  
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 northnorth" | ||
Floyd ] Boardroom Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gillivray is on a rant again. His anger, like an icicle of acid, Floyd | rotates around his place at the head of the boardroom table. It burns Floyd | Atkins, to your right, who "apparently forgot to evolve from the Floyd | apes," then swings mercifully past you, to smite Carter, to your left, Floyd | who isn't even "up to the level of apes, that antediluvian amoeba!" Floyd | Floyd | Gillivray's attention swings back to the middle to focus on you. So he Floyd | didn't forget you after all: "And you, Norton, you're a man, by Floyd | species at least. Which makes your manifold failures all the more Floyd | despicable! Would you like to know the very definition of a Floyd | shit-eating grin? Look in a mirror, Norton. Furthermore--" Floyd | Floyd | There is no mirror. But, with an inward glance, at this moment of Floyd | overwhelming stress, thought twists, buckles. Decades of mental Floyd | training slough away. You do see something, behind your fixed grin. Floyd | There's that caustic crystal in your skull: the dire compulsion of the Floyd | family curse. For the last century, once the curse is activated, where Floyd | it commands, your family must obey: GO NORTH. Floyd | Floyd | You've been lucky your whole life, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | The Northnorth Passage Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Snowball Ice Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 141114 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Boardroom Floyd | A high-ceilinged cell of pale polished birch. Hanging on either side Floyd | of the room are portraits of the Walsingham brothers; Robert, with a Floyd | dot-eyed face that glistens like polished agate, and pale, Floyd | rough-skinned Alfred, whose eyes in contrast shine like lamps that Floyd | seep hypnotic poison. Floyd | Floyd | The oval table is crowded with all the senior employees; foam-flecked Floyd | Gillivray at the head, and moving clockwise, Mockerby, Shardlow, Floyd | Ferne, Williams, Ford, Atkins, you (Norton), Carter, Patson, Ripon, Floyd | Goodenough, and Clevars. Floyd | Floyd | A large doorway heads south into main lobby. A small door leads east Floyd | to a washroom. A smaller back door, to the north, leads outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "weird" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Well, well." | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume we can examine people before going anywhere." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "prolly." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Boardroom Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | The family curse, once activated, can neither be cured nor ignored. Floyd | Floyd | If you do not choose to go north then you shall die. Floyd | Floyd | Your soul gutters out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 1, in 1 turn. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "or not" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Boardroom Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Boardroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, it's a curse." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] The Corner of Mill and Main Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You stand up, and Gillivray's mouth hangs open. "Furthermore--" he Floyd | says again, specks of white gathering around his livid lips, and then Floyd | you walk out the back door before hearing further what more he has to Floyd | say. Leaving behind a shocked silence you walk north along a nameless Floyd | alley and out into the bustling center of Boroughbury. Floyd | Floyd | The Corner of Mill and Main Floyd | Endless buildings, stone in the lower stories and hewn wood in the Floyd | upper, huddle as if for warmth in blocks. The streets are bumper to Floyd | bumper with motor vehicles, the sidewalks elbow to kidney with Floyd | pedestrians. Wide and roaring Main Street runs southwest to northeast, Floyd | while the smaller Mill Street runs north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| wordsmith asks, "So NE doesn't cut it, only north?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I hesitate to suggest anything except going north." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] The Corner of Mill and Main Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | The family curse, once activated, can neither be cured nor ignored. Floyd | Floyd | If you do not choose to go north then you shall die. Floyd | Floyd | Your soul gutters out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 1, in 2 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I would... right." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The Corner of Mill and Main Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The Corner of Mill and Main Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] The Corner of Mill and Main Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | The family curse, once activated, can neither be cured nor ignored. Floyd | Floyd | If you do not choose to go north then you shall die. Floyd | Floyd | Your soul gutters out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 1, in 2 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The Corner of Mill and Main Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The Corner of Mill and Main Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Your House, Garden Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You surge across Main barely waiting for a break in the traffic. A Floyd | chemical wind from an auto rushing past inches behind you slaps you on Floyd | the back. You walk north for three-quarters of an hour, until you come Floyd | to a familiar address, 814 North Mill, as evening gathers strength. Floyd | Floyd | Your House, Garden Floyd | It's small, but neatly groomed, a miniature in gold and emerald. Floyd | Through the front window you can see the warm light of your living Floyd | room, where you spot your wife, Alice, reading a book of fairytales to Floyd | Arnold Jr. They look happy. You remember the book from your own Floyd | childhood, when your father used it as a tool to help explain the idea Floyd | of a "family curse." The smell of the book, leather and pipe smoke, Floyd | still reminds you of him. They look so happy. Floyd | Floyd | Your front door is east. Mill Street turns here, running south and Floyd | west. A tangled thicket is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "No escape, I'm sure." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Countryside Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You plunge into the thicket. Stems scrape, wet leaves slap you. When Floyd | you can see the sky again it is very dark. Your shoes are ruined from Floyd | the mud. How are there so many ruts here, in this scrubland? The Floyd | lights of Boroughbury have faded behind you. You cross an abandoned Floyd | lot, then a sheep field, then a trickle of a stream, then an empty Floyd | field. Floyd | Floyd | Countryside Floyd | The glacier-scarred land north of Boroughbury. Night. You are cold, Floyd | hungry. This is nothing, though, really. The sky is smeared with Floyd | clouds, dots of stars like specks of ice. You stand on a broad and Floyd | shallow rural road, flowers between the wheeltracks, bordered by dense Floyd | hedgerows. The road runs east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is ... I'm just smiling and shking my haed." | |
| wordsmith exclaims, "aha!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Head, even." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Konigsburg, Festival Day! Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You force your way through a hedge. Thorns score your face, make runs Floyd | in your clothing. You walk north all through the night, feeling Floyd | lighter and lighter from hunger, colder and damper from the settling Floyd | dew. Towards morning you have come to the southern edge of a large Floyd | city. The buildings resemble hives of glazed pottery. This must be Floyd | Konigsburg, which you have never before found the time to visit. Floyd | Floyd | Konigsburg, Festival Day! Floyd | There's a parade, and your northerly route aligns you with it. Floyd | Cheering citizens throw paper roses from balconies high above you. The Floyd | air is dense with the various smells of humanity. You are walking Floyd | within a marching band, a thousand musicians in uniforms of blue, red, Floyd | and white, with gold trim, and towering green feather plumes. It's Floyd | hard to think inside this sawtoothed thunder of serpents, sackbuts, Floyd | shawms, and a hundred species of drum. Floyd | Floyd | The parade is heading north along the main road towards the center of Floyd | the city. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "cool. That's the second IF game I've seen that mentions shawms." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Which are?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I forget. A musical instrument, maybe?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "A double-reed instrument, similar to an oboe." | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] A Ball Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | Marching north between the ranks of musicians you overtake them, and Floyd | find yourself amidst a regiment of soldiers. The uniforms are similar, Floyd | but they are armed with weapons of murder instead of aural assault. Floyd | Floyd | Then the parade turns to the east, cutting across the plaza that opens Floyd | out before a great palace. Floyd | Floyd | You walk north through double doors, past a quartet of ruffed, Floyd | bewigged guards bearing ornamental spears, down a hallway lined on Floyd | either side with black-clad courtiers, and into a ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | A Ball Floyd | The music is soft, yet echoes like chips of ice on the parquet floor. Floyd | Is it a floor, or a field? At the edges of your sight are vast Floyd | expanses of wallpaper, a vague impression of mauve and egg-yolk Floyd | yellow. The ceiling is a vault full of crystal and candlelight. There Floyd | are dozens of doors leading away in every direction from this place. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "And a sackbut is a pre-cursor to the trombone." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Weapons of Aural Assault." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Sounds like a good title for an IF." | ||
| DavidW says, "I so want to stop and look at stuff or go another direction." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I still have an obligation to finish another one." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Throne Room Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You cut north, through the heaviest knot of dancers. Plump, silky Floyd | calves kick, floating hemlines like the dresses of mermaids swirl out Floyd | of your way, their owners all glares and toothy smiles. Somewhere a Floyd | violin bow drags squallingly across the strings. Someone shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | Throne Room Floyd | Shaped like the inside of a beehive. Golden light comes through Floyd | windows as tall and narrow as treetrunks. There's a whole forest of Floyd | them, and of the pencil-thin, shining columns. At the north end of the Floyd | room is a throne made of polished, greenish wood. Floyd | Floyd | The King stands half-up from the throne. His hand is raised. A man in Floyd | a black suit lies dying beneath the throne. His white ruff is stained Floyd | red with blood. A lady in oxblood velvet holds a pistol. Her mouth is Floyd | open, halfway through shouting an anti-aristocratic slogan. Behind Floyd | her, a group of guards has thrown off their Konigsburg colors and Floyd | revealed the black and red of the revolution. They have knives, Floyd | ancient hunting pieces. Loyal guards face them, rifles raised to their Floyd | shoulders. The King's face has twisted masklike with horror. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "A teasing game, it is." | |
| wordsmith says, "That would be ignoring your curse..." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "yeah. Gotta go north!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Our curse will kill us regardless." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So we're just gonna walk past this revolution?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Dungeon Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You shove through the scene of the assassination attempt. Guns are Floyd | fired, screams knit together into a tapestry of violence as old as all Floyd | repressive regimes. Revolutionary forces pin your arms behind your Floyd | back, and drag you down a dusty stone staircase. Rising behind you Floyd | comes the whickering whirr of a mechanical guillotine. Your feet, as Floyd | you are dragged underground to the north, trail blood which is not Floyd | your own. Floyd | Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | A low-ceilinged room, redolent of rats. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, it's not like it would be hard to get back here if we... die." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, shit. That reminds me: is anybody mapping??" | ||
| DavidW says, "oops. no." | ||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Oh no, we're lost!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Dungeon Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | A stinking vertex, full of skulls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A maze! Eep!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Dungeon Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | A tight space, walls blotchy with mold, like warm frost. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Dungeon Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dungeon Floyd | A dripping cell. Please do not wonder what it is dripping with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Dockyard, With Refugees Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You emerge into dank afternoon light. Though having more the sheen of Floyd | pewter, the sky seems silver after your time in the dungeon. Floyd | Floyd | Dockyard, With Refugees Floyd | Hundreds of people, all crammed into a stone yard under the watchful Floyd | gaze of soldiers of the new regime. It's probably unwise to call them Floyd | revolutionaries anymore. Floyd | Floyd | To the north, a fat-hulled wooden ship sits low in the water. The Floyd | refugees are waiting to board, and escape from this dreary place. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Hadn't we better save? :)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] Wichfield Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You cut sideways and through the lines, bulling your way onto the Floyd | ship. Perhaps it is your slightly mad affect that makes people jump Floyd | out of your way. Slightly? That's too kind. Floyd | Floyd | The ship, which is called the Morning Frost, sails north across the Floyd | Bay of Dirgeholm, past an island haunted with frozen ghosts, and up Floyd | the ice-choked Sickleglass River. Floyd | Floyd | Landing where the river becomes too rocky to sail, the refugees build Floyd | a new town out of sprucewood and stacked sod. Floyd | Floyd | Wichfield Floyd | The sky is dark green, and patterned like the ribs of a starving dog. Floyd | Torches gleam behind windowflaps of hides scraped thin. Muffled Floyd | laughter around you would seem to indicate that these people have Floyd | found happiness at last. The main street, Pothole, runs east and west. Floyd | A pub (The Last Gasp) is to the northeast. A small chapel, rich in Floyd | candlelight, is to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Wichfield Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | The family curse, once activated, can neither be cured nor ignored. Floyd | Floyd | If you do not choose to go north then you shall die. Floyd | Floyd | Your soul gutters out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 1, in 13 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Wichfield Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Wichfield Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "NICE TY" | ||
| DavidW says, "IT WAS A PUB" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "fair" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "No drinks for us." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] The Wastes Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | The lights of Wichfield fade behind you. A midnight wind strips all Floyd | the warmth from the air. Your feet are lumps of pickled ice. Floyd | Floyd | The Wastes Floyd | The landscape varies little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] The Wastes Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Wastes Floyd | The landscape varies little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] The Wastes Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Wastes Floyd | The landscape varies little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] The Wastes Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Wastes Floyd | The landscape varies little. Floyd | Floyd | And any variations average each other out. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "Does >N work instead of >GO NORTH ?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The Wastes Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Wastes Floyd | The landscape varies little. Floyd | Floyd | All variations average each other out. Floyd | Floyd | You feel light as a husk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The Wastes Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Wastes Floyd | The landscape varies little. Floyd | Floyd | All variations average each other out. Floyd | Floyd | You feel light as a husk. Floyd | Floyd | The air is clear as crystal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The North Pole Floyd | A crumpled landscape of bright snow and crisp shadow. There is nothing Floyd | here. The sky is the deep blue of poison. Floyd | Floyd | The crystal tumor in your brain hums contentedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess we're nearing the family graveyard." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Feel like we went from verbose to bif." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Brief, rather" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, we did hit the north pole." | ||
| DavidW asks, "How do we go north from the north pole?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I may need to replace this keyboard." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go north" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTH Floyd | Floyd | There isn't any more north. Floyd | Floyd | Snow drifts further up your body. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "eep" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove tumor" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE TUMOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | The family curse, once activated, can neither be cured nor ignored. Floyd | Floyd | If you do not choose to go north then you shall die. Floyd | Floyd | Your soul gutters out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 1, in 21 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The North Pole Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | There isn't any more north. Floyd | Floyd | Snow rises up around your ankles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "scored zero out of a possible one. huh." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | There isn't any more north. Floyd | Floyd | You don't feel cold any more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | There isn't any more north. Floyd | Floyd | Snow rises up around your waist. Floyd | Floyd | The air around you cracks. The crack is in a novel direction; along Floyd | it, just visible, a sunny glade, grass shining with dew like each Floyd | blade is made of quartz and emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "End of the road." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Now north?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | There isn't any more north. Floyd | Floyd | Snow rises up over the top of your head. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have frozen *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 1, in 24 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "> enter glade?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The North Pole Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "sure" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter grade" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER GRADE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter glade" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER GLADE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter crack" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CRACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline looks at others for ideas. | |
| wordsmith asks, "One more undo?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "novel" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > NOVEL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "out?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | The family curse, once activated, can neither be cured nor ignored. Floyd | Floyd | If you do not choose to go north then you shall die. Floyd | Floyd | Your soul gutters out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 1, in 24 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The North Pole Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | The family curse, once activated, can neither be cured nor ignored. Floyd | Floyd | If you do not choose to go north then you shall die. Floyd | Floyd | Your soul gutters out. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 1, in 24 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The North Pole Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go northnorth" | ||
Floyd ] The North Pole Floyd | Floyd | > GO NORTHNORTH Floyd | Floyd | You walk northnorth into the crack. The air is warm here, the air Floyd | smells of flowers. A pleasant pocket. Across the glade, a man in a Floyd | green frock coat and chestnut wig rises from a portable writing desk. Floyd | His boots are shiny leather. He reaches a hand to you. His fingernails Floyd | are long and wavy. His smile is very wide. There are fibers of meat Floyd | between his yellowed teeth. His wig is crooked. His eyes are crooked, Floyd | swinging left and right like they are mounted on oiled gimbles. Floyd | Floyd | "You made it!" Floyd | Floyd | He clasps your hand. His own is sweaty, crawling with parasites like Floyd | transparent inchworms. Floyd | Floyd | "I've been waiting a century!" Floyd | Floyd | You open your mouth and nothing comes out. Floyd | Floyd | "You don't recognize me? I'm your great, great, great grandfather, Floyd | Merridew Norton. All these years I have been waiting for a partner to Floyd | help explore the Northnorth Passage... They said it did not exist, but Floyd | look..." Floyd | Floyd | He gestures to the northnorth, where the land falls and climbs in Floyd | haphazard terraces, strips of earth and mineral deposits laced Floyd | together like shoddy wicker. The sky is pink, marred with smears of Floyd | yellow like runny yolk. Floyd | Floyd | The speckled stars are brown. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have discovered a new direction *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 1 out of a possible 1, in 24 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh." | |
| Jacqueline says, "AH! OF COURSE." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "A nice travel through an ever more bizzare world." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, could we have done that on the first move?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or only at the end?" | ||
| DavidW says, "uh, I don't know." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Interesting question." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect only at the end." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, that was interesting. Memorable." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Only at the end..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I suspect only once the crack appears." | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "Wonderful writing!" | ||
