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maga says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd | a length of string
Floyd | a catapult
Floyd | a squash ball
Floyd | a canvas satchel (which is open)
Floyd | a length of sewing thread
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "tie string to thread"
Floyd | You tie the length of string to the length of sewing thread.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
olethros says, "what's the idea>"
DavidW asks, "Is there a pillow in the room?"
maga says, "you use successively thicker cords until you can hoist a rope up"
maga says, "sadly we have no rope"
lpsmith says, "I think the ball can get the thread over the rafter, and the thread can get the string over the rafter."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rafters"
Floyd | You'd guess that the lowest beams, upon one of which the duck rests,
Floyd | are 30 feet high. They run east-west across the breadth of the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
lpsmith says, "And we need to protect the portrait, I guess."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Great Hall
Floyd | You are in the middle of a magnificent dining hall. The east and west
Floyd | walls stand thirty feet tall; near the top, stained-glass windows
Floyd | bearing coats of arms admit the light of the full moon. Below the
Floyd | windows hang pictures of past Masters of the college and illustrious
Floyd | former alumni, gazing down over the long rows of tables and benches.
Floyd | Shadowy rafters support the peaked roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | Directly above you is a hexagonal skylight set in the middle of the
Floyd | high ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the rafters at the north end of the hall, a duck perches
Floyd | incongruously on a beam.
Floyd |
Floyd | A double length of rope runs up the east wall to the skylight,
Floyd | presumably for opening and closing it. Its bottom ends are tied to the
Floyd | leg of a table just next to the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "I thought we couldn't fire the ball over the rafters, though"
inky says, "oh, skylight"
DavidW asks, "Someone wanted rope?"
inky says (to Floyd), "x skylight"
Floyd | The skylight rises like a little turret from the very centre of the
Floyd | roof, illuminated by the full moon. The rope runs through a ring at the
Floyd | top of the window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
lpsmith says (to Floyd), "untie rope"
Floyd | You untie the length of rope from the table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "take rope"
Floyd | Most of it isn't within your reach at the moment. You'll have to get it
Floyd | down first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "pull rope"