AllThingsJacq.com - Interactive Fiction | ClubFloyd - December 27, 2020 - Ritus Sacri, Fracture, and Last Day by quackoquack, Ralfe Rich, and Earth Traveler, respectively


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Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "load sleepmask ritussacri"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| It is almost midnight. You're sitting in your bedroom, alone.
CF \|
CF \| On the desk in front of you: a Latin dictionary, a blank sheet of
CF \| lined paper, and the photocopied passage you need to translate for
CF \| class tomorrow. You always leave things too late.
CF \|
CF \| All distractions have been hidden away. The darkness outside means
CF \| that nothing will be stealing your attention through the window
CF \| either.
CF \|
CF \| Your pencil has been sharpened. It's time to get started.
CF \|
CF \| Ritus Sacri
CF \| An Interactive Fiction by quackoquack
CF \| Release 1 / Serial number 201031 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib
CF \| 6/12N)
CF \|
CF \| Your Bedroom
CF \| You're sitting at your desk. It faces a window, which normally looks
CF \| over your back yard, but currently all you can see is the night.
CF \|
CF \| Behind you, the rest of the room is overcome by the mess you've been
CF \| promising your parents you'll tidy. But even Latin homework is
CF \| preferable to cleaning.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "oooh our homework is haunted"
		DavidW asks, "Do we need a driver for this one?"
		MoyTW says, "Nah it's probably fine."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x passage"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X PASSAGE
CF \|
CF \| It's a (legally questionable) photocopy of a page in your teacher's
CF \| ancient book of translation exercises. You think this one is by Ovid.
CF \| These twisting sentences have likely caused many schoolchildren
CF \| suffering over the decades.
CF \|
CF \| The title reads "ritus sacri". It seems a sensible place to
CF \| start translating. And it's a good thing you have a dictionary to LOOK
CF \| UP words in, since you don't quite recognise either of these. You know
CF \| you can also CHECK GLOSSARY for a refresher on what the different noun
CF \| cases in Latin are.
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTW says, "There's only, like, one main action to do, which is to translate. Also it's short."
		Knight_Otu says, "Well, well."
		Jacqueline says (to Lance), "You type commands in the room by just putting an F in front. So like: F X ME"
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "x me"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X ME
CF \|
CF \| Fifteen years old and slightly sleep deprived.
CF \|
CF \| >
MoyTW says (to ClubFloyd), "check glossary"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > CHECK GLOSSARY
CF \|
CF \| Latin has six noun cases. The ending of a noun will change to indicate
CF \| its case. Checking the cases of each noun is vital to understanding
CF \| how to understand sentences in Latin, since word order is very
CF \| flexible. Each noun has a gender (masculine, feminine or neuter) and a
CF \| declension (1st, 2nd, ..., 5th) - these determine the endings for each
CF \| case.
CF \|
CF \| Adjectives endings will also change to match the case (and
CF \| singular/plural) of the noun they describe.
CF \|
CF \| Nominative: the subject of a sentence. The noun that is doing
CF \| an action.
CF \| Accusative: the object of a sentence. Something is being done
CF \| to the noun.
CF \| Vocative: the noun is being spoken to.
CF \| Genitive: "of" or "belonging to" the noun.
CF \| Dative: "to" or "for" the noun.
CF \| Ablative: "by" or "from" or "with" the noun.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up ritus"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP RITUS
CF \|
CF \| Noun: rite, ceremony. Here, it's nominative plural.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "Sacred ceremonies, I bet"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up sacri"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP SACRI
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: sacred, hallowed. This ending means it must agree with a
CF \| nominative plural noun.
CF \|
CF \| So both of them are nominative plural - that means they can match with
CF \| each other. "The sacred rites," you mutter under your breath, as you
CF \| write the words out at the top of the page.
CF \|
CF \| You look at the now not-empty sheet proudly for a moment, and then
CF \| decide to quickly jot today's date down next to the title. 9th
CF \| May.
CF \|
CF \| All right, onto the next line.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Probably."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| With the title out the way, you take a look at the first line.
CF \|
CF \| mensis erat Maius, et priscos mores habet:
CF \|
CF \| You recognise the first three words: "The month was May".
CF \| mensis meaning "month" is the subject of the sentence here,
CF \| nominative singular. habet is a verb, it means "retains". The
CF \| month retains? You're not sure about the last two words though.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "as written by Ovid, so-named because he was egg-shaped"
		MoyTW says, "I uh, is that true or was it something to do with sheep? cannot tell if joke."
		DavidW says, "And all the king's horses couldn't put him back together again."
		Roger says, "I'm trying to joke but I don't know what the truth is"
		Jacqueline narrows her eyes at Roger and David.
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up priscos"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP PRISCOS
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: former, ancient. It needs to agree with an accusative
CF \| plural noun.
CF \|
CF \| You can try matching it with another word: MATCH PRISCOS WITH ...
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "oops sorry we're getting in the way of Jacqueline finishing her homework"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up mores"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP MORES
CF \|
CF \| Noun: custom, practice. The chart tells you that it's accusative
CF \| plural.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "No, just enhancing my study of dad jokes, Roger."
		MoyTW says, "The joke would work well if I knew what Ovid actually meant."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match priscos with mores"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH PRISCOS WITH MORES
CF \|
CF \| Yes, they're both accusative plural! So together they mean: "the
CF \| ancient customs".
CF \|
CF \| Okay, you can see how it fits together now - "The month was May, and
CF \| it retains the ancient customs." You jot it down, glad that the start
CF \| hasn't been too hard so far. You're ready to look at the next line of
CF \| the passage.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| ubi inferias tacitis manibus dabimus.
CF \|
CF \| You know that dabimus is a verb, "we give". So you need to
CF \| figure out what's being given, and who it's being given to...
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTW says, "Oh, "The name Ovid means Sheep Herder and is of Latin origin.""
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up ubi"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP UBI
CF \|
CF \| That's not a word you need to look up.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up inferias"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP INFERIAS
CF \|
CF \| Noun: ritual, rite. Accusative plural.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline asks, "So, I'm assuming we just translate for a bit until a ghost starts writing words on our paper or something?"
		Roger says, "could be"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up tacitis"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP TACITIS
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: silent. Agrees with a dative plural noun. You'll need to
CF \| find what it matches with again.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu asks, "What wouldn't pupils give for ghostwriters of their homework?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up manibus"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP MANIBUS
CF \|
CF \| Noun: spirit. Here it's dative plural - "to the spirits".
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match tacitis with manibus"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH TACITIS WITH MANIBUS
CF \|
CF \| Both dative plural - perfect. Together they mean: "to the silent
CF \| spirits".
CF \|
CF \| So the accusative noun must be what's being given, and the dative is
CF \| what it's being given to. "We give the rites to the silent spirits."
CF \| There's something very satisfying about fitting the words together.
CF \| You decide to reword it a little to sound better as you write it down:
CF \| "We perform the rites for the silent spirits."
CF \|
CF \| Onto the next line of the passage.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "(of course, they wouldn't have any understanding of their homework...)"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| nox ubi est et nox somno silentia praebet,
CF \|
CF \| The first three words make sense: "When it is night." nox
CF \| meaning night is a nominative noun here. et just means "and".
CF \| praebet is a verb - "lends." The night lends something?
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up somno"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP SOMNO
CF \|
CF \| Noun: sleep, slumber. Dative singular - "to sleep".
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up silentia"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP SILENTIA
CF \|
CF \| Noun: silence. Accusative singular.
CF \|
CF \| You've got an accusative noun and a dative noun, perfect. "When it is
CF \| night and the night lends silence to sleep." Very poetic, you think as
CF \| you put it down on your sheet of paper. Onwards.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| ille memor ritus et timidus manium,
CF \|
CF \| ille means "he", nominative singular. rituum you had
CF \| in the title, but it's genitive plural here - "of the rites".
CF \| manium means "spirits" again, but it's also genitive plural
CF \| here. There's a few words left you don't know.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up memor"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP MEMOR
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: mindful. Agrees with something nominative singular. Time to
CF \| match!
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up ritus"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP RITUS
CF \|
CF \| Noun: rite, ceremony. Here, it's nominative plural.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up timidus"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP TIMIDUS
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: afraid. Agrees with something nominative singular. What
CF \| does it match with?
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match timidus with memor"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH TIMIDUS WITH MEMOR
CF \|
CF \| Hm, those don't quite seem to go together.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| ille memor ritus et timidus manium,
CF \|
CF \| ille means "he", nominative singular. rituum you had
CF \| in the title, but it's genitive plural here - "of the rites".
CF \| manium means "spirits" again, but it's also genitive plural
CF \| here. There's a few words left you don't know.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up manium"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP MANIUM
CF \|
CF \| That's not a word you need to look up.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu asks, "Match them with ille?"
		MoyTW asks, "match rituum with manium...?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Whey did we leave this creepy homework until after dark?"
		Jacqueline says, "Actual Jacqueline would probably sleep and do this translation at dawn. But sure, y'all keep at it. By the time the ghost appears it'll be too late."
		DavidW asks, "There's confusion: it is ritus or rituum there?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match rituum with manium"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH RITUUM WITH MANIUM
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match ritus with manium"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH RITUS WITH MANIUM
CF \|
CF \| Hm, those don't quite seem to go together.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match ritus with memor"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH RITUS WITH MEMOR
CF \|
CF \| Hm, those don't quite seem to go together.
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTW says, "Uh, wait, it's ritus. Nevermind, I am not good read."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| ille memor ritus et timidus manium,
CF \|
CF \| ille means "he", nominative singular. rituum you had
CF \| in the title, but it's genitive plural here - "of the rites".
CF \| manium means "spirits" again, but it's also genitive plural
CF \| here. There's a few words left you don't know.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "match ille with ritus"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH ILLE WITH RITUS
CF \|
CF \| Hm, those don't quite seem to go together.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match memor with ille"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH MEMOR WITH ILLE
CF \|
CF \| That works! "He", where that person is "mindful".
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match timidus with ritus"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH TIMIDUS WITH RITUS
CF \|
CF \| Hm, those don't quite seem to go together.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match manium with ritus"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH MANIUM WITH RITUS
CF \|
CF \| Hm, those don't quite seem to go together.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Actually, I'm betting this is all fine."
		MoyTW asks, "Match timidus with ille...? Like, he who is mindful and respectful of the spirit rites?"
		Knight_Otu says, "Yeah."
		MoyTW says, "(idk if Latin lets you just reorder words like that)"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match timidus with ille"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH TIMIDUS WITH ILLE
CF \|
CF \| Yes, both are nominative singular. Whoever "he" is referring to,
CF \| they're "afraid".
CF \|
CF \| You can put it together with that. "He, mindful of the rites, and
CF \| afraid of the spirits." You write it down, excited at the progress
CF \| you're making, but you know you have to stay focussed if you don't
CF \| want to lose your flow.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "Latin DOES let you reorder."
		Jacqueline says, "Where we'll go wrong is't in writing it all down. It'll be at the end, when we decide to read the whole thing aloud to make sure that it all makes sense. And maybe we don our pajamas that look like ritualistic black robes first. And maybe we light candles."
		DavidW says, "Word order isn't that important in Latin because the endings tell you the word's role in the sentence."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| surgit et manus pura fontanae perluit unda.
CF \|
CF \| Two verbs here: surgit means "gets up", and perluit
CF \| means "rinses". They're probably still referring to the "he" from the
CF \| previous line. manus means hands, probably plural accusative
CF \| here. He rinses his hands?
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "It's not all that important in English either, really, but most people care not"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up pura"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP PURA
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: clean, pure. Agrees with an ablative singular noun, which
CF \| one could that be?
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Yoda is a good role model for this, he is."
		lkcampbell says, "Don we now our balck pajamas"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up fontanae"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP FONTANAE
CF \|
CF \| Noun: spring, fountain. Genitive singular - "from a spring".
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "black even"
		Roger says, "Manus, Homework of Fate"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up perluit"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP PERLUIT
CF \|
CF \| That's not a word you need to look up.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up unda"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP UNDA
CF \|
CF \| Noun: water, wave. Either nominative singular or ablative singular
CF \| here.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says (to Roger), "yay"
		MoyTW asks, "Could you write "Don we now our black pajamas" in Latin as "Black don we now pajamas"?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match unda with pura"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH UNDA WITH PURA
CF \|
CF \| Both of them are ablative plural, that works: "with pure water".
CF \|
CF \| That's enough to figure out the line! "He gets up and rinses his hands
CF \| with pure water from a spring." You jot it down. You hope your teacher
CF \| won't mind your sleepy, sloppy handwriting.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| nigras accipit fabas et aversus iacit.
CF \|
CF \| Once again, two verbs: accipit means "takes", and
CF \| iacit means "throws". You'll need to figure out which word is
CF \| the accusative noun that's being thrown around...
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "uh oh"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up nigras"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP NIGRAS
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: black. This will need to match with an accusative plural
CF \| noun.
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTW exclaims, "beans!"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up fabas"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP FABAS
CF \|
CF \| Noun: bean. Accusative plural - so, the man is throwing beans?
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTW says, "fabas -> favas -> fava beans"
		MoyTW exclaims, "black beans!"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match nigras with fabas"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH NIGRAS WITH FABAS
CF \|
CF \| Perfect, the two of them are accusative plural: "black beans".
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up aversus"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP AVERSUS
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: facing away. Agrees with something that's nominative
CF \| singular. Ah! Must be referring to the ille from earlier.
CF \|
CF \| All right, you think you can see it now. "He takes some black beans
CF \| and throws them, facing away." You're getting close to the end now,
CF \| just a few more lines to go.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "fava beans and a nice chianti"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| ubi dixit novies "manes exite paterni,"
CF \|
CF \| You recognise the first two words: "when he has said". exite
CF \| is a verb, "depart". It's conjugated as a command here - the man is
CF \| speaking to someone? Hopefully there's a vocative noun somewhere.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "woah woah black beans, bam ba lam"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up manes"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP MANES
CF \|
CF \| Noun: spirit. Ah, yes, same word as manibus and
CF \| manibus earlier, but now it's vocative plural.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: ancestral. It needs to match with something that's either
CF \| nominative plural or vocative plural.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "did Latin really have quotation marks, I wonder"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match paterni with manes"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH PATERNI WITH MANES
CF \|
CF \| Yes, they're both vocative plural. So the man is speaking to his
CF \| "ancestral spirits", it seems.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up novies"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP NOVIES
CF \|
CF \| Adverb: nine times.
CF \|
CF \| You can piece the words together now. "When he has said "Ancestral
CF \| spirits, depart," nine times." You wonder what the significance of the
CF \| number nine is. Funnily enough, you're onto the ninth - and final -
CF \| line of the passage now. Keep your focus, you'll be able to rest soon.
CF \| You know if you look back, your bed will be right there waiting for
CF \| you.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "only the important paternal ancestors, though"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x line"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X LINE
CF \|
CF \| respicit et pure sacra peracta putat.
CF \|
CF \| The final line! It starts with a verb: "he looks back". The last word
CF \| is a verb too: "he thinks". Now you just need to figure out the
CF \| middle, and you can call it a night.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "oh that must be where the D&D monster comes from"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up pure"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP PURE
CF \|
CF \| Adverb: correctly, perfectly. (You hope that's an adverb that could
CF \| describe your translating tonight.)
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up sacra"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP SACRA
CF \|
CF \| Noun: sacred object, rite. You're guessing it means "rite" in your
CF \| context. It's nominative plural here.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look up peracta"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UP PERACTA
CF \|
CF \| Adjective: finished, completed. You'll need to find a nominative
CF \| plural noun for it to match with.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "The DnD monster is meaner than the manes described here though."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "match peracta with sacra"
CF \| >
CF \| > MATCH PERACTA WITH SACRA
CF \|
CF \| Both of the words are nominative plural, so that works: "completed
CF \| rites."
CF \|
CF \| This is it, you think you've figured out the final line. "He looks
CF \| back, and he thinks the sacred rites completed perfectly." As you pen
CF \| the words down, the relief flowing through you is immense.
CF \|
CF \| But then you realise that feeling inside you feels more like a chill
CF \| than it does relief. Cold. Did you forget to shut the bedroom door
CF \| behind you?
CF \|
CF \| You look back, and -
CF \|
CF \| Please press SPACE to continue.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| Maybe if you had not been so engrossed in your translating, you would
CF \| have seen them coming.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| * The End *
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
CF \| command?
CF \| >		MoyTW says, "rip us"
		Jacqueline says, "Hm"
		lkcampbell asks, "Did Torgo kill us?"
		Knight_Otu says, "Or maybe they aren't meaner."
		DavidW says, "Now someone else can clean up our room!"
		MoyTW asks, "Torgo...?"
		Jacqueline asks, "So... should we have paused now and then when it said 'don't lose the flow' so as to see them coming?"
		MoyTW says, "You can undo"
		Jacqueline says (to Moy), "Roger and I have a movie to show you."
		DavidW asks, "And look back?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \|
CF \| > UNDO
CF \|
CF \| Your Bedroom
CF \| [Previous turn undone.]
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "from Manos: The Hands of Fate"
		Jacqueline \| [LINK]
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look back"
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK BACK
CF \|
CF \| You look back, and your stomach lurches.
CF \|
CF \| Nine ghostly figures float in front of your closed bedroom door. Faded
CF \| flesh clings, rotting, to their skeletons. From their ligaments hang
CF \| scraps of cloth and thread and skin.
CF \|
CF \| Your eyes meet the empty sockets of the closest figure. You feel an
CF \| unsettling presence snake its way into your mind - tendrils of thought
CF \| not rooted in any words, any language, and yet you understand.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Please press SPACE to continue.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
CF ]
CF \| "It is May. The night is silent. The sacred rites. Forgotten. So many
CF \| years. We have been dishonoured. Disrespected. Searching for people.
CF \| Searching in in people. For those who still remember."
CF \|
CF \| You lean back against your desk.
CF \|
CF \| "And you do. You remember."
CF \|
CF \| They begin to move toward you.
CF \|
CF \| "You remember, and you did not perform them."
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Please press SPACE to continue.		Jacqueline says, "Really super duper top-notch film, that one."
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| * The End *
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
CF \| command?
CF \| >		MoyTW says, "rip us again"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, that was very suitably creepy."
		Knight_Otu exclaims, "Hey, now, we didn't remember, we only just learned!"
		lkcampbell asks, "so we have to get ready to perform the ritual prior to the final line?"
		DavidW says, "I wonder what the rites actually are."
		Jacqueline says, "MORALE: Homework is bad. Do not do homework."
		MoyTW says, "I'm reasonably sure you can't perform them? but I didn't try very hard."
		Knight_Otu says, "Imagine if ascribed morales to all games we played."
		MoyTW says, "It's super short. Maybe there's a secret stash of beans in our room but I doubt."
		DavidW says, "I hardly recorded what we translated in full. I don't remember what the text said very well."
		Roger says, "It's short enough that we could poke around a bit harder"
		lkcampbell asks, "hey, what fifteen year old doesn't keep a secret stash of black beans in their rooms, am I right?"
		Roger says, "there was water needed too, I think"
		Roger says, "maybe just for handwashing though"
		Jacqueline asks, "But is there chianti?"
		DavidW says, "Perhaps we should have looked around before doing our very important homework."
		MoyTW says, "I, uh, man, it's been a while since I was fifteen but I didn't myself keep many beans, black of otherwise, stashed in my room."
		MoyTW says, "Sure, we can try."
		Jacqueline says, "Nor I."
		DavidW says, "There might've been a taco."
		Roger says, "maybe coffee beans would count"
		Jacqueline asks, "Would it be helpful for me to pull the transcript and pull the translation out?"
		Roger says, "sure"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \|
CF \| > UNDO
CF \|
CF \| Your Bedroom
CF \| [Previous turn undone.]
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK
CF \|
CF \| Your Bedroom
CF \| You're sitting at your desk. It faces a window, which normally looks
CF \| over your back yard, but currently all you can see is the night.
CF \|
CF \| There's a very quiet creaking noise, not noticeable until you looked
CF \| up from your translation. You assume it's just the wind.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger asks, "maybe we can just read it ourselves?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x desk"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X DESK
CF \|
CF \| Simple, wooden. You solved the issue of it being too cluttered to work
CF \| by pushing the clutter onto your bed instead. Now, there's only your
CF \| Latin dictionary, a sheet of paper, and the photocopied passage.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x clutter"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X CLUTTER
CF \|
CF \| No thanks.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "f i"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah, maybe."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x bed"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X BED
CF \|
CF \| Don't you even dare think about sleeping before you've finished your
CF \| homework.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "i"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > I
CF \|
CF \| You are carrying:
CF \| a pencil
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "read paper"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > READ PAPER
CF \|
CF \| The Sacred Rites - 9th May
CF \|
CF \| The month was May, and it retains the ancient customs:
CF \|
CF \| We perform the rites for the silent spirits.
CF \|
CF \| When it is night and the night lends silence to sleep,
CF \|
CF \| He, mindful of the rites, and afraid of the spirits,
CF \|
CF \| Gets up and rinses his hands with pure water from a spring.
CF \|
CF \| He takes some black beans and throws them, whilst facing
CF \| away.
CF \|
CF \| When he has said, "Ancestral spirits, depart!" nine times,
CF \|
CF \| >
MoyTW says (to ClubFloyd), "leave"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LEAVE
CF \|
CF \| But you aren't in anything at the moment.
CF \|
CF \| >
MoyTW says (to ClubFloyd), "exit"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > EXIT
CF \|
CF \| But you aren't in anything at the moment.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "stand"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > STAND
CF \|
CF \| But you aren't in anything at the moment.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "rinse hands"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > RINSE HANDS
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline exclaims, "Sounds easy enough. Go get that half-eaten burrito out from under the bed and dust it off!"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "wash hands"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > WASH HANDS
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "we should have done our homework in the kitchen"
		Jacqueline says, "Apparently"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x window"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X WINDOW
CF \|
CF \| Your Bedroom
CF \| You're sitting at your desk. It faces a window, which normally looks
CF \| over your back yard, but currently all you can see is the night.
CF \|
CF \| You look up at the window. Something about the reflection of what's
CF \| behind you seems... wrong.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look through window"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK THROUGH WINDOW
CF \|
CF \| You find nothing of interest.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "look under desk"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > LOOK UNDER DESK
CF \|
CF \| You find nothing of interest.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "open drawer"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > OPEN DRAWER
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "I don't see any way of doing the rites."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x beans"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X BEANS
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x taco"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X TACO
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x water"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > X WATER
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "l"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > L
CF \|
CF \| Your Bedroom
CF \| You're sitting at your desk. It faces a window, which normally looks
CF \| over your back yard, but currently all you can see is the night.
CF \|
CF \| You look up at the window. Something about the reflection of what's
CF \| behind you seems... wrong.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "open window"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > OPEN WINDOW
CF \|
CF \| It isn't something you can open.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "SAVE"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "cf4"
CF \| >
CF \| > SAVE
CF \| %% Enter a save filename to write:
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| > SAVEOk.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "break window"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > BREAK WINDOW
CF \|
CF \| Violence isn't the answer to this one.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x reflection"
CF \| >
CF \| > X REFLECTION
CF \|
CF \| You peer at the reflection in the window, then look back, and your
CF \| stomach lurches.
CF \|
CF \| Nine ghostly figures float in front of your closed bedroom door. Faded
CF \| flesh clings, rotting, to their skeletons. From their ligaments hang
CF \| scraps of cloth and thread and skin.
CF \|
CF \| Your eyes meet the empty sockets of the closest figure. You feel an
CF \| unsettling presence snake its way into your mind - tendrils of thought
CF \| not rooted in any words, any language, and yet you understand.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Please press SPACE to continue.
Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button.
CF ]
CF \| "It is May. The night is silent. The sacred rites. Forgotten. So many
CF \| years. We have been dishonoured. Disrespected. Searching for people.
CF \| Searching in in people. For those who still remember."
CF \|
CF \| You lean back against your desk.
CF \|
CF \| "And you do. You remember."
CF \|
CF \| They begin to move toward you.
CF \|
CF \| "You remember, and you did not perform them."
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Please press SPACE to continue.
Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button.
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| * The End *
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
CF \| command?
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "RESTORE"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "cf4"
CF \| >
CF \| > RESTORE
CF \| %% Enter a save filename to read:
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| Ok.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Same ending."
		Roger says, "maybe if we're noisier"
		DavidW says, "enter window"
		MoyTW says, "Ectocomp stuff is usually reasonably short."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "enter window"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > ENTER WINDOW
CF \|
CF \| That's not something you can enter.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell asks, "what was the thing the needed to be done nine times?"
		Roger says, "saying something"
		lkcampbell asks, "did we try saying it?"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say ancenstral spirits depart"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY ANCENSTRAL SPIRITS DEPART
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "say "Ancestral spirits, depart""
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY "ANCESTRAL SPIRITS, DEPART"
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell asks, "in latin?"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "ancenstral spirits, depart"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > ANCENSTRAL SPIRITS, DEPART
CF \|
CF \| You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "oho maybe"
		lkcampbell says, "except I think they were speaking english"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say manes exite paterni"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY MANES EXITE PATERNI
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Not Latin, it seems."
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "say bloody mary"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY BLOODY MARY
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "ha"
		Knight_Otu says, "Or we need those beans after all."
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "say candy man"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY CANDY MAN
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to cf), "sing"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SING
CF \|
CF \| You mutter a song your teacher taught you to remember fourth
CF \| declension noun endings.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "I think you gotta look in the mirror for Bloody Mary, don't you? Or maybe it's be in the shower... I can never remember."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say beetlejuice"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY BEETLEJUICE
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "We've bean boozled."
Roger says (to cf), "close window"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > CLOSE WINDOW
CF \|
CF \| It isn't something you can close.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says (to DW), "hee"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "dance"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > DANCE
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to cf), "get up"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > GET UP
CF \|
CF \| But you aren't in anything at the moment.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > N
CF \|
CF \| You're not leaving this desk until you've finished translating the
CF \| passage.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "say Black Bean Bernie!"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY BLACK BEAN BERNIE!
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "alright I'm willing to call it"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "wake up"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > WAKE UP
CF \|
CF \| The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "sleep"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SLEEP
CF \|
CF \| Don't you even dare think about sleeping before you've finished your
CF \| homework.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "xyzzy"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > XYZZY
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "yeah maybe you just die"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "check glossary"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > CHECK GLOSSARY
CF \|
CF \| Latin has six noun cases. The ending of a noun will change to indicate
CF \| its case. Checking the cases of each noun is vital to understanding
CF \| how to understand sentences in Latin, since word order is very
CF \| flexible. Each noun has a gender (masculine, feminine or neuter) and a
CF \| declension (1st, 2nd, ..., 5th) - these determine the endings for each
CF \| case.
CF \|
CF \| Adjectives endings will also change to match the case (and
CF \| singular/plural) of the noun they describe.
CF \|
CF \| Nominative: the subject of a sentence. The noun that is doing
CF \| an action.
CF \| Accusative: the object of a sentence. Something is being done
CF \| to the noun.
CF \| Vocative: the noun is being spoken to.
CF \| Genitive: "of" or "belonging to" the noun.
CF \| Dative: "to" or "for" the noun.
CF \| Ablative: "by" or "from" or "with" the noun.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Rough homework assignment."
		Jacqueline says, "I'll say."
		MoyTW says, "Honestly it's probably fine 11 out of 12 months of the year."
		Jacqueline says, "Wait."
		MoyTW exclaims, "Though what with Roman Month Drift who knows what day is in which month!"
		Jacqueline says, "Ah, never mind. We did do that."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "l"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > L
CF \|
CF \| Your Bedroom
CF \| You're sitting at your desk. It faces a window, which normally looks
CF \| over your back yard, but currently all you can see is the night.
CF \|
CF \| You look up at the window. Something about the reflection of what's
CF \| behind you seems... wrong.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x yard"
CF \| >
CF \| > X YARD
CF \|
CF \| You peer at the reflection in the window, then look back, and your
CF \| stomach lurches.
CF \|
CF \| Nine ghostly figures float in front of your closed bedroom door. Faded
CF \| flesh clings, rotting, to their skeletons. From their ligaments hang
CF \| scraps of cloth and thread and skin.
CF \|
CF \| Your eyes meet the empty sockets of the closest figure. You feel an
CF \| unsettling presence snake its way into your mind - tendrils of thought
CF \| not rooted in any words, any language, and yet you understand.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Please press SPACE to continue.		Knight_Otu says, "Ah, still just reflection."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
CF ]
CF \| "It is May. The night is silent. The sacred rites. Forgotten. So many
CF \| years. We have been dishonoured. Disrespected. Searching for people.
CF \| Searching in in people. For those who still remember."
CF \|
CF \| You lean back against your desk.
CF \|
CF \| "And you do. You remember."
CF \|
CF \| They begin to move toward you.
CF \|
CF \| "You remember, and you did not perform them."
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Please press SPACE to continue.
Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button.
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| * The End *
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
CF \| command?
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \|
CF \| > UNDO
CF \|
CF \| Your Bedroom
CF \| [Previous turn undone.]
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "say spirit depart"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY SPIRIT DEPART
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "spirit, depart"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SPIRIT, DEPART
CF \|
CF \| You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "forget"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > FORGET
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "figure, depart"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > FIGURE, DEPART
CF \|
CF \| You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "reflection, depart"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > REFLECTION, DEPART
CF \|
CF \| You can't talk to the window.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "depart"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > DEPART
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "say depart"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > SAY DEPART
CF \|
CF \| (to yourself)
CF \| There is no reply.
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTW says, "I vote to call it and find something new."
		Jacqueline says, "I am having trouble believing that as well coded as the rest of this is this is not in there."
		DavidW says, "> tell spirits about interactive fiction"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "credits"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > CREDITS
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "about"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > ABOUT
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "help"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > HELP
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "hints"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > HINTS
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "I mean, we haven't completed the steps beforehand."
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "open door"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > OPEN DOOR
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "I'm done with this one. I don't think there's a second ending."
		Knight_Otu says, "Maybe in this day and age we have some hand sanitizer to clean our hands, but that still leaves the beans."
		Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, I think that's it."
		DavidW says, "Hand sanitizer hardly comes from a spring."
		Roger says, "as Ovid used to say, tough beans"
		Jacqueline says, "So, there are two endings."
		Jacqueline says, "According to an ROT13 comment on the game's itch.io page."
		Knight_Otu says (to David), "True, but better than not washing your hands."
		Knight_Otu asks, "Two endings, one where we see the manes, and one where we don't?"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, not sure."
		lkcampbell says, "I think that's correct"
		Jacqueline says, "One would hope that one of the endings would be from successfully completing the rite."
		Jacqueline says, "But perhaps not."
		Roger says, "I'm not adverse to hints or spoilers at this point"
		lkcampbell says, "maybe they ran out of time"
		MoyTW says, "It's for Ectocomp, the Spooky Games comp."
		MoyTW says, "I think it's just, like, no, it's a spooky game, you get ganked by ghosts."
		Jacqueline says, "yeah"
		DavidW says, "I don't know if finishing the translation and turning around beforehand counts as two endings or not."
		Jacqueline says, "While we decide whether or not to play another thing, can you test the new room lock, Lance? Drop your pass, leave, and come back."
		lkcampbell asks, "did we try all compass directions?"
		lkcampbell says, "okay"
		Jacqueline says, "I thought we couldn't get up..."
		Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe we can move about before we start the homework, but who knows?"
lkcampbell drops ClubFloyd Pass 06.
ClubFloyd Pass 06 goes home.
lkcampbell goes home.
lkcampbell has arrived.		Jacqueline says, "Huzzah"
		lkcampbell says, "my personnage has been added"
		Jacqueline exclaims, "It has!"
		lkcampbell says, "I didn't feel a thing :)"
		Jacqueline asks, "Okay, do we want to do another EC game?"
		Knight_Otu says, "Sure."
		says, "If you can upload it to Floyd."
		Jacqueline asks, "On it. How about 'A Pilgrim'?"
		DavidW says, "I think we played that one already."
		Jacqueline says, "Okay. One sec..."
		DavidW says, "That's the one with the eye stone and the wooden corpse."
		Knight_Otu asks, "Doesn#t ring a bell for me?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Fracture?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Have you all played Fracture?"
		DavidW says, "I have not."
		Knight_Otu says, "Pretty sure I haven't."
		DavidW says, "I recognize the author name, though."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "quit"
CF ] Your Bedroom
CF \| >
CF \| > QUIT
CF \|
CF \| Are you sure you want to quit?
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "y"
CF \| Are you sure you want to quit?
CF \| > Y
CF \| cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0
CF asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "load sleepmask fracture"
CF ]
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Would you like some special instructions?(recommended)
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "y"
CF ]
CF \|
CF \| > Y
CF \|
CF \| If you're new to IF, I recommend looking up. A Beginner's Guide to
CF \| Playing Interactive Fiction
CF \|
CF \| If you're familiar with IF, this game is not your standard adventure.
CF \| The only verb you'll need in this game is the EXAMINE verb.
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
CF ]
CF \| Would you like to view the content warnings?		Jacqueline says, "Do we"
		DavidW says, "sure"
		Roger says, "spidey sense tingling"
		MoyTW says, "Well, ok, fair 'nuff game, we EXAMINE things."
		Jacqueline says, "Sometimes there are spoilers..."
		Knight_Otu says, "Only examine, huh."
		MoyTW asks, "Uh yea?"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "y"
CF ]
CF \|
CF \| > Y
CF \|
CF \| This game contains death, blood, and violence.		Roger says, "press X to inspect respects"
		Jacqueline says, "Good"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
CF \| Ding...ding...ding.
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
CF \| Ding...ding...ding.The ringing of the bell brings you back to the
CF \| living. Something hot spreads across your chest as a sharp pain clings
CF \| to your abdomen. Though your eyelids feel like plates of lead, you
CF \| still try and open your eyes. As you do, the light strikes them, a hot
CF \| sensation snakes along your reddened veins. Even with such
CF \| excruciating pain, you force your eyes open.		DavidW says, "I assume we'll be examining a corpse."
		lkcampbell says, "not necessary in that order"
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| Fracture
CF \| An Interactive Fiction by Ralfe Rich
CF \| Release 1 / Serial number 201031 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib
CF \| 6/12N)
CF \|
CF \| Pinned to the altar
CF \| From the light, it's only a little before noon. At this time, you
CF \| would hear joyous songs and thoughtful prayers as people of faith
CF \| would've come to this very place. But now, only the gust of the wind
CF \| remains.
CF \|
CF \| The once full pews are nothing more than rotting pieces of furniture,
CF \| as the ceiling, once donning intricate hand-painted frescos, have now
CF \| peeled and crumbled. The barren wasteland, which was a place of faith,
CF \| has been relegated to the rats and mites.
CF \|
CF \| You cough, blood spilling out of your mouth. Your time is ticking.
CF \| Your body is weak, but your mind is still active--until the very end.
CF \|
CF \| In front of you, resting on the steps, is a leather-bound book, a torn
CF \| piece of parchment, and a green ring.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "oh. We are the corpse-to-be."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x book"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X BOOK
CF \|
CF \| A book that you've seen since your days as a child. The memories of
CF \| your school, your friends, and your family flood back to you. Your
CF \| eyes, still burning from the light, become wet.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x torn"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X TORN
CF \|
CF \| It wasn't torn before. It was whole when it arrived at your doorstep.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "read torn"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > READ TORN
CF \|
CF \| You can't, every movement--it hurts. You can't
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x ring"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X RING
CF \|
CF \| A green ring lay on the steps. Flashes of the ritual goes through your
CF \| mind.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x me"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X ME
CF \|
CF \| You lay, pinned to the altar. Blood covers your whole body.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x blood"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X BLOOD
CF \|
CF \| Hot red blood leaks from your wound.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x steps"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X STEPS
CF \|
CF \| Small and broken.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x altar"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X ALTAR
CF \|
CF \| You aren't facing it.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x ceiling"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X CEILING
CF \|
CF \| It's no longer a place for protection. The hole it has invites nature
CF \| to its fullest.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "x wound"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X WOUND
CF \|
CF \| A wooden spear is stabbed into your abdomen--each movement--it's too
CF \| much.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "x spear"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X SPEAR
CF \|
CF \| A long wooden spear that's been stabbed into you.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x hole"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X HOLE
CF \|
CF \| that area's a bit blurry. You can't make anything out.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x pews"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X PEWS
CF \|
CF \| Some have crumbled and became nothing more than homes for termites.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "x abdomen"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X ABDOMEN
CF \|
CF \| that area's a bit blurry. You can't make anything out.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x furniture"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X FURNITURE
CF \|
CF \| that area's a bit blurry. You can't make anything out.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "x termites"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X TERMITES
CF \|
CF \| that area's a bit blurry. You can't make anything out.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Breakfast has arrived... eating and reading but not typing much for a bit."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x frescos"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X FRESCOS
CF \|
CF \| They looked beautiful once upon a time. Now their fairytale has ended.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "think"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > THINK
CF \|
CF \| You can't, every movement--it hurts. You can't
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "pray"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > PRAY
CF \|
CF \| You can't, every movement--it hurts. You can't
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x rats"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X RATS
CF \|
CF \| that area's a bit blurry. You can't make anything out.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x floor"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > X FLOOR
CF \|
CF \| The symbol was as perfect as the one described on the scroll, and
CF \| Jaime chanted a prayer, cause the floor to burst into flames.
CF \|
CF \| The air in your chest finally leaves your body. The blood comes out of
CF \| your mouth and nose as your lungs begin to close up. You try and move,
CF \| but your limbs lay dead by your side. Blood paints the floor crimson
CF \| as the bright light grows cold.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| * You've died *
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last
CF \| command or POSTSCRIPT?
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "postscript"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| > POSTSCRIPT
CF \|
CF \| Hello. You might be a bit confused about what you just played, and I
CF \| can't blame you. I'm going to do a little bit of explaining the game's
CF \| goal, influences, and general design. I won't be going into the actual
CF \| contents of the game.
CF \|
CF \| Before I get started, I would just like to add this, this is the only
CF \| ending to the game. There are no ways to escape your death. You stop
CF \| playing when you don't want to play anymore.
CF \|
CF \| I was inspired by limited parser games like Lime Ergot and Toby's Nose
CF \| and wanted to make a game where the player only uses one verb. I also
CF \| saw it as a more realistic way to get a game out in under 4 hours.
CF \| With that idea, I thought of a game where the player only uses the
CF \| EXAMINE verb, like Lime Ergot, but I didn't want to completely copy
CF \| it. Then I thought of the concept of going through your thoughts as a
CF \| mechanic. From there, I thought of the dying part, the disjointed
CF \| style to try and capture the rapid thoughts our minds have, and set
CF \| the game on a time limit so that it had an end. Because of this, the
CF \| game might be hard to wrap one's head around, but I like to think it's
CF \| part of the fun. Trying to think about how all the pieces fit together
CF \| and how they connect. Whatever you can think of is equally right to
CF \| what I think and what anyone else thinks.
CF \|
CF \| This game is very untested, and I will likely make a newer version
CF \| when the competition ends. Either way, I would just like to thank you
CF \| for playing this game. I hope you stay safe and enjoy the games!		MoyTW says, "Well, ok then."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "push space"
CF ] Pinned to the altar
CF \|
CF \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last
CF \| command or POSTSCRIPT?
CF \| >		DavidW says, "I guess that's it."
		DavidW says, "Very short."
		lkcampbell says, "seems that wya"
		MoyTW says, "Mrmyep."
		Knight_Otu says, "True."
		Jacqueline says, "huh"
		lkcampbell says, "moral of the story, don't get pinned to an altar with a spear"
		Jacqueline says, "And yeah. I was eating and I forgot until the PS that there was only 'examine' and I was like, 'Why are they not gonna try to pull the spear out so we can maybe seek medical treatment.'"
		Knight_Otu asks, "I mean, pulling the spear out would also cause more blood flow, wouldm't it?"
		DavidW says, "yes"
		Jacqueline says, "Also, I have an update for Roger: punctuation beyond commas and full stops were apparently not much of a thing until the 8th century. So no, no question marks in early Latin."
		Knight_Otu says, "So it's a rather lethal situation one way or the other."
		Jacqueline says (to KO), "It would, that is true."
		DavidW says, "It's amusing there's a game called Social Lycanthropy Disorder, echoing another title, Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder."
		Jacqueline says, "I'm an not done with breakfast, but since that game took two minutes, let me go see if there is another..."
		Jacqueline asks, "Last Day?"
		lkcampbell asks, "what was that part about the floor bursting into flames? I wonder if it is timed? Or if examining the floor kills you?"
		MoyTW says, "I'm down for whatever."
		lkcampbell asks, "if there is more story explaining how you got speared?"
		MoyTW says, "I bet there is, if you're interesting in hunting it down."
		DavidW says, "I haven't played Last Day."
		Knight_Otu says, "I guess we were some ritual sacrifice."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "quit"
CF \| >
CF \| > QUIT
CF \| debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0
CF asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "load sleepmask lastday"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:44 am
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| You reluctantly open your eyes and look at the time. You sigh - it's
CF \| already a quarter to ten. You need to get moving, because today is the
CF \| last day. Not the last day of the week, not the last day of school,
CF \| not the last day at work - the last day, period. Of everything. Of
CF \| human civilization. Because today, September 22, at 12:43 PM, a comet
CF \| will strike the earth, wiping out all life on this little blue planet.
CF \| You hadn't wanted to believe when it was announced a month ago -
CF \| nobody had - but it has been confirmed again and again, apart from
CF \| small changes in the exact time.
CF \|
CF \| And now, you need to decide what to do with your
CF \| Last Day
CF \| An Interactive Apocalypse by Earth Traveler
CF \| Release 1 / Serial number 201028 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib
CF \| 6/12N)
CF \|
CF \| Your Bedroom
CF \| It's not much, especially now. You haven't bothered cleaning it for
CF \| the last month, so it's more of a mess than ever: trash strewn over
CF \| the carpet, cans tossed every which way, CDs left on top of the stereo
CF \| you stole from someone's house...
CF \|
CF \| Anyway, your living room is to the east.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "I hope there's cookies."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x me"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:44 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X ME
CF \|
CF \| As weary and rundown as anyone else by now.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "I mean I wonder if it is an "out of world" game where you get the full story with restarts"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "i"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:45 am
CF \| >
CF \| > I
CF \|
CF \| You are carrying nothing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "search trash"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:46 am
CF \| >
CF \| > SEARCH TRASH
CF \|
CF \| You find nothing of interest.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x stereo"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:46 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X STEREO
CF \|
CF \| A top-of-the-line stereo, previously owned by some record producer in
CF \| Seattle, until you took it out of his house and brought it back here.
CF \| You've been enjoying using it.
CF \|
CF \| Stereo is currently switched off.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "take it"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:47 am
CF \| >
CF \| > TAKE IT
CF \|
CF \| That's fixed in place.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "turn it on"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:48 am
CF \| >
CF \| > TURN IT ON
CF \|
CF \| You switch Stereo on.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says (to lk), "Might be."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "play cd"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:48 am
CF \| >
CF \| > PLAY CD
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "Stereo isn't being much fun."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "break stereo"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:49 am
CF \| >
CF \| > BREAK STEREO
CF \|
CF \| Violence isn't the answer to this one.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "Why not?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF ] Your Bedroom 9:50 am
CF \| >
CF \| > W
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Your Living Room 9:51 am
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Your Living Room
CF \| This place is even more beat-up than your bedroom. You've had a couple
CF \| parties in here, and parties right before the apocalypse can get a
CF \| little out of hand. There's a ton of bottles and cans in here, the
CF \| carpet and furniture is all stained, scraps of food are everywhere...
CF \|
CF \| A doorway leads south to the street outside.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "This is an orderly apocalypse, sir."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x food"
CF ] Your Living Room 9:51 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X FOOD
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "No cookies here."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "s"
CF ] Browning Street, Nelsonville. 9:52 am
CF \| >
CF \| > S
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Browning Street, Nelsonville.
CF \| Ah, good old Browning Street -- too bad the end of the world had to
CF \| happen, because this is a pretty nice neighborhood, a row of nice
CF \| neighbors and formerly clean houses. Now, though, a lot of the people
CF \| are either holed up in the church or in Port Friday, on the other side
CF \| of the bay, partying.
CF \|
CF \| To the east is Harbor Street, and to the west is Polk Road.
CF \|
CF \| A doorway leads south to the street outside.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Too few people crying fake news at real news to be realistic."
		DavidW asks, "hm. East or west?"
		Jacqueline says, "I'm trying to decide if I would wake up really early or sleep in the last day before the Earth is destroyed."
		DavidW says, "I think I'd eat a lot and try to sleep through it."
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Reasonable."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Harbor Street, Nelsonville. 9:56 am
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Harbor Street, Nelsonville.
CF \| A north-south running street. Desolate much like the rest of the town
CF \| now, it does have a seafood restaurant on the east side called
CF \| Nelson's Own that has its "Open" sign lit up. Apart from that, you can
CF \| north to the harbor or south to Court Street.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "East into the restaurant?"
		Knight_Otu says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Nelson's Own 10:00 am
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Nelson's Own
CF \| An ancient seafood restaurant, it has been stubbornly run by its
CF \| proprietor for the last month in spite of everything. Unfortunately,
CF \| it has also been looted of its stocks of food heavily, and not much
CF \| more food has been coming in during that time, as not a lot of people
CF \| are interested in continuing their jobs right now.
CF \|
CF \| A staircase leads up to the offices, and you go back west to Harbor
CF \| Street.
CF \|
CF \| You're surprised to see Benny sitting at a booth, eating a fish
CF \| sandwich as if this was a normal Tuesday lunch. He sees you as well,
CF \| and waves.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "I've had a couple of near-violent ends where I just tried to nap so that I wouldn't know when the end came. (Very questionable flights in small planes where I should have had the courage to speak up but did not.)"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x benny"
CF ] Nelson's Own 10:00 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X BENNY
CF \|
CF \| You went to high school together, and while you went on to college
CF \| (not looking like a great investment now), Benny became a security
CF \| guard for some big corporation.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to benny"
CF ] Nelson's Own 10:00 am
CF \| >
CF \| > TALK TO BENNY
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "A fish sammich is a fine last meal, fwiw"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "ask benny about sandwich"
CF ] Nelson's Own 10:01 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ASK BENNY ABOUT SANDWICH
CF \|
CF \| "Where'd you get that sandwich?" you ask hungrily. "Oh, the freezer
CF \| wasn't totally looted. So I made one in the kitchen, to the east
CF \| there," replies Benny. "I made some fries, but this was more filling
CF \| than I expected, so you can have them."
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x fries"
CF ] Nelson's Own 10:01 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X FRIES
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTW asks, "Man who spends the last day on earth eating until satiation instead of gorging?"
		DavidW says, "I guess the fries are in the kitchen."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Kitchen 10:02 am
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Kitchen
CF \| An old kitchen with a gas-powered stove and an open and empty freezer,
CF \| and covered in grease. There is indeed a tub of fries sitting by one
CF \| of the fryers, much to your delight. The place looks like it hasn't
CF \| been used in a week though.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "eat fries"
CF ] Kitchen 10:03 am
CF \| >
CF \| > EAT FRIES
CF \|
CF \| Delicious.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF ] Kitchen 10:02 am
CF \|
CF \| > UNDO
CF \|
CF \| Kitchen
CF \| [Previous turn undone.]
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x fries"
CF ] Kitchen 10:02 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X FRIES
CF \|
CF \| Some nice, greasy fries, just waiting to be eaten.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "eat them"
CF ] Kitchen 10:02 am
CF \| >
CF \| > EAT THEM
CF \|
CF \| I'm not sure what 'them' refers to.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "eat fries"
CF ] Kitchen 10:03 am
CF \| >
CF \| > EAT FRIES
CF \|
CF \| Delicious.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x stove"
CF ] Kitchen 10:03 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X STOVE
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF ] Nelson's Own 10:04 am
CF \| >
CF \| > W
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Nelson's Own
CF \| An ancient seafood restaurant, it has been stubbornly run by its
CF \| proprietor for the last month in spite of everything. Unfortunately,
CF \| it has also been looted of its stocks of food heavily, and not much
CF \| more food has been coming in during that time, as not a lot of people
CF \| are interested in continuing their jobs right now.
CF \|
CF \| A staircase leads up to the offices, and you go back west to Harbor
CF \| Street.
CF \|
CF \| You're surprised to see Benny sitting at a booth, eating a fish
CF \| sandwich as if this was a normal Tuesday lunch. He sees you as well,
CF \| and waves.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "u"
CF ] Nelsons Own Office 10:05 am
CF \| >
CF \| > U
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Nelsons Own Office
CF \| You climb up the stairs to the office and enter. Mr Wickens, the
CF \| proprietor, is sitting up here, writing something as if the world
CF \| isn't going to end in a couple hours.
CF \|
CF \| A staircase leads back down into the restaurant.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x wickens"
CF ] Nelsons Own Office 10:05 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X WICKENS
CF \|
CF \| A stout old man, who built this place God-knows-how-long ago and has
CF \| run it ever since. You guess you aren't too surprised he's here until
CF \| the bitter end.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "ask wickens about himself"
CF ] Nelsons Own Office 10:06 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ASK WICKENS ABOUT HIMSELF
CF \|
CF \| You don't know what to say.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "ask wickens about writing"
CF ] Nelsons Own Office 10:07 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ASK WICKENS ABOUT WRITING
CF \|
CF \| You don't know what to say.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "I'm not sure what the expected topics are here."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "topics"
CF ] Nelsons Own Office 10:07 am
CF \| >
CF \| > TOPICS
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x writing"
CF ] Nelsons Own Office 10:07 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X WRITING
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "ask wickens about wickens"
CF ] Nelsons Own Office 10:08 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ASK WICKENS ABOUT WICKENS
CF \|
CF \| You don't know what to say.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "ask wickens about comet"
CF ] Nelsons Own Office 10:09 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ASK WICKENS ABOUT COMET
CF \|
CF \| Mr Wickens waves a hand dismissively. "I built this place with my own
CF \| two hands, and I don't intend to abandon it. This place is... my whole
CF \| life," he says almost sadly, "and I will go down with it."
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "ask wickens about restaurant"
CF ] Nelsons Own Office 10:10 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ASK WICKENS ABOUT RESTAURANT
CF \|
CF \| "I'm going to keep this running until that damn comet hits," says
CF \| Wickens defiantly. "And I want to protect until then too. God may end
CF \| my business, but I'll be damned if I let some looter burn it down."
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "I mean, I don't see you running the kitchen...."
		DavidW says, "Leave him to it, I guess."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF ] Nelson's Own 10:11 am
CF \| >
CF \| > D
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Nelson's Own
CF \| An ancient seafood restaurant, it has been stubbornly run by its
CF \| proprietor for the last month in spite of everything. Unfortunately,
CF \| it has also been looted of its stocks of food heavily, and not much
CF \| more food has been coming in during that time, as not a lot of people
CF \| are interested in continuing their jobs right now.
CF \|
CF \| A staircase leads up to the offices, and you go back west to Harbor
CF \| Street.
CF \|
CF \| You're surprised to see Benny sitting at a booth, eating a fish
CF \| sandwich as if this was a normal Tuesday lunch. He sees you as well,
CF \| and waves.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "ask benny about comet"
CF ] Nelson's Own 10:12 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ASK BENNY ABOUT COMET
CF \|
CF \| Benny nods with an air of indifference. "Nothing I can do about it, is
CF \| there?" he replies. "Too bad, I guess. If there's no reason to do
CF \| anything, then there's no reason for me to not eat a delicious fish
CF \| sandwich, is there?" You can't find a flaw in that logic.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell asks, "was there a goal stated at the beginning?"
		MoyTW says, "Nope."
		Knight_Otu says, "I don't think so."
		DavidW says, "No, just find something to do before the comet hits."
		Knight_Otu says, "Just strolling through Ragnarok."
		DavidW says, "I see a clock time running, so I assume we have limited turns."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF ] Harbor Street, Nelsonville. 10:13 am
CF \| >
CF \| > W
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Harbor Street, Nelsonville.
CF \| A north-south running street. Desolate much like the rest of the town
CF \| now, it does have a seafood restaurant on the east side called
CF \| Nelson's Own that has its "Open" sign lit up. Apart from that, you can
CF \| north to the harbor or south to Court Street.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "North or south?"
		Knight_Otu says, "We do, the comet hits at about 12:43 I think."
		Knight_Otu asks, "South?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "s"
CF ] Court Street, Nelsonville 10:17 am
CF \| >
CF \| > S
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Court Street, Nelsonville
CF \| Old Court Street, the oldest street in town, and heading right on into
CF \| a dead end. Well, if it didn't head right on into a group of guys with
CF \| guns first. You'd better watch yourself around them.
CF \|
CF \| The old church is on the west side of the street, or you could go back
CF \| north to Harbor Street. You could also try going south, but
CF \| that might not be the best idea.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "I think I'd try to travel to where the comet was supposed to make impact, and have a picnic, and just wait and watch."
		DavidW asks, "I don't like the idea of entering the church or heading towards guns, but what do the rest of you think we should do here?"
		Jacqueline says, "Why watch ourselves around the guys with the guns? I mean, aside from the fact that it hurts to be shot and we'd have to live with that pain for almost two hours."
		lkcampbell says, "or maybe keep alive and then the comet doesn't hit"
		Jacqueline says (to Lance), "I've been thinking that too."
		Knight_Otu says, "It's a possibility."
		DavidW says, "We could get comet powers."
		Jacqueline says (to David), "I think that's spider bites, not comet strikes."
		Knight_Otu says, "I guess we can visit the harbor north instead of gunning or churching."
		lkcampbell says, "and scour things abrasively"
		Jacqueline says (to ko), "sure"
		DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "You haven't heard of Comet Man or Comet Queen, have you?"
		Jacqueline says, "Nope"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF ] Harbor Street, Nelsonville. 10:21 am
CF \| >
CF \| > N
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Harbor Street, Nelsonville.
CF \| A north-south running street. Desolate much like the rest of the town
CF \| now, it does have a seafood restaurant on the east side called
CF \| Nelson's Own that has its "Open" sign lit up. Apart from that, you can
CF \| north to the harbor or south to Court Street.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "I've heard of Comet Cleaner"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:25 am
CF \| >
CF \| > N
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Harbor, Nelsonville
CF \| Ah, the old harbor, now looking like it's been abandoned for a hundred
CF \| years. Normally there would be a fleet of all kinds of boats - yachts,
CF \| trawlers, speedboats - but not anymore. They've all been stolen or
CF \| spiked, and now there's just one left: an old, rustly fishing boat.
CF \|
CF \| There's also an outbuilding on the far side you could enter.
CF \|
CF \| You see a sailor lying on a pier, dead drunk.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "search sailor"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:26 am
CF \| >
CF \| > SEARCH SAILOR
CF \|
CF \| You find nothing of interest.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x sailor"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:26 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X SAILOR
CF \|
CF \| He's dead. You could tell even before you got close to him, from the
CF \| way the flies buzzed over his body. And in any case, you seen enough
CF \| pale, bloated, rotting corpses over the last few weeks to be pretty
CF \| good at telling them apart from the living.
CF \|
CF \| This guy is a bit much even for you, though. His eyes have rotted or
CF \| been eaten already, and the flies laid eggs in there, and the eggs
CF \| have hatched. It makes even your skin crawl.
CF \|
CF \| You briefly wonder if flies will survive the comet. Probably, you
CF \| guess.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline asks, "Wait, no HELLO, SAILOR?"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, I guess he's dead, so."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "hello sailor"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:26 am
CF \| >
CF \| > HELLO SAILOR
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "GOODBYE, SAILOR"
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "take sailor"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:27 am
CF \| >
CF \| > TAKE SAILOR
CF \|
CF \| That's fixed in place.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "We could check out his boat?"
		lkcampbell says, "sure"
		DavidW says, "oh, and an outbuilding I missed."
		DavidW says, "Maybe the building first."
		lkcampbell asks, "maybe find a place where we survive impact?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "enter outbuilding"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:27 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ENTER OUTBUILDING
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x outbuilding"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:27 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X OUTBUILDING
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "l"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:27 am
CF \| >
CF \| > L
CF \|
CF \| Harbor, Nelsonville
CF \| Ah, the old harbor, now looking like it's been abandoned for a hundred
CF \| years. Normally there would be a fleet of all kinds of boats - yachts,
CF \| trawlers, speedboats - but not anymore. They've all been stolen or
CF \| spiked, and now there's just one left: an old, rustly fishing boat.
CF \|
CF \| There's also an outbuilding on the far side you could enter.
CF \|
CF \| You see a sailor lying on a pier, dead drunk.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:28 am
CF \| >
CF \| > N
CF \|
CF \| You can't walk on water.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "oh, is the outbuilding not actually here?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x boat"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:28 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X BOAT
CF \|
CF \| If you plan to leave this island, looks like this is your only bet,
CF \| old and rusting heap though it is.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu asks, "Hm. Maybe?"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x building"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:28 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X BUILDING
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:29 am
CF \| >
CF \| > W
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:30 am
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "enter boat"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 10:31 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ENTER BOAT
CF \|
CF \| You get into the fishing boat.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF ] Nelson Bay 10:35 am
CF \| >
CF \| > N
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Nelson Bay (in the fishing boat)
CF \| The open ocean... Nelsonville is back south, and Port Friday to the
CF \| east. Yaquina Strait is further north.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "I assume we can go west or dive if we insist?"
		Knight_Otu says, "I mean, we can try."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF ] Nelson Bay 10:36 am
CF \| >
CF \| > W
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF ] Nelson Bay 10:35 am
CF \|
CF \| > UNDO
CF \|
CF \| Nelson Bay
CF \| [Previous turn undone.]
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "dive"
CF ] Nelson Bay 10:35 am
CF \| >
CF \| > DIVE
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF ] Nelson Bay 10:36 am
CF \| >
CF \| > D
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
lkcampbell says (to ClubFloyd), "swim"
CF ] Nelson Bay 10:36 am
CF \| >
CF \| > SWIM
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "I suppose visit the port to the east?"
		Knight_Otu says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Port Friday 10:40 am
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Port Friday (in the fishing boat)
CF \| You cruise-- well, sputter -- into Port Friday, and enter in on quite
CF \| an eyeful: there's a drug-fueled orgy happening right on the docks.
CF \| And a part of you wants to leap right into it, but...
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "wow"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x orgy"
CF ] Port Friday 10:40 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X ORGY
CF \|
CF \| Dozens of people, fucking each other, letting themselves get fucked,
CF \| snorting coke, shooting heroin... you can't even settle your eye on
CF \| anything.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "unexpected"
		lkcampbell says, "that took a dark turn"
		Knight_Otu says, "Well, now we need the language warning again."
		Jacqueline says, "Whoa - hello, Not Family Friendly Transcript Warning"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "join orgy"
CF ] Port Friday 10:40 am
CF \| >
CF \| > JOIN ORGY
CF \|
CF \| You hop out of the boat, rip off your clothes, and join in the party.
CF \| Hey, it's the end of the world, may as well go out with a bang, right?
CF \|
CF \| And right at 12:43 PM, that's exactly what happens.
CF \|
CF \| * You have died in a way some people dream of *
CF \|
CF \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
CF \| command?
CF \| >		DavidW says, "Do we get out here or ... oh."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF ] Port Friday 10:40 am
CF \|
CF \| > UNDO
CF \|
CF \| Port Friday
CF \| [Previous turn undone.]
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "even for an apocalyptic story that was a bit dark"
		MoyTW says, "Well if you're gonna die anyways..."
		Jacqueline says, "So, when they said, 'Go out with a bang,' do you think they meant... never mind. I don't want to ask."
		DavidW says, "I don't see what's dark about an orgy."
		MoyTW says, "Yeah the darkness is baked in from the premise, really."
		lkcampbell says, "well I was referring to the drug use"
		DavidW says, "When Covid ends, expect a few interesting news stories."
		Jacqueline says, "I also am not sure how one would note that it is drug-fueled at a mere glance."
		DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "The smell?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Um... okay?"
		DavidW asks, "Can we get out of the boat and not join the orgy?"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "out"
CF ] Port Friday 10:41 am
CF \| >
CF \| > OUT
CF \|
CF \| You get out of the fishing boat.
CF \|
CF \| Port Friday
CF \| You cruise-- well, sputter -- into Port Friday, and enter in on quite
CF \| an eyeful: there's a drug-fueled orgy happening right on the docks.
CF \| And a part of you wants to leap right into it, but...
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Port Friday 10:42 am
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF ] Port Friday 10:43 am
CF \| >
CF \| > N
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "hm. No exits."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "enter boat"
CF ] Port Friday 10:44 am
CF \| >
CF \| > ENTER BOAT
CF \|
CF \| You get into the fishing boat.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF ] Nelson Bay 10:48 am
CF \| >
CF \| > W
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Nelson Bay (in the fishing boat)
CF \| The open ocean... Nelsonville is back south, and Port Friday to the
CF \| east. Yaquina Strait is further north.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF ] Yaquina Strait 10:52 am
CF \| >
CF \| > N
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Yaquina Strait (in the fishing boat)
CF \| The open ocean... You can go west to Yaquina Bluffs, or south to
CF \| Nelson Bay.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF ] Stripe of Sand 10:56 am
CF \| >
CF \| > W
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Stripe of Sand (in the fishing boat)
CF \| Just a tiny strip of sand, lying beneath Yaquina Bluffs with a winding
CF \| path going up.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Anyway, now I can say ClubFloyd once joined an orgy. It's good that, after over 13 years, we're finding new things to experience."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "u"
CF ] Stripe of Sand 10:57 am
CF \| >
CF \| > U
CF \|
CF \| You can't take a boat onto land!
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "out"
CF ] Stripe of Sand 10:58 am
CF \| >
CF \| > OUT
CF \|
CF \| You get out of the fishing boat.
CF \|
CF \| Stripe of Sand
CF \| Just a tiny strip of sand, lying beneath Yaquina Bluffs with a winding
CF \| path going up.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "dig sand"
CF ] Stripe of Sand 10:58 am
CF \| >
CF \| > DIG SAND
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "u"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:02 am
CF \| >
CF \| > U
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Yaquina Bluffs
CF \| A series of rocky cliffs near the lighthouse, and a popular jumping
CF \| spot based on the number of corpses dashed against the rocks.
CF \|
CF \| Of course, you could head down the normal way, down a small winding
CF \| path.
CF \|
CF \| A rope has been left laying out. It even already has a noose tied off
CF \| on one end, but clearly hasn't been used. Probably someone who lost
CF \| their nerve, not that you would really recommend suicide. It is lying
CF \| right next to a large rock.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "a drug-fueled orgy even"
		Jacqueline says, "Indeed"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x corpses"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:02 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X CORPSES
CF \|
CF \| The bodies of people who decided to end the world -- for them, at
CF \| least -- on their own timetable. You don't feel right calling them
CF \| cowardly, or courageous for that matter
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x rope"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:02 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X ROPE
CF \|
CF \| A sturdy rope with a noose tied off on one end.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Let's build a slingshot to shoot that rock against the comet."
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x lighthouse"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:02 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X LIGHTHOUSE
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "take rope"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:03 am
CF \| >
CF \| > TAKE ROPE
CF \|
CF \| Taken.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell says, "okay so this is basically exploring all possible reactions"
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "in"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:04 am
CF \| >
CF \| > IN
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:05 am
CF \| >
CF \| > W
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:06 am
CF \| >
CF \| > N
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "s"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:07 am
CF \| >
CF \| > S
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "where's that lighthouse?"
		DavidW says, "I suppose we could jump here or hang ourselves from something."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "exits"
CF ] Yaquina Bluffs 11:07 am
CF \| >
CF \| > EXITS
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "Hardly what I want to do. All I've found to eat are some fries, bleah."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "nw"
CF ] Yaquina Head 11:11 am
CF \| >
CF \| > NW
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Yaquina Head
CF \| You've been here a couple of times, back when you thought lighthouses
CF \| were really cool. And that's the only reason to come here: the
CF \| lighthouse, whose entrance lies to the northwest. There's also some
CF \| bluffs to the southeast, or you could go back to the south.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "oh, nw"
		lkcampbell says, "orgy or suicide or fish sandwich"
		DavidW says, "Or church praying"
		Knight_Otu says, "Really should give exits."
		lkcampbell says, "oh wait, yeah fries"
		DavidW says, "Let's head to the lighthouse please."
		lkcampbell asks, "or death by rioting mob maybe?"
		lkcampbell says, "or just waiting I imagine"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "nw"
CF ] Yaquina Head Lighthouse 11:15 am
CF \| >
CF \| > NW
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Yaquina Head Lighthouse
CF \| The old lighthouse. Nobody's keeping it anymore, though. You can head
CF \| up the stairs to reach the top.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "u"
CF ] Top of the Lighthouse 11:16 am
CF \| >
CF \| > U
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Top of the Lighthouse
CF \| Man, this place gives a really good view. You can see the Space Needle
CF \| from here, Vancouver Island... you think might even be able to see the
CF \| southern tip of Alaska from here.
CF \|
CF \| And of course, there's always two ways down...
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x needle"
CF ] Top of the Lighthouse 11:16 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X NEEDLE
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x space needle"
CF ] Top of the Lighthouse 11:16 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X SPACE NEEDLE
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Lies, game. Lies."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x island"
CF ] Top of the Lighthouse 11:16 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X ISLAND
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x alaska"
CF ] Top of the Lighthouse 11:16 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X ALASKA
CF \|
CF \| You can't see any such thing.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "! These claims about seeing Alaska from somewhere around Seattle/Vancouver are disputed"
		DavidW says, "I guess if you 'jump' here, you die."
		Knight_Otu says, "Probably."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF ] Yaquina Head Lighthouse 11:20 am
CF \| >
CF \| > D
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Yaquina Head Lighthouse
CF \| The old lighthouse. Nobody's keeping it anymore, though. You can head
CF \| up the stairs to reach the top.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "se"
CF ] Yaquina Head 11:21 am
CF \| >
CF \| > SE
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Yaquina Head
CF \| You've been here a couple of times, back when you thought lighthouses
CF \| were really cool. And that's the only reason to come here: the
CF \| lighthouse, whose entrance lies to the northwest. There's also some
CF \| bluffs to the southeast, or you could go back to the south.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "south?"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "s"
CF ] North Forest Trail 11:25 am
CF \| >
CF \| > S
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| North Forest Trail
CF \| The woods are thinning out here. You can see Yaquina Head to the
CF \| north, and the rest of the woods to the southwest.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Ah, I guess this is Oregon."
		DavidW asks, "Maybe we can get dysentry?"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "sw"
CF ] Central Forest Trail 11:43 am
CF \| >
CF \| > SW
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Central Forest Trail
CF \| You walk deeper into the forest, listening to the chirping of the
CF \| birds, feeling the sun on you...
CF \|
CF \| The trail continues to the northeast, or back to the southwest.
CF \|
CF \| You notice some shapes deep in the forest, among the trees.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x shapes"
CF ] Central Forest Trail 11:43 am
CF \| >
CF \| > X SHAPES
CF \|
CF \| Nothing much, just the corpses of a large number of suiciders, hanging
CF \| from the trees. Well, you hope all of them were suicides anyway. In
CF \| any case, nothing you haven't seen since the announcement...
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "ah geez, more corpses."
		lkcampbell says, "just makes me think it ain't gonna happen"
		Knight_Otu says, "I stand by what I said earlier - there should be more people pointing at the meteor in the sky and claim it's just a hologram."
		lkcampbell says, "the multitude of reactions"
		lkcampbell says, "heh yup"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "sw"
CF ] South Forest Trail 12:01 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > SW
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| South Forest Trail
CF \| You take the trail and leisurely stroll through the woods, admiring
CF \| the scenery... too bad it's not going to be here much longer. You'd
CF \| never thought about how beautiful it was before.
CF \|
CF \| The trail winds away to the northeast, or back to the southeast.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "It's weird how the game assumes we entered from the other end."
		lkcampbell says, "we're gonna get hit by this comet and we're gonna be stronger than ever"
		Knight_Otu says, "Also, we came upon the trail... right."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "se"
CF ] Polk Road 12:19 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > SE
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Polk Road
CF \| A rough road, one that ends in pretty much nothing and leads onto the
CF \| trail leading northwest through Nelson Forest. You wonder why this
CF \| Nelson guy got to name everything after himself.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW asks, "south?"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "s"
CF ] Polk Road 12:20 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > S
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "se"
CF ] Polk Road 12:21 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > SE
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "sw"
CF ] Polk Road 12:22 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > SW
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Browning Street, Nelsonville. 12:26 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Browning Street, Nelsonville.
CF \| Ah, good old Browning Street -- too bad the end of the world had to
CF \| happen, because this is a pretty nice neighborhood, a row of nice
CF \| neighbors and formerly clean houses. Now, though, a lot of the people
CF \| are either holed up in the church or in Port Friday, on the other side
CF \| of the bay, partying.
CF \|
CF \| To the east is Harbor Street, and to the west is Polk Road.
CF \|
CF \| A doorway leads south to the street outside.
CF \|
CF \| >		DavidW says, "oh, and we're home again."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Harbor Street, Nelsonville. 12:30 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Harbor Street, Nelsonville.
CF \| A north-south running street. Desolate much like the rest of the town
CF \| now, it does have a seafood restaurant on the east side called
CF \| Nelson's Own that has its "Open" sign lit up. Apart from that, you can
CF \| north to the harbor or south to Court Street.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:34 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > N
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Harbor, Nelsonville
CF \| Ah, the old harbor, now looking like it's been abandoned for a hundred
CF \| years. Normally there would be a fleet of all kinds of boats - yachts,
CF \| trawlers, speedboats - but not anymore. They've all been stolen or
CF \| spiked, and now there's just one left: an old, rustly fishing boat.
CF \|
CF \| There's also an outbuilding on the far side you could enter.
CF \|
CF \| You see a sailor lying on a pier, dead drunk.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Today's ClubFloyd session has been reall uplifting."
		lkcampbell asks, "my question is...where are the Space Force Guardians in all this?"
		DavidW says, "of course, the boat isn't here anymore."
		Knight_Otu says, "Still claims the sailor is dead drunk. rather than dead."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "nw"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:35 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > NW
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| You feel the ground start to tremble a bit under your feet.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "ne"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:36 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > NE
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "sw"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:37 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > SW
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| The ground begins to shake even more. It's starting to feel like an
CF \| earthquake, and you see a twinkle appear in the sky.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "se"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:38 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > SE
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| The twinkle starts getting bigger.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "e"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:39 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > E
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:40 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > W
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| The twinkle is about half the size of the moon now. You're not sure if
CF \| anything will survive this.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "in"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:41 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > IN
CF \|
CF \| You can't go that way.
CF \|
CF \| The comet dips below the horizon.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "out"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:42 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > OUT
CF \|
CF \| But you aren't in anything at the moment.
CF \|
CF \| You hear the echoing impact of the comet strike, and the ground
CF \| violently rattles once more with a sense of finality. As you get back
CF \| to your feet, you can see a wave of dirt and dust streaking toward
CF \| you.
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell asks, "last turn?"
		Jacqueline says (to Lance), "I was thinking we should send Bruce Willis to land on the comet and blow it."
		DavidW says, "We can't do much but look now."
		Jacqueline says, "Blow it up, I mean."
		Knight_Otu says, "Last turn, and still didn't find the outbuilding."
		lkcampbell says, "heh, yup"
		DavidW says, "Do something, get it over with."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "sing"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:42 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > SING
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "scream"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:42 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > SCREAM
CF \|
CF \| That's not a verb I recognise.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Aw."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "pray"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 1:11 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > PRAY
CF \|
CF \| You kneel down and join the other parishoners in prayer. You pray for
CF \| forgiveness, you pray to the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior, that
CF \| you're a sinner - and you do know you've done some things wrong and
CF \| you do have regrets, but you still feel kind of hokey saying it. But
CF \| you stay and pray for a long time anyway.
CF \|
CF \| In fact, when you check the time you've been there a lot longer than
CF \| you intended. Either way, though, you feel a lot better.
CF \|
CF \| This is not how you wanted to go out. You wanted to -- well, you're
CF \| not really sure what you wanted. Until this very moment, your death
CF \| seemed like a distant event, something from the far future, like the
CF \| heat death of the universe, something you wouldn't have to worry about
CF \| even though you always knew better. Yes, even after the apocalypse was
CF \| announced, you still felt that way. But as you feel the ground start
CF \| shaking again, rapidly increasing in strength, you know with a cold
CF \| certainty you won't be on this world anymore. You utter a small
CF \| prayer, and stand a little straighter. Maybe it doesn't do anything.
CF \| Maybe it's not true. But you've decided to, for the first time, put
CF \| your faith in something.
CF \|
CF \| And it looks like everyone will be finding out if it's true or not
CF \| very soon.
CF \|
CF \| * You have died in peace *
CF \|
CF \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
CF \| command?
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "The game assumes we were in the church it seems."
		Roger says, "good times from the walking/dying simulator"
		lkcampbell says, "yup"
		DavidW says, "yes, it does."
		lkcampbell asks, "can you undo and wait?"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, this was from the 'under 4 hours' code category, so."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:42 pm
CF \|
CF \| > UNDO
CF \|
CF \| Harbor, Nelsonville
CF \| [Previous turn undone.]
CF \|
CF \| >		lkcampbell asks, "just to see a different ending?"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "z"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:42 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > Z
CF \|
CF \| Waiting during your last day is not something to be done lightly. Do
CF \| you want to wait until the comet strikes?		DavidW says, "The game's not bad, but could use some fine-tuning."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "y"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:36 pm
CF \| you want to wait until the comet strikes?
CF \| > Y
CF \|
CF \| Very well.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "z"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:36 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > Z
CF \|
CF \| Waiting during your last day is not something to be done lightly. Do
CF \| you want to wait until the comet strikes?
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "y"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:36 pm
CF \| you want to wait until the comet strikes?
CF \| > Y
CF \|
CF \| Very well.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu exclaims, "We went back in time!"
		Jacqueline asks, "Wait... we went... back?"
		Jacqueline asks, "That... how... ?"
		Jacqueline looks at Knight.
		lkcampbell says, "yeah I like the endings corresponding to the different options"
		DavidW says, "Better exits and text that matches the status of the game world."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:36 pm
CF \|
CF \| > UNDO
CF \|
CF \| Harbor, Nelsonville
CF \| [Previous turn undone.]
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:42 pm
CF \|
CF \| > UNDO
CF \|
CF \| Harbor, Nelsonville
CF \| [Previous turn undone.]
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "jump"
CF ] Harbor, Nelsonville 12:42 pm
CF \| >
CF \| > JUMP
CF \|
CF \| You aren't on a high or dangerous enough place to do much with that.
CF \|
CF \| This is not how you wanted to go out. You wanted to -- well, you're
CF \| not really sure what you wanted. Until this very moment, your death
CF \| seemed like a distant event, something from the far future, like the
CF \| heat death of the universe, something you wouldn't have to worry about
CF \| even though you always knew better. Yes, even after the apocalypse was
CF \| announced, you still felt that way. Frankly, you still feel that way a
CF \| little bit now, even as the ground starts shaking again, rapidly
CF \| increasing in strength.
CF \|
CF \| You don't want to die. Of course, that's stupid and petty, you and
CF \| everyone else had to die someday anyway, but you feel cheated. But
CF \| there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing except face the comet,
CF \| and face your death, and show some courage for once, and show--
CF \|
CF \| * The world has ended *
CF \|
CF \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
CF \| command?
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, ""Now the time of day is 12:36" I assume."
		Jacqueline says, "Oh - yeah."
		Jacqueline asks, "Like, if you wait early in the game it just advances you to near the end?"
		Knight_Otu says, "Without a check whether it is later already."
		Jacqueline says, "But if you're already at at the end, it moves you back."
		Knight_Otu says, "Yeah."
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Likely."
		Roger says, "or maybe into the next day; I'm not sure if there's anyway to check from here."
		DavidW says, "The game is called Last Day."
		DavidW says, "There is no next."
		Jacqueline says, "But hey, I like the version where we go out having discovered time travel, but not with enough mastery to go way back in time to where the comet could be stopped."
		Knight_Otu says, "Dawn of the Last Day. 12 hours remain. (Actually 3, but who's counting.)"
		Roger says, "too bad Asia -- y'all will just need to die in the dark"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, that was somewhat thought provoking. And what a game to write in 2020."
		lkcampbell says, "yeah, it's not a clock bug, it's a super power :)"
		lkcampbell says, "bug spin doctor"
		Jacqueline exclaims, "I gotta run, but I enjoyed it. See y'all ... next year!"
		DavidW says, "oh gosh, yes."
		MoyTW says, "Cya'll 'round."
		lkcampbell says, "yeah, I liked that one, interesting idea"
		MoyTW says, "Oh, right, I better buy groceries before New Year's Eve."
		Jacqueline is neither a good teller of jokes, nor a dad, this makes her a... faux pas.
		Knight_Otu says, "Let's bury this year in the back yard."
		DavidW says, "bye y'all. Thanks for the games."