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Text Adventure Playthrough #9: Slouching Towards Bedlam
>jump out window
The window is too high to manipulate.
maybe the valve does something
Yes, maybe it does.
>x magnetophone
A stout metallic box, approximately two feet long by a foot deep. On its side is a small label which reads “Wheatstone/Cooke Aether-Magnetophone Company,” beneath which is a small, closed panel.
Its front contains a simple toggle switch, a button labeled ‘transmit’, and the long graceful curve of a cygnet speaker. At its back is a small valve, connected to a rubber tube which trails along the floor.
> turn valve
> toggle switch
> transmit “Calling CQ”
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
>jump out window
The window is too high to manipulate.
The one in the office at the start?
No possibility to
> open window
> jump out window
?
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
>turn valve
Nothing obvious happens.
>toggle switch
That’s not a verb I recognise.
>transmit calling cq
That’s not a verb I recognise.
>press TRANSMIT
>hold TRANSMIT
>tell magnetophone CALLING CQ
>say CALLING CQ
>CALLING CQ
About Du Monde: I like her style. Maybe it’s because the other characters seem well-meaning, grandiose, but also rather hapless and doomed. Du Monde has intent, she seems to know what she’s doing.
edit: I’m going to read the manual for the magnetophone again..
(at the office)
>jump out window
It’s as simple as that, then—as the thought leaps outward, so does the body. And then all is open air and blowing wind, and the moment stretched - elongated along some impossible axis - one choice out of a million possibilities, outstretched in flight…
If there are words for this…
/(reference|point|metaphor)\
...they have not yet been written.
/(:timeline/date/1919:wbyeates/secondcoming)\
The ground is a living thing now—leaping, spinning—
/(the darkness drops again; but now I know)\
rushing forward in the slow infinity it will take to reach (you?).
/(that twenty centuries of stony sleep)\
Is this penance, then? To die for one’s sins? Or the sins of another?
/(were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,)\
Whose hubris is greater - the sinner or the savior?
/(and what rough beast)\
And the (weaker?) thing within whoever (you? me?) made this choice—
/(its hour come round at last)\
has only enough time to barely begin (voicing?) its disapproval—
/(slouches towards)\
as the ground—
/(bethlehem)\
swiftly flies—
/(?behtlehem?)\
upwards
/(BEDLAM)\
towards
/(to be born?)\
its final home.
***/(finishendcompleteconclude|periodmomentpointspacetime))\***
/(reachedfoundendfinishcomplete|possibleprobablyonlyoneinofmany))\
/(nowfurtheryetaheadrelease-APPENDIX-A-availableaccessableopen))\.
/(?? RESTARTperiodfirstrevisit ?? RESTOREbackrecallrelease ?? UNDObackreverseunmake ?? APPENDIXfurtherjumpyet ?? QUITleaveenddone ??))\
Is that the best possible ending, since it seems the spread of the infection is stopped?
Well that was anticlimactic for something that should have ended the infection altogether…
What does the Appendix command do? We’ve seen Appendix A and B now, are these the alternative endings?
> Appendix
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
Appendix A?
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
>press transmit
The button stays depressed as long as it is pushed, then releases. Nothing more happens.
>hold transmit
With the tiniest *pop* the Amplifier slides from the slot.
>tell magnetophone calling cq
That is not a recognized verb.
>say calling cq
(to yourself)
You talk to yourself a while.
>calling cq
That’s not a verb I recognise.
Well that was anticlimactic for something that should have ended the infection altogether…
What does the Appendix command do? We’ve seen Appendix A and B now, are these the alternative endings?
> Appendix
>appendix
That’s not a verb I recognise.
Luhr, you could have shown us Appendix A.
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
>appendix
That’s not a verb I recognise.
I think it only works when we’re at the ending.
I think it only works when we’re at the ending.
So, jump out window again and then
> appendix
or
> appendix a
And showing the diary to Du Monde again and then
> appendix
or
> appendix b
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
I believe the previous Appendix told the ending from the perspective of the infection, or the voices in your mind.
Curious!
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