Yet another sleep
-
TURN ON MONITOR
LOOK DESK
-
@Xyro said:
TURN ON MONITOR
The monitor has power, but it says "Signal Out Of Range". What a shitty monitor.
@Xyro said:
LOOK DESK
There is a small framed UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS (1 unit) on the desk. Next to it is a SCREWDRIVER (2 units)
-
@dhromed said:
@Xyro said:
LOOK DESK
There is a small framed UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS (1 unit) on the desk. Next to it is a SCREWDRIVER (2 units)
You only have one spot left in your pocket so you should probably just take the picture. Though you may be able to use the screwdriver to take a drawer from the desk and thus gain more space for items.
-
@locallunatic said:
@dhromed said:
@Xyro said:
LOOK DESK
There is a small framed UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS (1 unit) on the desk. Next to it is a SCREWDRIVER (2 units)
You only have one spot left in your pocket so you should probably just take the picture. Though you may be able to use the screwdriver to take a drawer from the desk and thus gain more space for items.
Actually, since Morbs is a black pit of despair, you can probably hold a vast number of items in the picture itself.
-
@Someone You Know said:
@locallunatic said:
Since the photo is also an item, I suggest putting it in itself to create infinitely recursive storage space.@dhromed said:
@Xyro said:
LOOK DESK
There is a small framed UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS (1 unit) on the desk. Next to it is a SCREWDRIVER (2 units)
You only have one spot left in your pocket so you should probably just take the picture. Though you may be able to use the screwdriver to take a drawer from the desk and thus gain more space for items.
Actually, since Morbs is a black pit of despair, you can probably hold a vast number of items in the picture itself.
-
If we get rid of the picture, the room might brighten. I'd like to type in "EAT UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS", but I don't want to lose the game from poison. Hmm... Maybe if we fix the monitor, there will be more light. I wonder if the picture is a computer printout? If it is, maybe we don't want the monitor on. Okay, let me try something...
PUT VGA-TO-DVI CONVERTER MONITOR
I may have to put it on the computer instead, not sure how this works... This may require a screwdriver... If that doesn't work, we can try disassembling random things, like the drawer as locallunatic said.
-
@Xyro said:
PUT VGA-TO-DVI CONVERTER MONITOR
Under the watchful eye of UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS, you crouch behind the desk and successfully attach the converter to the loose vga cable coming from the monitor.
Wow. There's no dust here at all.
-
:( I'm scared.
LOOK BEHIND YOU
-
@Xyro said:
LOOK BEHIND YOU
There is nothing but the drip drip drip.
Wait.
The far wall, not quite lit by the dim bulb, has a strange texture.
-
TAKE SCREWDRIVER
EQUIP SCREWDRIVER
-
@Xyro said:
TAKE SCREWDRIVER
EQUIP SCREWDRIVER
The screwdriver handle feels a little greasy, but you grip it tightly nonetheless. I'm sure its sleek philips head will effortlessly sink into whatever flesh you apply it to. Or screws that you want to undo, obviously.
-
D: why is it greasy? Where has it been? D:
I better continue. I'm hoping if I can get the monitor working, I can see my surroundings better.
PUT VGA-TO-DVI CONVERTER COMPUTER
... without bending over too much, please.
-
@Xyro said:
PUT VGA-TO-DVI CONVERTER COMPUTER
You bend deeply to the floor to the ancient beige PC case standing there and connect the DVI end of the converter into a DVI port. The UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS seems to mock your actions.
-
:(
FLIP OVER UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS
LOOK MONITOR
-
@Xyro said:
FLIP OVER UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS
UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS is now face down on the desk. The room goes dark.
@Xyro said:
LOOK MONITOR
The message "No signal" slowly bounces around the screen in a bright box, shining a very faint bluish light on whatever's in front of the monitor.
-
omgomgomg
STAB WITH SCREWDRIVER
FLIP BACK UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS
LOOK ROOM
-
@Xyro said:
STAB WITH SCREWDRIVER
swish swish
You almost pull a muscle.
@Xyro said:
FLIP BACK UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS
The light returns as it was.
@Xyro said:
LOOK ROOM
It is a damp, dank cellar with grim, concrete walls; slightly mossed over and you can hear a slow drip of water echoing in a shadowy corner. You can make out a desk and a very old computer.
-
LOOK MONITOR
-
@Xyro said:
LOOK MONITOR
The message "No signal" slowly bounces around the screen in a bright box, shining a very faint bluish light on whatever's in front of the monitor.
-
Try turning on the computer.
-
I thought it already was on, because before it was getting "Signal Out Of Range". There must be a button to make it flip between VGA and DVI or something. Although I had hoped that a monitor that supported DVI would handle that automatically.
uhmm..
PRESS BUTTONS ON MONITOR
and just to make sure,
LOOK COMPUTER
-
@Xyro said:
I thought it already was on, because before it was getting "Signal Out Of Range". There must be a button to make it flip between VGA and DVI or something. Although I had hoped that a monitor that supported DVI would handle that automatically.
It doesn't matter. You've already (not?) done something that will prevent victory. I mean, you won't know it until you get to the end. But you're already doomed.
-
OPEN CD TRAY
INSERT CHEESE
-
@jes said:
Ntp is an excellent method for synchronising a collection of services across multiple machines (ensuring the same ordering of events, detecting delayed reporting of events seen via a different path, etc.) is easily implemented using timestamps. Unless your servers are on a network which absolutely must not have internet connectivity _and_ you can not afford, for space, power of budgetary reasons to run a GPS ntp source, then why add inordinate complexity and a multitude of failure modes in trying to have systems to issue sequence numbers.
Obviously, the two systems are connected via a network, so internet connectivity is a non-issue. You just need to have NTP sync the two servers as peers. They don't have to be synced to an internet source; what's important is that they are in sync with each other.
-
@operagost said:
How dare you post on-topic?! Xyro is aboue to be raped by something lurking in the shadows (possibly by morbs' ghost; because he was killed during the unfortunate "farm animal" incident).@jes said:
Ntp is an excellent method for synchronising a collection of services across multiple machines (ensuring the same ordering of events, detecting delayed reporting of events seen via a different path, etc.) is easily implemented using timestamps. Unless your servers are on a network which absolutely must not have internet connectivity _and_ you can not afford, for space, power of budgetary reasons to run a GPS ntp source, then why add inordinate complexity and a multitude of failure modes in trying to have systems to issue sequence numbers.
Obviously, the two systems are connected via a network, so internet connectivity is a non-issue. You just need to have NTP sync the two servers as peers. They don't have to be synced to an internet source; what's important is that they are in sync with each other.
-
Oops, I didn't mean to interrupt the text adventure. Carry on.
-
QUIT
Save before quitting? (Y/N)
N
Delete stupid game from forum? (Y/N)
Y
Delete stupid game from everybody unfortunate to have experienced it's memories? (Y/N)
Y
-
@Xyro said:
I thought it already was on, because before it was getting "Signal Out Of Range".
@Xyro said:
PRESS BUTTONS ON MONITOR
The screen menu appears and disappears. You also accidentally change the contrast slightly.
@Xyro said:
LOOK COMPUTER
It's a crappy old 486 case. Beige and lightly stained. It's off.
-
@blakeyrat said:
Delete stupid game from forum? (Y/N)
Y
https://twitter.com/dresdencodak/status/229611473419239426
-
@boomzilla said:
you're already doomed.
:(
@C-Octothorpe said:Xyro is about to be raped by something lurking in the shadows
D:Hey wait, is it a VGA-to-DVI converter or DVI-to-VGA..? The inventory said VGA-to-DVI, but the attaching action said that it put the converter onto the VGA cable of the monitor and plugged it into the DVI port of the computer. Is that backwards?
-
-
@Xyro said:
TURN ON COMPUTER
In a crude display next to the power button, "666" appears.
It then disappears as the computer beeps long and loud and turns off.
It might be your imagination but it's as if MORBIUSWILTERS on his UNSETTLING PICTURE is smiling a little more widely.
-
LOOK ROOM
LOOK DESK...is the monitor bright enough to light up the room? Or, maybe I can just fiddle with the contrast and brightness settings. Wait a second, how on earth does a 486 have a DVI port??? WHERE AM I????
-
If the monitor wasn't displaying anything but the no signal message before you turned on the machine what makes you think it is brightly lit after the machine turns itself off? You may need to do some checking on the insides of the machine to get it working. Or you can see how many ways the adventure has for you to kill yourself with what you have so far.
-
@Xyro said:
LOOK ROOM
It is a damp, dank cellar with grim, concrete walls; slightly mossed over and you can hear a slow drip of water echoing in a shadowy corner. You can make out a desk and a very old computer.
@Xyro said:
LOOK DESK
It is a makeshift but apparently fully functional workstation, just a desk and no drawers or any other storage units. On it there are a monitor, mouse and keyboard present. On the left side is an UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS. It's framed tastefully, and quite small. Underneat the desk is an ugly, worn 486 case. The computer is off.
It is the only thing in the room that's fully visible. All the walls are mostly out of range of the light.
-
@dhromed said:
Fuck this. Something has to die.@Xyro said:
LOOK ROOM
It is a damp, dank cellar with grim, concrete walls; slightly mossed over and you can hear a slow drip of water echoing in a shadowy corner. You can make out a desk and a very old computer.
@Xyro said:
LOOK DESK
It is a makeshift but apparently fully functional workstation, just a desk and no drawers or any other storage units. On it there are a monitor, mouse and keyboard present. On the left side is an UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS. It's framed tastefully, and quite small. Underneat the desk is an ugly, worn 486 case. The computer is off.
It is the only thing in the room that's fully visible. All the walls are mostly out of range of the light.
UP DOWN UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A B A SELECT START
-
@C-Octothorpe said:
UP DOWN UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A B A SELECT START
You do a silly dance, try to start the computer, which beeps violently again and shuts off.
-
PICK UP COMPUTER
-
-
SHAKE COMPUTER
SHAKE COMPUTER
SHAKE COMPUTER
-
@Xyro said:
SHAKE COMPUTER
You suddenly realize that that's a completely stupid idea! You gently place the computer on top of the desk. It moves the UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS.
A wall becomes slightly brighter.
-
There is something in the computer, use the screwdriver to open it up and see what is rattling inside. Also try carrying the picture around to light up the walls.
-
TURN ON VERY OLD COMPUTER
OPEN BROWSER
GO TO http://thedailywtf.com
-
@Mcoder said:
TURN ON VERY OLD COMPUTER
In a crude display next to the power button, "666" appears.
It then disappears as the computer beeps long and loud and turns off.
@Mcoder said:
OPEN BROWSER
Can't do that.
@Mcoder said:
GO TO http://thedailywtf.com
Can't do that.
-
dhromed, stop reading tdwtf and get to making that game.
I'm willing to pay real money for it too, especially if blakeyrat is in it at some point, most likely ranting about UI standards and your shoes not being coordinated with your shirt and pants.
-
CARVE INITIALS INTO DESK WITH SCREWDRIVER
... I want to see if the artifact will persist after I die...
-
@Xyro said:
CARVE INITIALS INTO DESK WITH SCREWDRIVER
Your crude scribbling now sullies the desk.
UNSETTLING PICTURE OF MORBIUSWILTERS seems displeased, but maybe that's just in your head.
-
All right, fine, let's play along for now...
OPEN COMPUTER WITH SCREWDRIVER
-
@Xyro said:
OPEN COMPUTER WITH SCREWDRIVER
You carefully remove the back screws and the cover. You are greeted by a very long flexible PURPLE DILDO that has been crammed in and around the hardware, dislodging some CONNECTORS and jamming a few fans.
The hardware itself looks absolutely pristine and new, as if it was purchased and installed only yesterday.
Note: I hacked some of the resource files so you now have a secret extra inventory slot that will fit an object of 5 units in length. Have fun!
-
Let's all get together and write an LGPL-licensed text game based on TDWTF, and many of the regulars can have "cameos" as NPCs.@Onyx said:
dhromed, stop reading tdwtf and get to making that game.
I'm willing to pay real money for it too, especially if blakeyrat is in it at some point, most likely ranting about UI standards and your shoes not being coordinated with your shirt and pants.
