | "Not so fast there," Lucy says, reaching an arm out to bar your way. Floyd | "My Floyd | house, my rules. I said follow me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "follow lucy" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 77 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > FOLLOW LUCY Floyd | Floyd | You follow Lucy. Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | Just inside the door, a flight of stairs leads up to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads out to the street. Floyd | Floyd | You shudder as you feel Lucy's piercing eyes assess the state of your Floyd | clothing. Floyd | Floyd | She starts up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | "...not safe anymore...lowlifes taking over..." she grumbles while Floyd | waving her Floyd | hand at you to keep following. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You follow Lucy. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You shudder as you feel Lucy's piercing eyes assess the state of your Floyd | clothing. Floyd | Floyd | Lucy glares at you with an angry scowl. Floyd | Floyd | [More] | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 78 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | "Now, child, no further until you've told me what happened," Floyd | Lucy demands. Floyd | "Talk!" Floyd | Floyd | (You could tell her about the mugging) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tell her about mugging" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 79 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > TELL HER ABOUT MUGGING Floyd | Floyd | "On the bus..." you begin. "...grabs me...steals my...nobody to help. Floyd | Well, Floyd | one woman...911 but...too late! Nobody helped stop it!" Floyd | Floyd | "No, they wouldn't, would they?" Lucy says. "Well. Now it's my turn Floyd | at the Floyd | plate, dear. Tell me what you want me to do--let it slide, let the Floyd | police deal Floyd | with it, or...." Floyd | Floyd | She looks at you with a piercing stare than makes you squirm. Floyd | Floyd | (You could say render justice, say let him go or say call the cops) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "let him go" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 80 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > LET HIM GO Floyd | Floyd | "No, Lucy, this guy...he's a thug, to be sure, but he'll meet justice Floyd | in the Floyd | end, they always do, don't they?" you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, dear child, you idiot," Lucy says. "I thought you were serious Floyd | when you Floyd | came to me for help finding your way in this city. If you truly want Floyd | the Floyd | happiness that I'm prepared to grant you, you have to grow some Floyd | spine." Floyd | Floyd | Her expression turns dark, menacing. Floyd | Floyd | "You know, happiness doesn't just fall out of the sky. Sometimes, you Floyd | have to Floyd | fight for what you want. Are you sure you want to turn the other Floyd | cheek?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say render justice or say call the cops; or say yes; or say Floyd | no) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 81 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "We can deal with that sort of thing later," she says. "Right now, Floyd | let's focus Floyd | on the task at hand." Floyd | Floyd | (You could say render justice or say call the cops; or say yes; or say Floyd | no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "DW, do you want me to slow down since you haven't done this part?" | |
| DavidW says, "just a smidge" | ||
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||
| DavidW says, "But do continue." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "okay" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 82 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "We can deal with that sort of thing later," she says. "Right now, Floyd | let's focus Floyd | on the task at hand." Floyd | Floyd | (You could say render justice or say call the cops; or say yes; or say Floyd | no) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I assume we need to pick clothes out again." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "follow lucy" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 83 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > FOLLOW LUCY Floyd | Floyd | "Stay focused. Justice delayed is justice denied." Floyd | Floyd | You start to follow, and bump into Lucy's back; Lucy glares at you in Floyd | disdain. Floyd | Floyd | (You could say render justice or say call the cops; or say yes; or say Floyd | no) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I said yes and that didn't work. Am I supposed to say no?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 84 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, Lucy! I'm sure! I do want happiness! I do want your help! Floyd | But I'm not Floyd | sure I'd sell my soul to get it!" Floyd | Floyd | She lifts an eyebrow. "Hmmm, we may have misread each other, dear," Floyd | she says. Floyd | Then, "Very well. You can have this round. I'll catch up to him Floyd | another time, Floyd | I'm sure. Meanwhile, let's get you cleaned up. Follow me." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "okay" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "follow lucy" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOLLOW LUCY Floyd | Floyd | You follow Lucy. Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The bedroom contains no bed, only a dresser, a free-standing wardrobe, Floyd | a full- Floyd | length mirror on a stand, and three brass floor lamps evenly spaced Floyd | around a Floyd | plush, deep-piled, solid black circular rug. Floyd | Floyd | An overhead light hanging on a chain gives the illusion of a spotlit Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads northeast to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You stand once again facing the black carpet, just outside the ring of Floyd | lights, Floyd | wearing white denim jeans, a black corduroy shirt and white canvas Floyd | men's shoes. Floyd | Nothing seems to fit quite right any more. You feel disheveled. Floyd | Floyd | She looks disapprovingly at your damaged clothes, then touches you on Floyd | the Floyd | shoulder. Miraculously, as she withdraws her hand, all of your aches Floyd | disappear. Floyd | Floyd | "How...?" you start to ask, but she shakes her head slightly and says Floyd | quietly, Floyd | "Never mind how, just accept it as part of the service I'm able to Floyd | render. Floyd | Now. Strip off those damaged clothes and get into something nice. Floyd | Again." Floyd | [More] | DavidW says, "y isn't the same as yes" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Apparently" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 85 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | She walks to the door. "Oh, that's right, you want your privacy, Floyd | don't you? Floyd | Well, I'll be in the next room. Get dressed and come out when you're Floyd | ready." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "strip" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 86 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > STRIP Floyd | Floyd | You remove your clothing and toss everything into a dark corner. You Floyd | hear a Floyd | soft sound almost like a hiss, and you think you detect a scent Floyd | of...sulfurous Floyd | smoke? The smell quickly dissipates. The clothing you just removed Floyd | is no Floyd | longer visible. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think this game needed a lot more testing, to be honest." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 87 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You step onto the rug and open the closet. Floyd | Floyd | The closet contains a collection of women's shoes, jeans, shirts and Floyd | men's Floyd | shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's pretty ambitious in many ways, though" | |
| DavidW says, "agreed" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 88 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | The closet is already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear jeans" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 89 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR JEANS Floyd | Floyd | You take a pair of black denim classic slim fit jeans out of the Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the jeans on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear shirt" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 90 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | You take a green cotton floral crew-neck pullover shirt out of the Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the shirt on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear men's" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom (standing up on the rug) Floyd | 91 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR MEN'S Floyd | Floyd | You take a pair of white leather braided slip on men's shoes out of Floyd | the closet. Floyd | Floyd | You put the men's shoes on. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(which is why it needs extra testing)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Fair" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 92 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You step out of the circle of light, off of the rug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | 93 Floyd | Exits: northeast Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here you could go northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | 94 Floyd | Exits: southwest down Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is brightly, if somewhat unevenly, lit. Light from Floyd | sconces Floyd | mounted on each of the four walls provides a strong flickering yellow Floyd | glow to Floyd | the room, and a green-shaded desk lamp pours out a steady, central Floyd | luminance Floyd | that gives the room its focal point. Floyd | Floyd | The lamp sits on a large, polished wood desk that dominates half of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the desk is an upholstered leather office executive chair. In Floyd | front of Floyd | the desk is a leather-backed director's chair. Along the wall is a Floyd | leather- Floyd | upholstered sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down to the entry door. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands slightly ajar to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You stand in the living room. Floyd | Floyd | Lucy stands at the top of the stairs leading to the exit. "Now you Floyd | look Floyd | presentable," she says, waving her hand toward the door, indicating Floyd | it's time Floyd | for you to leave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | 95 Floyd | Exits: up out Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Lucy follows you down the stairs from the living room to the front Floyd | door. At Floyd | the bottom of the stairs, she reaches around you and opens the door. Floyd | Floyd | She shoves the wallet and the letter you thought had been lost into Floyd | your Floyd | pocket. Floyd | Floyd | From here, you can go out to the landing, then down the stairs to the Floyd | street Floyd | corner. Or, you could go back up, to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | 300b Coleridge Floyd | Just inside the door, a flight of stairs leads up to the living room. Floyd | Floyd | A door leads out to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lucy stares at you with a critical eye as though appraising your new Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 96 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You step out onto the landing at the top of the steps from the street, Floyd | in front Floyd | of the building. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | Behind you, as you stand looking over the intersection below, are Floyd | three doors Floyd | standing side by side by side. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs go down to the street corner at the intersection of Coleridge Floyd | and Floyd | Eugenia. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Well, then, good bye, dear, and good luck," Lucy says. She steps Floyd | back inside Floyd | and closes the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | 97 Floyd | Exits: down in Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Apartment Building Entry Floyd | Behind you, as you stand looking over the intersection below, are Floyd | three doors Floyd | standing side by side by side. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs go down to the street corner at the intersection of Coleridge Floyd | and Floyd | Eugenia. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | 98 Floyd | Exits: northwest southeast up Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You go down the steps to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia Floyd | You are at the intersection of Coleridge and Eugenia, where the Bernal Floyd | Heights Floyd | neighborhood starts to rise up from the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | You can go northwest to Mission Street or southeast over the hill, or Floyd | up a Floyd | flight of steps to the entrance of an apartment building facing Floyd | Coleridge. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | 99 Floyd | Exits: northeast southeast Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You walk down a slight hill to the northwest. The relative quiet of Floyd | residential Coleridge gives way to the cacophony of commerce. Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at Eugenia Floyd | From Mission Street, Coleridge is a short walk up a slight hill to the Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Mission runs from the northeast to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | In the bus stop enclosure on the curb, a crowd of people huddles out Floyd | of the Floyd | wind. Floyd | Floyd | You see a bus at the curb. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at 24th Street Floyd | 100 Floyd | Exits: north east south west Floyd | down Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You walk the half dozen or so blocks up Mission to 24th Street. Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at 24th Street Floyd | The red brick plazas on all four corners of the intersection of Floyd | Mission and Floyd | 24th streets mark this as a hub of commercial activity. Floyd | Floyd | Escalators in the sidewalk go down to the underground BART station. Floyd | Floyd | To east of where you stand, you see a bus stop on Mission Street. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is another bus stop, on 24th. Floyd | Floyd | To the north, Mission Street continues to 13th Street where it meets Floyd | Van Ness, Floyd | the major north-south thoroughfare on the way to Lombard and the Floyd | Golden Gate Floyd | Bridge. Floyd | Floyd | A few blocks to the south, walking distance, is Mission and Eugenia, Floyd | near Floyd | Lucy's Bernal Heights flat. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | 101 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You head north on Mission. After a long walk, you cross under the Floyd | elevated Floyd | freeway to 13th Street. Floyd | Floyd | Mission Street at 13th Street Floyd | You are standing under the freeway at Mission and 13th Streets. Floyd | Floyd | The concrete and steel framework that elevates the Central Freeway is Floyd | above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | To the north, Mission meets Van Ness, the arterial connector between Floyd | the Floyd | freeway and the Golden Gate Bridge, via Lombard Street. Floyd | Floyd | To the south, Mission Street traverses the neighborhood that shares Floyd | its name, Floyd | the Mission. Floyd | Floyd | A red-painted curb marks a bus stop waiting area. There is no bus Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | South Van Ness at Mission Floyd | 102 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk north to where Mission disappears beneath the elevated Floyd | freeway. Floyd | Floyd | South Van Ness at Mission Floyd | North of the elevated freeway, Mission crosses Van Ness as it curves Floyd | from a Floyd | north/south orientation to a southwest/northeast orientation, parallel Floyd | to Floyd | Market Street. Floyd | Floyd | From Mission and Van Ness, you can go north on Van Ness, to Market, or Floyd | south to Floyd | Mission at 13th, on the way to Bernal Heights and Lucy's flat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Market at Van Ness Floyd | 103 Floyd | Exits: north south northeast Floyd | southwest Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Market at Van Ness Floyd | Van Ness, part of U.S. Highway 101, is one of the major cross-town Floyd | thoroughfares from Market Street north to the bay. A long walk to the Floyd | north, Floyd | the arterial veers left on Lombard and continues to the Golden Gate Floyd | Bridge. Floyd | Floyd | South of Market, Van Ness crosses over Mission and becomes known as Floyd | South Van Floyd | Ness, south to Bernal Heights. Market continues northeast and Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Lombard at Van Ness Floyd | 104 Floyd | Exits: east south west Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Lombard at Van Ness Floyd | Going west from Van Ness, Lombard Street is a busy thoroughfare, six Floyd | lanes of Floyd | traffic lined with business establishments as it cuts roughly east to Floyd | west Floyd | through some of the priciest real estate in San Francisco. Floyd | Floyd | East of Van Ness, Lombard is residential as it climbs up and over Floyd | Russian Hill Floyd | then down the eastern slope into the city's financial/business/retail Floyd | core. Floyd | Floyd | A sign mounted on a lamp post says 1400 Lombard with an arrow Floyd | indicating Floyd | ascending street numbers pointing west. Lower-numbered street Floyd | addresses are to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | A red-painted curb marks a bus stop. There is no bus here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So, now we find Bill at the realtor office, wherever *that* is, on Lombard?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Lombard at Laguna Street Floyd | 105 Floyd | Exits: east south west Floyd | southwest Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You walk a couple of blocks west. Floyd | Floyd | Lombard at Laguna Street Floyd | The street sign at the corner shows it to be the intersection of Floyd | Lombard and Floyd | Laguna. The next block continuing west is the 1800 block of Lombard. Floyd | Floyd | To the east, Lombard crosses the busy north/south arterial Van Ness. Floyd | Floyd | To the south on Laguna takes you to Union Street. Floyd | Floyd | There is a bus stop here, to the southwest of where you are standing. Floyd | A sign Floyd | posted nearby says it is Route 28, to the Golden Gate Bridge. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | 1800 Block, Lombard Floyd | 106 Floyd | Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you continue walking, your eye is drawn to a rather plain looking Floyd | clapboard Floyd | building. Something about it strikes a chord in your mind. You pause Floyd | for a Floyd | closer look. Floyd | Floyd | 1800 Block, Lombard Floyd | Lombard continues west, or you could go back from where you started, Floyd | to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | To the north a door provides entrance into a business establishment. Floyd | Black Floyd | framed, reddish-gold lettering on the glass door identifies the Floyd | business. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read door" | ||
Floyd | 1800 Block, Lombard Floyd | 107 Floyd | Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > READ DOOR Floyd | Floyd | William L. Sabub & Associates Realty Floyd | Floyd | B.L. Sabub, Proprietor Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think so." | |
| wordsmith exclaims, "All caught up!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "YUP" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks, ws" | ||
| wordsmith says, "sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Very helpful" | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Can I point out the wordplay?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I need to turn over the keys to another driver for a bit" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ws), "sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "beelzebub" | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "There you go!" | ||
| wordsmith says, "I missed that during the session, but noticed it afterwards." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||
| wordsmith asks, "DW, would you like to drive?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "uh, have you guys not done this part?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "right" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope. This is new" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay. New to me also." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 108 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | As you push the door open, you hear the old-fashioned sound of chimes Floyd | being Floyd | pushed aside by the opening door--tinkle, tinkle, tinkle. Floyd | Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | The interior of the real estate office is a somewhat ordinary, Floyd | utilitarian Floyd | space with a small reception area in front. A sofa and stuffed chair Floyd | stand Floyd | behind a small coffee table. Floyd | Floyd | One wall is covered with framed photos of available properties. Floyd | Floyd | A counter divides the room. Floyd | Floyd | A man sits at a desk behind the counter. He is talking on his Floyd | cellphone Floyd | through the bluetooth hands-free device stuck in his ear. While he Floyd | talks, he Floyd | gestures prolifically with his hands. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | As the chimes tinkle your arrival, the man looks up at you, smiles Floyd | broadly and Floyd | continues talking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x photos" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 109 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTOS Floyd | Floyd | A collection of photographs covers an entire wall. Floyd | Floyd | Each photo contains a hand-written legend with location and price. Floyd | Floyd | You lean forward to get a closer look at one... Floyd | Floyd | One bedroom flat, 929 Esmeralda Street, Bernal Heights, 900 square Floyd | feet, Floyd | $3,500/month Floyd | Floyd | "Erp!" you gasp when you see the price. Floyd | Floyd | You feel heat as though someone were breathing in your ear, and your Floyd | thumb Floyd | burns where you poked it with Lucy's pen. Floyd | Floyd | You turn to find the man from behind the counter standing just behind Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | "See anything you like?" he says cheerfully. "Sabub's the name, Floyd | William L., Floyd | name on the door outside, B.L., the B's for Bill. Call me Bill." Floyd | Floyd | He smiles. "Now, if you've been sent by someone I know, why then you Floyd | get the Floyd | personalized attention of old B.L. Sabub himself. Myself. That's Floyd | me. So, Floyd | what brought you here?" Floyd | Floyd | [More] | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | [More] | ||
| Floyd says, "(You could say you saw the realty sign while walking by" | ||
Floyd | or say Lucy sent you)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say Lucy sent me" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 110 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > SAY LUCY SENT ME Floyd | Floyd | "I...uh...have a letter...uh...Lucy sent me," you say. Floyd | Floyd | At the mention of her name, he beams. His smile flashes rows of teeth Floyd | that Floyd | glisten in the soft light flooding the room. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, why didn'tcha say so? That's excellent! Just excellent!" Floyd | Floyd | (You could give him the letter from Lucy) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give letter" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 111 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE LETTER Floyd | Floyd | You hand the letter to Bill. With barely a glance, he puts it in his Floyd | pocket. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, yes, I can see, you are a person of taste and refinement. I Floyd | saw you Floyd | looking at Bernal Heights there, and I must say you have a discerning Floyd | eye. Floyd | That is in fact the very property Lucy picked out for you." Floyd | Floyd | He looks you in the eyes in a somewhat unnerving manner. Floyd | When, you wonder, did Floyd | she tell him that? Floyd | Floyd | "But what if I could get you something in, say Pacific Heights, for Floyd | the same Floyd | money? Lucy is flexible, she won't mind, she likes enterprise, so Floyd | what do you Floyd | say? Interested?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say yes; or ask him about the cost of a better deal) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We have the choice of an apartment?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "That's where we should say no, right?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Apparently." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But if she picked this out for us..." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe we should go with her taste?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Then again, it's OUR happiness." | ||
| DavidW asks, "How should I know if I want a Pacific Heights or a Bernal whatever it was?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But, like, we're now her soul slave, so... shrug" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "No clue." | ||
| DavidW says, "Bernal Heights." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask him about the cost" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 112 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT THE COST Floyd | Floyd | "Let's go over to the couch, where we can be more comfortable while we Floyd | talk Floyd | about it, one grownup to another," he says, taking you by the arm and Floyd | drawing Floyd | you close to him as he steps toward the couch. "Yeah? Okay?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could say yes; or say you want to stick with Lucy's choice or say Floyd | he's Floyd | making you uncomfortable) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, wasn't this one point where he sexually assaults us if we sit?" | |
| wordsmith says, "This is the potential sex/rape scene." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That's what I think." | ||
| wordsmith says, "'To avoid playing out the subsequent rape scene, the player character should ask the agent about the cost of a better deal, then either stick with the original offer or ask about another way to upgrade. If the player character says yes then has a change of mind, he/she should say ���stop��� and stick with it until the agent backs off. '" | ||
| DavidW says, "um. While I'm curious, I think we ought to skip the rape." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, the what???" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I stepped away to put on a bandaid." | ||
| wordsmith says, "We are going off the author's warnings here..." | ||
| DavidW says, "There was a warning at the very beginning of the game about this." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "bleh" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I'd like to stick to Lucy's choice. Is that okay?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure. Let's" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stick with Lucy's choice" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 113 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > STICK WITH LUCY'S CHOICE Floyd | Floyd | "I'll stick with Lucy's choice," you say, slipping out of his reach. Floyd | Floyd | "Well," he says with disappointment in his voice. "Okay, then, if Floyd | your mind is Floyd | made up. But...all you gotta do is say yes, you want a better life, Floyd | and it can Floyd | be yours. Is that a yes?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (You could say yes; or say your mind is made up) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mind is made up" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 114 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > MIND IS MADE UP Floyd | Floyd | "Yes," you say with determination. "Yes. I'm sure." Floyd | Floyd | "As you wish," he says. "But you can upgrade anytime. You just come Floyd | on back Floyd | and we'll go through all the necessaries to get you into luxury." Floyd | Floyd | (You could say go with the upgrade or say Bernal Heights is fine) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bernal" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 115 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > BERNAL Floyd | Floyd | "Bernal Heights will do just fine," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, okay, I'm sure you know best," Bill sighs. "But there is one Floyd | small Floyd | matter, a mere technicality to be sure, but....There is a tenant. Floyd | Whaddya Floyd | gonna do? Twenty years of low rent, she ought to know it can't last Floyd | forever. Floyd | Don't worry, we'll have the place ready for you in no time." Floyd | Floyd | He pauses and winks. "Unless of course you want to upgrade?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (You could say go with the upgrade; or ask him about the tenant) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh man" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Bastard" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask about tenant" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 116 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ABOUT TENANT Floyd | Floyd | "Tenant?" you say. Floyd | Floyd | Bill waves his hand dismissively. "Old lady and her disabled son been Floyd | there Floyd | far too long, 20 years, dirt cheap rent while property values Floyd | skyrocket, city's Floyd | rent control. Not to worry, do it all the time." Floyd | Floyd | "But..." you say, "that's against the law!" Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, so? You want the place or not?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (You could say yes; or say go with the upgrade or say you can't evict Floyd | a tenant) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeesh." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Can't evict?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's try to be the lawful good person who just sold their soul" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That's the good option." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say you can't evict" | ||
Floyd | Realty Office Floyd | 117 Floyd | Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > SAY YOU CAN'T EVICT Floyd | Floyd | "No. Not if it means throwing an old woman out of her home," you say Floyd | firmly. Floyd | Floyd | "Bah!" Bill snorts. "Come on, get out of here, you don't want to do Floyd | what it Floyd | takes to get ahead in this town, I can't help you, Lucy can't help Floyd | you, you're Floyd | on your own. Out. Out. Come on, get out." Floyd | Floyd | He stomps disgustedly behind the counter, walks to his desk, sits Floyd | down, and Floyd | punches the bluetooth device in his ear. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (You could say upgrade or walk away) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Now what?" | |
| wordsmith asks, "Does the choice come down to evicting a stranger or getting raped?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Where's the Call the Cops option? Or an exorcist?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Let's try the upgrade route." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Upgrade." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "upgrade" | ||
Floyd | Magnolia Street (alley behind Lombard) Floyd | 118 Floyd | Exits: east south west Floyd | Floyd | > UPGRADE Floyd | Floyd | "Okay! All right!" you blurt out. "Upgrade me!" Floyd | Floyd | Bill is out from behind the counter before you can blink. He checks Floyd | the door Floyd | sign be sure it says Closed from the outside, checks the door Floyd | to be sure it is Floyd | locked, then he takes your elbow and nudges you to the couch. He Floyd | shoves. You Floyd | drop to the cushion. He grins broadly as he loosens his belt. Floyd | Floyd | He leads you into the alley behind his office, opens the passenger Floyd | door to his Floyd | car, and waits. "Hurry up, Club, get in." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait what?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Are we being assaulted on a couch or ushered into a car? I'm confused." | ||
| DavidW says, "Likewise confused." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd | Magnolia Street (alley behind Lombard) Floyd | 119 Floyd | Exits: east south west Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here you could go east, south or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "Or were we already assaulted?" | |
| DavidW says, "We are in the alley, though." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (sitting in Bill's car) Floyd | 120 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You get into the car. Floyd | Floyd | Bill gets into the car, drives to the corner and guns the engine. Floyd | Floyd | Bill deftly maneuvers through traffic, up the hill to Pacific Heights, Floyd | and Floyd | pulls up to the sidewalk in front of 2102 Jackson Street. Floyd | Miraculously, you Floyd | think, there is a parking space just in front of the door. How'd Floyd | he do that? Floyd | you wonder, not for the last time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Jackson and Laguna Streets Floyd | 120 Floyd | Exits: north west northwest Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the car and head for the apartment building entrance. Floyd | As you Floyd | cross the sidewalk, you overhear snatches of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes sir, Mr. Sabub, sir...key...5A...well done...no Floyd | trouble...anytime." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd | Jackson and Laguna Streets Floyd | 121 Floyd | Exits: north west northwest Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Jackson and Laguna Streets Floyd | Jackson at Laguna, Pacific Heights. Nearly at the top of Pacific Floyd | Heights, the Floyd | intersection of Jackson and Laguna is upscale-residential in Floyd | character. Down Floyd | Laguna to the north, across Union Street, then Lombard, there is a Floyd | view of the Floyd | bay beyond the Marina District. Floyd | Floyd | Up the sidewalk to the west is a canopy leading into the apartment Floyd | building, or Floyd | you can cut across to the northwest from the corner to get into the Floyd | lobby. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "We sound traumatized." | |
| DavidW asks, "Which way do we go?" | ||
| DavidW says, "West or northwest? I'm confused. Again." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think that was us... just snatches of conversation." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "West, apparently?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think we've spoken." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "west" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights Floyd | 122 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > WEST Floyd | Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights Floyd | A canopy covers the sidewalk in front of 2102 Jackson Street, marking Floyd | the Floyd | entrance to the apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | The door into the lobby is to the north, the intersection of Laguna Floyd | and Jackson Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Bill's car here. Floyd | Floyd | Bill stands at the passenger side of the car, holding the open door, Floyd | waiting Floyd | for you to get in. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Yes, I think you're right." | |
| wordsmith asks, "We just picked up the key, now to the apartment?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bill about apartment" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights Floyd | 123 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ASK BILL ABOUT APARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | The man stares at you blankly. Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights Floyd | 124 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing a shirt, a pair of men's shoes, and a pair of jeans Floyd | (on which Floyd | are two pockets). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | |
| DavidW asks, "Do we get in the car?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "I think Bill has the key now." | ||
| wordsmith says, "yes" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (sitting in Bill's car) Floyd | 125 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You get into the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (sitting in Bill's car) Floyd | 126 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 126 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 127 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | A canopy covers the sidewalk in front of 2102 Jackson Street, marking Floyd | the Floyd | entrance to the apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | The door into the lobby is to the north, the intersection of Laguna Floyd | and Jackson Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You are in Bill's car. Floyd | Floyd | Bill stands at the passenger side of the car, holding the open door, Floyd | waiting Floyd | for you to get in. Floyd | Floyd | You sit in the passenger seat of a late model Mercedes sedan with Floyd | luxurious Floyd | leather upholstery, wood paneled dash, gold-plated instruments Floyd | gleaming Floyd | brilliantly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "We are standing in the car. :)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Details, details" | ||
| DavidW says, "good grief" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 127 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 128 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | A canopy covers the sidewalk in front of 2102 Jackson Street, marking Floyd | the Floyd | entrance to the apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | The door into the lobby is to the north, the intersection of Laguna Floyd | and Jackson Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You are in Bill's car. Floyd | Floyd | Bill stands at the passenger side of the car, holding the open door, Floyd | waiting Floyd | for you to get in. Floyd | Floyd | You sit in the passenger seat of a late model Mercedes sedan with Floyd | luxurious Floyd | leather upholstery, wood paneled dash, gold-plated instruments Floyd | gleaming Floyd | brilliantly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get out of car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 128 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > GET OUT OF CAR Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh man." | |
| wordsmith asks, "sit in car ?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "east" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 128 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > EAST Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "It's a Very Tall Car, okay?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 128 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 129 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SIT Floyd | Floyd | You look around for a suitable place to sit. Floyd | Floyd | A canopy covers the sidewalk in front of 2102 Jackson Street, marking Floyd | the Floyd | entrance to the apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | The door into the lobby is to the north, the intersection of Laguna Floyd | and Jackson Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Like, possibly a Winnebago" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 130 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | A canopy covers the sidewalk in front of 2102 Jackson Street, marking Floyd | the Floyd | entrance to the apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | The door into the lobby is to the north, the intersection of Laguna Floyd | and Jackson Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You are in Bill's car. Floyd | Floyd | Bill stands at the passenger side of the car, holding the open door, Floyd | waiting Floyd | for you to get in. Floyd | Floyd | You sit in the passenger seat of a late model Mercedes sedan with Floyd | luxurious Floyd | leather upholstery, wood paneled dash, gold-plated instruments Floyd | gleaming Floyd | brilliantly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Maybe a giraffe car." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter lobby" | wordsmith says, "> sit down" | |
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 130 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LOBBY Floyd | Floyd | You see no lobby, either because there is nothing here to see Floyd | or perhaps you Floyd | just need to look around your environment more closely. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Maybe there's a sunroof!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit in car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 131 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SIT IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You're already in Bill's car. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Convertible..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leave" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 131 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > LEAVE Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Exactly" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get out of car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 131 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > GET OUT OF CAR Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "help" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Dunkel wars, der Mond schien helle..." | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't recall a snafu like this before." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 132 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to stand in the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline laughs. | |
| Jacqueline asks, "It's a minor detail, right?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "> ask bill for key" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bill for key" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 133 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ASK BILL FOR KEY Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 134 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You're already in Bill's car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get in car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 135 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You're already in Bill's car. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, maybe it's not a minor detail. Damn." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 135 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, there was that bit in Bunch of Keys where the game broke from going while on the bed..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "seat" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 136 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SEAT Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on seat" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 137 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON SEAT Floyd | Floyd | The back seat is like the front seat, except it's in back. You choose Floyd | not to Floyd | pursue the differences any further. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 138 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > X CAR Floyd | Floyd | Bill's car is an immaculate late model Mercedes Benz sedan, black with Floyd | tan Floyd | leather seats and a wood-paneled dash with gleaming gold instruments. Floyd | Floyd | Bill stands at the passenger side of the car, holding the open door, Floyd | waiting Floyd | for you to get in. Floyd | Floyd | You sit in the passenger seat of a late model Mercedes sedan with Floyd | luxurious Floyd | leather upholstery, wood paneled dash, gold-plated instruments Floyd | gleaming Floyd | brilliantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x instruments" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 139 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > X INSTRUMENTS Floyd | Floyd | The wood paneled dashboard contains a glove box door, a sound system Floyd | control Floyd | panel (a.k.a. radio), and the usual assortment of driver's Floyd | accessories. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), " sit down" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 140 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SIT DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You look around for a suitable place to sit. Floyd | Floyd | A canopy covers the sidewalk in front of 2102 Jackson Street, marking Floyd | the Floyd | entrance to the apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | The door into the lobby is to the north, the intersection of Laguna Floyd | and Jackson Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open glove box" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 141 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE BOX Floyd | Floyd | The door to the glove box is locked and Bill took his keys with him. Floyd | You are Floyd | not able to open the glove box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bill, unlock glove box" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 142 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > BILL, UNLOCK GLOVE BOX Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, um." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss bill" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 143 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > KISS BILL Floyd | Floyd | Bill doesn't like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Can we go north while standing in the car at least?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 143 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Did we do something that (sigh) if we got back to this point we could avoid triggering this bug?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "north" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 143 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > NORTH Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 143 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit in bill's car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 144 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SIT IN BILL'S CAR Floyd | Floyd | You're already in Bill's car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "exit car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 144 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > EXIT CAR Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie down" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 145 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You are now lying down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 145 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie down" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 146 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You are now lying down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 147 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SIT Floyd | Floyd | You look around for a suitable place to sit. Floyd | Floyd | A canopy covers the sidewalk in front of 2102 Jackson Street, marking Floyd | the Floyd | entrance to the apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | The door into the lobby is to the north, the intersection of Laguna Floyd | and Jackson Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit up" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 148 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SIT UP Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline watches DW on the Struggle Bus. | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "roll out of the car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 149 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ROLL OUT OF THE CAR Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 150 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | To sleep, perchance to dream, you think. No, not now, Floyd | not here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sit on back seat" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 151 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON BACK SEAT Floyd | Floyd | The back seat is like the front seat, except it's in back. You choose Floyd | not to Floyd | pursue the differences any further. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on front seat" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 151 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON FRONT SEAT Floyd | Floyd | You see no front seat, either because there is nothing here Floyd | to see or perhaps Floyd | you just need to look around your environment more closely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "steal car" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 152 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > STEAL CAR Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), " l in right pocket" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 153 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > L IN RIGHT POCKET Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In the pocket you see a wallet. The wallet is open and contains a Floyd | debit card, a Floyd | driver's license, MUNI fast pass, a credit card, and a note. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), " look in left pocket" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 154 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN LEFT POCKET Floyd | Floyd | Your pocket is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put car in left pocket" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 155 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CAR IN LEFT POCKET Floyd | Floyd | You can't put Bill's car in the pocket while the pocket is in Bill's Floyd | car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. You shrug. Oh well, worth a shot, you Floyd | think with mild Floyd | disappointment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 156 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 157 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 158 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | "Get in the car, we don't have all day," Bill snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "kill bill" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 159 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > KILL BILL Floyd | Floyd | That hardly seems appropriate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, I dunno" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bill in wallet" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 160 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BILL IN WALLET Floyd | Floyd | Bill won't let you pick him up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter wallet" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 161 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER WALLET Floyd | Floyd | The wallet is not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Let's try ignoring Bill and go into the apartment building." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on bill" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 162 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > GET ON BILL Floyd | Floyd | Bill is not something you can get on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter building" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 163 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER BUILDING Floyd | Floyd | The building is not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter lobby" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 163 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LOBBY Floyd | Floyd | You see no lobby, either because there is nothing here to see Floyd | or perhaps you Floyd | just need to look around your environment more closely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x building" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 164 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > X BUILDING Floyd | Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | A canopy covers the sidewalk in front of 2102 Jackson Street, marking Floyd | the Floyd | entrance to the apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | The door into the lobby is to the north, the intersection of Laguna Floyd | and Jackson Floyd | is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You are in Bill's car. Floyd | Floyd | Bill stands at the passenger side of the car, holding the open door, Floyd | waiting Floyd | for you to get in. Floyd | Floyd | You sit in the passenger seat of a late model Mercedes sedan with Floyd | luxurious Floyd | leather upholstery, wood paneled dash, gold-plated instruments Floyd | gleaming Floyd | brilliantly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (lying down in Bill's car) Floyd | 165 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > GET UP Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to stand in the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get out" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 165 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get out" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 165 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "brb - bathroom" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess the fatal error was getting into the car again. If we can undo enough times..." | ||
| DavidW says, "sorry guys" | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), " out" | ||
Floyd | Jackson Street, Pacific Heights (standing up in Bill's car) Floyd | 165 Floyd | Exits: north east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "It's not like that could be expected." | |
| DavidW says, "I think we should cut our losses and give up on this game." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That, too, is an option." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And to be honest, I'd prefer that one." | ||
| wordsmith says, "If save/restore worked, I'd be more open to trying more." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Let's see what Jacq thinks." | ||
| DavidW says, "I could do save/restore at home." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Back. Reading conversation..." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Yeah, it's a Floyd/Parry issue, I think." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's not a Perry issue, but yeah, possibly a Floyd issue." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm happy to cut our losses and play a different game for an hour." | ||
| wordsmith says, "That works for me." | ||
