  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says, "What about Delusions? [LINK]" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. I don't remember if I've played this one or not. Is it the one with the mech spider on the moebius track?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm going to have to leave in about five minutes, so I was trying to get you guys started on something good before I left, smartgenes." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sounds like a VR thing with some guy named Morrodox." | ||
| DavidW says, "The name 'Morrodox' doesn't ring any bells for me." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's from 1996." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I figure if you'd played it, you've probably also forgotten most of it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe." | ||
| smartgenes says, "a good year" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Was it?" | ||
| smartgenes drinks it up | Jacqueline asks, "Were you born that year or something?" | |
| smartgenes says, "just thinking of the drinking fine wines thing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, ah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, hearing no objections, I'm going to assume you all will try this and I can head on out." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask delusions" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Our memories are card-indexes consulted, Floyd ] and then put back in disorder by Floyd ] authorities whom we do not control. Floyd ] Floyd ] -- Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave (1944) Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press any key to begin.] | smartgenes asks, "can we start about quarter past?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Like, in half an hour?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "From now?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I know David needs a few minutes, but I'm not sure he was thinking about that long." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll leave that to you and David and Lionheart and Johnny to discuss." | ||
| smartgenes says, "yeh, the dogs are getting restless" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Have fun, kids." | ||
| DavidW says, "I can wait, sure." | ||
| Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "I was kinda expecting smartgenes to be back by now." | |
| Zach arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Zach says, "Whoops, a little late" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, smartgenes said if we could wait until quarter after, but quarter after was three quarters ago." | ||
| DavidW says, "Today's game is Delusions, if we ever actually start." | ||
| Zach says, "Almost a whole dollar" | ||
| smartgenes says, "hey, sorry" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i thought you would start without me, Bruno ran off after some deer" | ||
| DavidW says, "If I started without you, I would be playing alone." | ||
| DavidW says, "at least under Zach showed up." | ||
| smartgenes says, "seems like we are a tag-team now" | ||
| smartgenes says, "but Emily is with me now, so we have another" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reality is so... unreal. Floyd | Floyd | The tangle of observations woven about it, humankind's utter lack of Floyd | consensus, phases it to fit individual desires. Becoming and Floyd | unbecoming, back and forth eternally, as it paradoxically coexists Floyd | with and within infinite versions of itself... Floyd | Floyd | At least, that's what always surfaces in your mind whenever your own Floyd | perception of reality is altered. Which is to say, ten or fifteen Floyd | times a day. But it's your job, working to someday entertain others Floyd | with new observations, new experiences, new realities. And after all, Floyd | you signed up for the Project (as you well remember, even though it Floyd | was close to five years ago), so you suppose it's entirely your fault Floyd | if you don't like it. Which, when you think about it, you realise you Floyd | do. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice reaches out to you from somewhere you can't see. "Okay, Floyd | this should be it. One final test run to check any overload potential, Floyd | and this world is done! I'm starting her up." Floyd | Floyd | A loud CLANK, and the Sphere begins spinning, with you inside it. Floyd | Floyd | "Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | Bright lights. Floyd | Floyd | Pain. Floyd | Floyd | From somewhere off in your mind's distance, a telltale splash. Floyd | Floyd | Then, as the resounding thrums fade, a distorted ripple sweeps your Floyd | vision clear, and all traces of the laboratory vanish from your Floyd | senses. Floyd | Floyd | All five of them. Floyd | Floyd | Wiped clean, twitching, anxious for new input. Floyd | Floyd | Virtual reality has become reality. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | An Interactive Self-Discovery Floyd | Created using Inform 5.5 Floyd | Copyright (c) 1996 by the author. All rights reserved, and don't you Floyd | forget it. Floyd | [Type HELP to learn the secrets of the universe.] Floyd | SPECIAL COMPETITION RELEASE -- PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE! Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 961021 / Inform v1502 Library 5/12 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But w Floyd | Floyd | gwrgxilp jidunfhx idqgdkgll dicmz's w Floyd | Floyd | gwrgxilp jidunfhx idqgdkgll dicmz, playing through in your mind, Floyd | soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Only Justy's disembodied voice betrays the presence of a virtual Floyd | reality. "I estimate at max one potential for overload, maybe two. Floyd | This one isn't all that complex, compared to the lab sim. Floyd | Cynthesiser's got the analysis sweep running in the background, so you Floyd | may feel some slight distortion. It's nothing to worry about. Just Floyd | give us a typical walk -- or should I say, swim? -- through it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh, 'Inform 5.5'." | |
| Zach says, "Oh, this is the VR game" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh wait, we have tried this one before? oh right." | ||
| DavidW says, "We didn't solve it last time, iirc." | ||
| Zach says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "Even this opening puzzle is a bit though, as I recall." | ||
| DavidW says, "er tough" | ||
| smartgenes says, "the first thing I would type would be SWIM I guess" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're a fish. Specifically, a yellow-finned grouper. Quite a Floyd | nice-looking one too, as fish go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "is this the same game where you become a plant, or is that something different?" | |
| DavidW says, "That's a different one." | ||
| smartgenes asks, "what was that one, I could never recall the title afterwards?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat reef" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT REEF Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not sure which one you mean. There's 'Nine Tenths of the Law' where we start as a plant." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to justy" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | A small patch of smooth, rounded, colourful stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take stone" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STONE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get kelp" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > GET KELP Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coral" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X CORAL Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > GET GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You're a fish, remember? Fish don't have hands. You'll have to find a Floyd | more creative method of moving things around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "bite gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > BITE GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You swallow up a mouthful of the gravel. Floyd | Floyd | A red crab scuttles along the sand below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "is that just a random crab message do you think" | |
| DavidW says, "I don't remember the crab. I do remember there's danger to the east, we have to escape it, and then replay the scenario until we crash the simulation by generating too many objects." | ||
| DavidW says, "This intro is basically a teaser for the central problem in the 'real world' -- which may or may not also be a sim. It's hard to tell." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat crab" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CRAB Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "back to east to find out the problem?" | |
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "please drive." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x octopus" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X OCTOPUS Floyd | Floyd | Its enormous grey-green body is soft and oval, encircled at the base Floyd | by eight deadly sucker-studded tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side before targeting a specific segment with an Floyd | index finger. "Here," she emphasises to Justy. "According to the Floyd | sweep, the interpreter stack may be unstable." Floyd | Floyd | "Where is it?" Justy inquires. Floyd | Floyd | "Can't tell. It's a global event routine, not embedded in a specific Floyd | object. Damn this pseudo-OO compiler." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Take a break, come back after you've Floyd | recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | [AUTHOR'S NOTE: Incidentally, there were plenty of great Floyd | opportunities for really bad fish jokes in that scene, but I resisted Floyd | the temptation. You can thank me for that by voting this game into Floyd | first place.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X TANK Floyd | Floyd | This tank used to house an android that performed a lot of the Floyd | preliminary VR diagnostics, but you're not sure what happened to it Floyd | (the android, that is). Odd, that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x mouse" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | (the ergonomic mouse) Floyd | A standard white two-button ergonomic input device. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | This thick volume is the Project's documentation, most of which has Floyd | been filled in in bits and pieces as developments have occurred. A lot Floyd | of it is hopelessly out of order, despite Dr Shimada's efforts to Floyd | outline an index (which was some time ago). The cracked black leather Floyd | binder bears the Project logo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | The technical manual has several hundred pages. It'd be more efficient Floyd | to look up specific topics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x logo" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOGO Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up fish" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP FISH Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere is a human-sized anti-gravity gyroscope, encased in Floyd | soundproof glass. VR sensors connect to status monitors, the lab Floyd | terminal and the mainframe supercomputer in the next room by a thick Floyd | bundle of coaxial cables. A fail-safe lever protrudes at an angle from Floyd | one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x glasses" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X GLASSES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think you can look up the people involved." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x suit" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUIT Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the VR suit or the technician's jumpsuit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "vr" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > VR Floyd | Floyd | The VR suit, a full-body outfit of spandex and kevlar, hangs on a rack Floyd | against one wall. It fits tightly and is strung with a network of Floyd | millions of tiny sensory-output devices. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up shimada" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP SHIMADA Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up cynthia" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CYNTHIA Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess I'm wrong." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x jumpsuit" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUMPSUIT Floyd | Floyd | A standard-issue grey Project uniform, loose-fitting and comfortable, Floyd | emblazoned with the Project logo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up android" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 | smartgenes says, "hmm all this mention of the logo, i'd quite like to know what it looks lik" | |
Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to look up androids in? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | VR androids, manufactured by other divisions within the Corporation, Floyd | are another protective tool, used in the early stages of VR sim Floyd | debugging. Equipped with limited neural-network processors, they are Floyd | strapped into the sphere and used to perform preliminary VR Floyd | diagnostics to avoid the dangers to a human brain in the event of any Floyd | serious bugs in a virtual sensory reality. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Debug Icon, Fail-Safe Lever, Sphere, VR Viruses Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up fail-safe lever" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP FAIL-SAFE LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to look up fail-safe lever in?
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Floyd | >
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| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Built into one corner of the Sphere is a fail-safe lever that may be Floyd | pulled to prematurely shut down a sim when a person is inside. This Floyd | feature is equipped with its own fusion cell and is of vital Floyd | importance in the event of power outages or other system glitches. If Floyd | a sim is not shut down properly using the fail-safe mechanism, Floyd | permanent damage to the brain is likely to result from the abrupt Floyd | termination of the human-computer synapse. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Android, Sphere Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up sphere in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP SPHERE IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The Sphere is an anti-gravity gyroscope that provides the sim user Floyd | with the weightlessness necessary for the virtual experience to take Floyd | over. The Sphere is the focal point for all sim-related activity Floyd | within the system. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Cray ZMP-2010X, Fail-Safe Lever, Lab Terminal, VR Suit Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up cray in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CRAY IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The Cray ZMP-2010X, located in the Output Station, provides central Floyd | processing, storage, and printing functions to the VR operating Floyd | system. It is interfaced with the lab terminal via coaxial cables and Floyd | fiber-optic bundles. Printing of the current system status is Floyd | controlled via the "report" function of the O/S. Due to the severe Floyd | paper shortages, it is necessary that the previous printout be Floyd | recycled (through the built-in slot attached to the printer). Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Lab Terminal, Report Icon Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "ok so a printer and a recycler" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up report icon in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP REPORT ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "report" icon generates a print job queued to the Cray ZMP-2010X. Floyd | The default print job is the system status report, which lists the Floyd | settings of the current VR sim. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Cray ZMP-2010X Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The ol' only-one-printout-item-in-the-game-at-one-time trick." | |
| smartgenes says, "it is legitimately like my printer" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up lab terminal in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP LAB TERMINAL IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The Project's central terminal is located in the VR lab and is Floyd | interfaced with the Cray ZMP-2010X and Sphere, but is otherwise Floyd | isolated from the rest of the Corporation (for security purposes). Floyd | Control of the various system components is handled through a GUI Floyd | (Graphical User Interface) which serves as the Project's operating Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Cray ZMP-2010X, Configure Icon, Debug Icon, Flush Icon, Floyd | Launch Icon, Report Icon, Sphere, System Icon Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "getting a bit tedious, but..." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up configure icon in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CONFIGURE ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "configure" icon allows the operator to change sensory output Floyd | settings for a VR. Changes made during a session do not take effect Floyd | until the sim is reloaded. Floyd | Floyd | All users have access to this program. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up debug icon in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP DEBUG ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "debug" icon provides access to the VR compiler, editor, and Floyd | debugger. Floyd | Floyd | Access to these programs is restricted to Dr Shimada and myself. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up flush icon in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP FLUSH ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "flush" program purges the system in the event of a critical error Floyd | in the active VR. Once purged, the sim is wiped clean from the system Floyd | and must be re-installed from archival storage. Floyd | Floyd | Due to the drastic nature of this program, only Dr Shimada has access Floyd | to it. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You can't see yourself without a mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up launch icon in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP LAUNCH ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "launch" program activates the currently loaded VR sim and runs Floyd | it. Input and output devices are the Sphere and VR suit, and they must Floyd | be occupied for this module to run. Floyd | Floyd | All users have access to this program. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Fail-Safe Lever, Sphere, VR Suit Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up system icon in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP SYSTEM ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "system" icon grants access to a number of operating system Floyd | programs, allowing the user to load, unload, and archive sims, or to Floyd | search the contents of files. Floyd | Floyd | All users have access to this part of the system, but it is password Floyd | protected. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember password" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER PASSWORD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under bench" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BENCH Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x justy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | His bright eyes gleam through thick glasses framed by short brown hair Floyd | and a small gold loop through his left earlobe. Floyd | Floyd | Looking at Justy again, you see... not an old friend, but someone Floyd | else, someone different. Someone you've only begun to get to know Floyd | recently... Very curious. Floyd | Floyd | Or were you just thinking of someone else...? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to justy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "say hello" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SAY HELLO Floyd | Floyd | (to Justy) Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x terminal" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | A twentieth-century user would have called this a "personal computer" Floyd | or "PC", although the elimination of the "lone programmer" concept has Floyd | since made that acronym outdated. Floyd | Floyd | It's an 8-gigahertz multimedia package with a 16-terabyte hard drive, Floyd | 12 gigs of RAM, and a 96-megabyte cache. The CPU case is Floyd | disproportionately tiny next to the keyboard and monitor, larger only Floyd | out of human necessity. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada ordered this system some time ago, when increased Floyd | processing speed became necessary if the Project's deadlines were to Floyd | be met. It arrived less than a week ago, and it's already obsolete. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look at terminal" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK AT TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | A twentieth-century user would have called this a "personal computer" Floyd | or "PC", although the elimination of the "lone programmer" concept has Floyd | since made that acronym outdated. Floyd | Floyd | It's an 8-gigahertz multimedia package with a 16-terabyte hard drive, Floyd | 12 gigs of RAM, and a 96-megabyte cache. The CPU case is Floyd | disproportionately tiny next to the keyboard and monitor, larger only Floyd | out of human necessity. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada ordered this system some time ago, when increased Floyd | processing speed became necessary if the Project's deadlines were to Floyd | be met. It arrived less than a week ago, and it's already obsolete. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x xuit" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X XUIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x suit" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUIT Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the VR suit or the technician's jumpsuit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "technicians" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TECHNICIANS Floyd | Floyd | A standard-issue grey Project uniform, loose-fitting and comfortable, Floyd | emblazoned with the Project logo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open dsouth door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DSOUTH DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You can't see yourself without a mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x basin" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X BASIN Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x stall" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X STALL Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "use toilet" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > USE TOILET Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada prefers if you knock first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | The corridor runs east to west, with a doorway to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Old school doors never auto-open, alas." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk are a three-hole punch and Dr Shimada's cellular Floyd | phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELF Floyd | Floyd | All of the great works, eastern and western, of literature, Floyd | philosophy, and religion (on CD-ROM, of course). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get punch" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PUNCH Floyd | Floyd | "Bring it back when you're done, please," says Dr Shimada. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "chat up shimada" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > CHAT UP SHIMADA Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get phone" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada gives you a "look" that makes you change your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kiss shimada" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > KISS SHIMADA Floyd | Floyd | You never were comfortable with that kind of thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "say hello" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SAY HELLO Floyd | Floyd | (to Dr Shimada) Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask shimada about project" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK SHIMADA ABOUT PROJECT Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask shimada about vr" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK SHIMADA ABOUT VR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINETS Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x shimada" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHIMADA Floyd | Floyd | Shimada is the Project's director, working under the control of the Floyd | Executives. Following Justy's recommendation, she was the one who Floyd | recruited you for your current position. Floyd | Floyd | You've worked under Dr Hyechong Shimada for years, but are still Floyd | unable to say that you truly know her due to her intensely private Floyd | nature. Half-Chinese, half-Japanese, she was transferred in from the Floyd | Corporation's Kyushu office to direct the Project. Floyd | Floyd | The jagged scars on her face and hands mark Dr Shimada as a survivor Floyd | of the Great Cancer, and give her already dogmatic presence an Floyd | artificial air of fierceness (which you suspect she secretly enjoys). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open elevator doors" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN ELEVATOR DOORS Floyd | Floyd | The doors don't open from this side, and there's no call button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search media" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH MEDIA Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x racks" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X RACKS Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x cray" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X CRAY Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SLOT Floyd | Floyd | The curved recycling slot forms the "mouth" of a cutesy little picture Floyd | of a smiling planet earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "insert hand into the recycling slot" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > INSERT HAND INTO THE RECYCLING SLOT Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding it before you can put it into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | Well, you've got two of 'em. Five fingers each. Nothing extraordinary Floyd | about that. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | your hands, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | Wait a minute... If you squint your eyes just right... There! It looks Floyd | like a giant sundial gnomon, with an atomic mushroom cloud erupting Floyd | behind. Floyd | Floyd | Truly bizarre that you never recognised it until this moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x gnomon" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X GNOMON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x sundial" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUNDIAL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about Cynthia's desk that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x belongings" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X BELONGINGS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "serach desk" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SERACH DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Gnomon and mushroom cloud is an obvious ref to Infocom's Trinity, of course." | |
| DavidW says, "(and why would a blind woman have such a pic, anyway?)" | ||
| smartgenes says, "hmm though i'm not sure why Cynthia would have a poster of an Infocom game on her wall" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "enter picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go bed" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > GO BED Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x cynthia" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X CYNTHIA Floyd | Floyd | Black lenses hide failed eyes, but Cynthia's other senses are even Floyd | sharper than your own. Her long hair spills down her back in thick Floyd | dreadlocks the same colour as a curious symbol tattooed on her right Floyd | forearm. Floyd | Floyd | There's a pencil tucked behind her ear. Floyd | Floyd | [AUTHOR'S NOTE: Just in case you care, this is the first work Floyd | of I-F to feature a major NPC with a tattoo. (No, the disembodied hand Floyd | in "The Lurking Horror" doesn't count.)] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "touch cynthia" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH CYNTHIA Floyd | Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x symbol" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SYMBOL Floyd | Floyd | An unrecognisable (to you) symbol, an eight-pointed star with a single Floyd | letter at each point (two at each of the diagonals), done in black Floyd | ink. It's hard to see clearly against Cynthia's dark skin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sounds like a compass rose." | |
| smartgenes says, "hmm as if the author played all 2000+ text adventures on the Spectrum, for instance, to know that" | ||
| smartgenes says, "no tattoooed characters indeed.." | ||
| DavidW says, "He might've. The author is C.E. Forman." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "read letters" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > READ LETTERS Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "and there are exactly 8 letter in C.E.FORMAN... hmmm hmm hmmm" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Surely you can find a good place to lie down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "yes, in cynthia's bed" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES, IN CYNTHIA'S BED
Floyd |
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "enter bed" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER BED Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "lie down in cynthia's bed" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIE DOWN IN CYNTHIA'S BED
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| smartgenes says, "i don't think this game likes my shenanigans" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "enter picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Justy's Quarters Floyd | Justy's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only a Floyd | bed, desk, and a few of Justy's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall is completely taken up Justy's film library. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging nearby is a framed sketch by M.C. Escher. Floyd | Floyd | A large holovision set dominates the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x library" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIBRARY Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x escher" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X ESCHER Floyd | Floyd | The charcoal sketch depicts a stream, flowing upwards at impossible Floyd | angles through a square-edged canal before cascading downward from a Floyd | minaret to begin the process anew. (Unlike your Giger, though, this Floyd | isn't the original.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "watch star wars" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH STAR WARS Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x set, desk and bed" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SET, DESK AND BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x set" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SET Floyd | Floyd | The dark, glassy eye of the holoscreen stares vacantly back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get sketch" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SKETCH Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "turn on set" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON SET Floyd | Floyd | The holovision screen lights up as the set clicks on, broadcasting a Floyd | "Jeopardy" match already in progress. Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom", "Lisa", and "Brian". Tom currently has Floyd | $1400, Lisa's score is $1200, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | "What is Planck's constant?" asks Lisa. Floyd | Floyd | "Correct," states Alex. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If you really want to sleep, you gotta use your own bed, I think." | |
| smartgenes says, "i just thought i would insult my work colleagues" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll take interactive fiction for 400." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Currently the CEO of the BranMuffin World Conglomerate, she was the Floyd | original editor of XYZZYnews." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "For what it's worth, they're patiently waiting for you to re-enter the vr suit and sphere -- when you're ready, of course. You can explore as much as you like." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Tom taps his buzzer. "Who is Eileen Mullin?" Floyd | Floyd | Alex's head nods (an amusing sight when it's not attached to a body). Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "is Eileen Mullin a real IF-er" | |
| Zach has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Tom glances briefly at the board before deciding on, "Interactive Floyd | fiction for 600, Alex." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, she was the original editor of XYZZYnews." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and host of the XYZZY Awards also." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a power X-Acto knife, a Floyd | gelstrip and an antitoxin caplet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x gurney" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | A flat metal stretcher with wheels attached. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get knife, caplet and gelstrip" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 4
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET KNIFE, CAPLET AND GELSTRIP
Floyd |
Floyd | power X-Acto knife: Taken.
Floyd | antitoxin caplet: Taken.
Floyd | gelstrip: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x bulb" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X BULB Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, Cynthia's door, Justy's door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "metal" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > METAL Floyd | Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin and an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about your desk that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pillow that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "why he didn't call the metal door 'your door', I have no idea." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x giger" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X GIGER Floyd | Floyd | It's "The Crucified Serpent", one of Giger's earlier works (1975), Floyd | depicting an enormous metallic T-bar on which is draped a large snake Floyd | with a face vaguely similar to that of Christ. Wisps of mist billow Floyd | out from behind the crucifix, illuminated by lights angling upward Floyd | from short black cylinders. Floyd | Floyd | Odd, this. You can't seem to recall any details of the auction. In Floyd | fact, you don't remember buying it at all. A mental doubt surfaces as Floyd | to whether or not it's really the original. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "well, so far it seems we are not quite at home" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x plasterboard" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLASTERBOARD Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | It's not plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the electric violin) Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "play it" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY IT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the bow) Floyd | (turning the amplifier on) Floyd | Tucking one end of the instrument firmly under your chin, its neck Floyd | held firmly in your right hand, you run the bow in your left expertly Floyd | over the strings. With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from Floyd | the instrument a sonorous croon that manifests itself as Faure's Floyd | Requiem. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Dragging the amplifier down the stairs will damage it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop it, of course" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 4
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP IT, OF COURSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "just drop it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > JUST DROP IT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP IT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Your hands are full. You can't pick up anything more until you drop Floyd | something else first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see inside, since it is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get lightstick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | (It's cold to the touch.) Your hands are full. You can't pick up Floyd | anything more until you drop something else first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a bow, a hypodermic syringe, a gelstrip, an antitoxin Floyd | caplet, a power X-Acto knife and a three-hole punch. You are wearing a Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop bow" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP BOW Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get light" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | (It's cold to the touch.) Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x fingerwatch" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINGERWATCH Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "4435". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x gelstrip" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | A thick strip of gelatinised gauze, laced with antibiotics and Floyd | blood-clotting agents, all of which have really long medical names, Floyd | like "protoprocoaguloeolytothromboplastinol". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR IT Floyd | Floyd | You need to peel it open first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x caplet" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAPLET Floyd | Floyd | A small white caplet with a red band around the centre. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x punch" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X PUNCH Floyd | Floyd | A page-length three-hole punch, used to punch three holes (hence the Floyd | name) in pages to be added to the Project binder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get that" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET THAT Floyd | Floyd | (the bow) Floyd | Your hands are full. You can't pick up anything more until you drop Floyd | something else first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop punch" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator and freezer) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | Darkness, noun. An absence of light to see by. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x lightstick" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | Clear liquid sealed in a vial of pale green plastic, capped at one Floyd | end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open cap" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CAP Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "shake lightstick" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | You give the lightstick a vigorous shake. A very faint glow emanates, Floyd | then fades almost immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "shake lightstick" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | You give the lightstick a vigorous shake. A very faint glow emanates, Floyd | then fades almost immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "set alarm" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > SET ALARM Floyd | Floyd | You set the alarm on the watch for about a quarter-chron from now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (the technician's jumpsuit) Floyd | You're already wearing that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 9 in D Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. Floyd | Floyd | "You must've overlooked something last time. Try playing through it Floyd | differently this run. We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, I don't think we ever figured out 'set alarm' on the watch before." | |
| smartgenes says, "it seemed obvious to me, i mean we don't want to get stuck believing we're a fish" | ||
| DavidW asks, "We can't, I don't think. We can still pull the lever, no?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "i would have thought so too" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You swallow up a mouthful of the gravel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "still got a score of nil points" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go right" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GO RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear vr" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Emperor Floyd | Concerto, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. Floyd | Floyd | "You must've overlooked something last time. Try playing through it Floyd | differently this run. We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | > EAT GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You swallow up a mouthful of the gravel. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus is closing in on you fast! Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | DELUSIONS is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x polyps" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X POLYPS Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x tentacles" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X TENTACLES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go left" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GO LEFT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | A faint buzzing sends the pricks of a million tiny needles coursing Floyd | through your right index finger and up your arm. After a few seconds, Floyd | the sensation passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | There are two holes here. You'll have to specify which one you want to Floyd | enter. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x beams" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X BEAMS Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You have a mouthful of gravel. Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, as a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x opening" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X OPENING Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "hmm.. what then" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat sand" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT SAND Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat kelp" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT KELP Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "chew gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > CHEW GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat algar" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT ALGAR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat algae" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT ALGAE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, still in pursuit, attempts to squeeze into the narrow Floyd | grotto. As its pointed snout passes across the threshold, a school of Floyd | tiny fish is released! They attempt to scatter away, but many are Floyd | pushed back into the grotto by the shark's advance. Soon the shark Floyd | itself has become trapped in the grotto, but makes no effort to Floyd | extricate itself, its attention still focused solely on you. Floyd | Floyd | More tiny fish are generated as the shark's presence in the opening Floyd | triggers the event over and over again, its bulk trapping them in the Floyd | grotto with you. The space around you becomes so tightly packed that Floyd | it grows difficult to breathe, and still more fish are generated! Floyd | Floyd | In a split-second, a horrible snapping as the world, filled to Floyd | capacity, ruptures, oozing pure data in a solid, swirling stream. Floyd | Floyd | Then the onrush of darkness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | "Wow, that was intense!" Justy exclaims. The smile on his face shows Floyd | obvious satisfaction. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's fingers scrutinise the tiny indentations on the printout. Floyd | "Here we go," she says. "Interpreter stack overflow on event #69105, Floyd | releasing the school. Too many dynamic creations." Floyd | Floyd | "Never considered that," says Justy, shaking his head before facing Floyd | you. "Well, I guess that's why we debug. Gimme me about half a chron Floyd | or so to fix it. Take a break, you've earned it!" Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | 4
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "congrats" | |
| smartgenes says, "well, finally on the scoreboard" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x bench" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X BENCH Floyd | Floyd | The lab bench has a single drawer, which is closed. On the lab bench Floyd | you see the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation, an Floyd | ergonomic mouse and a monitor. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You open the drawer, revealing a tool belt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get belt" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BELT Floyd | Floyd | Your hands are full. You can't pick up anything more until you drop Floyd | something else first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a cold slice of pizza, a lightstick, a hypodermic Floyd | syringe, a gelstrip, an antitoxin caplet and a power X-Acto knife. You Floyd | are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I don't remember this belt." | |
| DavidW says, "( I don't remember the *drawer* )" | ||
| smartgenes says, "ah so though we dropped them on the bench, we already picked them up again" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x belt" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X BELT Floyd | Floyd | A long, wide strap of cracked leather, adorned with a number of hooks, Floyd | loops, and clips to hold things. The metal buckle bears the likeness Floyd | of the Project logo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get all excelpt pizza" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL EXCELPT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get all except pizza" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL EXCEPT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's door: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Justy: I don't suppose Justy would care for that. Floyd | lab bench: That's fixed in place. Floyd | the Sphere: That's fixed in place. Floyd | metal door: That's hardly portable. Floyd | amplifier: It's pretty heavy. You'd have to drop everything you're Floyd | carrying before you could lift it. (It does have casters attached to Floyd | the underside, though.) Floyd | electric violin: You unplug the electric violin and pick it up. Floyd | Justy's door: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | Waves of dizziness and nausea splash over you. It would be advisable Floyd | to take your medication soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose wearing the belt increases our carrying capacity." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop pizza" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get belt" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BELT Floyd | Floyd | Your hands are full. You can't pick up anything more until you drop Floyd | something else first. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "also, medication warning" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop violin" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get belt" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BELT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR IT Floyd | Floyd | You strap on the tool belt. Floyd | Floyd | You stagger about, temporarily forgetting where you are. Memories and Floyd | thoughts flicker in and out of the encroaching fog. One in particular Floyd | is quite urgent, but you seem unable to grasp it. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "oh i see" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "swallow caplet" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SWALLOW CAPLET Floyd | Floyd | It's not a good idea to take medicine you don't need. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "oh, that was nice of it, in the old days, i would have just died taking the wrong medication" | |
| DavidW says, "This is from the old days." | ||
| smartgenes says, "well, the older old days.. the 80s" | ||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a lightstick, a hypodermic syringe, a gelstrip, an Floyd | antitoxin caplet and a power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a tool Floyd | belt, a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "peel gelstrip" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PEEL GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | You peel open the gelstrip. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR IT Floyd | Floyd | You're not injured anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "use syringe" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > USE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The gelstrip is a high-tech Band-Aid." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "insert syringe in hand" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > INSERT SYRINGE IN HAND Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | Amid fleeting consciousness, you sink to the floor, retching Floyd | violently, your body convulsing spasmodically... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake to find Justy's concerned face hovering over you. Floyd | Floyd | "Jesus, you scared the hell out of me! You're lucky I heard the Floyd | commotion and managed to get Dr Shimada in time for a shot of Floyd | glucagon, or you wouldn't have made it. Be more careful next time." Floyd | Floyd | He turns to go, adding, "Take it easy for awhile, you hear? When Floyd | you've recovered a bit, the fish VR is ready for the next run." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put syringe in arm" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SYRINGE IN ARM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | The hairsbreadth point gleams menacingly. You are certain now that its Floyd | contents were not insulin. What, then? And why the need for the shots? Floyd | Jesus Christ, what did they DO to you?! Floyd | Floyd | Amid fleeting consciousness, you sink to the floor, retching Floyd | violently, your body convulsing spasmodically... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake to find Justy's concerned face hovering over you. Floyd | Floyd | "Jesus, you scared the hell out of me! You're lucky I heard the Floyd | commotion and managed to get Dr Shimada in time for a shot of Floyd | glucagon, or you wouldn't have made it. Be more careful next time." Floyd | Floyd | He turns to go, adding, "Take it easy for awhile, you hear? When Floyd | you've recovered a bit, the fish VR is ready for the next run." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "inject me with syringe, is what you're trying for, I think" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "inject me with syringe" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > INJECT ME WITH SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to inject yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "inject syringe" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > INJECT SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Gingerly you push the tiny point of the syringe through your skin, Floyd | eliciting a faint pop, and into the thick vein on the inside of your Floyd | right elbow joint. A press of the needle's switch, and the insulin Floyd | flows away in your bloodstream. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "thanks" | |
| DavidW says, "Some items like syringes seem to fall outside the standard IF verb set." | ||
| smartgenes says, "i almost tried SYRINGE SYRINGE" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think Syringe Syringe is headlining for Duran Duran." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "seek counselling" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SEEK COUNSELLING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada prefers if you knock first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk is Dr Shimada's cellular phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask shimada about syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK SHIMADA ABOUT SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "steal phone" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > STEAL PHONE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "scream at shimada" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SCREAM AT SHIMADA Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to scream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sit on desk" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "say hello" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SAY HELLO Floyd | Floyd | (to Dr Shimada) Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "shimada, follow me" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | 5
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHIMADA, FOLLOW ME
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, a cold slice of pizza, an Floyd | amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "follow cable" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > FOLLOW CABLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "enter tank" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER TANK Floyd | Floyd | A rather strange request. You're not an android... are you? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "maybe" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > MAYBE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "how to keep that light lighted.. or litten or whatever" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear lighttick" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR LIGHTTICK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear lighstick" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR LIGHSTICK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear light" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "why not" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > WHY NOT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a lightstick, a hypodermic syringe, a gelstrip, an Floyd | antitoxin caplet and a power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a tool Floyd | belt, a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x knife" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | A round-handled electrical cutting tool with a sharp, vibrating (and Floyd | replaceable) blade. It's powered by its own internal fusion cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove painting" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the painting by H.R. Giger) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Now you remember why you hung it here in the first place: There's a Floyd | large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X NICHE Floyd | Floyd | A square depression, roughly fifteen centimetres to a side and ten Floyd | deep, carved into the wall in a way that is not aesthetically pleasing Floyd | in the least (which is why you hung the painting over it). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cut niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT NICHE Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to cut the niche with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cut plasterboard with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PLASTERBOARD WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN NICHE Floyd | Floyd | The niche is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cut north wall with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT NORTH WALL WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "feel north wall" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > FEEL NORTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get into the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cut pillow with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PILLOW WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go alcove" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GO ALCOVE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Should there be something 15 cm by 15 cm by 10 cm put into the niche?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i guess i should examine every thing i own to see what is 15x15x10" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pull shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You rattle the shelves slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "shake shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You rattle the shelves slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit shelf with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT SHELF WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You doubt the shelves would support you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit shelf with painting" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT SHELF WITH PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think there's something we can stand on. The amp, maybe? I don't quite remember." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, a cold slice of pizza, an Floyd | amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, this should do it," says Justy, glancing up at you. "Anytime Floyd | you're ready, we can have another go at it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get amp" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GET AMP Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty heavy. You'd have to drop everything you're carrying Floyd | before you could lift it. (It does have casters attached to the Floyd | underside, though.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop painting" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get amp" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GET AMP Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty heavy. You'd have to drop everything you're carrying Floyd | before you could lift it. (It does have casters attached to the Floyd | underside, though.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "try pushing it" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "push amp se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMP SE Floyd | Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "push amp into alcove" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMP INTO ALCOVE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push amp ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMP NE Floyd | Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "push amp ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMP NE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "stand on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB AMP Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB AMP Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "stand on amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON AMP Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, it was something else then." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kick amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > KICK AMP Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a lightstick, a hypodermic syringe, a gelstrip, an Floyd | antitoxin caplet and a power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a tool Floyd | belt, a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE SHELF Floyd | Floyd | (first taking plywood shelves) Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | A round-handled electrical cutting tool with a sharp, vibrating (and Floyd | replaceable) blade. It's powered by its own internal fusion cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, an electric violin, a cold Floyd | slice of pizza and a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x stand" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAND Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the IV stand that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get gurney" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GET GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | Why not just push it in the desired direction? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "push gurney north" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH GURNEY NORTH Floyd | Floyd | A loose wheel rattles as you push the gurney along. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, an electric violin, a cold Floyd | slice of pizza and a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "push gurney se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH GURNEY SE Floyd | Floyd | A loose wheel rattles as you push the gurney along. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb gurney" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "lay gurney against alcove" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > LAY GURNEY AGAINST ALCOVE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, an electric violin, a cold Floyd | slice of pizza and a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a lightstick, a hypodermic syringe, a gelstrip, an Floyd | antitoxin caplet and a power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a tool Floyd | belt, a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get violin" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > GET VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney and an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a three-hole punch, a bow, a combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven (which is closed and empty) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get bow" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > GET BOW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, a metal gurney and an amplifier Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit shelf with bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT SHELF WITH BOW Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "examine shelf with bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > EXAMINE SHELF WITH BOW Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "reach shelf with bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > REACH SHELF WITH BOW Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "throw bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > THROW BOW Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You doubt the shelves would support you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pull top shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL TOP SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pull shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You rattle the shelves slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cut shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT SHELF Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to cut plywood shelves with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pull shelf strongly" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL SHELF STRONGLY Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to pull plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search shelf with bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 | DavidW asks, "er, did you try getting onto the gurney?" | |
Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SHELF WITH BOW Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to search plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "ho hum" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "poke shelf with bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > POKE SHELF WITH BOW Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on gurney" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, a metal gurney and an amplifier Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "stand on gurney" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on the gurney. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get up, crazy boy" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > GET UP, CRAZY BOY Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin, a metal gurney and an amplifier Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "stand on amplifier" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "push gurney ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH GURNEY NE Floyd | Floyd | A loose wheel rattles as you push the gurney along. Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "if we push the gurney and then get on it...?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get on gurney" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ON GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP ALL Floyd | Floyd | power X-Acto knife: Dropped. Floyd | antitoxin caplet: Dropped. Floyd | gelstrip: Dropped. Floyd | hypodermic syringe: Dropped. Floyd | lightstick: Dropped. Floyd | bow: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get gurney" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > GET GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "push gurney sw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH GURNEY SW Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This alcove is coded weirdly." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an electric violin and an amplifier Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get gurney" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > GET GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | Why not just push it in the desired direction? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a bow, a lightstick, a hypodermic Floyd | syringe, a gelstrip, an antitoxin caplet, a power X-Acto knife and Floyd | plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | plywood shelves: That's fixed in place. Floyd | power X-Acto knife: Taken. Floyd | antitoxin caplet: Taken. Floyd | gelstrip: Taken. Floyd | hypodermic syringe: Taken. Floyd | lightstick: Taken. Floyd | bow: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think when we pushed something ne, it claims to move it, but doesn't -- but WE move ne." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an electric violin and an amplifier Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up giger in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP GIGER IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look p vr in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK P VR IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up vr in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP VR IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, virtual reality, VR suit, VR viruses or VR Floyd | specification? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "virtual reality" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > VIRTUAL REALITY Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | A Brief History of Virtual Reality Floyd | Floyd | The concept of virtual reality is generally attributed to author Floyd | William Gibson, but it was Jaron Lanier of VPL Research (now part of Floyd | the BranMuffin World Conglomerate) who first coined the term "virtual Floyd | reality". Floyd | Floyd | Early VR systems were used in CAD, medical and scientific research, Floyd | robotics, and the training of pilots, but their most popular use has Floyd | always been entertainment. The first VRs required users to don large, Floyd | bulky goggles equipped with tiny monitors for each eye to enter a Floyd | world of crude polygon graphics. Visual input and output equipment was Floyd | limited to goggles, gloves and waist sensors. Floyd | Floyd | The invention of full-body suits, equipped with millions of tiny Floyd | sensors, came about in the 1990s, through the use of fiber-optics and Floyd | holographic imagery. VR hit home computers in the mid-1990s with the Floyd | advent of VRML, a "markup language" that could be read by various Floyd | "browsers" or "interpreters". Often these programs were built into Floyd | headsets and gloves that could be connected to a computer via an Floyd | adapter card. What is now called the First Generation of VR came to a Floyd | halt when the viruses began to appear. Today, the Second Generation of Floyd | VR is nearing birth, with full virtual sensory reality just around the Floyd | corner. The Corporation is dedicated to protecting the integrity of Floyd | this new technology through meticulous security measures, in order to Floyd | avoid the fatal flaws of the First Generation of VR. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: VR Specification, VR Viruses Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up corporation in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CORPORATION IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up vr viruses in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP VR VIRUSES IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Rather than simply crashing systems or corrupting files, the creators Floyd | of early VR viruses took a more sinister purpose: By manipulating the Floyd | operation of VR hardware, the viruses were able to produce incredibly Floyd | bright lights and loud, high-pitched sounds that could actually blind Floyd | or deafen people due to the equipment's close proximity to the sensory Floyd | organs. Fear of this uncorrectable damage to persons instilled fear in Floyd | the technology, ultimately pushing it by the wayside. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "so now we know why cynthia is blind" | |
| DavidW says, "oh. I never considered that." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up vr specification in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP VR SPECIFICATION IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The storage structure of a sensory VR is modelled after an early Floyd | world-building technique developed in the early 1980s, now forgotten. Floyd | Objects, their properties and attributes, and the sim's functions and Floyd | global variables are all stored in a specific format in order to Floyd | ensure compliance with all VR systems. Floyd | Floyd | It is important to note that only those aspects directly pertaining to Floyd | the behaviour of the VR world are stored here. Details of the Floyd | presentation of such worlds are invoked in the stored VR, but undergo Floyd | actual execution in a separate program, called an "interpreter". As Floyd | various systems are developed to make use of sensory VR, this Floyd | standardisation will permit fundamentally different sensors, central Floyd | processors, etc. to invoke the same virtual world, with no need for Floyd | specialised versions. Floyd | Floyd | The exact storage format is detailed as follows: Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | At this point, Justy's docs launch into a long, dull description of a Floyd | stored VR, ridiculously simplified for the Executives: Floyd | Floyd | "The computer sees the stored reality as a series of ones and Floyd | zeroes..." Floyd | Floyd | This continues for approximately 100 pages, but, lacking both the time Floyd | and the patience, you stop reading. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up jaron lanier" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP JARON LANIER Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look up vrml" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP VRML Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "shake light" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You give the lightstick a vigorous shake. A very faint glow emanates, Floyd | then fades almost immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X STICK Floyd | Floyd | Clear liquid sealed in a vial of pale green plastic, capped at one Floyd | end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cut stick with knife" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT STICK WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Yes, I suppose you could, but the liquid would just spill all over and Floyd | make a mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb racks" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB RACKS Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x cray" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X CRAY Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x printer" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTER Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x terminal" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | A twentieth-century user would have called this a "personal computer" Floyd | or "PC", although the elimination of the "lone programmer" concept has Floyd | since made that acronym outdated. Floyd | Floyd | It's an 8-gigahertz multimedia package with a 16-terabyte hard drive, Floyd | 12 gigs of RAM, and a 96-megabyte cache. The CPU case is Floyd | disproportionately tiny next to the keyboard and monitor, larger only Floyd | out of human necessity. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada ordered this system some time ago, when increased Floyd | processing speed became necessary if the Project's deadlines were to Floyd | be met. It arrived less than a week ago, and it's already obsolete. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "touch justy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hit justy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd ] 552 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Thou shalt not kill. Floyd ] Floyd ] -- God Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > HIT JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | Your sense of right and wrong refuses to permit this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "say hello to justy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SAY HELLO TO JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "shake justy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | Shake it, baby! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I seem to remember now... there's probably something in-game that says, but try freezing the glowstick to make it last longer." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere is a human-sized anti-gravity gyroscope, encased in Floyd | soundproof glass. VR sensors connect to status monitors, the lab Floyd | terminal and the mainframe supercomputer in the next room by a thick Floyd | bundle of coaxial cables. A fail-safe lever protrudes at an angle from Floyd | one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x workstation" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X WORKSTATION Floyd | Floyd | A twentieth-century user would have called this a "personal computer" Floyd | or "PC", although the elimination of the "lone programmer" concept has Floyd | since made that acronym outdated. Floyd | Floyd | It's an 8-gigahertz multimedia package with a 16-terabyte hard drive, Floyd | 12 gigs of RAM, and a 96-megabyte cache. The CPU case is Floyd | disproportionately tiny next to the keyboard and monitor, larger only Floyd | out of human necessity. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada ordered this system some time ago, when increased Floyd | processing speed became necessary if the Project's deadlines were to Floyd | be met. It arrived less than a week ago, and it's already obsolete. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | Justy created this graphical interface to suit the Project, replacing Floyd | the hopelessly outdated "Windows 2000" O/S which came pre-installed. Floyd | Floyd | The desktop currently displays a mouse cursor, a "Launch" icon, a Floyd | "Configure" icon, a "Report" icon, a "Debug" icon, a "System" icon and Floyd | a "Flush" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "select configure icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SELECT CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "use mouse" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > USE MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move mouse" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | (the ergonomic mouse) Floyd | The mouse cursor glides in a graceful arc across the screen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move mouse to configure icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE MOUSE TO CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | (the ergonomic mouse to the "Configure" icon) Floyd | The mouse cursor glides in a graceful arc across the screen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "double click configure" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE CLICK CONFIGURE Floyd | Floyd | You can't click that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press configure" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS CONFIGURE Floyd | Floyd | It's not a touch-sensitive screen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x mouse" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | (the ergonomic mouse) Floyd | A standard white two-button ergonomic input device. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press left mouse button" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS LEFT MOUSE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | [You don't "push" a mouse button, you "click" or "double-click" it.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "double click mouse button" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE CLICK MOUSE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the left mouse button or the right mouse button? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "left" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT Floyd | Floyd | The mouse emits a pair of sharp, satisfying clicks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "double-click with a hyphen" | |
| smartgenes says, "idon't think it matters" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | Justy created this graphical interface to suit the Project, replacing Floyd | the hopelessly outdated "Windows 2000" O/S which came pre-installed. Floyd | Floyd | The desktop currently displays a mouse cursor, a "Launch" icon, a Floyd | "Configure" icon, a "Report" icon, a "Debug" icon, a "System" icon and Floyd | a "Flush" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "double-click configure" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | 6
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOUBLE-CLICK CONFIGURE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't click that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "double-click left mouse on configure" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | 6
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOUBLE-CLICK LEFT MOUSE ON CONFIGURE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| smartgenes says, "hmm strange that that command work" | |
| DavidW says, "There are some guess-the-syntax issues with the game, I guess." | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move mouse to report icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE MOUSE TO REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | (the ergonomic mouse to the "Report" icon) Floyd | The mouse cursor glides in a graceful arc across the screen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "double click left mouse on report" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE CLICK LEFT MOUSE ON REPORT Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "double click report icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > DOUBLE CLICK REPORT ICON Floyd | Floyd | You can't click that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think, as long as Justy's here, we can't really use this monitor." | |
| smartgenes asks, "shall we syringe justy in a stroke of evil genius?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we can." | ||
| smartgenes asks, "just a joke.. do you want to drive now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no, I'm good." | ||
| smartgenes says, "that freezer idea sounds good, jst shame we didnt see the clue" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a three-hole punch, a combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven (which is closed and empty) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put light in freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LIGHT IN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Alas, it is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | You open the freezer part of the combination refrigerator/freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "put light in freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LIGHT IN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | You put the lightstick into the freezer part of the combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm thinking I need to start moving more of my stuff out of my room soon. I don't have too many days to do it." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes asks, "moving house?" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move things for davidw" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE THINGS FOR DAVIDW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "close freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | You close the freezer part of the combination refrigerator/freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "turn on freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X TONGS Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pair of kitchen tongs that you didn't Floyd | already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about bug" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT BUG Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about vr" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT VR Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "tell cynthia to go take a jump" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL CYNTHIA TO GO TAKE A JUMP Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Justy's Quarters Floyd | Justy's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only a Floyd | bed, desk, and a few of Justy's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall is completely taken up Justy's film library. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging nearby is a framed sketch by M.C. Escher. Floyd | Floyd | The holovision set is on, displaying the "technical difficulties" Floyd | still frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "watch" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to watch? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "holovision" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > HOLOVISION Floyd | Floyd | The cute little "Technical Difficulties" still frame shows a Floyd | distraught cameraman hopelessly tangled in a mess of cables. A cute Floyd | little bouncy tune jingles in the background. (It would seem that no Floyd | one can yet recall the name of that ex-football star.) Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "gettin' tired" | |
| Zach arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "yeah, me too" | |
| DavidW says, "(even though you're doing the heavy lifting today)" | ||
| smartgenes asks, "can we re-enter vr somewhere else?" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get star wars" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STAR WARS Floyd | Floyd | Leave Justy's things alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove escher" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE ESCHER Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the sketch by M.C. Escher) Floyd | There's nothing behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop sketch" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP SKETCH Floyd | Floyd | Already on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand and a medical cabinet (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove bulb" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE BULB Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move stand n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE STAND N Floyd | Floyd | You push the IV stand along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "move it se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE IT SE Floyd | Floyd | You push the IV stand along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an electric violin and an amplifier Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "stand on stand" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON STAND Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop stand" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP STAND Floyd | Floyd | Already on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb onto stand" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB ONTO STAND Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a bow, a hypodermic syringe, a gelstrip, an antitoxin Floyd | caplet and a power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a tool belt, a Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb stand" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB STAND Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x jumpsuit" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUMPSUIT Floyd | Floyd | A standard-issue grey Project uniform, loose-fitting and comfortable, Floyd | emblazoned with the Project logo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "press logo" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove logo" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS LOGO Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE LOGO Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remove jumpsuit" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE JUMPSUIT Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, you seem to have developed a sense of modesty, which Floyd | serves to prevent you from doing that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x washbasin" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X WASHBASIN Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x rectangle" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X TOILET Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "piss" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PISS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "feel rectangle" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > FEEL RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wash hands" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > WASH HANDS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x hands" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X HANDS Floyd | Floyd | Well, you've got two of 'em. Five fingers each. Nothing extraordinary Floyd | about that. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | your hands, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x cables" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a three-hole punch, a combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven (which is closed and empty) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get light" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > GET LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | (It's cold to the touch.) Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the freezer) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | Clear liquid sealed in a vial of pale green plastic, capped at one Floyd | end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "shake it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You give the lightstick a vigorous shake. A very faint glow emanates, Floyd | then fades almost immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "i'm out of ideas" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a lightstick, a bow, a hypodermic syringe, a Floyd | gelstrip, an antitoxin caplet and a power X-Acto knife. You are Floyd | wearing a tool belt, a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x watch" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X WATCH Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "7362". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, feel free to save and stop." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | 7
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| smartgenes says, "wonder what we're missing" | |
| DavidW asks, "you mean, what's the trigger for the next game event?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "yeh" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear suit" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (the technician's jumpsuit) Floyd | You're already wearing that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Emperor Floyd | Concerto, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. Floyd | Floyd | "A quick play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Floyd | Sometimes you get interpreter crashes after a major memory Floyd | reallocation. Wouldn't do to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh right. We have to test that the bug we found has been fixed." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wat gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WAT GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You swallow up a mouthful of the gravel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "left" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go left" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > GO LEFT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "right" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go right" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > GO RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Gershwin's Rhapsody Floyd | in Blue, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Gershwin's Rhapsody Floyd | in Blue, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A red crab scuttles along the sand below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, kept at bay by the shore's proximity, circles patiently a Floyd | short distance away before moving on. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Don't you have to go east from Anemones?" | |
| Zach has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | smartgenes says, "i thought you did, but,," | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Gershwin's Rhapsody Floyd | in Blue, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | There are two holes here. You'll have to specify which one you want to Floyd | enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go right" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > GO RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Where does the school of fish show up? That's the event to trigger." | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x tentacles" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X TENTACLES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Your progress is halted by porous rock walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the north wall, the south wall, the east wall, the Floyd | west wall, the northeast wall, the southeast wall, the northwest wall Floyd | or the southwest wall? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "north wall" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > NORTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the north wall that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "ok so we could go DOWN now" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Faure's Requiem, Floyd | playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "ah, no its south, where we couldnt go" | |
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, as a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > DROP GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You spit the gravel out again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | A small patch of smooth, rounded, colourful stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, as a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | [Can't "undo" twice in succession. Sorry!] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, as a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "restore cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > RESTORE CF2 Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to restore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "drop gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > DROP GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You spit the gravel out again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "eat algae" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT ALGAE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "shhtuck" | |
| DavidW asks, "Where did the shark come from? How is it summoned?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some pebbles of gravel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Chopin's Nocturne Floyd | no. 1, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some pebbles of gravel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter left hole" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, a cold slice of pizza and a Floyd | lab bench (on which are the Project's technical manual, a computer Floyd | workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Gliere's Russian Floyd | Sailor's Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Goldberg Floyd | Variations, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reality" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X REALITY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reef" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X REEF Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stingray" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X STINGRAY Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | smartgenes says, "stingray, that's different" | |
| DavidW says, "it may be like the crab, an atmospheric message." | ||
| smartgenes says, "yehh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x anemones" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ANEMONES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some pebbles of gravel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock Floyd | surrounding you. You sense an opening in the south wall, and feel Floyd | something deadly lurking there. Below you, a round opening snakes Floyd | downward out of sight, into shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have no idea where the octopus and shark are." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling of the grotto is in your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your progress is halted by porous rock walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "f n" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > F N Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Your progress is halted by porous rock walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I remember we had trouble the first time doing this too. Looking for the trigger and not finding it." | |
| smartgenes says, "i'd wager we're finding it more difficult.." | ||
| Tigrita arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Tigrita asks, "hi guys, floyding?" | smartgenes asks, "is there a point to the gravel?" | |
| smartgenes says, "yes but we're swimming around as a fish in a virtual world, with no purpose" | ||
| smartgenes says (to Floyd), "blow bubbles" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > BLOW BUBBLES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think there's a point to the gravel, no." | |
| Tigrita asks, "Hey, has anyone had these friggin' errors in Inform7 when it finds errors in the Standard Rules?" | DavidW says, "The vr world, I think, is a corporate or commercial toy that we're developing." | |
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] The Secrets of the Universe Floyd ] N = next subject P = Floyd | previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume Floyd | game Floyd ] Floyd ] "Delusions" Help Menu Floyd ] Floyd ] > Some Notes on "Delusions" Floyd ] Acknowledgments Floyd ] Revision History Floyd ] Hints Floyd ] Floyd | | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "return" | ||
Floyd ] The Secrets of the Universe Floyd ] N = next subject P = Floyd | previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume Floyd | game Floyd ] Floyd ] "Delusions" Help Menu Floyd ] Floyd ] > Some Notes on "Delusions" Floyd ] Acknowledgments Floyd ] Revision History Floyd ] Hints Floyd ] | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Notes on "Delusions" Floyd | Floyd | Before you begin playing "Delusions", you should be aware of the Floyd | following: Floyd | Floyd | You may acquire a bit of background information on some of the Floyd | characters in "Delusions" by typing "WHO IS (person)". Floyd | Floyd | "READ" and "EXAMINE" are two different verbs in "Delusions"! Floyd | Floyd | To talk to another character, use the syntax "ASK (character) ABOUT Floyd | (subject)". To look up a topic in a book, "CONSULT (book) about Floyd | (subject)", "LOOK UP (subject) IN (book)", and "READ ABOUT (subject) Floyd | IN (book)" will all work. Floyd | Floyd | The endgame of "Delusions" forces you to make some difficult choices Floyd | and to accept the consequences of your actions. As a result, there are Floyd | some fatal commands that you will NOT be able to take back using Floyd | "UNDO". You have been warned. Floyd | Floyd | "Delusions" is a medium-length game, and will likely take longer to Floyd | complete than the two hours allotted by the competition rules. That Floyd | said, don't judge the game harshly simply because your game time Floyd | exceeds this limit. Floyd | Floyd | To help compensate for its length, "Delusions" comes with a built-in Floyd | hint system (type "HINT" at the prompt, or type "HELP" and then select Floyd | the hint system from the menu that appears). The hints are not Floyd | context-sensitive, so don't look at parts of the game you haven't seen Floyd | yet. If you're tempted to abuse this feature, you may type "HINTS OFF" Floyd | to deactivate the hints, but you won't be able to turn them back on. Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | Zach says, "I remember us getting stuck the first time because we didn't have the gravel." | |
| DavidW says (to Tigrita), "To push a space or return, it's 'push space' and 'push return' respectively, without the 'f' in front of the command." | ||
| smartgenes says, "but what to do with gravel.." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Put it in a hole, I guess?" | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "who is me" | ||
Floyd ] The Secrets of the Universe Floyd ] N = next subject P = Floyd | previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume Floyd | game Floyd ] Floyd ] "Delusions" Help Menu Floyd ] Floyd ] > Some Notes on "Delusions" Floyd ] Acknowledgments Floyd ] Revision History Floyd ] Hints Floyd ] Floyd | | smartgenes says, "hmm the whois might be useful" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says, "..inventory" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "who am i" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WHO AM I Floyd | Floyd | That's for me to know, and you to find out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "inventory" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > INVENTORY Floyd | Floyd | You're not carrying anything. Not surprising, seeing as how you're a Floyd | fish, and fish don't have hands to carry things with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Tigrita says (to floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're a fish. Specifically, a yellow-finned grouper. Quite a Floyd | nice-looking one too, as fish go. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tigrita asks, "so where are we at? puzzles?" | |
| DavidW says, "We're debugging vr software. We found a bug; they think they fixed it, but they want us to re-run the event that caused the error to prove that the bug is fixed." | ||
| Tigrita says, "no, I mean in the game. unless we are a coding fish, i guess." | ||
| DavidW says, "Specifically, that the infinite generation of schools of fish doesn't happen when the shark (or something else) gets stuck in the opening." | ||
| Tigrita says, "ok, i'm lost" | ||
| DavidW says, "This is part of the game. We're not coders, we are a tester." | ||
| smartgenes says, "yes that did sound like tecchy speak, but that is the actual game" | ||
| DavidW says, "When we're not in the fish sim, we're a techie in a lab." | ||
| Tigrita says, "ohh, i see" | ||
| smartgenes says, "we can easily get out the Virtual Reality, but we haven't got much more to work on that solving this fish thing" | ||
| Tigrita asks, "what's the channel for inform questions?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "and we need a creative way to get something down from a shelf" | ||
| Tigrita asks, "where's the shelf?" | ||
| DavidW says, "#inform for Inform 6; #i7 for Inform 7." | ||
| DavidW says, "The shelf is in our room, southeast of the lab proper." | ||
| smartgenes says, "the shelf's in a map of about 11 or 12 rooms so far" | ||
| smartgenes says, "with the lab in the centre of a 3x3 grid" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suggest we pick up the gravel and try dropping it into one of the holes." | ||
| smartgenes says, "there are also rooms east and down but we need a permanent light source, and shaking our lightstick doesn't provide enough light" | ||
| smartgenes says, "inform gave me so many errors i had an embolism once" | ||
| Tigrita asks, "a what?" | ||
| smartgenes says, "ok i must sleep for the night" | ||
| smartgenes says, "good luck any continuers" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf-delusions1" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I have other things I ought to be doing. Thanks for the game." | |
