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Floyd |
Floyd | The lightning-cage sparks faintly for a moment. A storm must be
Floyd | gathering outside; but either it is too distant, or the lightning-trap
Floyd | is too ineffectual, to capture more than a ghost of its power.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Okay."
maga says, "nyet"
Jacqueline says, "Guess we go back to the study for a few minutes."
Gunther says, "also we must fix the lightning trap"
maga says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Gallery
Floyd | The dust of ages -- and of your family for so many generations --
Floyd | clings to crooked stone walls, here in this gallery that twists from
Floyd | southwest to east as it winds through the tower and ends at a stout
Floyd | wooden door. Wider archways open to the north and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A portrait of Lenore, radiant on your wedding day, adorns the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The raven flutters after you, and perches on the portrait.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd | Stone columns, either side of the northwest arch to your study, brace
Floyd | the ceiling, whose upper reaches are lost in darkness that your lamp
Floyd | cannot pierce. The hallway winds deeper into the tower to the
Floyd | northeast; but a faint wisp of draft seeps in from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The raven flutters after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Stone walls, wreathed in shadows and velvet curtains, rise into the
Floyd | gloom overhead. The old oak writing desk -- once your father's, now
Floyd | your own -- is wedged beneath the window lattice, with a velvet couch
Floyd | before it. A low fire smoulders in its ancient hearth. To the
Floyd | southeast, a bust of Pallas sits atop an arch with darkness beyond.
Floyd |
Floyd | The raven follows you through the archway, and roosts on the bust of
Floyd | Pallas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "i"
Jacqueline says, "Man, I wish Nate would write some more great games."
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd | Arts of the Chaldean Magi
Floyd | Principia Caelestium Mysteriorum
Floyd | Inhumanities
Floyd | Adams' Pharmacopia
Floyd | Ex Sanguine Vita
Floyd | a silver key
Floyd | opium resin
Floyd | an opium pipe
Floyd | a peyote button
Floyd | Concerning Immortality
Floyd | an oil-lamp (providing light)
Floyd | a paper sachet (which is open)
Floyd | coca powder
Floyd | a gold ring (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | The raven watches you silently from the bust of Pallas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga asks, "where to start?"
Gunther says, "he's on now but I think he's unaware this is being played"
Jacqueline says, "Phramacopia."
Taleslinger asks, "What else has he written?"
Jacqueline asks (of Gunther), ""oh?"
Taleslinger says, "Inhumanities."
Jacqueline pages Nate.
maga says (to Floyd), "read inhumanities"
Floyd | You hunt feverishly through the pages of Inhumanities, and discover:
Floyd |
Floyd | "The Death of the Messenger: this is how it came to be. The Bright
Floyd | Messenger did travel to the Temple in search of Living Water, but he
Floyd | found neither King nor Queen. When the Weight of the World did press
Floyd | upon him sorely, and after three days and nights he fell into the Pit.
Floyd | This is the Death of the Messenger."
Floyd |
Floyd | The raven screeches discordantly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The curtains billow gently in the draft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Gunther says, "I paged him too. Better @addtoc him, that should get his attention :)"
* Jacqueline has added Nate to the channel.
maga says, "well, *that*'s clear"
maga says, "maybe if we read it when high it will make sense"
Jacqueline asks, "Hm. You mean 'waste' the peyote on it?"
Gunther says, "or you could read the others"
Jacqueline says, "I'm with Gunther."
maga says (to Jacq), "well, I dunno about you, but I don't think there's going to be a party happening here any time soon"
maga says (to Floyd), "read arts"
Floyd | You hunt feverishly through the pages of Arts of the Chaldean Magi, and
Floyd | discover: