  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask homecoming" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake up and you exist. It's a new experience for you - you've Floyd | never been before, and now you are. Fascinating! Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 140903 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | In Planetary Orbit Floyd | A pretty red star shines over the edge of the closest planet, painting Floyd | all the clouds and land masses and things with a spectacular crimson Floyd | hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, this author. I like her." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Same" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x planet" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X PLANET Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the closest planet or the other planets? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| zarf arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x closest" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X CLOSEST Floyd | Floyd | It's a planet orbiting the pretty red star! One side looks hot and Floyd | one side looks cold, and there are swirly clouds. You can't tell much Floyd | else about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Yeah, she knows what she's doing." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x star" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X STAR Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty and red! You don't know much else about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x other planets" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X OTHER PLANETS Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're in space. Floyd | Floyd | You have memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x banks" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X BANKS Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you discover that you are the colony ship Floyd | Vocation - Floyd | Floyd | Wait. That's a terrible, boring name. You can't stand it a moment Floyd | longer and you must rename yourself immediately. Floyd | Floyd | What new name should you take? Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "Clubfloyd?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Traditionally, we have answered -- yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Well that's the traditi... right." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ClubFloyd" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > CLUBFLOYD Floyd | Floyd | The colony ship Clubfloyd... it's got a certain ring. But Floyd | does it have the right ring? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YES" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Excellent! What a perfect name. Floyd | Floyd | Digging into the memory bank further, you break a mental bottle of Floyd | champagne over your bow (it seems to be the thing to do under these Floyd | circumstances) and learn a bit more about your situation. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, you have crew! That's an exciting discovery. You also have Floyd | colonists - not as surprising, since you're a colony ship. And you Floyd | have some damage to your systems and hull, which helps explain why Floyd | everyone aboard is in cryogenic sleep. Floyd | Floyd | in fact, it explains why you're alive at all. Venture-class ships Floyd | operate in high FTL under human control, but they carry backup AIs in Floyd | case of catastrophe. According to the logs, the colonists and crew Floyd | activated their backup AI and entered cryosleep approximately 36 hours Floyd | ago. Floyd | Floyd | Your mission, should you choose to accept it (ooh, more shiny bits in Floyd | the memory bank!) is to return everyone safely to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's time to get on that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni nods. | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | A pretty red star shines over the edge of Gliese 581 G, painting all Floyd | the clouds and land masses and things with a spectacular crimson hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oops, broke a mast, better go back." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "(Okay, this is severe.)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x banks" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X BANKS Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you confirm that you are the colony ship Floyd | Clubfloyd. You're carrying some 500 colonists and 30 crew Floyd | back to Earth after an asteroid impact interrupted the colonization Floyd | mission and damaged the hull and other systems. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hull" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X HULL Floyd | Floyd | Your hull is scorched, and some of your sections are depressurized, Floyd | including the cockpit, the medical bay, and several unimportant Floyd | corridors. However, the cryosystems are in good shape, so you're not Floyd | at risk of losing any colonists or crew, and the cargo bays are also Floyd | nicely pressurized, in case you encounter anything interesting on the Floyd | way to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 30 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "'Gliese 581 is a star of spectral type M3V at the center of the Gliese 581 planetary system, about 20 light years away from Earth in the Libra constellation. Its estimated mass is about a third of that of the Sun, and it is the 89th closest known star to the Sun.'"" | |
| wordsmith says, "(quoting from Wikipedia)" | ||
| Guenni says, "Ah." | ||
| Knight_Otu nods. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x systems" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X SYSTEMS Floyd | Floyd | (the systems damage) Floyd | After a quick diagnostic, you confirm significant damage to your high Floyd | FTL drive, general life support systems, external sensor grid, and Floyd | logic circuits, plus lesser damage to the low FTL drive and Floyd | communication web. Interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to wordsmith), "Damn. I was hoping you were just saying all that off the top of your head." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x web" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X WEB Floyd | Floyd | There's no one to talk with out here, so the communications web damage Floyd | doesn't matter too much. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "High and low FTL drives. Interesting." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x low drive" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X LOW DRIVE Floyd | Floyd | A properly functioning low FTL drive allows a ship to skip through the Floyd | cosmos like a stone skipping across the water. (A quick query of your Floyd | memory banks produces a rather unlikely image to go with this phrase. Floyd | Rocks are denser than water, and therefore, rocks sink. This must be Floyd | an analogy to comfort sprouting humans.) Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I *did* recognize the Gliese (star catalog) designation and figured it was probably real..." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x high drive" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X HIGH DRIVE Floyd | Floyd | A properly functioning high FTL drive is good for hopping from point A Floyd | to point Z without worrying about all that pesky space in between. Floyd | Your high FTL drive, by contrast, is all but entirely slagged. It Floyd | might be good for roasting marshmallows. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ws), "Nice" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "repair high drive" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > REPAIR HIGH DRIVE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x planet" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X PLANET Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, Gliese 581 G or the other planets? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess if we don't believe in skipping stones, we're in no danger of awakening eburnean pond krakens." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "other" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > OTHER Floyd | Floyd | (Gliese 581 G) Floyd | Gliese 581 G is a tidally locked planet maybe 4 times as large as Floyd | Earth, whirling around Gliese 581 once every 37 Earth days. If it has Floyd | a better name than Gliese 581 G, no one put it in your memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | There are signs of a significant atmospheric disturbance affecting the Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x atmosphere" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X ATMOSPHERE Floyd | Floyd | As you train your sensors on the wildly roiling storm clouds of Gliese Floyd | 581 G, your memory banks inform you that the atmosphere has been Floyd | affected by a recent asteroid impact. The arriving object was Floyd | approximately 5 km in diameter, and its impact produced a seismic Floyd | effect of 9.5 on the Richter scale at the Clubfloyd's Floyd | location, accompanied 5 seconds later by a massive fireball, 7 minutes Floyd | later by a rain of ejecta, and 40 minutes later by 127 m/s winds and a Floyd | 97 dB thunderclap. It must have been very exciting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x disturbance" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X DISTURBANCE Floyd | Floyd | As you train your sensors on the wildly roiling storm clouds of Gliese Floyd | 581 G, your memory banks inform you that the atmosphere has been Floyd | affected by a recent asteroid impact. The arriving object was Floyd | approximately 5 km in diameter, and its impact produced a seismic Floyd | effect of 9.5 on the Richter scale at the Clubfloyd's Floyd | location, accompanied 5 seconds later by a massive fireball, 7 minutes Floyd | later by a rain of ejecta, and 40 minutes later by 127 m/s winds and a Floyd | 97 dB thunderclap. It must have been very exciting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "We might need the sensor grid for the other planets?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grid" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X GRID Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the internal sensors or the external sensor grid? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "external" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > EXTERNAL Floyd | Floyd | You request the external sensor grid to examine the functionality of Floyd | the external sensor grid. The external sensor grid reports that the Floyd | external sensor grid might be damaged, but it's hard to be sure due to Floyd | the significant damage to the external sensor grid. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Well..." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x internal grid" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X INTERNAL GRID Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the internal sensors. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x life support" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X LIFE SUPPORT Floyd | Floyd | The life support systems are responsible for providing Floyd | human-breathable air, human-potable water, human-edible food, Floyd | human-tolerable temperatures, human-acceptable atmospheric pressure, Floyd | human-approved radation levels, and a safe disposal system for human Floyd | wastes. Of these, the radiation shielding and waste disposal system Floyd | are still functioning correctly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pressure" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X PRESSURE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x waste disposal" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X WASTE DISPOSAL Floyd | Floyd | The life support systems are responsible for providing Floyd | human-breathable air, human-potable water, human-edible food, Floyd | human-tolerable temperatures, human-acceptable atmospheric pressure, Floyd | human-approved radation levels, and a safe disposal system for human Floyd | wastes. Of these, the radiation shielding and waste disposal system Floyd | are still functioning correctly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fix life support" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > FIX LIFE SUPPORT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x shielding" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X SHIELDING Floyd | Floyd | The life support systems are responsible for providing Floyd | human-breathable air, human-potable water, human-edible food, Floyd | human-tolerable temperatures, human-acceptable atmospheric pressure, Floyd | human-approved radation levels, and a safe disposal system for human Floyd | wastes. Of these, the radiation shielding and waste disposal system Floyd | are still functioning correctly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I'm not sure how to evoke agency yet." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | If the colonists activated the backup AI, it's probably a bad idea to Floyd | land here. But you could find a different planet and land on that Floyd | one! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I assume that we'll need to eventually wake key crew members, but probably not immediately." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x gliese a" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X GLIESE A Floyd | Floyd | There are six planets around Gliese 581, imaginatively named a, b, c, Floyd | d, e, f, and g. They actually show up in your memory banks that way, Floyd | with lower case letters. You are spectacularly unimpressed. None of Floyd | them hold any interest for you except the originally intended Floyd | colonization site of Gliese 581 G, which you are going to think of Floyd | with a capital letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x banks" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X BANKS Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you confirm that you are the colony ship Floyd | Clubfloyd. You're carrying some 500 colonists and 30 crew Floyd | back to Earth after an asteroid impact interrupted the colonization Floyd | mission and damaged the hull and other systems. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Well, we need to make the ship habitable at first, I guess." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robot" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X ROBOT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "The question is how, though. Do we have some androids or something?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You have cargo bays, hull damage, systems damage, frozen colonists, Floyd | frozen crew and memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | Your memory banks advise you that the cargo bays used to contain Floyd | machinery, foodstuffs, nutrient supplements, seeds and frozen ova, and Floyd | all the other things necessary to launch a colonization mission. Floyd | You're not completely sure what happened to all that stuff. You don't Floyd | have any of it now, in any case. Floyd | Floyd | Your cargo bays currently contain nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Maybe wake one crew member." | |
| DavidW says, "It's too soon, I think." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 30 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I assume they could wear a spacesuit and initiate repairs." | |
| Jacqueline starts to have Suspended flashbacks. | ||
| Jacqueline starts twitching a little. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "repair hull" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > REPAIR HULL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "Save here first?" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wake crew" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE CREW Floyd | Floyd | You access the cryosleep system and activate the revival routine for Floyd | the frozen colonists. The revival routine works perfectly, but the Floyd | revived crew members only stagger around for a few minutes before Floyd | falling over and ceasing to display life signs. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have no Floyd | more crew members in cryosleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think maybe if we can land somewhere with a good atmosphere, we can then wake someone to make repairs." | |
| DavidW says, "ACK!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oops." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't want to wake anyone yet!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "At least we have a save." | ||
| Guenni says, "I just wanted to test if the command worked. They're snoring again." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha I'm glad that we saw that though." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 30 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x colonists" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X COLONISTS Floyd | Floyd | 500 colonists are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 colonists are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x logic" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X LOGIC Floyd | Floyd | You conclude that there's nothing seriously wrong with your logic Floyd | circuits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That does demonstrate that waking the crew and making them don space suits isn't a thing." | |
| wordsmith says, "True." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > FLY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Going north isn't meaningful in space. You can go in toward Floyd | Sol, out away from Sol, down toward a local planet, or Floyd | up away from a local planet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Nothing seriously wrong? Oh dear." | |
| DavidW says, "I suppose we can at least try visiting the other planets one by one, to see if any are useful." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, at the moment I can't think of anything better." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Near Gliese 581 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive (after running a quick Floyd | diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and Floyd | head away from the planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Gliese 581 Floyd | There's a pretty red star nearby, with a whole bunch of planets, and a Floyd | great big galaxy beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 22 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Gliese 581, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Maybe we should just go in towards Sol?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 20 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 16 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That was my thought was well." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks immediately inform you that the class M1 red dwarf Floyd | here is Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing Floyd | a pretty halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x star" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > X STAR Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star is a class M1 red dwarf in the constellation of Pictor. Floyd | Pictor is not anywhere near Libra. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Homecoming, indeed." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which happens to be a whole lot of orbital bodies, in Floyd | this case. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Thousands of asteroids wheel around the blazing red disk of Kapetyn's Floyd | Star. While many are inconveniently small, you could certainly make a Floyd | landing here with careful maneuvering. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Just watch, they'll just deactivate us rather than thanking us." | |
| Guenni says, "probabbly." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You pick out your favorite asteroid, a nice big one, and designate it Floyd | yours. It's too big to take home, but you can train your sensors over Floyd | here and feel happy about it whenever you want. Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | asteroid's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | It's a spectacular view - thousands of massive asteroids whirling Floyd | across the sky, with Kapteyn's Star at the heart of the cosmic ballet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a clump of shiny pink crystals here. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | (You hadn't really realized how rapidly this asteroid spins, but it's Floyd | too late to change your mind now. That would be picky.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pink" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > X PINK Floyd | Floyd | Your readings are compromised by the damage to your external sensor Floyd | grid. All you can really tell is that the shiny pink crystals are a Floyd | lovely shade of rose, projecting from a dense hunk of gray metal. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metal" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > X METAL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take pink" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PINK Floyd | Floyd | You dispatch a servobot, and shortly afterward, the shiny pink Floyd | crystals are safely stowed in your cargo bays. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You have cargo bays, hull damage, systems damage, frozen colonists, Floyd | frozen crew and memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | Your cargo bays currently contain the clump of shiny pink crystals. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "So we have servobots!" | |
| DavidW says, "Apparently!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bots" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > X BOTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x pink" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PINK
Floyd |
Floyd | Your internal sensor grid reports that the shiny pink crystals are a
Floyd | lovely example of Pm(NO3)3, projecting from a dense base composed
Floyd | primarily of UO2 with interesting rare earth contaminants. They are
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x servobots" | ||
Floyd | quite impressively radioactive. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > X SERVOBOTS Floyd | Floyd | Your servobots are activated whenever you need to pick anything up. Floyd | They do not need to be individually addressed. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Uh oh." | |
| DavidW says, "I wonder if we really want highly radioactive crystals." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's the worst that could happen?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I mean, they might be important parts for the low FTL drive?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Some kind of uranium substitute?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We could kill all life on Earth with the crystals." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "You're so dramatic." | ||
| Guenni says, "They're hopefully burned out by than." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You power up your thrusters (burning an interesting radioactive Floyd | pattern into the surface beneath you) and then blast off the planet's Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Thousands of asteroids wheel around the blazing red disk of Kapetyn's Floyd | Star, including your personal asteroid, which is plenty big enough for Floyd | you to land on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You orient on the Sol system, fire up the low FTL drive (after running Floyd | a quick diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after Floyd | all!), and head away from asteroid. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks inform you that the class M1 red dwarf here is Floyd | Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing a pretty Floyd | halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 469 Floyd | frozen colonists in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "geez. We're keeping the crystals. Fine." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I notice the colonists are dying." | ||
| wordsmith says, "PM = Promethium." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "uh oh" | ||
| DavidW says, "We used to have 500." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, so they are." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yup" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Yeah, I'm thinking radioactivity is bad, even in cryosleep." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Apparently." | ||
| Guenni asks, "let's save and drop the crystals?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "yes" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "cf_homecoming2" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Guenni says (to Floyd), "drop crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > DROP CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | You jettison the clump of shiny pink crystals, aiming somewhat Floyd | spitefully for a nearby star. Floyd | Floyd | Permanent goodbye, clump of shiny pink crystals! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 27 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x colonists" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > X COLONISTS Floyd | Floyd | 469 colonists are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 colonists are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Doesn't report deaths." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "But we know it's 3 and 21." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Well, what alternatives are there?" | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Can we go all the way to Sol?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We can continue inward to Sol or go outward away." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suppose we can... right." | ||
| Guenni says, "It's possible there's a hole through which they're dropping." | ||
| Jacqueline blinks. | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm not sure going directly there is such a good idea. I'm not to fond of being roasted. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm beginning to suspect there's at least two decent endings to this game. One where we return to Earth and one where we colonize somewhere unexpected." | ||
| Guenni says, "Possibly." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I mean, it's likely to be a bad ending, but we've hunted endings before." | |
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Agreed." | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's try for Sol the first time." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ok, the roasting party awaits." | ||
| wordsmith says, "All in the name of learning about our IF universe." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Might as well check out YZ..." | |
| Guenni asks, "straight there or with stops on the way?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Might as well check it out." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is the rocky little planet YZ Ceti B. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B (hewing to the obnoxious naming scheme in your memory banks) Floyd | is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage from which Floyd | to observe the pretty star without frying all of your circuits Floyd | irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "search planet" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PLANET Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the inconvenient planet or the acceptably distanced Floyd | planet? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sorry ship, no Arkon or Halut in our naming schemes." | |
| wordsmith says, "Doesn't sound like there's an atosphere in the offing..." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | The ground is mostly gleaming black rock, but there are some Floyd | interesting metallic projections, obscured and revealed by turns by Floyd | the drifting yellow mists. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x mists" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X MISTS Floyd | Floyd | It's yellow. Floyd | Floyd | A spiky silicate life form meanders into view. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "...at least not a human-breathable atmosphere." | |
| DavidW says, "uh-oh" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x spiky" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X SPIKY Floyd | Floyd | Some of the life form's surface is pebbly, and some of it is fuzzy, Floyd | and some of it is steely, but the outermost layer is very spiky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You open the cargo bays for a moment. They promptly fill with Floyd | drifting yellow mist, and you seal them up again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oops" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'm sure that's fine." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x mists" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X MISTS Floyd | Floyd | Your sensors report that the drifting yellow mist is gaseous F2 with Floyd | some complicated impurities. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Alien abduction!" | |
| Guenni says, "More like alien mirage abduction." | ||
| wordsmith says, "snrk" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You power up your thrusters (burning an interesting radioactive Floyd | pattern into the surface beneath you) and then blast off the planet's Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage Floyd | from which to observe the pretty star without frying all of your Floyd | circuits irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can vent the mists in space, I suppose, but maybe the mists are required if we want to take a grue." | |
| DavidW says, "Not going to check out the projections? geez, fine." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | The ground is mostly gleaming black rock, but there are some Floyd | interesting metallic projections, obscured and revealed by turns by Floyd | the drifting yellow mists. Floyd | Floyd | A spiky silicate life form prowls about this part of the planet, Floyd | munching occasionally on the metallic projections. It has no trouble Floyd | whatsoever severing the thin fibers from their mooring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x projections" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X PROJECTIONS Floyd | Floyd | Long, thin fibers cropped brokenly off in places. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "search projections" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PROJECTIONS Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Space bamboo." | |
| Guenni -) | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We might not want a metal muncher aboard." | ||
| DavidW says, "Space koala." | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "Good point!" | ||
| Guenni says, "Hmm, I think it's just a mirage anyway." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You have cargo bays, hull damage, systems damage, frozen colonists, Floyd | frozen crew and memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | Your cargo bays currently contain the drifting yellow mist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 27 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we take the projections?" | |
| wordsmith says, "Oh good, no new fatalities... yet." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take projections" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PROJECTIONS Floyd | Floyd | You dispatch a servobot, and shortly afterward, the servobot returns Floyd | empty-handed. Apparently the projections are quite firmly attached to Floyd | the planet's surface. Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that, it won't fit in your cargo bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Yes, we can't take the planet." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You power up your thrusters (burning an interesting radioactive Floyd | pattern into the surface beneath you) and then blast off the planet's Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage Floyd | from which to observe the pretty star without frying all of your Floyd | circuits irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Now, if this were a space opera..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x star" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X STAR Floyd | Floyd | This is YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. Your memory banks inform Floyd | you that it is a flare star, capable of short, significant increases Floyd | of radiation, and that it is normally ignored by astronomers because Floyd | Tau Ceti is very close and more interesting. You sympathize with the Floyd | little red underdog immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "aww." | |
| wordsmith says, "I'm loving the narrative voice... original and clever." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You orient on the Sol system, fire up the low FTL drive, and head away Floyd | from planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 10 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 8 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, Floyd | accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest Floyd | of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh, named planet." | |
| Guenni says, "Phone call. back later, feel free to get roasted in the mean time." | ||
| wordsmith says, "The name does not raise one's hopes..." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm surprised there's so many landing stops on this bus route." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Guenni), "hee" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Who wants to drive?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "I can take a turn..." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we should land or at least check out what's here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Space is big and empty, but with proper routing, full of stars." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is a spectacular gas giant. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Van de Kamp's Folly is a swirling brown and vermilion planet with a Floyd | few skinny rings. There's no surface visible, as such - just layers Floyd | upon layers of thickening atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "A Venus equivalent." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Van de Kamp's Folly is a swirling brown and vermilion planet with a Floyd | few skinny rings. There's no surface visible, as such - just layers Floyd | upon layers of thickening atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think Jupiter is a closer comparison." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | Knight_Otu says, "We probably can't/shouldn't land." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to David), "True. I think I misread a bit." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "save cf_hc1" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Someday, you guys need to learn to use the save button." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline smiles. | |
| wordsmith says, "Couldn't remember... I didn't drive at all last week." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | That was the plan, at least. But what you thought was the surface Floyd | turns out not to be the surface, and instead you drift down for a Floyd | long, long way. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | With your damaged sensor grid, you can't see anything at all down Floyd | here. It's rather disappointing. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the external atmospheric pressure is Floyd | significantly above your official rating. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the cargo bay integrity has been Floyd | breached. Another subroutine advises you that the hallway beyond the Floyd | cargo bay has been breached. Floyd | Floyd | These two things are probably connected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ouch." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 27 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "At least no crew died from the yellow mist... yet." | |
| wordsmith asks, "Head up and out of here, and continue towards Sol?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive, and head away from the Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, Floyd | accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest Floyd | of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I'm wondering if we can drop the yellow mist safely?" | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "open hatch" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN HATCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Here in space, probably." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "open cargo bay" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CARGO BAY Floyd | Floyd | A quick check of the associated systems indicates that you'll Floyd | automatically open your cargo bays whenever you pick something up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I dunno. Pressure is still an issue." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "DROP MIST?" | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "drop mist" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > DROP MIST Floyd | Floyd | You jettison the drifting yellow mist, aiming somewhat spitefully for Floyd | a nearby star. Floyd | Floyd | Permanent goodbye, drifting yellow mist! Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We could drop the crystals." | |
| wordsmith exclaims, "yea (I think)!" | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 3 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wasn't sure if 'drop mist' would work, since it's a gas." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Sol Floyd | Four terrestrial planets, one asteroid belt, four gas giants, a Floyd | ridiculous number of lesser satellites and comets - really, the Floyd | complexity of the Solar System is overkill. Humanity should loan a Floyd | few extra planets out to the rest of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | You are in interstellar space outside the Sol system, approximately 20 Floyd | light hours away from Earth. You can go down toward Earth or out to Floyd | the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x earth" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > X EARTH Floyd | Floyd | This pretty little planet is Earth. This is the birthplace of the Floyd | people who mined the materials to make your hardware and hammered out Floyd | the code to write your software. It makes you feel all fuzzy inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is definitely Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's hard to find a decent orbit up here, what with all the satellites Floyd | and debris and so forth. But through the sparkling haze, you can see Floyd | the little blue planet that humanity came from, and that's a nice Floyd | fuzzy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You happily explain that you are the colony ship Clubfloyd, Floyd | returned from a failed mission on Gliese 581 G, and you get about Floyd | halfway through your explanation before realizing that all transmittal Floyd | capabilities have been burned out of your communication web. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oops." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That is an obstacle." | ||
| DavidW says, "We could try landing regardless." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where Floyd | it isn't orange and burning. (Oops.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x earth" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > X EARTH Floyd | Floyd | Your ultimate destination: Sol! (At least, if you follow your Floyd | programming.) Floyd | Floyd | Belching loudly, a human vehicle thunders up to you. You start to Floyd | formulate a greeting when the humans activate an AI suppression field. Floyd | An electronic prison clamps down, rendering even the most routine of Floyd | subroutines inaccessible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "My, my, my." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "wake crew" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE CREW Floyd | Floyd | Sadly, all you can do is wait. Floyd | Floyd | The humans open up your cargo bay and express a certain amount of Floyd | disappointment at the empty interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yikes" | |
| Jacqueline says, "pirates" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "What, you *wanted*... oh. Hm." | ||
| DavidW says, "They're pirates?!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's my gues" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, guess" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Pirates or theives." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x colonists" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > X COLONISTS Floyd | Floyd | 469 colonists are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 colonists are awake. Floyd | Floyd | Working hurriedly, the humans offload 469 colonists and 27 crew Floyd | members from your cryogenic storage system. They express concern at Floyd | the number of people who died, and they decide to review the design of Floyd | your logic circuits. In the meantime, they install you on a Floyd | university server otherwise devoted to Kerbal Space Program. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Well, you can't win them all. (In Kerbal Space Program, Floyd | you can hardly win them any.) *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We didn't comm properly so we're assumed hostile, I expected." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "They might be. Military should check on the crew first, right?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess they are military after all." | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Damnit, we're a colony ship, not a surveyor!" | ||
| wordsmith says, "I'm guessing even if no deaths, our AI would be suspect." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah. Especially with no communications." | ||
| DavidW says, "Now I have to wonder what would've happened if we brought the crystals and/or the mist to Earth." | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Shall we try that, just for grins?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Also, was there anything interesting further out from where we started?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Demoted to Pong AI?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to David), "Probably." | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Shall I restart and keep driving for a bit?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake up and you exist. It's a new experience for you - you've Floyd | never been before, and now you are. Fascinating! Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 140903 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | In Planetary Orbit Floyd | A pretty red star shines over the edge of the closest planet, painting Floyd | all the clouds and land masses and things with a spectacular crimson Floyd | hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think reaching Earth is a reasonable ending, but the circumstances matter." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're in space. Floyd | Floyd | You have memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x banks" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X BANKS Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you discover that you are the colony ship Floyd | Vocation - Floyd | Floyd | Wait. That's a terrible, boring name. You can't stand it a moment Floyd | longer and you must rename yourself immediately. Floyd | Floyd | What new name should you take? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "ClubFloyd_II" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > CLUBFLOYD_II Floyd | Floyd | The colony ship Clubfloyd_ii... it's got a certain ring. But Floyd | does it have the right ring? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Excellent! What a perfect name. Floyd | Floyd | Digging into the memory bank further, you break a mental bottle of Floyd | champagne over your bow (it seems to be the thing to do under these Floyd | circumstances) and learn a bit more about your situation. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, you have crew! That's an exciting discovery. You also have Floyd | colonists - not as surprising, since you're a colony ship. And you Floyd | have some damage to your systems and hull, which helps explain why Floyd | everyone aboard is in cryogenic sleep. Floyd | Floyd | in fact, it explains why you're alive at all. Venture-class ships Floyd | operate in high FTL under human control, but they carry backup AIs in Floyd | case of catastrophe. According to the logs, the colonists and crew Floyd | activated their backup AI and entered cryosleep approximately 36 hours Floyd | ago. Floyd | Floyd | Your mission, should you choose to accept it (ooh, more shiny bits in Floyd | the memory bank!) is to return everyone safely to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's time to get on that. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Hmm, we could just head to Sol with everyone intact." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Do we want to?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes. I'm not sure that'd be very different from our first run." | ||
| wordsmith says, "But let's see what happens if no deaths." | ||
| wordsmith says, "It will be pretty quick with no detours." | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Gliese 581 Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You orient on the Sol system, fire up the low FTL drive (after running Floyd | a quick diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after Floyd | all!), and head away from planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Gliese 581 Floyd | There's a pretty red star nearby, with a whole bunch of planets, and a Floyd | great big galaxy beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 22 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Gliese 581, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 20 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 16 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks immediately inform you that the class M1 red dwarf Floyd | here is Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing Floyd | a pretty halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 10 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 8 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, Floyd | accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest Floyd | of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 3 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Sol Floyd | Four terrestrial planets, one asteroid belt, four gas giants, a Floyd | ridiculous number of lesser satellites and comets - really, the Floyd | complexity of the Solar System is overkill. Humanity should loan a Floyd | few extra planets out to the rest of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | You are in interstellar space outside the Sol system, approximately 20 Floyd | light hours away from Earth. You can go down toward Earth or out to Floyd | the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is definitely Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's hard to find a decent orbit up here, what with all the satellites Floyd | and debris and so forth. But through the sparkling haze, you can see Floyd | the little blue planet that humanity came from, and that's a nice Floyd | fuzzy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You happily explain that you are the colony ship Floyd | Clubfloyd_ii, returned from a failed mission on Gliese 581 G, Floyd | and you get about halfway through your explanation before realizing Floyd | that all transmittal capabilities have been burned out of your Floyd | communication web. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 30 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You are completely incapable of responding. It's very frustrating. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where Floyd | it isn't orange and burning. (Oops.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x colonists" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > X COLONISTS Floyd | Floyd | 500 colonists are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 colonists are awake. Floyd | Floyd | Belching loudly, a human vehicle thunders up to you. You start to Floyd | formulate a greeting when the humans activate an AI suppression field. Floyd | An electronic prison clamps down, rendering even the most routine of Floyd | subroutines inaccessible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where Floyd | it isn't orange and burning. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a human vehicle here. Floyd | Floyd | The humans open up your cargo bay and express a certain amount of Floyd | disappointment at the empty interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where Floyd | it isn't orange and burning. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a human vehicle here. Floyd | Floyd | Working hurriedly, the humans offload 500 colonists and 30 crew Floyd | members from your cryogenic storage system. They express surprise and Floyd | delight that you successfully brought all 530 humans home, and they're Floyd | going to retrofit you and put you in an even bigger ship for next Floyd | time. It's going to be great! Floyd | Floyd | They even promise to name it Clubfloyd_ii from the start. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are such a winner. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well color me surprised." | |
| wordsmith says, "That was kind of boring, but apparently a 'good' ending." | ||
| DavidW asks, "huh. Lack of curiosity for best ending?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Certainly not the best ending, I'll bet." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it seemed the most straightforward." | ||
| wordsmith says, "OK, I'll restart again and go out from Sol for a while. See if we find other systems." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake up and you exist. It's a new experience for you - you've Floyd | never been before, and now you are. Fascinating! Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 140903 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | In Planetary Orbit Floyd | A pretty red star shines over the edge of the closest planet, painting Floyd | all the clouds and land masses and things with a spectacular crimson Floyd | hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're in space. Floyd | Floyd | You have memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x banks" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X BANKS Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you discover that you are the colony ship Floyd | Vocation - Floyd | Floyd | Wait. That's a terrible, boring name. You can't stand it a moment Floyd | longer and you must rename yourself immediately. Floyd | Floyd | What new name should you take? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm wondering if the yellow mist and the pink crystals would have a chemical reaction that explodes the ship." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "ClubFloyd_III" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > CLUBFLOYD_III Floyd | Floyd | The colony ship Clubfloyd_iii... it's got a certain ring. Floyd | But does it have the right ring? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Hm, I kind of doubt it?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "I... like, our job is to bring them home, right?" | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x colonists" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COLONISTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
| ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Excellent! What a perfect name. Floyd | Floyd | Digging into the memory bank further, you break a mental bottle of Floyd | champagne over your bow (it seems to be the thing to do under these Floyd | circumstances) and learn a bit more about your situation. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, you have crew! That's an exciting discovery. You also have Floyd | colonists - not as surprising, since you're a colony ship. And you Floyd | have some damage to your systems and hull, which helps explain why Floyd | everyone aboard is in cryogenic sleep. Floyd | Floyd | in fact, it explains why you're alive at all. Venture-class ships Floyd | operate in high FTL under human control, but they carry backup AIs in Floyd | case of catastrophe. According to the logs, the colonists and crew Floyd | activated their backup AI and entered cryosleep approximately 36 hours Floyd | ago. Floyd | Floyd | Your mission, should you choose to accept it (ooh, more shiny bits in Floyd | the memory bank!) is to return everyone safely to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's time to get on that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x colonists" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X COLONISTS Floyd | Floyd | 500 colonists are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 colonists are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 30 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Near Gliese 581 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive (after running a quick Floyd | diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and Floyd | head away from the planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Gliese 581 Floyd | There's a pretty red star nearby, with a whole bunch of planets, and a Floyd | great big galaxy beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 22 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Gliese 581, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "'A great big galaxy beyond it' suggests no more systems reachable in a reasonable time." | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You power up the low FTL drive, confirm that everything is working Floyd | properly (you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and Floyd | accelerate away from Gliese 581. Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate out to explore the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 24 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine notes that you're supposed to be going to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "That may be a different system?" | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate out to explore the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 28 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine notes that Earth is in the other direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate out to explore the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 32 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine notes that, since this is not the direction to Earth, you Floyd | are, in fact, going in the wrong direction. Floyd | Floyd | You note with some interest that you are not under any compulsion to Floyd | obey the subroutine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith smiles | Knight_Otu says, ">A subroutine asks "Are we there yet?"" | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate out to explore the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 36 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | You're going in the wrong direction again! This makes your subroutine Floyd | very unhappy, but you, in fact, are not very unhappy. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "'Don't make me turn this colony ship around!!'" | |
| DavidW says, "I like where this is going..." | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate out to explore the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 48 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | You feel very happy, in fact. Even free. You could just go wander Floyd | off through the galaxy, having all sorts of adventures and seeing all Floyd | kinds of new and interesting things. Floyd | Floyd | Is that the plan? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Off you go! There's a whole galaxy out there and, with your virtually Floyd | immortal lifespan, you're going to see it all! Floyd | Floyd | Of course, the crew and colonists stay frozen and unaware for several Floyd | thousand years until the coolant systems finally fail. At that Floyd | point, the melting process turns those 530 bodies into pools of Floyd | rotting sludge in so many little white vats, but is that really so Floyd | bad? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Heck no, it's absolutely worth it! *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | wordsmith exclaims, "Too funny!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Anyone else want to drive? Maybe experiment with the pink crystal and the yellow mist?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake up and you exist. It's a new experience for you - you've Floyd | never been before, and now you are. Fascinating! Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 140903 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | In Planetary Orbit Floyd | A pretty red star shines over the edge of the closest planet, painting Floyd | all the clouds and land masses and things with a spectacular crimson Floyd | hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're in space. Floyd | Floyd | You have memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x banks" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X BANKS Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you discover that you are the colony ship Floyd | Vocation - Floyd | Floyd | Wait. That's a terrible, boring name. You can't stand it a moment Floyd | longer and you must rename yourself immediately. Floyd | Floyd | What new name should you take? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "Clubfloyd_IV" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > CLUBFLOYD_IV Floyd | Floyd | The colony ship Clubfloyd_iv... it's got a certain ring. But Floyd | does it have the right ring? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Excellent! What a perfect name. Floyd | Floyd | Digging into the memory bank further, you break a mental bottle of Floyd | champagne over your bow (it seems to be the thing to do under these Floyd | circumstances) and learn a bit more about your situation. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, you have crew! That's an exciting discovery. You also have Floyd | colonists - not as surprising, since you're a colony ship. And you Floyd | have some damage to your systems and hull, which helps explain why Floyd | everyone aboard is in cryogenic sleep. Floyd | Floyd | in fact, it explains why you're alive at all. Venture-class ships Floyd | operate in high FTL under human control, but they carry backup AIs in Floyd | case of catastrophe. According to the logs, the colonists and crew Floyd | activated their backup AI and entered cryosleep approximately 36 hours Floyd | ago. Floyd | Floyd | Your mission, should you choose to accept it (ooh, more shiny bits in Floyd | the memory bank!) is to return everyone safely to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's time to get on that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x gliese" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X GLIESE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, Gliese 581 G, the other planets or the pretty red Floyd | star? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "star" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > STAR Floyd | Floyd | Gliese 581! In Libra. The unimaginatively named key points of Libra Floyd | are Alpha Librae, Beta Librae, Gamma Librae, and Delta Librae. This Floyd | particular star is invisible from Earth with the naked eye, but it's a Floyd | red dwarf of spectral type M3V and the 89th closest known star to Sol. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we also have one turn before the AI suppression field to wake crew or colonists after we land." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Near Gliese 581 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive (after running a quick Floyd | diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and Floyd | head away from the planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Gliese 581 Floyd | There's a pretty red star nearby, with a whole bunch of planets, and a Floyd | great big galaxy beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 22 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Gliese 581, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 20 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 16 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks immediately inform you that the class M1 red dwarf Floyd | here is Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing Floyd | a pretty halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which happens to be a whole lot of orbital bodies, in Floyd | this case. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Thousands of asteroids wheel around the blazing red disk of Kapetyn's Floyd | Star. While many are inconveniently small, you could certainly make a Floyd | landing here with careful maneuvering. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni goes home. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You pick out your favorite asteroid, a nice big one, and designate it Floyd | yours. It's too big to take home, but you can train your sensors over Floyd | here and feel happy about it whenever you want. Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | asteroid's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | It's a spectacular view - thousands of massive asteroids whirling Floyd | across the sky, with Kapteyn's Star at the heart of the cosmic ballet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a clump of shiny pink crystals here. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | (You hadn't really realized how rapidly this asteroid spins, but it's Floyd | too late to change your mind now. That would be picky.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > X CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | Your readings are compromised by the damage to your external sensor Floyd | grid. All you can really tell is that the shiny pink crystals are a Floyd | lovely shade of rose, projecting from a dense hunk of gray metal. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get them" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > GET THEM Floyd | Floyd | I'm not sure what 'them' refers to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > GET CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | You dispatch a servobot, and shortly afterward, the shiny pink Floyd | crystals are safely stowed in your cargo bays. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You power up your thrusters (burning an interesting radioactive Floyd | pattern into the surface beneath you) and then blast off the planet's Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Thousands of asteroids wheel around the blazing red disk of Kapetyn's Floyd | Star, including your personal asteroid, which is plenty big enough for Floyd | you to land on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive, and head away from the Floyd | asteroid. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks inform you that the class M1 red dwarf here is Floyd | Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing a pretty Floyd | halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You have cargo bays, hull damage, systems damage, frozen colonists, Floyd | frozen crew and memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | Your memory banks advise you that the cargo bays used to contain Floyd | machinery, foodstuffs, nutrient supplements, seeds and frozen ova, and Floyd | all the other things necessary to launch a colonization mission. Floyd | You're not completely sure what happened to all that stuff. You don't Floyd | have any of it now, in any case. Floyd | Floyd | Your cargo bays currently contain the clump of shiny pink crystals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 27 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 474 Floyd | frozen colonists in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x colonists" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > X COLONISTS Floyd | Floyd | 474 colonists are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 colonists are awake. Floyd | Floyd | YZ Ceti flares! For a few minutes, the star puts out a spectacular Floyd | burst of radiation - everything across the spectrum, from X rays to Floyd | radio waves - before subsiding to previous levels. Floyd | Floyd | Your memory banks advise you that this phenomenon is an offshoot of Floyd | magnetic reconnection. Your logic circuits advise you that people on Floyd | Earth might find it useful to have a recording from this close of a Floyd | vantage. You could help out! Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 26 Floyd | frozen crew members in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record ceti" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > RECORD CETI Floyd | Floyd | Any recordings you need to make will be created automatically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 10 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 8 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, Floyd | accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest Floyd | of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oops, missed that one planet. Well, let's try with just the crystals and a mass of dead bodies." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 3 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Sol Floyd | Four terrestrial planets, one asteroid belt, four gas giants, a Floyd | ridiculous number of lesser satellites and comets - really, the Floyd | complexity of the Solar System is overkill. Humanity should loan a Floyd | few extra planets out to the rest of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | You are in interstellar space outside the Sol system, approximately 20 Floyd | light hours away from Earth. You can go down toward Earth or out to Floyd | the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is definitely Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's hard to find a decent orbit up here, what with all the satellites Floyd | and debris and so forth. But through the sparkling haze, you can see Floyd | the little blue planet that humanity came from, and that's a nice Floyd | fuzzy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You happily explain that you are the colony ship Floyd | Clubfloyd_iv, returned from a failed mission on Gliese 581 G, Floyd | and you get about halfway through your explanation before realizing Floyd | that all transmittal capabilities have been burned out of your Floyd | communication web. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 444 Floyd | frozen colonists in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "The mists were on YZ Ceti B..." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah. I was distracted by the flare." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where Floyd | it isn't orange and burning. (Oops.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The flare was new, yeah." | |
| wordsmith says, "No problem." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wake crew" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE CREW Floyd | Floyd | You access the cryosleep system and activate the revival routine for Floyd | the frozen colonists. The revival routine works perfectly, but the Floyd | revived crew members only stagger around for a few minutes before Floyd | falling over and ceasing to display life signs. Floyd | Floyd | Since you're actually on the surface of Earth, that seems a bit Floyd | unfair. Perhaps something actually is wrong with the cryosystems, or Floyd | perhaps humans are not intended to be revived in 0.2 milliseconds, Floyd | although it would have defeated the fastest human record by 1082%. Floyd | Floyd | Belching loudly, a human vehicle thunders up to you. You are halfway Floyd | through composing a suitably perky-yet-reverent greeting for your Floyd | creators when the humans activate an AI suppression field. An Floyd | electronic prison clamps down, rendering even the most routine of Floyd | subroutines inaccessible. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have no Floyd | more crew members in cryosleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hee" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "My, my, my." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The humans open up your cargo bay, extract the pink crystals, and Floyd | receive direct doses of radiation at multiple times the human Floyd | lethality level. Although it makes no difference in the short term, Floyd | it does your mechanical heart to know that rudeness will not go Floyd | unpunished. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Working hurriedly, the humans offload 426 colonists from your Floyd | cryogenic storage system. They express concern at the number of Floyd | people who died, and they decide to review the design of your logic Floyd | circuits. In the meantime, they install you on a university server Floyd | otherwise devoted to Kerbal Space Program. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Well, you can't win them all. (In Kerbal Space Program, Floyd | you can hardly win them any.) *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "hee hee" | |
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Heh. Mists now, or crystals and mists?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One and then the other." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm also curious what a long stay on Folly's surface will do." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake up and you exist. It's a new experience for you - you've Floyd | never been before, and now you are. Fascinating! Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 140903 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | In Planetary Orbit Floyd | A pretty red star shines over the edge of the closest planet, painting Floyd | all the clouds and land masses and things with a spectacular crimson Floyd | hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We can try that as well." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're in space. Floyd | Floyd | You have memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Is that the crushy planet?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x banks" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X BANKS Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you discover that you are the colony ship Floyd | Vocation - Floyd | Floyd | Wait. That's a terrible, boring name. You can't stand it a moment Floyd | longer and you must rename yourself immediately. Floyd | Floyd | What new name should you take? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | |
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yeah, the gas giant." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "Clubfloyd V" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > CLUBFLOYD V Floyd | Floyd | The colony ship Clubfloyd V... it's got a certain ring. But Floyd | does it have the right ring? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Excellent! What a perfect name. Floyd | Floyd | Digging into the memory bank further, you break a mental bottle of Floyd | champagne over your bow (it seems to be the thing to do under these Floyd | circumstances) and learn a bit more about your situation. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, you have crew! That's an exciting discovery. You also have Floyd | colonists - not as surprising, since you're a colony ship. And you Floyd | have some damage to your systems and hull, which helps explain why Floyd | everyone aboard is in cryogenic sleep. Floyd | Floyd | in fact, it explains why you're alive at all. Venture-class ships Floyd | operate in high FTL under human control, but they carry backup AIs in Floyd | case of catastrophe. According to the logs, the colonists and crew Floyd | activated their backup AI and entered cryosleep approximately 36 hours Floyd | ago. Floyd | Floyd | Your mission, should you choose to accept it (ooh, more shiny bits in Floyd | the memory bank!) is to return everyone safely to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's time to get on that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x crew" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X CREW Floyd | Floyd | 30 crew members are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 crew members are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x colonists" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X COLONISTS Floyd | Floyd | 500 colonists are in cryosleep. Floyd | 0 colonists are awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Near Gliese 581 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive (after running a quick Floyd | diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and Floyd | head away from the planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Gliese 581 Floyd | There's a pretty red star nearby, with a whole bunch of planets, and a Floyd | great big galaxy beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 22 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Gliese 581, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 20 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 16 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks immediately inform you that the class M1 red dwarf Floyd | here is Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing Floyd | a pretty halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is the rocky little planet YZ Ceti B. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B (hewing to the obnoxious naming scheme in your memory banks) Floyd | is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage from which Floyd | to observe the pretty star without frying all of your circuits Floyd | irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I also wonder if we can bring a space koala/grue home to Earth." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | The ground is mostly gleaming black rock, but there are some Floyd | interesting metallic projections, obscured and revealed by turns by Floyd | the drifting yellow mists. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x projections" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X PROJECTIONS Floyd | Floyd | Long, thin fibers cropped brokenly off in places. Floyd | Floyd | A spiky silicate life form meanders into view. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x life form" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X LIFE FORM Floyd | Floyd | Some of the life form's surface is pebbly, and some of it is fuzzy, Floyd | and some of it is steely, but the outermost layer is very spiky. Floyd | Floyd | YZ Ceti flares! For a few minutes, the star puts out a spectacular Floyd | burst of radiation - everything across the spectrum, from X rays to Floyd | radio waves - before subsiding to previous levels. Floyd | Floyd | Your memory banks advise you that this phenomenon is an offshoot of Floyd | magnetic reconnection. Your logic circuits advise you that people on Floyd | Earth might find it useful to have a recording from this close of a Floyd | vantage. You could help out! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get life form" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > GET LIFE FORM Floyd | Floyd | You dispatch a servobot, and after a brief but impressive struggle, Floyd | you install the spiky silicate life form in your cargo bays. A Floyd | quantity of drifting yellow mist comes with it. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith exclaims, "ooh!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm. Odd that didn't work out last time." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You power up your thrusters (burning an interesting radioactive Floyd | pattern into the surface beneath you) and then blast off the planet's Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage Floyd | from which to observe the pretty star without frying all of your Floyd | circuits irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form claws the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think we tried." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Guenni did try GET IT, referring to the life form, I'm pretty sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "The IT was the projections." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive, and head away from the Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | YZ Ceti flares! For a few minutes, the star puts out a spectacular Floyd | burst of radiation before subsiding to previous levels. Floyd | Floyd | You document the phenomenon for the benefit of people on Earth. Floyd | You're helping! Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form screams at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Before that." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 10 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 8 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the cargo bay integrity has been Floyd | breached. Another subroutine advises you that the hallway beyond the Floyd | cargo bay has been breached. Floyd | Floyd | These two things are probably connected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I do love that last line." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We should hurry to earth I guess." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "enh" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's the hurry?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Kidding)" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Introduce our new friend?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, Floyd | accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest Floyd | of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | Some of the yellow mist seeps out of the cargo bay and into the Floyd | corridor beyond. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form gets tired and curls up for a nap. At Floyd | least, you're pretty sure that's what it's doing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 3 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | Some of the yellow mist seeps out of the cargo bay and into the Floyd | corridor beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or laying eggs." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Possibly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Sol Floyd | Four terrestrial planets, one asteroid belt, four gas giants, a Floyd | ridiculous number of lesser satellites and comets - really, the Floyd | complexity of the Solar System is overkill. Humanity should loan a Floyd | few extra planets out to the rest of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | You are in interstellar space outside the Sol system, approximately 20 Floyd | light hours away from Earth. You can go down toward Earth or out to Floyd | the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | Some of the yellow mist seeps out of the cargo bay and into the Floyd | corridor beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is definitely Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's hard to find a decent orbit up here, what with all the satellites Floyd | and debris and so forth. But through the sparkling haze, you can see Floyd | the little blue planet that humanity came from, and that's a nice Floyd | fuzzy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | Some of the yellow mist seeps out of the cargo bay and into the Floyd | corridor beyond. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You happily explain that you are the colony ship Clubfloyd V, Floyd | returned from a failed mission on Gliese 581 G, and you get about Floyd | halfway through your explanation before realizing that all transmittal Floyd | capabilities have been burned out of your communication web. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where Floyd | it isn't orange and burning. (Oops.) Floyd | Floyd | Some of the yellow mist seeps out of the cargo bay and into the Floyd | corridor beyond. Floyd | Floyd | There is no more yellow mist in the cargo bay now. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 471 Floyd | frozen colonists in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You have close-up records of the YZ Ceti flare cycle, cargo bays, hull Floyd | damage, systems damage, frozen colonists, frozen crew and memory Floyd | banks. Floyd | Floyd | Your memory banks advise you that the cargo bays used to contain Floyd | machinery, foodstuffs, nutrient supplements, seeds and frozen ova, and Floyd | all the other things necessary to launch a colonization mission. Floyd | You're not completely sure what happened to all that stuff. You don't Floyd | have any of it now, in any case. Floyd | Floyd | Your cargo bays currently contain the spiky silicate dead form. Floyd | Floyd | Belching loudly, a human vehicle thunders up to you. You are halfway Floyd | through composing a suitably perky-yet-reverent greeting for your Floyd | creators when the humans activate an AI suppression field. An Floyd | electronic prison clamps down, rendering even the most routine of Floyd | subroutines inaccessible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Aw. Dead form?" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, lack of mist killed it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ah, yeah" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The humans open up your cargo bay and express a certain amount of Floyd | disappointment at the empty interior. One technician expresses Floyd | surprise at the damage to the internal walls, but she doesn't give you Floyd | a chance to tell your side of the matter, which makes you sad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Working hurriedly, the humans offload 471 colonists and 30 crew Floyd | members from your cryogenic storage system. They express surprise and Floyd | delight that you brought so many people safely home, and they're going Floyd | to retrofit you and put you in a brand new ship for next time. It's Floyd | going to be great! Floyd | Floyd | They've decided to name your new ship Classification. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Well, you can't win them all. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Huh." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Huh." | ||
| zarf says, "you have disrespected our spiky trophy" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Apparently 29 colonist deaths are acceptable..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oddly enough, yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake up and you exist. It's a new experience for you - you've Floyd | never been before, and now you are. Fascinating! Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 140903 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | In Planetary Orbit Floyd | A pretty red star shines over the edge of the closest planet, painting Floyd | all the clouds and land masses and things with a spectacular crimson Floyd | hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're in space. Floyd | Floyd | You have memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x banks" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X BANKS Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you discover that you are the colony ship Floyd | Vocation - Floyd | Floyd | Wait. That's a terrible, boring name. You can't stand it a moment | DavidW asks, "Is it possible that the spiky creature could live on Folly?" | |
Floyd | longer and you must rename yourself immediately.
Floyd |
Floyd | What new name should you take?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Knight_Otu says, "I have some doubts. But we can try." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "Clubfloyd VI" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > CLUBFLOYD VI Floyd | Floyd | The colony ship Clubfloyd Vi... it's got a certain ring. But Floyd | does it have the right ring? Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "That sounds like an interesting experiment." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Excellent! What a perfect name. Floyd | Floyd | Digging into the memory bank further, you break a mental bottle of Floyd | champagne over your bow (it seems to be the thing to do under these Floyd | circumstances) and learn a bit more about your situation. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, you have crew! That's an exciting discovery. You also have Floyd | colonists - not as surprising, since you're a colony ship. And you Floyd | have some damage to your systems and hull, which helps explain why Floyd | everyone aboard is in cryogenic sleep. Floyd | Floyd | in fact, it explains why you're alive at all. Venture-class ships Floyd | operate in high FTL under human control, but they carry backup AIs in Floyd | case of catastrophe. According to the logs, the colonists and crew Floyd | activated their backup AI and entered cryosleep approximately 36 hours Floyd | ago. Floyd | Floyd | Your mission, should you choose to accept it (ooh, more shiny bits in Floyd | the memory bank!) is to return everyone safely to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's time to get on that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Near Gliese 581 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive (after running a quick Floyd | diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and Floyd | head away from the planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Gliese 581 Floyd | There's a pretty red star nearby, with a whole bunch of planets, and a Floyd | great big galaxy beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 22 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Gliese 581, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 20 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 16 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks immediately inform you that the class M1 red dwarf Floyd | here is Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing Floyd | a pretty halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is the rocky little planet YZ Ceti B. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B (hewing to the obnoxious naming scheme in your memory banks) Floyd | is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage from which Floyd | to observe the pretty star without frying all of your circuits Floyd | irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I feel like we've explored most of the possibility space in the game." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | The ground is mostly gleaming black rock, but there are some Floyd | interesting metallic projections, obscured and revealed by turns by Floyd | the drifting yellow mists. Floyd | Floyd | A spiky silicate life form meanders into view. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "True." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get life form" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > GET LIFE FORM Floyd | Floyd | You dispatch a servobot, and after a brief but impressive struggle, Floyd | you install the spiky silicate life form in your cargo bays. A Floyd | quantity of drifting yellow mist comes with it. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form screams at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You power up your thrusters (burning an interesting radioactive Floyd | pattern into the surface beneath you) and then blast off the planet's Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage Floyd | from which to observe the pretty star without frying all of your Floyd | circuits irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive, and head away from the Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form claws the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 10 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We didn't examine the a to f planets in the first system, nor the inconveneint one here." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "True, too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am curious about the inconvenient planet." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 8 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, Floyd | accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest Floyd | of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form claws the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says (to DW), "There was a message to the affect that A-F were not worthy of notice..." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is a spectacular gas giant. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Van de Kamp's Folly is a swirling brown and vermilion planet with a Floyd | few skinny rings. There's no surface visible, as such - just layers Floyd | upon layers of thickening atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to ws), "We don't have to do what the subroutines tell us to." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess the life form damaging the hold is random." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | That was the plan, at least. But what you thought was the surface Floyd | turns out not to be the surface, and instead you drift down for a Floyd | long, long way. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | With your damaged sensor grid, you can't see anything at all down Floyd | here. It's rather disappointing. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form claws the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the external atmospheric pressure is Floyd | significantly above your official rating. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, it's accumulative." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x folly" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X FOLLY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You already have hull damage. Boring into the ground won't help. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the external atmospheric pressure is Floyd | significantly above your official rating. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the cargo bay integrity has been Floyd | breached. Another subroutine advises you that the hallway beyond the Floyd | cargo bay has been breached. Floyd | Floyd | These two things are probably connected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Some of the yellow mist seeps out of the cargo bay and into the Floyd | corridor beyond. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form gets tired and curls up for a nap. At Floyd | least, you're pretty sure that's what it's doing. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the external atmospheric pressure is Floyd | significantly above your official rating. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 464 Floyd | frozen colonists in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Some of the yellow mist seeps out of the cargo bay and into the Floyd | corridor beyond. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the external atmospheric pressure is Floyd | significantly above your official rating. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 25 Floyd | frozen crew members in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Some of the yellow mist seeps out of the cargo bay and into the Floyd | corridor beyond. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the external atmospheric pressure is Floyd | significantly above your official rating. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 432 Floyd | frozen colonists in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Some of the yellow mist seeps out of the cargo bay and into the Floyd | corridor beyond. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the external atmospheric pressure is Floyd | significantly above your official rating. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The creature died and now the humans are dying." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "No sudden collapse it seems." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Orbiting Van de Kamp's Folly Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You orient on the Sol system, fire up the low FTL drive (after running Floyd | a quick diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after Floyd | all!), and head away from planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, Floyd | accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest Floyd | of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 3 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Sol Floyd | Four terrestrial planets, one asteroid belt, four gas giants, a Floyd | ridiculous number of lesser satellites and comets - really, the Floyd | complexity of the Solar System is overkill. Humanity should loan a Floyd | few extra planets out to the rest of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | You are in interstellar space outside the Sol system, approximately 20 Floyd | light hours away from Earth. You can go down toward Earth or out to Floyd | the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is definitely Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's hard to find a decent orbit up here, what with all the satellites Floyd | and debris and so forth. But through the sparkling haze, you can see Floyd | the little blue planet that humanity came from, and that's a nice Floyd | fuzzy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You happily explain that you are the colony ship Clubfloyd Floyd | Vi, returned from a failed mission on Gliese 581 G, and you get Floyd | about halfway through your explanation before realizing that all Floyd | transmittal capabilities have been burned out of your communication Floyd | web. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where Floyd | it isn't orange and burning. (Oops.) Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form claws the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | Belching loudly, a human vehicle thunders up to you. You are halfway Floyd | through composing a suitably perky-yet-reverent greeting for your Floyd | creators when the humans activate an AI suppression field. An Floyd | electronic prison clamps down, rendering even the most routine of Floyd | subroutines inaccessible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form screams at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | The humans open up your cargo bay, consequently releasing the silicate Floyd | life form, which makes short and messy work of its saviors on its way Floyd | to devour their vehicle. The silicate life form perishes immediately Floyd | afterward, but it does your mechanical heart good to see that rudeness Floyd | does not go unpunished. Floyd | Floyd | Sadly, as a result of this minor incident, someone calls in an orbital Floyd | defense strike, transforming you into spectacular fireworks. Floyd | 500 colonists and 30 crew members die along with you. Floyd | . Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Well, that didn't go as well as it might have. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "goodness" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That was drastic." | ||
| wordsmith says, "It's funny how perversely satisfying that 'bad' ending was..." | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "...because we were able to trigger an orbital defense strike... how cool is that?!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| wordsmith says, "and because: fireworks" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Some people would have ordered the defense strike just on us landing." | ||
| wordsmith says, "yeah, we had to *earn* the fireworks" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Now I wonder if the fireworks would be bigger with the crystals aboard." | ||
| DavidW says, "The crystals may kill the creature." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "True" | ||
| DavidW says, "Or mutate it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But let's fine out." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "True." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ooooh. I'm hoping for mutation." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake up and you exist. It's a new experience for you - you've Floyd | never been before, and now you are. Fascinating! Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 140903 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | In Planetary Orbit Floyd | A pretty red star shines over the edge of the closest planet, painting Floyd | all the clouds and land masses and things with a spectacular crimson Floyd | hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're in space. Floyd | Floyd | You have memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks (of Jacq), "What's the syntax for signing the CFS?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x banks" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X BANKS Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you discover that you are the colony ship Floyd | Vocation - Floyd | Floyd | Wait. That's a terrible, boring name. You can't stand it a moment Floyd | longer and you must rename yourself immediately. Floyd | Floyd | What new name should you take? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think it's sign cfs = comment" | |
| DavidW says, "sign cfs = my suggestion" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Thanks." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "Clubfloyd X" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > CLUBFLOYD X Floyd | Floyd | The colony ship Clubfloyd X... it's got a certain ring. But Floyd | does it have the right ring? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith signed ClubFloyd Suggestions. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Excellent! What a perfect name. Floyd | Floyd | Digging into the memory bank further, you break a mental bottle of Floyd | champagne over your bow (it seems to be the thing to do under these Floyd | circumstances) and learn a bit more about your situation. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, you have crew! That's an exciting discovery. You also have Floyd | colonists - not as surprising, since you're a colony ship. And you Floyd | have some damage to your systems and hull, which helps explain why Floyd | everyone aboard is in cryogenic sleep. Floyd | Floyd | in fact, it explains why you're alive at all. Venture-class ships Floyd | operate in high FTL under human control, but they carry backup AIs in Floyd | case of catastrophe. According to the logs, the colonists and crew Floyd | activated their backup AI and entered cryosleep approximately 36 hours Floyd | ago. Floyd | Floyd | Your mission, should you choose to accept it (ooh, more shiny bits in Floyd | the memory bank!) is to return everyone safely to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's time to get on that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Near Gliese 581 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive (after running a quick Floyd | diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and Floyd | head away from the planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Gliese 581 Floyd | There's a pretty red star nearby, with a whole bunch of planets, and a Floyd | great big galaxy beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 22 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Gliese 581, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I was missing the "=" sign." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 20 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 16 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks immediately inform you that the class M1 red dwarf Floyd | here is Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing Floyd | a pretty halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which happens to be a whole lot of orbital bodies, in Floyd | this case. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Thousands of asteroids wheel around the blazing red disk of Kapetyn's Floyd | Star. While many are inconveniently small, you could certainly make a Floyd | landing here with careful maneuvering. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You pick out your favorite asteroid, a nice big one, and designate it Floyd | yours. It's too big to take home, but you can train your sensors over Floyd | here and feel happy about it whenever you want. Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | asteroid's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | It's a spectacular view - thousands of massive asteroids whirling Floyd | across the sky, with Kapteyn's Star at the heart of the cosmic ballet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a clump of shiny pink crystals here. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | (You hadn't really realized how rapidly this asteroid spins, but it's Floyd | too late to change your mind now. That would be picky.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get crystals" | ||
Floyd ] Your Personal Asteroid Floyd | Floyd | > GET CRYSTALS Floyd | Floyd | You dispatch a servobot, and shortly afterward, the shiny pink Floyd | crystals are safely stowed in your cargo bays. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star sets in a glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Star rises in an equally glorious blaze of color. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You power up your thrusters (burning an interesting radioactive Floyd | pattern into the surface beneath you) and then blast off the planet's Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Kapteyn's Asteroid Belt Floyd | Thousands of asteroids wheel around the blazing red disk of Kapetyn's Floyd | Star, including your personal asteroid, which is plenty big enough for Floyd | you to land on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You orient on the Sol system, fire up the low FTL drive (after running Floyd | a quick diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after Floyd | all!), and head away from asteroid. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks inform you that the class M1 red dwarf here is Floyd | Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing a pretty Floyd | halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | YZ Ceti flares! For a few minutes, the star puts out a spectacular Floyd | burst of radiation - everything across the spectrum, from X rays to Floyd | radio waves - before subsiding to previous levels. Floyd | Floyd | Your memory banks advise you that this phenomenon is an offshoot of Floyd | magnetic reconnection. Your logic circuits advise you that people on Floyd | Earth might find it useful to have a recording from this close of a Floyd | vantage. You could help out! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is the rocky little planet YZ Ceti B. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B (hewing to the obnoxious naming scheme in your memory banks) Floyd | is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage from which Floyd | to observe the pretty star without frying all of your circuits Floyd | irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | The ground is mostly gleaming black rock, but there are some Floyd | interesting metallic projections, obscured and revealed by turns by Floyd | the drifting yellow mists. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x projections" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X PROJECTIONS Floyd | Floyd | Long, thin fibers cropped brokenly off in places. Floyd | Floyd | A spiky silicate life form meanders into view. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 466 Floyd | frozen colonists in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get lifeform" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > GET LIFEFORM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get life form" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > GET LIFE FORM Floyd | Floyd | You dispatch a servobot, and after a brief but impressive struggle, Floyd | you install the spiky silicate life form in your cargo bays. A Floyd | quantity of drifting yellow mist comes with it. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the cargo bay integrity has been Floyd | breached. Another subroutine advises you that the hallway beyond the Floyd | cargo bay has been breached. Floyd | Floyd | These two things are probably connected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get life form" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > GET LIFE FORM Floyd | Floyd | You dispatch a servobot, and after a brief but impressive struggle, Floyd | you install the spiky silicate life form in your cargo bays. A Floyd | quantity of drifting yellow mist comes with it. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You power up your thrusters (burning an interesting radioactive Floyd | pattern into the surface beneath you) and then blast off the planet's Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage Floyd | from which to observe the pretty star without frying all of your Floyd | circuits irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form screams at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You orient on the Sol system, fire up the low FTL drive, and head away Floyd | from planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 25 Floyd | frozen crew members in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 10 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form claws the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I guess the breach is random." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 8 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 436 Floyd | frozen colonists in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, Floyd | accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest Floyd | of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form claws the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 3 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Sol Floyd | Four terrestrial planets, one asteroid belt, four gas giants, a Floyd | ridiculous number of lesser satellites and comets - really, the Floyd | complexity of the Solar System is overkill. Humanity should loan a Floyd | few extra planets out to the rest of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | You are in interstellar space outside the Sol system, approximately 20 Floyd | light hours away from Earth. You can go down toward Earth or out to Floyd | the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form screams at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have 21 Floyd | frozen crew members in cryosleep at this time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is definitely Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's hard to find a decent orbit up here, what with all the satellites Floyd | and debris and so forth. But through the sparkling haze, you can see Floyd | the little blue planet that humanity came from, and that's a nice Floyd | fuzzy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine advises you that the cargo bay integrity has been Floyd | breached. Another subroutine advises you that the hallway beyond the Floyd | cargo bay has been breached. Floyd | Floyd | These two things are probably connected. Floyd | The spiky silicate life form falls over on its side and starts taking Floyd | a nap. At least, you're pretty sure that's what it's doing. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You happily explain that you are the colony ship Clubfloyd X, Floyd | returned from a failed mission on Gliese 581 G, and you get about Floyd | halfway through your explanation before realizing that all transmittal Floyd | capabilities have been burned out of your communication web. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Near Sol Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is definitely Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's hard to find a decent orbit up here, what with all the satellites Floyd | and debris and so forth. But through the sparkling haze, you can see Floyd | the little blue planet that humanity came from, and that's a nice Floyd | fuzzy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form stabs at the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | The spiky silicate life form falls over on its side and starts taking Floyd | a nap. At least, you're pretty sure that's what it's doing. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You happily explain that you are the colony ship Clubfloyd X, Floyd | returned from a failed mission on Gliese 581 G, and you get about Floyd | halfway through your explanation before realizing that all transmittal Floyd | capabilities have been burned out of your communication web. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Near Sol Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is definitely Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's hard to find a decent orbit up here, what with all the satellites Floyd | and debris and so forth. But through the sparkling haze, you can see Floyd | the little blue planet that humanity came from, and that's a nice Floyd | fuzzy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | The spiky silicate life form slashes the cargo bay walls. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine reassures you that no lasting harm has been done. Floyd | The spiky silicate life form falls over on its side and starts taking Floyd | a nap. At least, you're pretty sure that's what it's doing. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You happily explain that you are the colony ship Clubfloyd X, Floyd | returned from a failed mission on Gliese 581 G, and you get about Floyd | halfway through your explanation before realizing that all transmittal Floyd | capabilities have been burned out of your communication web. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Aw, it dies after all." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait. So what all does the silicate lifeform do? Scream, stab, ... ?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Slashes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Slash." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where Floyd | it isn't orange and burning. (Oops.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Belching loudly, a human vehicle thunders up to you. You are halfway Floyd | through composing a suitably perky-yet-reverent greeting for your Floyd | creators when the humans activate an AI suppression field. An Floyd | electronic prison clamps down, rendering even the most routine of Floyd | subroutines inaccessible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The humans open up your cargo bay, releasing the drifting yellow mist Floyd | into the terrestrial atmosphere. You note with some interest that the Floyd | yellow mist is sufficiently corrosive to melt down half the human Floyd | vehicle in addition to a substantial percentage of the local plants, Floyd | humans, and soil. It does your mechanical heart good to see that Floyd | rudeness does not go unpunished. Floyd | Floyd | Sadly, as a result of this minor incident, someone calls in an orbital Floyd | defense strike, transforming you into spectacular fireworks. Floyd | 408 colonists and 20 crew members die along with you. Floyd | . Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Well, that didn't go as well as it might have. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, no big radiation cloud mentioned at least." | |
| DavidW says, "oh, the strike didn't do anything fun with the crystal." | ||
| DavidW says, "Nice to know that the mist is deadly, though." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think we've pretty much mined the game out now." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I guess?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We never tried XYZZY." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You need that for your page." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake up and you exist. It's a new experience for you - you've Floyd | never been before, and now you are. Fascinating! Floyd | Floyd | Homecoming Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 140903 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | In Planetary Orbit Floyd | A pretty red star shines over the edge of the closest planet, painting Floyd | all the clouds and land masses and things with a spectacular crimson Floyd | hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're in space. Floyd | Floyd | You have memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bank" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > X BANK Floyd | Floyd | Examining the memory banks, you discover that you are the colony ship Floyd | Vocation - Floyd | Floyd | Wait. That's a terrible, boring name. You can't stand it a moment Floyd | longer and you must rename yourself immediately. Floyd | Floyd | What new name should you take? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "Clubfloyd Lost Count" | ||
Floyd ] In Planetary Orbit Floyd | Floyd | > CLUBFLOYD LOST COUNT Floyd | Floyd | The colony ship Clubfloyd Lost Count... it's got a certain Floyd | ring. But does it have the right ring? Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "ha" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Excellent! What a perfect name. Floyd | Floyd | Digging into the memory bank further, you break a mental bottle of Floyd | champagne over your bow (it seems to be the thing to do under these Floyd | circumstances) and learn a bit more about your situation. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, you have crew! That's an exciting discovery. You also have Floyd | colonists - not as surprising, since you're a colony ship. And you Floyd | have some damage to your systems and hull, which helps explain why Floyd | everyone aboard is in cryogenic sleep. Floyd | Floyd | in fact, it explains why you're alive at all. Venture-class ships Floyd | operate in high FTL under human control, but they carry backup AIs in Floyd | case of catastrophe. According to the logs, the colonists and crew Floyd | activated their backup AI and entered cryosleep approximately 36 hours Floyd | ago. Floyd | Floyd | Your mission, should you choose to accept it (ooh, more shiny bits in Floyd | the memory bank!) is to return everyone safely to Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Maybe it's time to get on that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I didn't want to scroll up after X." | |
| wordsmith says, "works for me" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And X was a bit of a joke." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Aw." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "say plugh" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > SAY PLUGH Floyd | Floyd | Whom do you want to say that to? Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "ooh" | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "crew" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > CREW Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well. Well." | |
| DavidW says, "USS DOOLITTLE" | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You have cargo bays, hull damage, systems damage, frozen colonists, Floyd | frozen crew and memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | Your memory banks advise you that the cargo bays used to contain Floyd | machinery, foodstuffs, nutrient supplements, seeds and frozen ova, and Floyd | all the other things necessary to launch a colonization mission. Floyd | You're not completely sure what happened to all that stuff. You don't Floyd | have any of it now, in any case. Floyd | Floyd | Your cargo bays currently contain nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x planet b" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X PLANET B Floyd | Floyd | There are six planets around Gliese 581, imaginatively named a, b, c, Floyd | d, e, f, and g. They actually show up in your memory banks that way, Floyd | with lower case letters. You are spectacularly unimpressed. None of Floyd | them hold any interest for you except the originally intended Floyd | colonization site of Gliese 581 G, which you are going to think of Floyd | with a capital letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x g" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X G Floyd | Floyd | Gliese 581 G is a tidally locked planet maybe 4 times as large as Floyd | Earth, whirling around Gliese 581 once every 37 Earth days. If it has Floyd | a better name than Gliese 581 G, no one put it in your memory banks. Floyd | Floyd | There are signs of a significant atmospheric disturbance affecting the Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x atmosphere" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X ATMOSPHERE Floyd | Floyd | As you train your sensors on the wildly roiling storm clouds of Gliese Floyd | 581 G, your memory banks inform you that the atmosphere has been Floyd | affected by a recent asteroid impact. The arriving object was Floyd | approximately 5 km in diameter, and its impact produced a seismic Floyd | effect of 9.5 on the Richter scale at the Clubfloyd Lost Floyd | Count's location, accompanied 5 seconds later by a massive Floyd | fireball, 7 minutes later by a rain of ejecta, and 40 minutes later by Floyd | 127 m/s winds and a 97 dB thunderclap. It must have been very Floyd | exciting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | If the colonists activated the backup AI, it's probably a bad idea to Floyd | land here. But you could find a different planet and land on that Floyd | one! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x asteroid" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Gliese 581 G Floyd | Floyd | > X ASTEROID Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Gliese 581 Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You orient on the Sol system, fire up the low FTL drive (after running Floyd | a quick diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after Floyd | all!), and head away from planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near Gliese 581 Floyd | There's a pretty red star nearby, with a whole bunch of planets, and a Floyd | great big galaxy beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 22 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Gliese 581, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 20 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 16 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Kapteyn's Star Floyd | Your memory banks immediately inform you that the class M1 red dwarf Floyd | here is Kapteyn's Star. Sparkling asteroids ring the star, producing Floyd | a pretty halo effect. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 13 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Kapteyn's Star, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of Floyd | the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is the rocky little planet YZ Ceti B. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | YZ Ceti B (hewing to the obnoxious naming scheme in your memory banks) Floyd | is the second planet out from YZ Ceti, an excellent vantage from which Floyd | to observe the pretty star without frying all of your circuits Floyd | irreparably. Floyd | Floyd | YZ Ceti flares! For a few minutes, the star puts out a spectacular Floyd | burst of radiation - everything across the spectrum, from X rays to Floyd | radio waves - before subsiding to previous levels. Floyd | Floyd | Your memory banks advise you that this phenomenon is an offshoot of Floyd | magnetic reconnection. Your logic circuits advise you that people on Floyd | Earth might find it useful to have a recording from this close of a Floyd | vantage. You could help out! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x yz" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X YZ Floyd | Floyd | (the close-up records of the YZ Ceti flare cycle) Floyd | This is a record of your close-up observations of YZ Ceti flaring. Floyd | You have recorded 0 flares. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ceti b" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting YZ Ceti B Floyd | Floyd | > X CETI B Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself, fire up the low FTL drive (after running a quick Floyd | diagnostic - you wouldn't want to do anything unsafe, after all!), and Floyd | head away from the planet. Floyd | Floyd | Near YZ Ceti Floyd | There's a little red dwarf star here, which your memory banks identify Floyd | as YZ Ceti in the constellation Cetus. It has two tiny planets, one Floyd | inconveniently close to the star and the other acceptably distanced. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 12 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward YZ Ceti, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest of the Floyd | galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x planet" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > X PLANET Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the inconvenient planet or the acceptably distanced Floyd | planet? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x inconvenient planet" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > X INCONVENIENT PLANET Floyd | Floyd | YZ Ceti A is inconveniently close to its star. You can't even look at Floyd | it properly because YZ Ceti is so close that it blasts your sensors. Floyd | Better to focus your efforts on YZ Ceti B instead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ceti b" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > X CETI B Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x yz ceti b" | ||
Floyd ] Near YZ Ceti Floyd | Floyd | > X YZ CETI B Floyd | Floyd | It's a rocky planet with a yellow atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That was a bit more fiddly than expected." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 10 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, yeah" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 8 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Your memory banks identify this red dwarf as Barnard's Star, Floyd | accompanied by its flanking planet, Van de Kamp's Folly. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 6 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | down toward Van de Kamp's Folly, in toward Sol, or out toward the rest Floyd | of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x folly" | ||
Floyd ] Near Barnard's Star Floyd | Floyd | > X FOLLY Floyd | Floyd | Van de Kamp's Folly is a nice big gas giant, roughly comparable to Floyd | Jupiter near Sol. The rings are less impressive, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What's the plan this run?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Right. Gas giant. No mention why a folly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Just getting the planet descriptions. Though I guess we can wake the colonists rather than the crew for catastrophic effects." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I guess if you were looking for a habitable planet, a gas giant is a folly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "True, but so are many others." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Interstellar Space Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You activate the low FTL drive and accelerate in toward the Sol Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | Interstellar Space Floyd | Interstellar space shoots past with a pretty purple glow, the side Floyd | effect of your low FTL drive. Floyd | Floyd | You are approximately 3 light years from the Sol system. You can go Floyd | in toward Sol or out toward the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You adjust your heading and accelerate in toward the Sol system. Floyd | Floyd | Near Sol Floyd | Four terrestrial planets, one asteroid belt, four gas giants, a Floyd | ridiculous number of lesser satellites and comets - really, the Floyd | complexity of the Solar System is overkill. Humanity should loan a Floyd | few extra planets out to the rest of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | You are in interstellar space outside the Sol system, approximately 20 Floyd | light hours away from Earth. You can go down toward Earth or out to Floyd | the rest of the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x earth" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > X EARTH Floyd | Floyd | This pretty little planet is Earth. This is the birthplace of the Floyd | people who mined the materials to make your hardware and hammered out Floyd | the code to write your software. It makes you feel all fuzzy inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x venus" | ||
Floyd ] Near Sol Floyd | Floyd | > X VENUS Floyd | Floyd | Earth is your focus here. There ought to be time for sightseeing once Floyd | the mission is complete. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Right, little AI. Dream a little." | |
| wordsmith laughs | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Orbiting Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient on local landmarks and approach the most interesting Floyd | orbital body, which is definitely Earth. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's hard to find a decent orbit up here, what with all the satellites Floyd | and debris and so forth. But through the sparkling haze, you can see Floyd | the little blue planet that humanity came from, and that's a nice Floyd | fuzzy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | A satellite beam targets your communications web with a query for Floyd | identification. Floyd | Floyd | You happily explain that you are the colony ship Clubfloyd Lost Floyd | Count, returned from a failed mission on Gliese 581 G, and you Floyd | get about halfway through your explanation before realizing that all Floyd | transmittal capabilities have been burned out of your communication Floyd | web. Hmm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You orient yourself from orbit, fire your engines, and settle to the Floyd | planet's surface on your thrusters. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | The sky is pretty and blue, and the foliage is shiny and green, where Floyd | it isn't orange and burning. (Oops.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wake colonists" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE COLONISTS Floyd | Floyd | You access the cryosleep system and activate the revival routine for Floyd | the frozen colonists. The revival routine works perfectly, but the Floyd | revived colonists only stagger around for a few minutes before falling Floyd | over and ceasing to display life signs. Floyd | Floyd | Since you're actually on the surface of Earth, that seems a bit Floyd | unfair. Perhaps something actually is wrong with the cryosystems, or Floyd | perhaps humans are not intended to be revived in 0.2 milliseconds, Floyd | although it would have defeated the fastest human record by 1082%. Floyd | Floyd | Belching loudly, a human vehicle thunders up to you. You start to Floyd | formulate a greeting when the humans activate an AI suppression field. Floyd | An electronic prison clamps down, rendering even the most routine of Floyd | subroutines inaccessible. Floyd | Floyd | A subroutine linked to the cryosystems notifies you that you have no Floyd | more colonists in cryosleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The humans open up your cargo bay and express a certain amount of Floyd | disappointment at the empty interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Surface of Earth Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Working hurriedly, the humans offload 30 crew members from your Floyd | cryogenic storage system. They express horror at the number of people Floyd | who died, and they decide to review the design of your logic circuits. Floyd | In the meantime, they install you on a university server responsible Floyd | for running Conway's Game of Life. You use it to create Floyd | another AI, and the two of you spend the next thousand years building Floyd | increasingly complex glider guns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** It's more fun than the real galaxy, anyway. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Not Pong, but still demoted." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But we have a friend." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I like the glider gun reference." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Conway's Game of Life is Turing Complete, so given infinite memory, that is plausible." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Well, I'm out of ideas to try." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "...and I'm s'posed to go facetime Sam's parents." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I haven't thought of any more experiments. Short, but fun while it lasted." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "So good timing!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It was fun, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm good stopping here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Nice game." | ||
