ClubFloyd Transcript:
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Ryan Veeder and Edgar Allan Poe
As played on ifMUD on January 29, 2020

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.

Below is a transcript of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket written by Ryan Veeder and Edgar Allan Poe. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting IFDB.


WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask arthurgordon"
Floyd | > ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Floyd | A Real Novel by Edgar Allan Poe
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 141207 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Secret Compartment
Floyd | You are in a dark secret compartment hidden in a ship that you are
Floyd | stowing away in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh, by Poe!"
DavidW says, "I think listen and inventory first."
DavidW asks, "Who's driving?"
Knight_Otu says, "Sounds good."
Jacqueline says, "I clearly should not drive, as I couldn't even spell the game title, or find it initially. I should have not stayed up so late."
DavidW asks (of Knight), "any preference?"
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu asks, "Did you want to drive?"
DavidW says, "Maybe later."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You are Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Well, that's helpful."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a ham
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
DavidW says, "I'm at least more awake than I usually am. Oh, a ham."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ham"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HAM
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember this ham being delicious.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the sounds of a bloody mutiny!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "oh dear. Stay hidden!"
Knight_Otu says, "We may want to... right."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hey, your dog is in here!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "maybe smell the ham, see if it has a honey glaze."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x dog"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOG
Floyd |
Floyd | Your faithful dog is on this boat with you, somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are going nuts with hunger!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "pet dog"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PET DOG
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says, "Aw."
Knight_Otu asks, "Shall we eat the ham?"
Jacqueline says, "It seems obvious - at least for the first play of the game."
DavidW says, "sure. Hams have bones and the dog might like it."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "eat ham"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT HAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The ham is incredibly disgusting! You eat it regardless!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "At least, cartoon hams have bones."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says, "No bones left it seems."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Secret Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Secret Compartment
Floyd | You are in a dark secret compartment hidden in a ship that you are
Floyd | stowing away on.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see your dog here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Check inventory."
Jacqueline exclaims, "In this game there are a lot of exclamations!"
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ask dog about dog"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK DOG ABOUT DOG
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your friend shows up and pulls you out of the secret compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Onboard The Ship (Mutiny)
Floyd | You are on the ship, which has been mutinized. Your friend is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says, "Huh."
DavidW says, "Hope the friend has a name."
Jacqueline says, "yeah"
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x friend"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd |
Floyd | Whoops! Pretty soon a storm kicks up and shipwrecks all y'all!
Floyd |
Floyd | Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | Everyone is super hungry. There is a hole that leads down to the food.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see your friend, your dog and a half-Indian here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Enter hole! Get food!"
Jacqueline exclaims, "This is weird!"
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You are only strong enough to dive down in the hole and not retrieve
Floyd | anything. Oh, how sad.
Floyd |
Floyd | But you need to eat something! Or someone???
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "! ??"
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "eat me"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You're plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "oops, that should have been... ! ???"
DavidW says, "Whistle? Maybe the dog will jump down here."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "friend, d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FRIEND, D
Floyd |
Floyd | The friend has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are so hungry. It's insane.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "whistle"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WHISTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I don't think we went down. We're still up top."
DavidW says, "ok, eat one of the three."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x indian"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X INDIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm pretty sure this guy is half-Indian. I don't remember his name.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x friend"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FRIEND
Floyd |
Floyd | Your best friend helped you stow away on this boat and also brought
Floyd | your dog along without telling you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are so hungry.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ask friend about food"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK FRIEND ABOUT FOOD
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "c'mon, choose one to eat."
Jacqueline says, "I guess the dog."
Knight_Otu says, "I don't wanna. :("
Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Don't wanna either."
DavidW asks, "Shall I be the meanie?"
Jacqueline says, "Sure"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat dog"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT DOG
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe you eat the dog at this point, or maybe the dog dies some other
Floyd | way. I don't remember. We'll say you eat the dog.
Floyd |
Floyd | But you're still hungry! Hungry enough to eat a fellow human.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are so hungry. Actually it's kind of ridiculous that you haven't
Floyd | starved to death yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Dammit"
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sacrifice me"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SACRIFICE ME
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I don't suppose we can fish for food either."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | Everyone is super hungry. There is a hole that leads down to the food.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see your friend and a half-Indian here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | It is impossible to go anywhere, because it's just ocean in all
Floyd | directions. Maybe also sharks?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat shark"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT SHARK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "eat sharks"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT SHARKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search wreck"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH WRECK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy pizza"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BUY PIZZA
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says, "No seafood it seems."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat friend"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT FRIEND
Floyd |
Floyd | The time has come to eat your friend. You drew straws earlier so you
Floyd | know that it's your friend who gets to get eaten.
Floyd |
Floyd | You kill your friend and then you eat your friend's body. We shall
Floyd | pass over this moment without dwelling on how grisly a moment it is.
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | pass over this moment without dwelling on how grisly a moment it is.It
Floyd | is incredibly grisly. This is probably the worst situation that can
Floyd | happen, for a guy to consume another guy as food, even under desperate
Floyd | shipwreck circumstances like these. Your actions are unavoidable and
Floyd | yet unforgiveable. And so gross. So grisly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, I'm done. You're probably strong enough to go down into that
Floyd | hole now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles!
Floyd |
Floyd | You are so hungry, you could eat... your friend.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "There. Y'all are welcome."
Knight_Otu says, "Darn."
Jacqueline exclaims, "Wait. We already did!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pickles"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PICKLES
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe they were cucumbers, up until the shipwreck. Eh? Eh???
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT PICKLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how
Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "Down again?"
Jacqueline asks, "Um, sure?"
Knight_Otu says, "Possibly."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT PICKLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how
Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks (of Game), "wth?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask indian about himself"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK INDIAN ABOUT HIMSELF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask half-indian about himself"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK HALF-INDIAN ABOUT HIMSELF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I guess this game isn't deeply implemented."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says, "Seems so."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a pickles
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT PICKLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how
Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Parsers were less nuanced in Poe's time."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "It's always pickles."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | It is impossible to go anywhere, because it's just ocean in all
Floyd | directions. Maybe also sharks?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pickles to indian"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE PICKLES TO INDIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat half-indian"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT HALF-INDIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't eat the half-Indian, because he's around for the rest of the
Floyd | story.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Knight_Otu asks, "I guess that's why it's not an, how did he put it - an official Ryan Veeder release?"
DavidW asks, "I'm not sure what to do next. We seem to be in a pickle. Or are we?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter pickle"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER PICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says, "Ow."
Jacqueline says, "His message to me said, 'I don’t consider the Arthur Gordon Pym game an Actual Ryan Veeder Release. It was just supposed to be a stream of consciousness ephemeral sort of thing!'"
Jacqueline says, "Prophetic exclamation point there, Ryan."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | It is impossible to go anywhere, because it's just ocean in all
Floyd | directions. Maybe also sharks?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ocean"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X OCEAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wreck"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WRECK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ship"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You are Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I'm trying to recall any shipwreck Poe stories, but can't think of any."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "row, row, row our boat"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ROW, ROW, ROW OUR BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "make limerick"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MAKE LIMERICK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "All I know are the Tell-tale Heart and the Cask of Amonti-something-o."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "pray"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PRAY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline exclaims, "OH! HA!"
Jacqueline | [LINK]
Jacqueline says, "I... guess I never read this."
DavidW asks, "There once was a man from Nantucket / Who stowed away on a junket?"
Jacqueline says, "We're already apparently gotten a far bit through the book."
Jacqueline asks, "May I share the 30,000 foot summary?"
DavidW says, "sure. Possibly we shouldn't have hid so long."
Jacqueline says, "Oh, I dunno. I think that was fine."
Jacqueline | Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures farther south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. The novel ends abruptly as Pym and Peters continue toward the South Pole.
Jacqueline says, "So maybe we just eat pickles until we are saved by the Jane Guy"
DavidW asks, "Oh, so just keep eating pickles?"
Knight_Otu says, "Maybe."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT PICKLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how
Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT PICKLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how
Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT PICKLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how
Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles!
Floyd |
Floyd | Hey there's a ship coming this way!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ship"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | Actually this ship is covered in corpses! Everyone on this ship died,
Floyd | and now their bodies are just waving around in the breeze while they
Floyd | putrefy. Grisly.
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't remember whether this ship shows up before or after you find
Floyd | the pickles. Actually, I'm not totally sure they were pickles. I'm
Floyd | writing all of this from memory, and it was like a month or two ago
Floyd | when I listened to that audiobook.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu exclaims, "Ship!"
DavidW asks, "so... get on ship?"
Jacqueline says, "Jeeze"
Knight_Otu says, "My."
Jacqueline says, "I... I was kinda kidding, but..."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on ship"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GET ON SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bodies"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BODIES
Floyd |
Floyd | This ship is covered in corpses! Everyone on this ship died, and now
Floyd | their bodies are just waving around in the breeze while they putrefy.
Floyd | Grisly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says, "Hm."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search corpses"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH CORPSES
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bodies"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BODIES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | Everyone is super hungry. There is a hole that leads down to the food.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a half-Indian here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu asks, "Search the ship?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search ship"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "board ship"
Floyd ]  Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BOARD SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Black Island
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | It is impossible to go anywhere, because it's just ocean in all
Floyd | directions. Maybe also sharks?
Floyd |
Floyd | Well eventually you get rescued by this other ship and they take you
Floyd | to this weird island in Antarctica.
Floyd |
Floyd | Black Island
Floyd | I don't know if it's called "Antarctica" in the book. It's supposed to
Floyd | be in the area of the south pole, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is an island populated by black people! But they aren't African
Floyd | people. They are literally black. It's totally possible that they
Floyd | function as a metaphor for African people, of course. I think most
Floyd | 21st-century readers are going to go with a race-centric reading,
Floyd | although there have been other interpretations.
Floyd |
Floyd | The chief of the whatever-they're-called wants you to follow him to
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a half-Indian, an egg, a polar bear corpse, a weird river
Floyd | and a chief here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I am now wearing my 'this is silly' face."
Knight_Otu says, "Weird."
Jacqueline says, "f take all"
DavidW says, "I am gobsmacked."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd ]  Black Island
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | half-Indian: Taken.
Floyd | egg: Taken.
Floyd | polar bear corpse: It is too heavy to pick up.
Floyd | weird river: Taking the river would make about as much sense as
Floyd | anything else, but I'm not gonna let you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "I seem to recall it's not considered one of his better works (the original novel I mean)"
Jacqueline says, "ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bear"
Floyd ]  Black Island
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BEAR
Floyd |
Floyd | There are gigantic polar bears here, and one of them died, and this is
Floyd | its body. The black people are terrified even of its corpse, for
Floyd | whatever reason! It may be worth mentioning that this polar bear, like
Floyd | the mundane, nonfictional polar bears of the Arctic, is white.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river"
Floyd ]  Black Island
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X RIVER
Floyd |
Floyd | The water of this island has veins? I don't know. The description in
Floyd | the book goes into a lot of detail, but totally fails to convey any
Floyd | coherent image. I would reproduce that description here but I promised
Floyd | myself I wouldn't look at the text of the book while writing this
Floyd | game—and I, Edgar Allan Poe, always keep my promises.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Aren't polar bears only at the North... never mind."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg"
Floyd ]  Black Island
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X EGG
Floyd |
Floyd | The egg is very white! The black people are terrified of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "I think we should go west?"
Knight_Otu says, "So it would seem."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Canyon (Ambush)
Floyd | The chief and his retinue lead you white guys (and the one half-Indian
Floyd | guy) to a canyon. And then there's an ambush! The natives totally get
Floyd | the drop on you! And you and the half-Indian are separated from the
Floyd | others! Or the others all die maybe. And you end up in a cave!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I'm just sitting here, shaking my head, and I'm down for whatever."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Cave
Floyd | >Oh whoops! Like I was saying, you end up in a cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cave
Floyd | This cave extends in various directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a half-Indian here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Cave
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an egg
Floyd |   a pickles
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "You have: a pickles."
DavidW says, "yes, from earlier"
Knight_Otu says, "Our uneaten friend jumoed out of our inventory."
Jacqueline says, "I was mostly poking fun at the plural issue"
Knight_Otu says, "*jumped"
Jacqueline says, "heh"
DavidW says, "Maybe if we go down from here, we can find sliced bread."
Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Pickle sammich?"
DavidW says, "Better than dog!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Cave
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | The half-Indian guy follows you. As you walk through the cave, you
Floyd | notice that its passages take the form of a character of the ancient
Floyd | Ethiopian alphabet, although this surely is a coincidence.
Floyd |
Floyd | You end up in another cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cave
Floyd | This cave extends in various directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a half-Indian here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I wonder if things had gone substantially differently if I'd decided to just eat our non-friend who is half-Indian who apparently is not afforded a name."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd ]  Cave
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell"
Floyd ]  Cave
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SMELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Cave
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The half-Indian guy follows you. This cave is also shaped like another
Floyd | Ethiopian letter. How odd!
Floyd |
Floyd | You end up in a third cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cave
Floyd | This cave extends in various directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a half-Indian here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The half-Indian guy follows you. Another Ethiopian letter. Still,
Floyd | three coincidences in a row doesn't mean anything.
Floyd | Anyway you climb out of the cave! You are pursued by the natives! You
Floyd | take one of them captive and escape on one of their canoes! You paddle
Floyd | out into mysterious mist!
Floyd |
Floyd | Mist
Floyd | The canoe floats through the white mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a half-Indian and a captive here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel uneasy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says, "I don't think our friend had a name either."
Jacqueline says, "Oh. That's a good point."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mist"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MIST
Floyd |
Floyd | It's all over the place. But it's not cold, even though you're
Floyd | supposedly near the south pole.
Floyd |
Floyd | TEKELI-LI
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I've been feeling uneasy for a while, to be fair."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x captive"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CAPTIVE
Floyd |
Floyd | He is incredibly terrified of how white everything is out here. Around
Floyd | now you find out that even his teeth are black.
Floyd |
Floyd | A white bird flies past, shrieking TEKELI-LI
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | TEKELI-LI TEKELI-LI
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tekeli-li"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TEKELI-LI
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bird"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BIRD
Floyd |
Floyd | They are freaky birds.
Floyd |
Floyd | More birds! TEKELI-LI TEKELI-LI
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show egg to bird"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW EGG TO BIRD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | TEKELI-LI TEKELI-LI TEKELI-LI
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I have way better things to do, but this does spark a fun idea for a game jam / speed IF for me."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask captive about bird"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAPTIVE ABOUT BIRD
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | The canoe enters a whirlpool!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are still going down the whirlpool!
Floyd |
Floyd | TEKELI-LI
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "It would be kind of funny to do a speed IF where people have to implement a classic novel from memory."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump"
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump on the spot.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a white man in the center of the whirlpool!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline files that idea away.
Knight_Otu says, "That would be somrthing."
Knight_Otu says, "I can't ever type right."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give captive to white man"
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE CAPTIVE TO WHITE MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the captive)
Floyd | The white man doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you're right up in on the white man!
Floyd |
Floyd | He is standing in the middle of the whirlpool. He is huge. He has a
Floyd | beard. He is totally white. He is beckoning you.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | beard. He is totally white. He is beckoning you.TEKELI-LI
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | beard. He is totally white. He is beckoning you.TEKELI-LISo, at this
Floyd | point in the book, I (Edgar Allan Poe) explain that you (Arthur Gordon
Floyd | Pym) died before you could write down what happened next. You
Floyd | apparently survived your encounter with the white man, because you
Floyd | were around to write everything else in the story and then ask me to
Floyd | publish it under my own name, but obviously you should have died at
Floyd | that part of the story, so instead you died while writing it down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The story closes with this fantastic fake Bible quote, and while it
Floyd | was very important for me to not read any of the original story while
Floyd | writing this groundbreaking interactive version, I do want to make
Floyd | sure I reproduce this fake Bible quote correctly, so I'm going to
Floyd | break my rule and go look at the original version:
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | break my rule and go look at the original version:
Floyd |
Floyd | "I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust
Floyd | within the rock."
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Mist
Floyd | within the rock."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** THE END. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
Knight_Otu says, "That was something."
Jacqueline says, "That was... interesting."
DavidW says, "Like seeing someone else's dream."
Jacqueline says, "Yes"
Jacqueline says, "Like, I'm glad I did it"
Jacqueline says, "But yeah."
DavidW says, "That didn't take very long."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Half an hour-ish."




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