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Massive Auditorium
This auditorium is an impressive architectural feat: big enough to contain the crowds with ease, yet cozy enough to make everyone feel as though they have a perfect view of the stage. The stage itself is framed by enormous golden pillars to either side (labelled "2012" and "XYZZYs", respectively), and up at the front is a podium decorated with mystic runes inlaid in silver. Spotlights overhead swivel to illuminate the people up on stage and the murals of famous IF scenes on the walls, while the rows of velvet-covered seats all around look cushioned and comfortable. Should you feel compelled to leave the show for some reason, the exit doors are to the west.
You can see: READ THIS PLEASE, a chalkboard listing the XYZZY Award winners
Players: Amber, lpsmith
Visible Exits: west
PerrySimm settles into a chair in the back with a pad of paper and a pencil, ready to capture the ceremony. [peanut-gallery] DoghouseReilly says, "Testing"
coopermchatton arrives from the west.
coopermchatton leaves the auditorium to the west.
playfic arrives from the west.
coopermchatton arrives from the west.
playfic leaves the auditorium to the west.
coopermchatton leaves the auditorium to the west.
Miseri arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "Wonderful to see so much talent in one place."
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "and Tale's here, too!"
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says (to Ellison), "oh be-have!"
[peanut-gallery] Nitku says, "You can't spell talent without tale"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "ha ha"
[peanut-gallery] Tale says (to nitku), "Yay"
Jacqueline arrives from the west.
Bainespal arrives from the west.
metasynthie arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] * metasynthie has joined the channel.
[peanut-gallery] Emily says (to metasynthie), "hi!"
[jumbotron] * Doug has joined the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added VictorGijsbers to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added djfletch to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Jenni to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Porpentine to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Flourish to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Tale to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added coopermchatton to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added eu to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added prevtenet to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Nitku to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added DoghouseReilly to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added playfic to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Felix to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added ASchultz to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added marc to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Miseri to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added J_Chastain to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added jenrexrode to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Amber to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Yuri to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added ghira to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added annabianca to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Deke to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added jojo to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added zzo38 to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Fang to the channel. [peanut-gallery] metasynthie says, "Hello! Came to watch."
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added nothings to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Recchi to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Allen to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added jpt to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added zaphod to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Floyd to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added McMartin to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added katre to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Richie to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added GDorn to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added Dan_Wood to the channel.
[jumbotron] * lpsmith has added metasynthie to the channel.
[jumbotron] lpsmith says, "(This is for later in the ceremony)"
[jumbotron] lpsmith says, "If anyone logs on later, tell 'em to join; I think I got everyone that's on now)"
VictorGijsbers arrives from the west.
Wade arrives from the west.
coopermchatton arrives from the west.
playfic arrives from the west.
[jumbotron] lpsmith says, "(And, right, use #peanut-gallery for general chat)" [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "Hi ferllow peanuts."
HairBrain arrives from the west.
Binder arrives from the west.
Zach arrives from the west.
Doug arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Hi Victor."
maga arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Wade says, "Hi Victor and peanutters"
[peanut-gallery] * JamesPKing has joined the channel.
Nitku arrives from the west.
Tale arrives from the west.
Jenni arrives from the west.
zaphod arrives from the west.
Emily arrives from the west.
Flourish arrives from the west.
Felix arrives from the west.
Doug says, "huh, 'xyzzy' only gets you halfway here"
jacksonmead arrives from the west.
Fang arrives from the west.
zarf arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "I had forgotten that every XYZZY awards ever I get lost on the way to the auditorium"
jojo arrives from the west.
Roger arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "it's some kind of rite"
[peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "ESE."
[peanut-gallery] Roger says, "The herd is always right"
djfletch arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] eu says, "Or xyzzy."
[peanut-gallery] Binder exclaims, "e, s, e, ese!"
[peanut-gallery] Tale says, "I followed you guys."
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "east. south. east."
zarf moves.
JamesPKing arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "yeah, I followed everyone else"
[peanut-gallery] Nitku says, "xyzzy doesn't work"
[peanut-gallery] * playfic has joined the channel.
[peanut-gallery] * jacksonmead has joined the channel.
Grocible arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers exclaims, "ese, rhymes with xyzzy!"
maga hollers, "The ceremony will be beginning in a few moments."
DoghouseReilly arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "I practiced coming here earlier so I wouldn't embarass myself by tripping over something."
jojo exclaims, "Ooh this is exciting!" [peanut-gallery] eu says, "That's how I got here..."
JamesPKing asks, "is this the auditorium?" [peanut-gallery] Wade says, "I logged on a few hours ago and reminded myself how to do everything"
[peanut-gallery] eu says, "Er."
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Wade."
eu arrives from the west.
Fang says, "yes" [peanut-gallery] Doug says, ""hello cleveland!!""
Wade points proudly at himself. [peanut-gallery] * Jenni has joined the channel.
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "hi, Wade!"
jojo says, "Try Looking." [peanut-gallery] eu says, "Turns out, too long away from the mud."
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "There's a mini-map of ifmud's central rooms on ifwiki."
[peanut-gallery] Wade exclaims, "Hi hi!"
Bainespal takes a seat in the second to last row, on the far right side. [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "there should be a sign"
Porpentine arrives from the west.
Porpentine says, "WHOOP" [peanut-gallery] playfic says, "testing, one two"
[peanut-gallery] JamesPKing asks, "and so this is Christmas?"
DavidW arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "Hey Wade, thanks for your kind words about Kerkerkruip. (Assuming there is only one Wade. ;) )"
Flourish asks, "And what have we done?"
Flourish says, "ILAC"
Fang nervously looks around for dogs.
Porpentine says, "kerkereuririrp is sooo good" [peanut-gallery] Binder says (to DavidW), "I actually remembered that from an earlier pointing-at you did and so similarly pointed some people at it earlier (but less early than your pointing that I recalled)"
DavidW asks (of Tale), "well, is it me?"
Gunther arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "I belive it's Wade of Six fame."
[peanut-gallery] Wade says, "Yeah, I know it looks like it could be a bit Maddona-ish of me to just go around calling myself 'Wade'..."
[peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "ok, cig on the red carpet. brb"
Porpentine says, "Porpentine" [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "Yeah, that's the Wade."
Wade nods at Porpentine in agreement re: Kerk.
baf arrives from the west.
zarf arrives from the west.
K-Y arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers exclaims, "Thanks, Porpentine!"
[peanut-gallery] coopermchatton says, "test test"
[peanut-gallery] Bainespal asks, "If you examine stuff, does the action get output to the whole room?"
Porpentine says, "how do i change mushclients colors"
[jumbotron] * ghira has left the channel. [peanut-gallery] Flourish says (to Bainespal), "No."
VictorGijsbers tests the colon command. [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "http://ifwiki.org/index.php/File:Simple_ifmud_map.png shows where the auditorium is in relation to the lounge."
jenrexrode arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Bainespal says, "Ok, thanks."
ASchultz arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "microphone check check one"
[peanut-gallery] maga says (to Porpentine), "ctrl-G gets you to world settings"
[peanut-gallery] Zach asks (of DavidW), "Did you bring presents?"
Wade high fives ASchultz.
jojo noisily eats popcorn with undue haste.
jenrexrode plays it cool.
inky arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] prevtenet says, "I feel like saying something arbitrary just to be part of the experience."
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "There might be some in the bar stool. I forget."
[peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "For whatever reason, using a semicolon to get to my last-used channel is not working for me"
ASchultz high fives Wade back, excited over his own map following skills to get here [peanut-gallery] inky asks, "are you using a mud client that uses semicolon to separate commands?"
Porpentine says, "thanks" [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "good point."
DoghouseReilly says, "test" [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "At least #pea gets to peanut-gallery."
jojo says, "There was a map? I just followed everyone else." [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "back"
Porpentine says, "i'm in peanut gallery, right" [peanut-gallery] Zach says, "You might be able to escape the semi-colon."
Wade says, "Porpentine, you may want to join the peanut gallery channel.""
Jenni says, "Me too. Good thing they weren't walking off a cliff."
lpsmith steps up to the stage, and walks up to the podium.
lpsmith wave! [peanut-gallery] baf exclaims, "NO ONE escapes the semicolon! Bwahahaha!"
Wade says, ""Type @statc #peanut-gallery""
Gunther says, "no, @joinc"
nm walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side.
Porpentine says, "thanks"
Wade says, "oh yeah" [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "reading the chat here, I feel like Tank decoding the Matrix on-the-go"
djfletch wave back
lpsmith exclaims, "Welcome, everyone, to the Annual XYZZY Awards for the Best IF Games of 2012!"
Wade says, "do what gunther said, not me <_<" [peanut-gallery] * ASchultz has joined the channel.
eu claps
Zach claps
DavidW applauds
Binder applauds [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "hi everybody"
Porpentine shrieks
VictorGijsbers says (to Porpentine), "Let me repeat: Thanks, Porpentine! (If you weren't in the channel, you didn't see my previous message.)" [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "One of the best things about the MUD is the feeling of being a hacker in a bad 90s movie."
zaphod applauds
DoghouseReilly applauds [peanut-gallery] nm says, "blonde, brunette ..."
Jenni wolf-whistles
Porpentine exclaims, "no problem vic!"
Tale applauds.
Wade applauds.
jmac walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side.
jenrexrode claps
jojo whistles
Flourish applauds
lpsmith exclaims, "Thanks to everyone for coming! And for writing games, and for playing them!" [peanut-gallery] Fang says (to JamePKing), "real mudders just listen to the hissing in the phone line"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, ">INITIATE VIRUS DOWNLOAD"
[peanut-gallery] inky says, "this is unix, I know this"
lpsmith exclaims, "And especially to everyone who voted!" [peanut-gallery] Bainespal says (to jamespking), "Hi."
[peanut-gallery] * jojo has joined the channel.
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "yeah psshaw the creators"
[peanut-gallery] Roger says, "hunh no Jota"
[peanut-gallery] Tale says, "Hey, one of four!"
[peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "hey baines"
[peanut-gallery] Recchi asks, "Sorry, how do I get to the right room?"
lpsmith says, "We have 13 awards to hand out, so let's get started." [peanut-gallery] Wade exclaims, "Hey James!"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says (to Recchi), "E S E from lounge"
lpsmith exclaims, "First up: the award for Best Supplemental Materials!"
Porpentine asks, "am i in the peanut gallery?"
coopermchatton applauds
Johnny arrives from the west.
lpsmith says, "Victor Gijsbers feels that in the light of last year's awards for Kerkerkruip and Cryptozookeeper, the Awards should discard the two-round first-past-the-post system and be resolved by no-holds-barred death-matches. He therefore submitted this one-act play, submitted for your entertainment. Note that none of the characters are real, even the real characters." [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing asks, "Wade! what time is it there?"
Recchi arrives from the west.
lpsmith says, "(That will probably make more sense in a moment.)"
lpsmith says, "Anybody troubled or traumatised by the presentation of this award should complain to Gijsbers, because it will warm his black, shrivelled heart with the closest sensation it can still feel to joy." [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "It's Sunday?"
lpsmith exclaims, "Without further ado: Malygris, whose well-designed home Kerkerkruip won Best Supplemental Materials 2011. Give it up!" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "I don't think I want it to make more sense."
VictorGijsbers bows. [peanut-gallery] Wade exclaims, "5:05 am, ugh!!!"
Flourish says (to Porpentine), "You have to type #pea before whatever you write to be on Peanut Gallery channel. :)" [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "huh"
Malygris enters, smiling horribly. [peanut-gallery] * Recchi has left the channel.
eu applauds. [peanut-gallery] Flourish exclaims (at Porpentine), "There you go!"
Malygris says, "Thank you! Believe me, this is going to be fun. Anyone not dressed in brownish-red might want to take a few steps away from the stage."
Flourish steps away, quiets down
Binder gives it up.
Malygris exclaims, "Our first nominee is the cover art of the Andromeda games, and it will be represented by Ektor Mastiff!" [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "looks at himself. "Well, damn""
Ektor enters, clad in a space suit and wielding a miniature planet that is about to explode.
DavidW looks at his green outfit. He steps back. [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "hahahahha"
Malygris exclaims, "Willing to risk his life in the name of the Cover Stories competition covers is ... its organiser, maga!" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "yay being dressed in bacon"
magadogg says, "Now hold up a minute, I didn't agree to..."
Malygris says, "Let me hear some applause for this brave man, people! He's not even armed."
playfic goes home.
Fang is entirely naked. Also a dog.
zaphod cheers
VictorGijsbers applauds.
Zach applauds
Jenni claps nervously
Bainespal claps.
eu claps. [peanut-gallery] Gunther asks, "a severed arm?"
Binder applauds wildly.
Tale says, "Give 'em hell, kid"
Jacqueline applauds.
Malygris says, "Our third nominee is the CYPHER website, which will be represented by the infamous Cabrera brothers."
jojo claps enthusiastically.
Carlos_Cabrera enters the stage, waving an implausible gun built into a cyborg arm, and Javier_Cabrera drops from the roof in a ninja outfit.
Wade says (to Porpentine), "You're still not on peanut-gallery. You gotta type @join #peanut-gallery I believe"
Jacqueline claps.
Fang claps somehow [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "infamous is a good word."
[peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "i am in peanut gallery"
[peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "it says i'm here"
DavidW (whispers to Jacqueline), "Where did you get that drink?"
ASchultz emote applauds Ektor, as having just heard Dr Evil sing "One of Us"
Tale asks, "Hey where is the othe brother?"
Malygris exclaims, "And finally, Flourish Klink is here to defend the honour of the Muggle Studies feelies!" [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "yeah, it's all working"
[peanut-gallery] Flourish asks, "how can Porp not be in peanut gallery when zie is talking on it?"
Wade says (to Porpentine), "You can check if you're on it by typing @statc #peanut-gallery"
Flourish waves wand threateningly [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "emote HUGS EMILY"
playfic arrives from the west.
nm waves somethiing and says "Applaudiamus!"
Flourish was not notified ahead of time that there would be duelling involved
Javier_Cabrera exclaims, "None of you weaklings stand a chance against our deadly team of clones!" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "colon to emote."
Binder whistles. "fight! Fight!" [peanut-gallery] Johnny emotes!
Doug applauds! against his will! [peanut-gallery] Porpentine BWAA
Ektor watches in horror as the planet he carries explodes in his hands, sending waves of alpha radiation across the stage. His horror lasts only a fraction of a second, as he is immediately torn to bits.
Gunther says, "prose combat!"
Ektor watches in horror as the planet he carries explodes in his hands, sending waves of alpha radiation across the stage. His horror lasts only a fraction of a second, as he is immediately torn to bits. [peanut-gallery] Fang says (to Johnny), "ew"
Ektor watches in horror as the planet he carries explodes in his hands, sending waves of alpha radiation across the stage. His horror lasts only a fraction of a second, as he is immediately torn to bits.
Flourish exclaims, "Avada Kedavra!"
jenrexrode cheers
zaphod flinches.
magadogg is likewise instantly vaporised.
Tzahnke arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "It's punctuation, Fang."
J_Chastain arrives from the west.
Porpentine weeps
Javier_Cabrera tries to ninja-roll away, but you cannot dodge alpha radiation. He bursts into flames. [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "the explosion so nice it triggered thrice"
Bainespal frowns.
djfletch cheers bloodthirstily
Flourish Apparates off
Fang applauds. [peanut-gallery] metasynthie HUGS Emily to show porp how to do it
Ektor descends on the peanut gallery, covering the audience with very small pieces of himself. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "aww"
[peanut-gallery] Emily hug sandwich
DavidW asks, "How did the planet explode three times? Was that for emphasis?" [peanut-gallery] metasynthie also hugs Emily just to hug Emily.
Binder says (to DavidW), "timey wimey"
Carlos_Cabrera exclaims, "This just shows how good it is to be cyborg! Let me shoot this Harry Potter freak, and the prize will be mine!"
Flourish is very, very confused about what is going on, and ceases her magic use in favor of sitting down in a corner
Gunther says, "it's the... star of the show"
Porpentine hugs metasynthie
Carlos_Cabrera asks, "Do you have any last words, girl?"
Wade says, " That self-immolation is gonna be a tough act to follow"
Flourish...but not before turning Carlos_Cabrera's gun into a bunch of flowers
J_Chastain hugs Porpentine, responsibly.
FlourishK says, "Well, *obviously* Avada Kedavra."
Carlos_Cabrera drops down, dead.
DavidW WOOT
Malygris exclaims, "Well, that's... extraordiarily unbalanced. Pray teach it to me after the ceremony. Anyway, I think it is clear that the winner is: Muggle Studies!" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "I can't tell if this is scripted or not."
Flourish exclaims, "Oh my goodness! Hooray!"
Emily says, "yay!"
Jenni exclaims, "Yay!" [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "NOT BY ME"
Zach says, "Hooray!"
eu applauds!
Flourish asks, "Do I get to make a speech?" [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing exclaims, "cheers!"
DavidW says, "Congrats, Flourish!"
jojo exclaims, "Whoop!"
zaphod cheers!
maga says (to Flourish), "you do"
zarf says, "woot!"
Bainespal claps.
VictorGijsbers applauds.
jenrexrode exclaims, "hooray!"
lpsmith exclaims, "And special thanks to Flourish for unwittingly playing her part perfectly in the one-act!"
djfletch says, "hurrah"
Tale says (to flourish), "Of course"
Gunther asks, "waaaait, did Flourish have a helpful twin there?" [peanut-gallery] maga says (to Johnny), "a bit of both"
Johnny applauds.
playfic leaves the auditorium to the west. [peanut-gallery] inky says, "ha ha"
playfic arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Awesome sauce, you two."
nm hooray [peanut-gallery] Emily says (to anyone trying to read the transcript later), "good luck"
[peanut-gallery] maga says (to Flourish), "aww, we had some awesome Ravenclaw-coloured boxing hand-wraps for your proxy that NEVER GOT USED"
[peanut-gallery] eu says, "Ha."
Flourish says, "Uh... thank you everybody for being so kind to a new IF writer, and for playing Muggle Studies. I wish I had more Special Editions to offer people, but they have all been claimed by various people. So now that it's a XYZZY award winning Special Edition, good luck getting one."
ASchultz applauds belatedly [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "ha"
lpsmith cheers!
Emily says, "woot!"
GDorn walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side.
Miseri claps
Flourish says, "Next time, I will endeavor to spend less time on the feelies and more time on the gameplay. Cheers! And now off to drink the cava NM has provided me IRL."
Gunther puts his on eBay for $10,000
Wade applauds Flourish.
zaphod claps.
Flourish is completely thrilled
Gunther says (to Flourish), "cheers!"
DavidW says, "ooh, IRL drinks"
jenrexrode exclaims, "whoop whoop!"
Binder cheers.
Flourish sits down, weepily
Jacqueline cheers wildly, mostly because she already owns the limited-edition, Xyzzy-award winning feelies.
Ellison walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side.
jmac says, "Yay"
Ellison says, "hooray"
jojo whoops [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "BWAAAA"
lpsmith exclaims, "OK! Next up, the nominees for Best Technological Development! And here to present, the *real* maga!"
Flourish realizes the Muggle Studies site is down, rushes to put it back up
Wade flips Ellison over his shoulder. [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "my tea must be ready by now. I think I'll add a splash of whiskey to it."
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "mmm toddy"
maga clambers onstage
Tale says, "Give 'em hell, kid" [peanut-gallery] Miseri says, "Flourish should flourish that wand more. Dramatics are everything."
jenrexrode exclaims, "yay maga!" [peanut-gallery] jojo says, "That was good."
maga says, "The XYZZYs mostly recognise authors, but IF couldn't exist without the generosity and skill of developers. The Technological Development award recognises the tools that enable and advance IF authorship." [peanut-gallery] nm says, "hey, I bet Winchester's Nightmare would have won a XYZZY if there were this category in 1999"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "I like how she went immediately to the unforgivable curses."
[peanut-gallery] nm says, "er, the previous category, that is"
maga says, "This year, fittingly, all the entries are concerned with putting IF in your browser."
metasynthie gives Dark Porpy to Porpentine. [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks (of nm), "Are there still hardcopies available?"
[peanut-gallery] nm says, "yep"
Jenni says, "It's more likely than you think."
maga asks, "All over the world, cool young kids are asking: what is this crazy new 'Internet' everyone's talking about? How does it work? Can I play and/or author IF on it?" [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "AHHH DARK PORPY"
inky updates the BEST SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS entry on the chalkboard.
Felix listens intently. That's his favorite section.
maga exclaims, "Here are some answers!" [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "interwhatnow"
[peanut-gallery] jojo says, "Flourish doesn't have time for minor hexes."
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "maybe he means gopher"
maga says, "Released within days of one another, Playfic and the Quest 5 web-editor each make it possible to author and play IF without ever having to *download* anything, as if you were some kind of thirteenth-century peasant." [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "Yeah, she did the unforgivable curse even earlier than my pretend Flourish did. I underestimated her evilness."
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "WAIS-IF"
[peanut-gallery] metasynthie says, "If this place had listen & puppet commands I'd make Dark Porpy a horrible parroting doll for you"
maga says, "StoryNexus is a new authoring platform for, as I understand it, web-based narrative games about obliquely flirting with mysterious strangers." [peanut-gallery] jenrexrode says, "haha"
coopermchatton Woo!
Gunther says, "the best kind" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "in the first round, I voted Muggle Studies for Best Setting, too"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says (to metasyn), "try help @emit"
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "yay oblique flirting"
[peanut-gallery] Tale says, "The best kind of flirting"
lpsmith cheers! [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "BWAA XD"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says (to Tale), "GOOMH!"
maga says, "And Vorple for Inform 7 allows z-code games to incorporate all manner of fancy-pants effects with layout, multimedia, and dynamic changes to text, giving them the feel of something both browser-native and professional." [peanut-gallery] Binder prefers obtuse flirting
[peanut-gallery] Porpentine gurgles
[peanut-gallery] metasynthie says (to Fang), "I did!"
maga says, "Before I read the results, I should stress that this was -- once again -- a really strong category again this year, and voting was very evenly spread. So congratulations are due to all of the finalists." [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "At least I didn't use Sectumsempra."
Emily claps for all of them
DavidW says, "yeah. Impressive competition this category." [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Equilateral flirting is where it's at."
[peanut-gallery] Gunther perks up at mention of vorple
Tale claps!
Flourish claps!
eu cheers!
maga says, "However, we do have a winner..."
lpsmith claps for technology!
Jenni cheers for technology
Zach says, "Huzzah for technology!" [peanut-gallery] Ellison streaks across the stage wearing only the words 'SOY ROODYLIB BOMB'
zaphod applauds!
maga opens the envelope [peanut-gallery] djfletch says, "virgule flirting"
Binder holds his breath.
ASchultz applauds the rampant newfangledness
VictorGijsbers says (to Flourish), "Is that worse? I already had to do research for this one. ;)" [peanut-gallery] Gunther asks, "arugula?"
Ellison claps
Wade claps. [peanut-gallery] Tale asks, "But does he open it.. in his browser?"
[peanut-gallery] Fang asks, "envelopes? what devilry is this?"
maga exclaims, "Vorple for Inform 7!"
Fang claps.
Nitku says, "GASP" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "*snicker*"
eu exclaims, "Yay!"
Zach cheers
metasynthie applauds.
Gunther says, "yay new technology!"
Emily says, "yay Vorple!"
DoghouseReilly applauds
zarf says, "yay!"
Tale says, "WOOT"
Binder claps!
Johnny cheers Nitku.
lpsmith exclaims, "Yay!"
maga exclaims (at Nitku), "speech!"
Amber waves.
Ellison cheers [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing exclaims, "great! cheers!"
DavidW says, "congrats, Vorple!"
zaphod cheers
Tzahnke chants, "Tech! Tech! Tech! Tech!"
Jenni exclaims, "Yay Vorple!"
VictorGijsbers cheers.
Wade claps Vorple.
jojo hollers!
ASchultz exclaims, "Yay Vorple!"
Johnny says (to Nitku), "It won't render on the mud."
djfletch claps
Nitku says, "oh dear"
playfic says, "Woo! it was an honor just to be nominated. :)"
Johnny says, "er ..maga" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says (to Fang), "don't worry, it's an XML SOAP envelope"
Tale says, "WOO!"
jmac hurrays [peanut-gallery] * J_Chastain has joined the channel.
coopermchatton exclaims, "congrats!" [peanut-gallery] Doug says (to Gunther), "augh"
DavidW says, "(now to get all this fancy-pants stuff to work on Floyd, heh heh)"
inky updates the BEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT entry on the chalkboard. [peanut-gallery] zarf says, "damn, I guess I really do have to start getting Glulx up to the point where they can mate up"
vimes walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "please please"
[peanut-gallery] Binder asks, "You can lead a bot to pants but er how does that go?"
Guest1 arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] zarf says, "after I finish <brain explodes>"
[peanut-gallery] J_Chastain says, "Bioshock Infinite gonna sweep"
[peanut-gallery] DavidW asks, "Are we imagining Floyd in hot pants, or it that just me?"
Tzahnke exclaims (at guest1), "Welcome!" [peanut-gallery] Zach says, "I am now!"
[peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "There are many worse things to imagine in hot pants."
[peanut-gallery] Johnny asks (of DavidW), "Confidentially, or officially?"
lpsmith returns to the stage. "Anything to add to your 'Oh dear' speech, Nitku?" [peanut-gallery] DavidW laughs and laughs.
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "HUBBA HUBBA beanstalk indeed"
Guest1 says, "@joinc #peanut-gallery"
Nitku says, "Thank you all for voting FOR THE FUTURE, which is certainly looking very Fnurglewitz right now. And as is the case with any tool, it's not worth much by itself so I'm really looking forward to what people will create with it."
Guest1 says, "oops"
jojo exclaims, "SPEECH! SPEECH!"
eu says (to Guest1), "You'll need a non-guest account." [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Nitku), "Aw, you're not a tool :("
lpsmith cheers! [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "I have lost track of the conversation while trying to remember my FTP password. This is surprisingly difficult."
Jacqueline applauds for ALL THE TOOLS.
Guest1 says, "(thx)"
Tale says, "Yay!" [peanut-gallery] Nitku says (to Johnny), "har har"
Fang cheers [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing exclaims, "choo choo!"
DavidW says, "A toast: To the future! And all the toys!"
Jenni exclaims, "Yay toys!"
Nitku says, "(and a hat tip to Playfic which was my favorite this year)" [peanut-gallery] nm says, "naughty, naughty -- imagining adding pants to those on ifMUD"
Guest1 cheers
Ellison says, "woo playfic" [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "2013 best puzzle: how to emote in IFMud (being me)"
ASchultz remembers to plug his toaster back in after that toast
DavidW applauds for all the tech finalists
Jenni clinks her maple bacon scone against everyone's champagne flute
lpsmith exclaims, "Next up! The nominees for the Best Use of Innovation!"
eu claps.
lpsmith says, "And the nominees are:"
Wade applauds. [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "i am still waiting for the Worst Use of Innovation award"
lpsmith exclaims, "Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short, which takes a fun little idea from the 1980s and pushes it further than anyone could have dared expect, several times over!"
Tzahnke exclaims, "My favorite category!"
Porpentine claps sparklingly
Johnny pre-emptively applauds all. [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "Innovation is one of my favourite categories."
Jenni exclaims, "Whoo!"
Jacqueline applauds.
Wade applauds.
lpsmith exclaims, "First Draft of the Revolution, also by Emily Short, which showcases the narrative power of weak interactivity!" [peanut-gallery] Jenni exclaims, "And a fantastic card game!"
djfletch claps weakly
lpsmith exclaims, "Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe, which employs Vorple, a limited verb-set and slick graphic peripherals to provide a fluid browser-based experience!"
DavidW cheers for narrative power
Fang applauds.
zaphod cheers!
Guest1 cheers ! [peanut-gallery] jacksonmead says, "innovation.isotropic.org, for those who don't know about it yet"
lpsmith exclaims, "And howling dogs, by Porpentine, the banner-bearer for the Twine revolution!" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "not to be confused with Gilded Youth"
DavidW cheers for graphics [peanut-gallery] Zach says, "Oooh, I didn't realize Guilded Youth used Vorple"
Binder claps because he recognizes an award winning tool when he hears it.
jmac woo woos [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers asks, "Weak interactivity, is that with Z-bosons?"
Ellison claps for all
zaphod applauds!
maga claps
Jacqueline claps, still perplexed over the comment about First Draft of the Revolution.
Fang says, "wow, great nominees." [peanut-gallery] Bainespal says (to jampespking), "You can always just type "emote does whatever" for Jamkespking does whatever."
Tzahnke cheers.
Jenni cheers for all y'all
DavidW cheers for Porpentine
Wade applauds.
Guest1 jumps on the table [peanut-gallery] GDorn says, "dang, four excellent nominees"
lpsmith pulls out the envelope and reads it. [peanut-gallery] nm asks, "what if there was a tie involving Twine?"
Jacqueline hands Jenni a period.
lpsmith frowns.
Porpentine flails
lpsmith exclaims, "OK, somehow the winner seems to be the heir-apparant of dessert-based hip-hop musicians, in the proud tradition of Vanilla Ice: Emcee Funky Tortoni!" [peanut-gallery] nm says, "someone would be fit to be tied, I guess"
Flourish cheers for everyone
Jenni exclaims, "But, it's two weeks away!"
JamesPKing thanks Bainespal
Jacqueline laughs at Jenni.
lpsmith asks, "Is, uh, Mr. Tortoni here tonight?"
lpsmith looks at the envelope again. "Hmm, something looks funny about this..." [peanut-gallery] jmac says (to nm), "Put a nice clasp on it and call it a bolo."
DavidW asks, "I think I missed the name of one of the finalists...?"
inky updates the BEST SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS entry on the chalkboard.
lpsmith pulls out some gel, gloops some onto one finger and dabs it onto the envelope.
lpsmith exclaims, "Aha! There we go: Counterfeit Monkey!"
JamesPKing thinks that useing emote to emote was anticlimatic at best
inky updates the BEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT entry on the chalkboard.
Johnny whoops. [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "Right, anagram"
eu cheers!
Jenni exclaims, "Yay!"
Binder claps.
Emily says, "ha!"
Porpentine screams joyfully
Wade applauds.
jmac says, "Yay monkey" [peanut-gallery] nm says, "they were stringing us along"
Jacqueline stands on her chair and goes, "WOOT WOOT WOOT"
GDorn laugs.
lpsmith cheers!
zaphod applauds!
Zach claps
Bainespal laughs quietly, and claps.
maga claps
Gunther fakegratulates Emily, then congratulates
Guest1 exclaims, "yipee !" [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "applauds."
nm clap claps
DavidW says, "oh, very nice."
VictorGijsbers applauds.
Fang exclaims, "Congrats!"
JamesPKing applauds
DavidW says, "Another strong category of contenders."
metasynthie cheers for Emily.
Fang exclaims, "Con rats!"
Ellison says, "hooray"
Guest1 get down from the table
baf does the monkey
Flourish claps
ASchultz applauds
coopermchatton applauds!
prevtenet walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side. [peanut-gallery] baf says, "Actually I don't know how to do the monkey. But for this game, I'll fake it."
Emily says, "Thanks very much, everyone" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "I am pretty sure you gotta shock the monkey."
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "I would if I could get it off my back."
maga hurries up to the podium
maga says, "Sorry people. Crossed wire." [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "just do the money"
[peanut-gallery] Binder asks, "What's this?"
Tzahnke exclaims, "We love you, Emily!" [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "maga's been using ... electricity."
VictorGijsbers is relieved it's the same winner, even if it's a different one.
coopermchatton exclaims, "Congratulations Emily!"
DavidW asks, "what's that, maga?"
maga asks, "If you could turn around and applaud for Emily again, only actually for First Draft, that would be super helpful, and we'll fix it all in the edit. Cool?"
Jenni says, "ahahaha"
Emily says, "wait what"
eu spins around and then claps again.
Emily says, "I am so confused right now"
Binder doesn't even know which Emily Short he's applauding? [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to baf), "YouTube the intro to Johnny Bravo."
Ellison laughs and laughs [peanut-gallery] Doug asks, "time for a Second Draft?"
Jacqueline is confused, too, and it's not just empathetic confusion.
lpsmith laughs, and cheers.
zaphod unapplauds and reapplauds. [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "first draft of the monkey"
inky updates the BEST USE OF INNOVATION entry on the chalkboard.
DavidW says, "ok, anagram Emily Short to Emily Short? Is that what we're doing?>" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "huh"
Wade says, " this is why I only type vague things like 'applauds the winner'"
Gunther falls over while spinning and triggers a mime
Bainespal looks at the chalkboard.
djfletch moves jerkily backwards to where he was standing a minute ago
jojo Chuckles, but ultimately also claps. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to vimes), "No, no, no: Conterfeit Revolution, clearly."
[peanut-gallery] inky says, "THE CHALKBOARD SAYS YOU MUST CLAP NOW. DO NOT ARGUE WITH THE CHALKBOARD"
[peanut-gallery] Doug says, "Emil Shorty"
Emily says, "so assuming I understand what just happened"
baf does the... revolution?
Tzahnke drops Lucky Rabbit's Foot.
Tzahnke drops Ticket to the Best Day of Your Life.
maga says, "(The actual winner is First Draft of the Revolution, yes.)"
lpsmith exclaims (at Emily), "You won for First Draft! But I was apparantly handed not only an anagrammed envelope, but the wrong one!" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "would the real George Tall please stand up."
Zach claps for the chalkboard [peanut-gallery] Jenni exclaims, "But I liked my *old* Emily Short!"
Binder applauds the chalkboard.
baf spins around a few times
Emily says, "I should say that I really should not be the only one up here for this award"
Wade applauds the winner.
Johnny applauds Liza and inkle too?
DavidW says, "yay First Draft."
metasynthie chortles. [peanut-gallery] djfletch asks, "how can we tell which one is evil?"
Emily says, "Liza Daly commissioned me to do it and was instrumental putting together the tools to let me write something I'd been wanting to write for a long time" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "cool, she is standing up for the other Emily"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "er, wait"
Porpentine SPINS AROUND HAPPILY
Emily says, "and then inkle made it look way way more gorgeous than I would have been able to myself" [peanut-gallery] maga says, "there may have been, uh, a great deal of shuffling roles around yesterday"
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "Proxily Short."
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Goatee."
Jacqueline applauds Emily and Liza and inkle and GROUP HUG, EVERYONE!
Guest1 doesn't understand but still claps [peanut-gallery] nm says, "Emily should really get a XYY award because nothing about that game was ZZ"
Ellison says, "woo liza"
Tale says, "Hooray for all cool people!"
eu cheers for everyone.
Tale says (to Ellison), "Sorry!" [peanut-gallery] maga says (to Emily), "hey, at least we mixed you up with yourself so that nobody's disappointed"
VictorGijsbers sits in a corner of the room, ashamed at not having played even the first draft of the revolution.
JamesPKing gulps his first whiskey
DavidW says (to Victor), "oh, do try it." [peanut-gallery] Doug says (to nm), "oh pl-- ugh."
[peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "That's why I'll be first against the wall when the real thing comes."
[peanut-gallery] baf asks (of Vic), "Waiting for the finished version, eh?"
Emily says, "also I have been trying to figure out how to say "the other games in this category are also awesome" without congratulating myself so I will just sit now"
JamesPKing orders a second JD
Ellison laughs
Tale says (to emily), "Hooray for humbleness"
lpsmith exclaims, "So! we apologize for the confusion, but we press on! Next up: the award for Best Implementation! And here's our presenter!"
Ellison says, "hooray for chairs, too" [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "not winning Best Implementation: the xyzzys"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "indeed"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "aW"
[peanut-gallery] Emily says (to maga), "ha ha ha"
(From Wade) A little girl wearing a black witch's costume – black robes, black slippers and a pointy black hat – suddenly runs onto the stage with a great flurry of flapping material. When she gets to the microphone, she comes to a halt and adopts a look of great self-importance.
(From Wade) As the girl pulls out a card, her hat bumps the microphone, which is a couple of feet above her head. She gives the mic an angry look and waves her arms at it. A helpful adult temporally pops out from behind the curtain to lower the microphone to her face. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "aw, yay Six characters presenting"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "uh oh, she's cast the HTML Entity spell"
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says (to vimes), "ha"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny asks (of Wade), "web client?"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "aw this is adorbs"
[peanut-gallery] zarf says, "oh, HTML escapes, I weep"
[peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "I just found an extraneous space in the Muggle Studies manual. CURSES."
(From Wade) "HELLO EVERYONE," says the girl, too close to the microphone. There is a whine of feedback. The girl looks questioningly offstage, and someone gives her a signal to take a step backwards.
Ellison claps [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "Serves me right for using this as an excuse to look through my own work."
(From Wade) "Hello everyone," says the girl again. "Thank you. I'm Witch Demi and I'm here to give an award today. I just turned six. Thank you." Demi resumes her look of great self-importance, then studies the card she is holding.
Jacqueline applauds. [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "clearly you'll need to reprint the feelies."
(From Wade) "This is the award for implee… imple…" Demi stares intently at the card. "Implee-men-tion!" she says, abruptly triumphant.
Tale says, "Give 'em hell, kid"
Recchi leaves the auditorium to the west.
(From Wade) "If you get this award, it means you are very good," she says. "Thank you."
zaphod cheers! [peanut-gallery] GDorn says, "hehe"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "Are we going to have two ceremonies to see everything?"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "'@set me = !spy' if you want an unbroken illusion."
[peanut-gallery] zarf says, "UTF-8, UTF-8, how many died for thee"
[peanut-gallery] Fang exclaims, "how does she pronounce that unicode!"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to Fang), "It's amazing."
(From Wade) "These are people who are good and might get the award. First it's. . . Macro. . . In cent? He made Andromeda Apocca-lips. Very good work." [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "like ???"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says (to Fang), "like '...'"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "The Australian public school system is very good."
(From Wade) "Next is Emily Short. She made Counter-feet a Monkey. Very good work, Emily. I like monkeys."
JamesPKing burps to the girl.
Jacqueline laughs and applauds.
Gunther asks, "who doesn't??" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "the losers will be pushed into mud!"
(From Wade) "The next person is. . . this is two people. It says two names. Diana Chris. . . Christo-four. Diane Christo-four and Thomas Mack. They are great, is what I think. They did Speck You Fissure. . . Fiction. . . Speck you'll fiction. Very good work, Diane and Mack."
lpsmith cheers!
(From Wade) "This person also did good work. This person is, uh, Virgy Hits. Oh, there's another name. Is this two people? Chris Who. . . Who-ang? Chris Who-ang. Why are there two people? That's dumb."
(From Wade) Demi's confused face suddenly brightens. "It says Sunday Afternoon. Good work, Sunday Afternoon." [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "heh"
djfletch applauds implementationers
(From Wade) "And now it's time for the award, everyone. The person who gets the Impleemention award is. . . " [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "I'm getting Spongebob presentation flashbacks"
[peanut-gallery] Tale says, "Man, I'm overdosing on adorably cute"
(From Wade) "Emily who did Counter Monkey!" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "you'll get them next time, Thursday Mid-Morning"
Jacqueline applauds the excellent pronounciation??????.
eu claps!
(From Wade) Demi hands over the award.
Johnny woos.
lpsmith exclaims, "Yay!"
Jenni says, "Are we *sure?*"
Miseri claps.
zarf says, "Monkey this time for sure"
Zach claps
Emily hangs back near the stage for a sec just in case
zaphod applauds!
Jenni exclaims, "Yay Monkey!"
Guest1 cclaps offbeat
lpsmith signals to Emily.
JamesPKing cheers. Some of the third whiskey drips to the floor.
Gunther says, "yaaay"
(From Wade) Demi claps too. Then, looking as if she just remembered something, she turns her card over and reads something off the back. She drops the card, seizes the microphone and shouts, "Everyone play Six today! Peace out!" Then she runs away.
Jacqueline decides to applaud confidently.
VictorGijsbers congratulates Emily again.
djfletch claps
DavidW says, "Show me the Monkey!"
Flourish claps
ASchultz cheers, again. The winner and the presentation
DoghouseReilly applauds
Johnny applauds.
Tale says, "woo"
lpsmith cheers for Demi, too.
Bainespal claps.
Ellison claps
JamesPKing says, "hey girrl. nice talk there"
jmac hurrahs
Recchi arrives from the west.
coopermchatton claps.
baf applauds [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "Please, this is a family-friendly awards ceremony."
[peanut-gallery] Bainespal says, "I wonder if she's gonna be a game designer when she grows up."
Emily says, "I am really honored to receive this award despite the fact that I have still not put in a response for synthesizing ROCK + ROLL"
JamesPKing says, "and good job to Emily! A toast to Emily!"" [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "what the fuck is this hey grrl shit"
metasynthie cheers. [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "i don't know, but i hope it isn't "flirting with a six-year-old""
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "so much for family friendly"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline laughs at Gunther.
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "True."
[peanut-gallery] Tale says (to vimes), "Yes, that's what I thought"
jenrexrode exclaims, "whoop whoop!"
Tzahnke exclaims, "I'm the king of synthesizing!"
Tale says, "speech!"
Emily sits, accompanied by the untalented naval polecat
DavidW says, "A wonderful game" [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "If anyone was concerned, blotts.org/mugglestudies works now"
lpsmith claps and returns to the stage.
JamesPKing gets a fourth glass of JD. [peanut-gallery] Jenni exclaims, "Oh good!"
[peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "I was concerned when I tried to check out your feelies yesterday. Glad that the concern is gone."
jojo insists on another speech. [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "Yeah, I messed up when transferring my hosting to Gandi and kind of forgot to transfer about half my site"
Tzahnke gets a glass of XYZZY Juice.
inky updates the BEST IMPLEMENTATION entry on the chalkboard. [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "I'm still finding a bunch of things that I forgot and uploading them every day"
[peanut-gallery] inky says, "oops"
lpsmith says, "Next up, we have the awrd for the Best Individual PC. And we know that all of you are the Best Individual PC in your own way, but we're talking about games here. Adam Thornton couldn't be here today, but he sent a, uh, substitute."
Fang looks disgusted at Tzahne [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Gandhi was a great man, but a shitty web host."
[peanut-gallery] Wade says, "This better be a family friendly substitute! *shakes fist*"
StiffyMakane is ushered up onto the stage by a couple of minders. [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "Great timing with the XYZZYs, but apparently it didn't hurt my chances."
lpsmith exclaims, "So, let's warily applaud!"
DavidW puts on protective undergarments.
Flourish edges away from Stiffy
StiffyMakane, winking and pointing at people in the front row, is steered by the presenters to a strategic position behind the podium.
inky says, "I hope the minders are wearing rubber gloves"
Jenni whoops and hollers.
Gunther says, "Sir, I believe you dropped something"
Wade warily applauds. [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "pulls his hat down."
VictorGijsbers asks, "Hey Stiffy, remember my friend Herman?"
Tale pulls his hat down.
Fang puts on waterproofs.
StiffyMakane holds up a sheet of paper [peanut-gallery] Emily says (to Gunther), "BWAHAHA"
JamesPKing asks, "wtf this is not porn award isn't it?"
StiffyMakane squints at the paper. He tries holding it close, then farther away. He frowns.
StiffyMakane adjusts his toga, and a pale blue light radiates forth from behind the podium. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "If anything starts glowing... too late."
StiffyMakane shakes his head ruefully, and shouts 'XYZZY!' The light shifts to crimson.
Hector_Conrad adjusts his hearing aid. "Eh what? What?"
DavidW sings, "There's a li-i-i-ght..."
StiffyMakane exclaims, "XYZZY!" Pallid gray. "XYZZY!" Sort of leprous mottled greenish-brown. "XYZZY!"
jojo chuckles nervously. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "ha ha oh dear"
VictorGijsbers sings, "Over at the Frankenstein place..."
StiffyMakane exclaims, "Now just the people in the back!" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "so that's how zarf does it"
[peanut-gallery] zarf says, "leprous is never a good color."
Jacqueline opens up a parasol, just in case. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "I don't think this makes ANY sense without a lot of very disturbing context, but I am laughing"
Tale hides behind Ellison.
zaphod ducks.
Jenni says, "I'm glad the invitation said to dress for a Gallagher show."
StiffyMakane exclaims, "XYZZY! XYZZY! XYZZY!"
StiffyMakane's toga glows hot pink! Chartreuse! Fuliginous ultraviolet! Dozens of spots on Stiffy's toga begin glowing, but he's still evidently not able to read the paper.
(From StiffyMakane) Finally, a silvery-white radiance illuminates the paper, and Stiffy clears his throat and begins to read [peanut-gallery] zarf says, "but fuligin is a *great* color."
Fang hides behind someone nearby.
lpsmith hollers, "Just visit the web page!"
DavidW says, "Try wearing your glasses!" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Man, I really need to play that darn penis game."
[peanut-gallery] inky says, "ha ha"
StiffyMakane says, "I had a thoughtful speech about character interiority here, but after the all edits they made me do it's hardly worth it."
Olly arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "Luckily nobody asks where he kept the envelope"
[peanut-gallery] metasynthie says, "someone call the mohel to get this part over with"
[peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "That penis game is awesome."
Jacqueline laughs. [peanut-gallery] GDorn says, "there's a joke about bad eyesight in here somewhere"
[peanut-gallery] zarf says, "did somebody say --"
[peanut-gallery] J_Chastain says, "HOWLING DOGS CONTINUES THE SWEEP"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to GDorn), "Yes"
prevtenet concentrates, and disappears.
prevtenet walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side.
Hector_Conrad grumbles, "boy ought to speak up, can't hear a blessed word...." [peanut-gallery] Ellison says (to GDorn), "heh"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Bioshock Infinite is secretly howling dogs."
StiffyMakane says, "So without further ado, the protagonists you most enjoyed being ins*mic hiss*" [peanut-gallery] Roger says, "When this guy says he loves monkeys, it's way more creepier than when the 6-year-old did"
StiffyMakane says, "Oh, *my*. Alexandra, of Counterfeit Monkey." [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "ha ha"
[peanut-gallery] J_Chastain says, "Bioshock Infinite was a project that began in the Howling Dogs mod community\"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "off to the penal colony with you"
Jacqueline applauds, raising a scared eyebrow.
StiffyMakane says, "I've never been so intrigued by the prospect of a triangle of identity."
DavidW says, "yay Alexandra!"
Tale says, "Woo"
Zach applauds
zaphod claps!
DavidW says, "A PC of PCs."
zarf says, "woo"
StiffyMakane says, "An enterprising young lady with a *thorough* understanding of the proper application of discipline: Olivia, of Olivia's Orphanorium."
eu claps.
Jenni cheers for PCs!
Tale says, "Yay"
StiffyMakane says, "Shiver."
zaphod cheers!
Jacqueline laughs and applauds, trying not to think about how Olivia works with children.
jenrexrode exclaims, "yay, Olivia!"
djfletch claps
DavidW says, "yay discipline!"
jenrexrode says, "and scrubbing"
StiffyMakane says, "And... what, oh, come on. You knew I'd be presenting, and yet you nominate children? You people sicken me."
jojo exclaims, "Yay for orphans!"
Zach tries to repress the memories of scrubbing orphans
Fang thinks about calling the cops.
StiffyMakane says, "I mean, it takes serious work to find something that's not my kink. I feel targeted."
Jacqueline hands Fang her cell.
StiffyMakane says, "Hector Conrad, of Sunday Afternoon."
Hector_Conrad says, "What?""
lpsmith cheers for the nominees!
Jacqueline applauds.
Fang cheers.
jojo exclaims, "Hurrah for Hector!"
Zach claps
Johnny claps.
Recchi leaves the auditorium to the west.
baf says, "cheers"
Tale says, "Hooray for Hermes! Do the Limbo!"
Ellison claps
StiffyMakane says, "And the winner is..."
baf cheers [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Clap is just the right word given the presenter."
Olly jumps up and down. [peanut-gallery] Fang wonders if Makane is violating his parole.
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "bahaha"
[peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers asks, "When is he going to turn into a pumpkin?"
JamesPKing cheers to the auditorium
StiffyMakane exclaims, "Alexandra, of Counterfeit Monkey!"
Tzahnke says, "For the confused of you, he is not John McCain."
Jenni exclaims, "Yay Alexandra!" [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "midnight"
eu applauds.
Wade claps.
jenrexrode whistles
Zach applauds
Johnny cheers.
Fang says, "woo"
Ellison cheers
Jacqueline applauds for Alexandra.
Bainespal claps.
JamesPKing cheers.
inky updates the BEST INDIVIDUAL PC entry on the chalkboard.
prevtenet cheers hurrumphantly.
zaphod applauds
VictorGijsbers turns into a pumpkin.
StiffyMakane says, "If either of you need emotional support in coping with your newfound fame, I'm in dressing room #6."
Hector_Conrad says, "Oh, good show!"
DoghouseReilly claps
Emily goes up on stage, though giving somewhat the impression that different people are controlling each leg
DavidW cheers for Alex and Andra!
djfletch says, "hurrah"
StiffyMakane is firmly escorted from the stage by two burly minders
coopermchatton applauds
Tale says, "hooray"
Fang speed dials Makane's parole officer. [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "man, how much did Stiffy have to pay for those escorts"
metasynthie adjusts her own androgyny before applauding ferociously for a highly androgynous PC. [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "I have a lot of frank and uncomfortable questions about her sex life, for the record."
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "oh, I've thought about a lot of them"
DavidW wonders how long it'll be before Stiffy's in a threesome with those burly minders.
JamesPKing says, " we need a speech from Emily!""
Emily says, "Alexandra was a lot of fun to write, and I know there are questions that many people had about how exactly she dealt with things after the end of the game"
Bainespal watches the stage, listening.
Emily says, "I did actually kind of contemplate an epilogue but since it stopped being a puzzle game and became something completely different and considerably pornier I decided to not make the game that much of a hybrid"
JamesPKing says, "more after the spoiler tab""
JamesPKing goes home.
Porpentine nods [peanut-gallery] baf asks, "Hm. Does Alexandra really count as an *individual* NPC?"
Emily says, "I'd also like to say that I really loved the characters of Hector and Olivia"
Emily says, "so a shout out to both of them"
Emily sits [peanut-gallery] Jenni exclaims, "She's lexoscientifically one person in my book!"
lpsmith claps and returns to the stage.
DavidW applauds [peanut-gallery] baf says, "I guess it depends to some extent on how you played the ending"
eu claps.
Jacqueline stands and applauds.
VictorGijsbers is picked up by a burly minder and taken to dressing room #6 -- still in pumpkin form. [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "I think Em should get off the stage before sitting"
jenrexrode applauds
DavidW says (to Victor), "Have fun!"
Fang quietly wheels Emily off the stage.
JamesPKing arrives from the west.
lpsmith exclaims, "So, next up! The award for Best Individual NPC! And here to present the award, Robb Sherwin, aka Recchi!"
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft arrives from the west.
Jacqueline claps for Robb.
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft walks up to the stage [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "that was an implicit action"
jenrexrode claps [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "ha ha"
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft says, "Hello."
jojo pays rapt attention. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "(first getting off the stage) You sit"
[peanut-gallery] vimes says, "(first taking the cork nut)"
[peanut-gallery] Tale says, "Noooo, not grimloft ...Nooooo!"
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft says, "Lots of people, ah, here today, haa...."
Ellison says, "yay Grimloft!"
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft says, "These three games feature creatures and life-forms that cannot and should not exist. I enjoyed them all, individually and in concert." [peanut-gallery] Roger asks, "Dang, that's who Recchi is?"
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft says, "They all let me save or bookmark my progress, which I appreciated, as I (between you and I) just might take to hiding behind a curtain for a while when they got tense."
Ellison laughs [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "if only we had a finger command"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "That's *dirty.*"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "that'd be rude, Gunther"
jojo chuckles.
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft says, "The nominees for this category are: Kadro in Andromeda Dreaming. A game by Joey Jones. Kadro is an alien. Or at least he doesn't seem to be living on earth and I consider everyone outside of my own home association to be an unpredictable, dangerous alien/lunatic." [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "People are still busy fingering Stiffy"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "agh"
[peanut-gallery] nm says, "(first removing the finger from your nose)"
DavidW claps [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "ah yes, the creativest joke of all."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "spritzes bleach all over the transcript."
Tzahnke goes home.
Ellison claps [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "(first taking the fifth)"
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft exclaims, "New Rat City in rat chaos by J Chastain. A rat that is most certainly not merely a rat. Did some of the things it said ring true!" [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "er, I shall spritz it, once it's posted."
Porpentine SCREAMS
Emily claps [peanut-gallery] Doug says, "heh, I didn't notice there were two Andromeda games in the finalists"
Amber waves!
lpsmith cheers!
zaphod cheers wildly
Tale says, "woo"
Wade claps. [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "NEW RAT CITTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"
DavidW says, "a popular choice, I see"
Fang exclaims, "raaaaats!"
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft says, "W.D. in Speculative Fiction by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack. A bird that is most certainly not merely a bird. I quite categorically approve of making unique animals perform all the real work of an evening." [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Doug), "Dreaming is part of the extended universe."
Wade claps.
DavidW says, "yay boid" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Along with Tree & Star."
zaphod claps
Jenni exclaims, "Hooray unique animals and jargon guy!"
Jacqueline applauds the finalists.
lpsmith claps.
Ellison cheers
Johnny applauds.
jenrexrode exclaims, "Yay!!"
VictorGijsbers returns, still a pumpkin. He seems ... polished. And satisfied.
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft says, "The 2013 winner of Best Non-Player Character goes to...."
Flourish cheers for everybody who has been announced since last time she remembered to cheer!
coopermchatton applauds
Porpentine FLAILS
Jacqueline hopes PumpkinGijsbers doesn't sit next to her.
Johnny appreciates the dramatic pause.
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft exclaims, "New Rat City from rat chaos!!!"
ASchultz imitates a whole crowd of people muttering expectantly
Emily claps!!
J_Chastain says, "oh my gosh"
Jacqueline claps.
Johnny cheers.
Fang throws RATS EVERYWHERE!!!
eu cheers.
Ellison cheers
prevtenet makes a sort of loud florping sound [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "HOLY SHIT"
lpsmith cheers!
zaphod explodes
jenrexrode applauds
Jenni exclaims, "Yay city who is also a rat!"
jmac says, "RATS"
jojo claps politely.
Porpentine FLAPS AROUND WILDLY
Bainespal claps.
VictorGijsbers radiates silent approval.
Tale says, "WOOT"
Johnny climbs onto a chair.
metasynthie starts drowning in a cockpit, she's so amazed.
JamesPKing cheers!
metasynthie cheers!
Wade claps.
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft applauds
ASchultz applauds [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "OMG"
nm claps claps and CLAP CHAOS
Fang exclaims, "cong rats!"
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft says, "And I'd rather spend time with all three of you then anyone I know." [peanut-gallery] Doug reveals a hand of all Rats
Best_Anheiser_Grimloft leaves the auditorium to the west.
Porpentine carries j around the room in her talons
Flourish rat dances
JamesPKing says, "now let's hope in a speech I can actually decode""
lpsmith walks up to the stage. "Do we have a J. Chastain in the house?"
Olly stands on a chair.
J_Chastain says, "Hi"
JamesPKing rises a toast to Porpentine. [peanut-gallery] * Recchi has joined the channel.
jojo exclaims, "Speech!"
lpsmith exclaims (at J_), "Congratulations!"
Recchi arrives from the west.
Jenni says, "incomprehensible speech kaplox <3"
inky updates the BEST INDIVIDUAL NPC entry on the chalkboard.
Tale says, "Speech!"
inky updates the BEST INDIVIDUAL PC entry on the chalkboard. [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "I'm loving the audience reactions to this one."
JamesPKing says, "m"
jojo mutters, 'Rats, oh well, there's always next year.'
J_Chastain says, "That character was the culmination of a lot of pent-up emotion and I've been really glad that it continues to resonate with folx. Thank you for playing my gaaaaaame."
Jenni cheers!
zaphod applauds
lpsmith cheers! [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Perhaps I should play that one."
Fang exclaims, "thank you!"
maga claps
jenrexrode claps [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "it's quite short and sweet"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni exclaims, "You should!"
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "I think I need to play it also."
lpsmith says, "OK! Next up, the award for Best Individual Puzzle! And, here to present, we have...." [peanut-gallery] Johnny | http://monsterkillers.com/games/2012-07-18%20Rat%20Chaos/ratchaos.html
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "I need to replay Space Funeral."
lpsmith trails off.
VictorGijsbers pops back into human form. "I should play a lot...", he muses.
lpsmith exclaims, "Don't we have some sort of rule against...", but maga runs up and whispers in his ear. "OK!"
lpsmith exclaims, "Zarf!"
zarf jerks awake [peanut-gallery] jacksonmead exclaims, "extemporaneous zarf!"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "zarf was Andromeda Dreaming!"
Jacqueline applauds everybody's Uncle. [peanut-gallery] Roger says, "That kickstarter to get zarf to award an award was really successful."
zarf ascends the stage
Ellison says, "yay crazy uncle zarf" [peanut-gallery] Tale asks, "Why should we have rules against zarf? I thought we loved zarf?"
lpsmith cheers, but keeps a wary eye on him. [peanut-gallery] inky says, "the trick was to use actual kicking"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline asks, "Did he win last year and yet is presenting this year?"
[peanut-gallery] jojo says, "This should be good."
maga says (to lpsmith), "it's okay, I have the winner in a zarf-proof envelope"
zarf says, "Really everybody should go around shouting for the guy like at the beginning of _Noises Off_, but I've forgotten the character's name."
Fang bows before the might of zarf. [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "He's also one of the nominees."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "And... yeah"
[peanut-gallery] vimes says, "presenters who are also nominees, i imagine"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "That's what I meant to say."
[peanut-gallery] Tale says, "oh, hm"
jenrexrode shouts, "Z! Z! Z!" and promptly falls asleep. [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Our zarfs must be regulated for the safety of all humans."
zarf says, "So! Last year, four people each won an award for Best Two Bits of a Puzzle." [peanut-gallery] baf says, "I hope he lets the winner out of the envelope soon."
[peanut-gallery] Tale says, "I'm not saying The Cabal, but The Cabal"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "I don't even think *winners* should be nominees! I don't trust the system!"
zzo38 arrives from the west.
zarf says, "It was confusing."
zzo38 asks, "What is confusing?"
DavidW says, "The hat."
jacksonmead tips his hat.
zarf says, "Then it turned out that the whole thing was rigged up by time-travellers from the 43rd century, sothat was okay."
jojo shouts 'It's a fix!' and then sits down sheepishly. [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "the man with the hat is back"
Felix asks, "On the cat?" [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to Tale&Ellison), "Get a sit-in together, you two."
[peanut-gallery] Tale says, "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_K1Vju0r6Q"
zarf says, "We tried to come up with a thematic way to present this award, like a collaborative puzzle or something." [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "curse those 43rd century-ers"
[peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "The Cable doesn't exist."
[peanut-gallery] HairBrain says, "Every logical hat must have 2^n corners"
zarf says, "And we did! Here's a collaborative riddle!" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "I'm here to fix your Cabal."
zarf says, "Why is a raven like a..." [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "Neither does the Cabal."
zarf points at Doug [peanut-gallery] Ellison says (to Jenni), "ha"
zarf points at jacksonmead
Doug asks, "umm, like a ... hat?" [peanut-gallery] jacksonmead says, "hahaha, o h shit"
[peanut-gallery] baf asks, "Why is a raven like a Doug?"
[peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "j is NPC queen"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline exclaims (at Jenni), "But the guy on the phone told me you'd be here between 8 and noon, and now it's one!"
[peanut-gallery] prevtenet says, "...neither is made of cheese."
jacksonmead asks, "a baby?"
zarf says, "Note: we did not actually set this up."
zarf asks, "Answers anybody?" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "well, that's why I killed Doug in the Walking Dead"
Emily says, "silver spoon"
Olly asks, "Poe wrote on both?"
jacksonmead tips his baby. [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "geez, somebody get that baby out of the hat"
Doug asks, "Why is a raven like a baby hat?"
zarf says, "Wrong! Everybody is wrong!"
djfletch asks, "they are all indescribable?"
inky says, "a raven is like a hat because they are both annoying when perched on your head"
Olly asks, "Why is a raven like Doug?"
VictorGijsbers says, "The first vowel in all three is an ???'."
zarf says, "The winner of the prize is the one who finds the"
zarf fourth
Tale asks, "Both look good on a bust of Pallas?"
Jenni says, "That was a really good book."
zarf says, "Okay, nominees."
nm asks, "why is a raven like Doug perched in this auditorium?"
zarf says, "And keep in mind that I have solved zero of these three puzzles myself."
lpsmith cheers the Westing Game!
Jacqueline says (to nm), "I'm trying to figure out how that's a palindrome." [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "man, I just don't *get* Plotkin's latest work"
zarf says, "first: the hold-all in A Killer Headache! By Mike Ciul!"
Jacqueline applauds.
Tale says, "hooray for headaches"
eu cheers nominees.
DavidW asks, "I'm lost. Are we supposed to find the missing fourth member of the previous winners?"
Wade claps.
JamesPKing applauds.
Fang > HINT
Jenni pre-emptively cheers for specific puzzles! [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers asks, "It's not about *getting* it. It's about the experience, you know?"
DavidW says, "I haven't found that hold-all yet." [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Oh no, zarf has wound up the puzzle-solving DavidW."
zzo38 asks, "The chalkboard doesn't seems to mention puzzles?"
zarf says, "second: making a taco in Shuffling Around! By Andrew Schultz!" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "You just have to let it wash over you, like ghosts or dogs."
[peanut-gallery] Wade exclaims, "I didn't get the hat thing then and I don't get it now!"
jenrexrode exclaims, "yay!!" [peanut-gallery] maga exclaims, "if zarf says there isn't a puzzle, then that must mean there *is* one!"
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "I'm still rubbing sleep out of my eyes. I can't think yet."
JamesPKing CHEERS!
Jenni exclaims, "Yay tacos!"
Wade applauds.
djfletch says, "brains! tacos!"
lpsmith claps again.
Jacqueline applauds.
Tale says, "hooray for tacos"
jenrexrode exclaims, "and coats!"
Fang says, "now I'm feeling hungry"
Zach says, "Hooray, coast!" [peanut-gallery] GDorn says, "haha, hold all"
Johnny cheers, tentatively.
zarf says, "Surviving the fall in Bigger Than You Think! By" [peanut-gallery] metasynthie asks, "Is the hold-all in that game a thing... which is not exactly... a container... per se?"
zarf falls asleep again [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "And the last time I washed with ghosts and dogs is... never. I need to get out more."
Tale says, "Hooray for thinking!"
lpsmith exclaims, "Ashes!" [peanut-gallery] GDorn says, "best inventory management puzzle in recent memory"
zarf points at lps [peanut-gallery] Wade says, "Yyyyyes to the not a container question"
Jacqueline applauds loudly so he'll wake up.
zzo38 disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
zzo38 arrives from the west.
zarf says, "By me, is the joke here. Right." [peanut-gallery] metasynthie says, "peanut-gallery OK cool I interpreted that word correctly when voting, then! phew"
Doug says, "wait, a raven is like a taco!"
zzo38 suddenly evaporates.
zzo38 arrives from the west.
zzo38 asks, "Sometimes it disconnects me; are certain words not allowed?"
Recchi asks, "Neither usally contain beef?" [peanut-gallery] Wade says, "heh"
jojo says, "Yeah they both taste good with a few beers."
maga hops up on stage, clutching the zarf-proof envelope
zarf says, "The envelope, please." [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "It should contain only sand."
[peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "What makes it zarf-proof?"
maga hands it over [peanut-gallery] eu says, "That's what I was wondering."
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "I am not sure I would trust anyone less devious than zarf to design a zarf-proof envelope"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "I really doubt anything is zarf-proof."
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "this seems problematic"
[peanut-gallery] vimes says, "it does not dissolve when exposed to zarf"
zarf says, "The winner of best individual puzzle..." [peanut-gallery] GDorn exclaims, "falling zombie tacos!"
Olly and Ivan the toad dance an expectant jig.
zarf opens the envelope with ease and elan
zzo38 suddenly evaporates. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "ha ha ha"
zarf says, "Oh dear." [peanut-gallery] Doug asks, "could zarf make a puzzle that even zarf could not solve?"
zzo38 walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice it approaching it from the other side.
zarf says, "Well, this is embarrassing."
zarf says, "It's me! Yay!"
Fang asks, "uh oh?" [peanut-gallery] Nitku says, "ha ha"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "I think a zarf-proof envelope is hidden in a non-illuminated coat"
Zach cheers
jojo exclaims, "It's a fix!"
Olly exclaims, "Yay!"
Jacqueline applauds.
jenrexrode exclaims, "hooray!"
lpsmith cheers!
Jenni exclaims, "Yay!" [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "Superman has designed Superman-killing weaponry and zarf is probably at least that capable."
zaphod applauds!
Johnny says, "ha ha"
DavidW says, "congrats, zarf!"
eu claps!
jmac woo woo
lpsmith exclaims, "Zarf, come up and... oh, you're already here!"
ASchultz applauds!
Tale says, "Hooray for cabal-fixed voting!"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Yay, zarf! You go, unc!"
Doug says, "huzzah!"
zarf turns around and faces everybody again, wearing a new but still odd hat
Emily says, "yay zarf"
Wade claps in confusion.
DoghouseReilly claps [peanut-gallery] Jenni asks, "Huh, what did he want to go and do that for?"
maga says, "we would like to assure the audience that zarf had nothing up his sleeve"
Fang facepalms.
JamesPKing cheers.
Binder applauds!
VictorGijsbers applauds. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Binder), "Superman's super intelligence got nerfed."
Doug says, "that hat is... surprising!"
Fang says (to maga), "his pants... however..."
zarf says, "s'truth, this is a t-shirt." [peanut-gallery] HairBrain says (to Jenni), "it's Intentional"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Y'know, if he just quit writing we wouldn't have this 'problem.'"
Bainespal looks at the chalkboard, brow furrowed in confusion.
jojo mumbles incoherently about cabals.
coopermchatton exclaims, "Woohoo!" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "(Superman, I meant.)"
zarf says, "I have no speech prepared actually, because I was sure Counterfeit Monkey would walk away with all the puzzle trophies."
Jacqueline smiles and laughs.
lpsmith says, "And apparantly you didn't read the list of nominees, either."
Fang says, "haha"
inky updates the BEST INDIVIDUAL PUZZLE entry on the chalkboard.
zarf says, "Hint for next year: put in six dozen awesome puzzles, you just wind up splitting the "individual puzzle" vote!" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "this is where we find out that if we find the buried gold treasure in a field somewhere in France, zarf will give us all of his magical zarf powers"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to Lucian), "He's a *writer*, not a reader."
zzo38 asks, "Does the system matter?"
Bainespal nods slowly, and then claps. [peanut-gallery] Binder says (to Jenni), "Oh, well, because Superman is smart enough to realize that if he became evil he could be a huge menace. So he preemptively solved the Evil Superman problem."
zzo38 asks, "Do other things matter?"
zarf says, "So, thank you all. I note that this is the second fanfic XYZZY prize this year." [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Oh, okay, that's pretty awesome actually."
jenrexrode applauds zarf
Fang says, "haha" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Ellison), "I think some of those are on github already."
zarf says, "Unless the Andromeda situation... frankly that confuses me oto" [peanut-gallery] jacksonmead exclaims, "fanfic comp!"
zarf says, "So I'll sit down now."
lpsmith laughs. [peanut-gallery] nm says, "IF has hit the fan"
Lucea arrives from the west.
maga says, "Before we present the next award, I'd like to briefly give the stage over to Jacqueline Lott for a moderately special announcement."
zarf sits
Jacqueline stands up, smoothes out the velvet of her dress, and climbs the stairs to the stage. She tentatively leans into the mic and says, "Thank you, MC, and can I just say that you look amazing this evening."
zzo38 concentrates, and disappears.
zzo38 walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice it approaching it from the other side.
Tale says, "Hooray for Jacq!" [peanut-gallery] Doug asks, "is zzo38 a puppet or just very confused?"
Fang scoots zarf off the stage.
Wade says, " it better be special! *shakes fist*" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "the latter"
[peanut-gallery] inky says, "more like french toast"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "I think... yeah"
Jacqueline says, "AHEM. Anyway, yes, it is that time of year again: IntroComp season. IntroComp is where contestants submit the beginning of a new, never before seen work of interactive fiction that is not yet complete and for which the ending is somewhat uncertain." [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "'confused' is putting it very generously"
[peanut-gallery] McMartin says, "On the other hand, if *Batman* goes evil, everyone is screwed"
eu exclaims, "Yay IntroComp!" [peanut-gallery] baf says, "Also, Batman has some kryptonite for the same eventuality."
Binder prepares moderately enthusiastic applause.
Jacqueline says, "Intents to enter are being accepted as of immediately, and you have until June 15th to express your desire to be in the competition this year. Details are at http://www.allthingsjacq.com/introcomp/" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Yeah, but Batman's kind of a sociopath."
Jacqueline says, "Thanks, everyone. Now... back to the ceremony!" She descends and heads back to her seat.
Johnny says, "yay"
Fang says, "yay introductions"
prevtenet exclaims, "Huzzah!"
DavidW says, "cool"
Wade claps Jacqueline. [peanut-gallery] McMartin says, "This raises an important side question, which I now feel bad for raising because of Jenni's line"
Tale says, "Yay for IntroComping" [peanut-gallery] McMartin says, "WHich is that we need to determine if zarf is closer to Superman or Batman"
[peanut-gallery] Binder asks, "A bigger problem would be, what if Batman becomes ... good?"
zaphod claps
maga heads back to the podium
Wade says, " are there sweet cash awards? You should mention the sweet cash awards" [peanut-gallery] McMartin asks, "Laid-Back Hippie Batman?"
JamesPKing says, "I hate when the ads interrupt the show." [peanut-gallery] DavidW asks, "What's our deadline for saying we're finish our old games someday?"
lpsmith exclaims, "Thank you, Jacqueline! And now, the award for the Best NPCs! And her to present: maga!" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Hm, zarf isn't nearly as boring as Superman."
[peanut-gallery] McMartin asks, "Isn't that basically the Adam West Some Days You Just Can't Get Rid Of A Bong^WBomb Batman?"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "zarf's backstory has gotta involve radiation."
lpsmith says, "Er, here."
Olly says (to Wade), "The only award is somewhat esoteric glory."
maga says, "No matter how hard we try to weasel out of it, stories occasionally have to involve more than one person."
Emily says, "yay NPCs!" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to McM), "Anyway, I think Spider & Web answers that question."
[peanut-gallery] zarf says, "hernia surgery, actually"
jojo Gets up pre-emptively and then promptly sits back down again.
maga says, "Best NPCs recognises those games that feature not just a great character, but a great cast. The finalists:"
Jacqueline whispers to Wade about how there are, indeed, sweet cash awards. [peanut-gallery] McMartin asks, "Is that when you were cyborged?"
zzo38 asks, "Can I enter and refuse the prize?"
Wade giggles, all a-titter. [peanut-gallery] zarf says, "also, man, I talked way too long there. Sorry all."
Binder asks, "Can zzo38 enter and give me the prize?"
maga exclaims, "The guilt-wracked, philandering, racist snobs of The Statue Got Me High, by Ryan Veeder!"
zaphod cheers!
Jenni exclaims, "Yay horrible people!"
lpsmith cheers snobs! [peanut-gallery] inky says, "zarf has plenty of gadgets"
Johnny applauds ... racist snobbery?
Binder claps for snobs.
Tale says, "hooray for snobs" [peanut-gallery] inky says, "and I guess having a cloak is kind of even"
Amber whoo!
maga exclaims, "The socially incompetent, hormone-addled nerd misfits of Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe!"
jojo claps approvingly, but not too approvingly.
Johnny wooooooo.
zaphod applauds!
Amber whhoo!
DavidW says, "heh heh"
Jenni exclaims, "Yay putative nerds!"
Fang says, "woo nerds."
Lucea says, "at least they're not guilt-wracked"
Wade says, "Oh they were so horrible in Statue, I wish I was punching them right now."
Tale says, "hooray for hormone-addled"
Johnny says (to Amber), "Jim Munroe!"
Wade claps. [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "In my mind, zarf is more like The Midnighter than Superman or Batman. He's already played out this conversation a million times and he knows the lethal quip."
DavidW says (to Tale), "ditto"
JamesPKing cheers.
maga exclaims, "And the plotters and oneironauts of Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones!"
Bainespal nods.
zzo38 suddenly evaporates.
Jacqueline applauds for everyone, especially the ones she voted for, which will hopefully win!
Jenni exclaims, "Yay spacerpersons!"
Emily says, "yay use of the word oneironaut"
zaphod claps!
JamesPKing SUPERCHEERS.
Binder claps schemingly
Emily says, "and also the nominees"
jojo beams.
Johnny applauds!
Tale says, "Hooray for oneirono...oneiraro..plotters!"
maga says, "And the winner is..."
Wade exclaims, "Woo!"
Jenni says, "Yeah, that's even better than velocipedestrienne."
zzo38 walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice it approaching it from the other side. [peanut-gallery] Fang asks, "what's zzo38 doing to evaporate and get disconnected?"
maga unseals the envelope [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Probably just a crappy connection."
[peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers asks, "Why do people write games which include horrible people?"
zzo38 says, "This connection is acting stupid."
lpsmith cheers all the nominees. [peanut-gallery] DavidW says (to Fang), "no idea"
maga makes sure to read it twice [peanut-gallery] Lucea says, "I have no idea"
jojo grips the arms of his chair.
maga exclaims, "Guilded Youth!"
eu exclaims, "Hurrah!" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "I know a guy you could ask."
metasynthie claps excitedly for Jim!
prevtenet says, "HUZZAH" [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "Because some IF is simulations of real life"
Fang exclaims, "yay youth!"
Doug says, "yay Jim!"
DavidW says, "whoa"
Johnny applauds.
zaphod says, "Yay!" [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers asks, "What's wrong with sunny and happy?"
Jenni exclaims, "Yay Jim!" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Lucea), "..."
lpsmith cheers!
Emily says, "yay Guilded Youth!" [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "If literature didn't include horrible people, it would be pretty boring"
Nitku exclaims, "hooray!"
Binder claps for the winnah
Wade claps. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Victor), "......"
zzo38 says, "It disconnects before I can read any of the answers to my questions (if there are any)" [peanut-gallery] Lucea looks at her WIP
jojo claps good naturedly.
inky updates the BEST NPCs entry on the chalkboard.
Tale says, "Yay"
JamesPKing orders his fifteenth whiskey, barely able to deambulate.
Jacqueline stands on her chair again, and goes, "WOOT WOOT WOOT" while pumping her fist in the air.
Bainespal claps. [peanut-gallery] Emily says (to Lucea), "but your horrible NPCs were horrible so *well*"
Ellison claps [peanut-gallery] metasynthie exclaims, "I agree! especially the girlfriend of your boss! ugh!"
VictorGijsbers applauds!
lpsmith cheers, returning to the stage.
Zach claps! [peanut-gallery] McMartin says (to VictorGijsbers), "I remember some game called The Count or something; might want to track down the author of that thing"
lpsmith asks, "It looks like Jim wasn't able to attend today?"
JamesPKing says, "I felt in love with the girl, anyway. the one in guilded youth" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "The Earl, I think it was."
zzo38 has disconnected.
zzo38 has connected.
zzo38 concentrates, and disappears.
zzo38 walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice it approaching it from the other side. [peanut-gallery] McMartin says, "You may be right"
Wade nods at JamesPKing. [peanut-gallery] * zzo38 has joined the channel.
Fang calls the police on JamesPKing. [peanut-gallery] Lucea says, "the aristocrats, surely"
[peanut-gallery] Doug says, "if you're playing a game that has no horrible people, then YOU must be the horrible one"
[peanut-gallery] jojo exclaims, "I'll get you XYZZY, and your little dog too!"
lpsmith says, "We'll make sure that the nerd misfits are able to give him his award." [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "Yeah, heard of that. Should be illegal."
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says (to Doug), "ha"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "The Earl of Jones."
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "Is it allowed to enter and refuse the prize?"
[peanut-gallery] McMartin says (to Doug), "Suddenly, Ultima IV's classic playstyle has been explained"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Yeah, James, the Earl of Jones."
JamesPKing says, "now I want a way longer version of GY." [peanut-gallery] Fang says (to zzo38), "too late for that"
Olly asks (of lpsmith), "That's us, right?"
lpsmith exclaims, "Next up! Best Puzzles! And here to present, Simon Chirstiansen as Doghouse Reilly, private investigator!"
lpsmith exclaims (at Olly), "Of course!" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "It takes the prize from the bucket, and it rubs it on its skin."
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "I mean to IntroComp"
[peanut-gallery] Bainespal says, "Next year the Andromeda 'verse will take over the XYZZYs. It was the secret cosmic plan of the Hyerotropes all along."
[peanut-gallery] Tale says, "hides from Simon."
Johnny applauds, privately.
Wade claps.
Tale hides from Simon. [peanut-gallery] inky says (to zzo38), "sure"
[peanut-gallery] inky says (to zzo38), "but you don't get the prize until you finish the full game anyway"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "not sure why you'd want to do that"
DoghouseReilly climbs stage
JamesPKing strokes Bainespal.
zaphod applauds.
DoghouseReilly puffs his cigarette. It smolders in the darkness, like the last embers from a dying campfire. [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers exclaims, "Bainespal: you won't stand a chance if somebody has the luminous idea of organising a STiffycomp!"
Bainespal frowns.
Tale grins. [peanut-gallery] Nitku says, "If you don't accept the prize, the organizers will track you down and put the money in your wallet by force"
DoghouseReilly says, "Good evening. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Doghouse Reilly. I???m a private investigator. Since I solved last year???s Best Puzzles, I???ve been hired to determine this year???s winner." [peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "What if I don't have a wallet?"
Binder applauds [peanut-gallery] Nitku says, "they will buy you one"
DoghouseReilly says, "I knew the dame was trouble the moment she walked into the chat room, but I needed a case, and determining the winner seemed like a simple matter. What could possibly go wrong? I had a feeling I would regret I ever asked." [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "Or staple a salmon to your forehead."
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "the organizer think of everything"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "But it'll be empty, by necessity."
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "Poor empty salmon."
DoghouseReilly says, "First, I looked into Counterfeit Monkey. An Emily Short game seemed like an obvious candidate for Best Puzzles, and the game had the right level of complexity, with an undercurrent of humor. Like an enameled puzzle box of ten thousand hand-tooled gears, from within which can occasionally be heard a sinister little chuckle. However, I have learned the hard way that the most obvious suspect is almost never the culprit."
Olly attends with bated breath. [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "mm enamel"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Huh, if you had salmon in your veins, I guess they'd swim to your heart in order to spawn."
[peanut-gallery] Binder says (to Jenni), "..."
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "What are the rules in XYZZY and IntroComp dealing with file sizes, systems, graphics, music, etc?"
Wade whispers, "This guy's good."
DoghouseReilly says, "Next, I investigated Dinner Bell. The game was a strange experience, like hurrying home because you left the gas on and discovering that it's become infested with creepy little wainscot gnomes. Could a game based around an Apollo 18 album really be the Best Puzzles winner? It didn't add up."
DavidW says, "yay puzzle games" [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "But they'd be caught by the bears in your aorta."
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "the best thing about that game is the German translation"
Emily says, "yay Dinner Bell"
Jenni doesn't understand this nomination at all, but that's okay.
jenrexrode says, "ding, ding, ding"
DoghouseReilly says, ""Endless, Nameless," seemed like a more obvious candidate. The game appeared innocent on the surface, but there was darkness hidden beneath, like a dark chocolate ganache concealed at the bottom of a packet of Gummi Bears. Surely, Adam Cadre was more than capable of creating the Best Puzzles of 2012." [peanut-gallery] Emily says (to zzo38), "there are no rules about format for XYZZYs"
DavidW says, "I need a dinner bell in RL. One that works and brings me dinner, of course." [peanut-gallery] Zach says, "Mmm"
Ellison cheers
Bainespal rubs his chin thoughtfully. [peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "If it only runs on the Famicom is that OK then?"
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Mmm, gummi bear ganache."
DoghouseReilly says, "At first, I almost disregarded "Bigger Than You Think". After all, how could a choice based game possibly have the Best Puzzles of 2012? Plotkin's name caused me to take a second look, and the choices soon turned out to lead to hidden complexities, like riding your bicycle through a nameless and mist-shrouded city, going in circles, and finally realizing that the bicycle is steering you. I should have learned not to underestimate Mr. Plotkin. That mistake might prove fatal." [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "It'll hurt your chances."
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "that might reduce the number of people who will play and vote for it"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Since relatively few people will be willing/able to play it."
[peanut-gallery] zarf says, "I'd have gone with 'unicycle'"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Unless you can get it running in a browser."
DavidW says, "good set of games for this category"
DoghouseReilly asks, "Then there was "In a Manor of Speaking." Its surreal wordplay was like a trampoline jousting against a Muppet. Could wordplay puzzles be the best of 2012?" [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "I know, I didn't really intend to do that anyways. Many emulators exist though, nevertheless."
Zach cheers for words
Recchi applauds all the games
Binder claps for puzzles. [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "And I refuse to play it if it only runs in a browser."
Jacqueline hands DoghouseReilly a copy of the Best Presenter Evar award. She has more where that came from.
DoghouseReilly says, "No sooner had I asked that question than I ran into "Shuffling Around", if possible an even more complex wordplay game. If traditional IF is a crossword at war with a narrative, then this was like a crossword, five armored regiments, a bomber wing and heavy artillery support, at war with a narrative. Poor narrative never stood a chance."
Jenni says, "New favorite simile: trampoline jousting against a Muppet."
Gunther says, "wait, that was in Nord & Bert" [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "note: lots of evidence just this year that choice-based games can do puzzles just fine"
Zach cheers for sword
zaphod laughs
jenrexrode exclaims, "yay!"
lpsmith cheers for the nominees and the presentation.
Wade applauds.
DoghouseReilly says, "Finally, after walking down many mean streets, and having more than a few bruises to show for it, the answer came to me in a flash, like a bolt of lightning chasing away the night. It was obvious. The winner of the Best Puzzles award was..."
jenrexrode exclaims, "Ayy!" [peanut-gallery] Fang says (to Emily), "well he's not a very good detective"
DoghouseReilly opens the envelope [peanut-gallery] Tale says (to fang), "boo"
Binder holds his breath.
Jacqueline leans forward in her seat.
DoghouseReilly exclaims, "Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short!"
ASchultz applauds for DoghouseReilly's clever amusing narrative and the winner, too
Fang exclaims, "Mon dieu!" [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "He's a GREAT detective. He's got a cigarette and everything."
zarf says, "yay"
Lucea applauds
DavidW says, "huzzah!"
prevtenet exclaims, "Marvelous!" [peanut-gallery] zarf says, "see I told you"
zaphod aplauds wildly
Jenni exclaims, "Yaaaay Monkey!" [peanut-gallery] Johnny returns with a drink.
eu claps!
Jacqueline applauds.
lpsmith cheers!
Binder applauds!
jenrexrode cheers!
Johnny hooray! [peanut-gallery] Lucea says, "he is lousy at first impressions presumably"
Recchi calsps!!
Zach cheers for monkeys
Wade claps.
Bainespal claps.
Emily says, "I think this is the bit where I am supposed to emit a sinister chuckle"
DavidW says, "And YAY to multiple solutions for puzzles!"
Ellison says, "hooray"
DoghouseReilly gets down from the stage
JamesPKing gulps his 15th whiskey, stands and cheers
VictorGijsbers applauds for miss Short. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Very deserving, but I was really hoping Dinner Bell would win something."
Grocible says, "Splendid monkeyness"
jenrexrode clasps! [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Jacq), "Me too."
[peanut-gallery] prevtenet says, "I mean really. How could a game with an 'umlaut punch' NOT win."
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "Is it better if the multiple solutions are not explicitly programmed in?"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "I fell asleep on voting day."
inky updates the BEST PUZZLES entry on the chalkboard.
SimonChris applauds [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline asks (of Jenni), "It was an honor just to be nominated, right? You'll write something else soon, right?"
Tale says, "hooray"
Emily says, "but yeah, I feel like I ought to dedicate this award to Steve Meretzky" [peanut-gallery] Binder says (to Johnny), "People like you don't deserve elections."
[peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "It was! And I don't mind losing."
Emily says, "because I basically borrowed his idea, a lot" [peanut-gallery] Doug says (to Jacqueline), "Best Writing hasn't been announced yet"
DavidW says, "yay T-remover"
Porpentine claps sludgily [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "Although, yeah, spoilers. :P"
(From Olly) JamesPKing falls down. Maybe standing wasn't such a good idea.
Fang says, "hurrah borrowing ideas"
Grocible says, "Great artists steal" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Best Writing is tight, though."
JamesPKing exclaims, "ouch!" [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "I'm mostly excited some poor suckers have to write an analysis of Dinner Bell."
Emily says, "thanks everyone for enjoying it, it was incredibly fun to write" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "yay"
Fang says, "woo"
Emily says, "and it makes me happy that it made other people happy"
prevtenet says, "It did."
Emily sits down [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "haha"
JamesPKing says, "Jenni one can only WIN the XYZZY, not LOSE them."
Fang exclaims, "long live giant spreadsheets of words!"
Jenni exclaims, "Awww!"
lpsmith returns to the stage, clapping. [peanut-gallery] Bainespal says, "It is unquestionably a great game."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline exclaims (at Doug), "Oh right - she's up for more than one!"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline exclaims, "Silly me!"
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "Is there a competition specifically for the Z-machine?"
[peanut-gallery] maga says, "no"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "There are so many categories these days it's hard to keep track."
Fang pushes the button for the floor panel that descends, moving Emily off the stage.
lpsmith exclaims, "Without further ado: the nominees for Best Setting!"
JamesPKing hopes Emily came to the party with a fairly LARGE bag. [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks (of Bainespal), "Are you suggesting a Best Title award?"
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "Then can I make one?"
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "A good problem to have, category proliferation."
Wade exclaims (at SimonChris), "nice presentation!" [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to zzo38), "Of course."
SimonChris says (to maga), "Thanks for the help with the speech :)" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "that saugus.net comp only accepts Inform games"
nm goes home.
maga bows
lpsmith says, "Changes, by David Given: a familiar-yet-alien wilderness under threat."
nm walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side.
Jacqueline applauds. [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "There have been Z-comps, kinda, but nothing regular or currently."
eu claps
Ellison claps
lpsmith says, "Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short: an island dystopia with a culture built on wordplay."
Zach claps
playfic goes home. [peanut-gallery] djfletch says, "there should be a best category category"
Tale claps [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "Rules: You can use any programming language as long as it compile to Z-code, any version 1 to 10 except 6, and not using Unicode features, sound effect, pictures. Font 3 is OK."
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "You can organize a comp, but it's a lot of work, if you do it right."
[peanut-gallery] Bainespal says (to johnny), "No, just making a pointless, obvious comment."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline exclaims (at djf), "Good idea!"
lpsmith says, "howling dogs, by Porpentine: many strange, half-seen worlds and one crushingly mundane one."
J_Chastain cheers [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "more like Best Unsettling"
eu claps. [peanut-gallery] Jenni says, "I should maybe stop being late to a thing. Congratulations and have fun, everybody! <3"
[peanut-gallery] DavidW asks, "What's the current category? Writing?"
[peanut-gallery] Binder says (to djfletch), "yo dawg, we heard you liked giving awards so we made an award for awards"
Tale says, "woo"
zaphod claps! [peanut-gallery] Binder says (to DavidW), "Setting"
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "Other rules: Anyone can vote even on your own game, and in many categories. No email is requirement."
Emily claps and claps [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Bye Jenni."
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "oh. hm."
Ellison claps [peanut-gallery] eu says (to Jenni), "Adios."
[peanut-gallery] J_Chastain says, "HOWLING DOGGGGSSSS"
lpsmith says, "And Zero Summer, by Gordon Levine, Tucker Nelson, and Becca Noe: mean streets and harsh backcountry in a demon-wracked Texas panhandle."
Fang says, "yay dogs" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "later, Jenni. nice to have you around."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline pats zzo38 on the head.
Johnny claps, claps, claps, claps, and claps.
Wade claps the nominees. [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "It's five games right?"
Lucea applauds
Zach cheers for demon Texas [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers exclaims, "I've got to leave guys -- have fun!"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "see ya, Victor"
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "'night, Victor!"
lpsmith says, "And the winner is..." [peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "And gals."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline exclaims, "Bye, Jenni!"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Later, Vic."
Olly waves their blanket. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline exclaims, "Bye, Victor!"
[peanut-gallery] VictorGijsbers says, "And other people."
lpsmith opens the envelope. [peanut-gallery] Nitku gives Jacqueline a brick. "Try with this."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "He doesn't really seem like a Vic."
[peanut-gallery] Flourish exclaims, "By, Vic & Jenni!"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Jacq), "Tor, whatever."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline asks (of Nitku), "Why violence in the streets? Why do you hate old skool?"
lpsmith exclaims, "Wait, this thing has some sort of gel on it. Oh!"
lpsmith exclaims, "Everyone's favorite island dystopia: Counterfeit Monkey!"
Johnny applauds!
VictorGijsbers goes home.
eu claps.
Zach claps [peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "Would you enter if ther is such things?"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "Is *that* five?"
Tale says, "woo"
Binder cheers!
Olly exclaims, "Hooray!"
Wade claps.
Lucea says, "yay"
Bainespal claps
zaphod applauds
DavidW claps
Fang says, "yay" [peanut-gallery] GDorn says, "wow, I should probably play CM."
Porpentine claps frantically
djfletch says, "woot"
JamesPKing climb back on the chair and cheers. then orders a 16th whiskey. [peanut-gallery] prevtenet says, "It's good. Really good."
[peanut-gallery] nm says, "Counterfeit Monkey? But I hardly know 'er!"
[peanut-gallery] GDorn says, "no doubt. I'm just up to my ears in unplayed games."
baf disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
Emily says, "Um, wow, okay"
lpsmith says, "Emily! Get up here! Again."
Jacqueline applauds for Best Setting nominees and for the winner.
Olly thinks Emily needs a winner's holdall.
Emily says, "I wasn't really expecting to win this one, like, at all"
Binder says (to Olly), "ha ha" [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "If someone made a text adventure game for the Famicom and that uses the Famicom keyboard then I might play it."
nm woohoo
Fang pushes the button to raise Emily back on to the stage.
SimonChris claps
JamesPKing applauds.
DavidW says, "I really liked The Saurus Park." [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to zzo38), "If someone made one, it'd probably be you."
Olly cheers for surprises.
Emily says, "so I am not really sure what to say about that, because how do you compete with saint-based empress deaths"
Zach has disconnected.
Zach has connected.
Gunther says, "carefully"
Binder says, "respectuflly"
Emily says, "yeees, I think you are right" [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "dammit"
lpsmith says, "Ha."
Ellison cheers
Emily tips hat to Porpentine, tries not to be assassinated en route off stage
Porpentine flaps appily
Porpentine eats hat cheerfully
Doug asks, "wordplay-based impress dearths?"
lpsmith returns to the stage, clapping. [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "emily the only thing im ever assassinating you with is hugs"
HairBrain says, "when did this become an exercise in competetive dying"
Chief_0110 arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "the horror, the horror"
JamesPKing says, "So, people, now you know how it feels to be nominated alongside with Meryl Streep."" [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "its not really a proper assassination, its more of a hug"
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "aw"
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "that is better, it's true"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "ha ha"
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "sadly I am not sure there's a lot of saint iconography around famous saint hugs"
[peanut-gallery] Emily says, "but there should be"
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "Has anyone ever made a Pokemon game for the Z-machine?"
[jumbotron] * Chief_0110 has joined the channel. [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "i will not play at the great game, i'd rather play at the great hug"
lpsmith says, "So, next up is the award for Best Story. And here to present the award, we have another one-act play, with maga performing for Dierdra Kiai." [peanut-gallery] zarf says, "'we can do you death and hugs without the rhetoric..."
Olly says (to JamesPKing), "Heh." [peanut-gallery] Wade says, "Ugh, the sun's coming up here. I'm not supposed to see that."
maga walks onstage, carrying a chair [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "Hugsassin's Creed"
maga says, "Single spotlight, please. Thank you." [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "</silverstein>"
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "Why aren't you allowed to see that?"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "lpsmith made sure to spell her name right, right?"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison asks, "is maga going to sing this presentation?"
[peanut-gallery] Tale asks, "He's not gonna do a Clint Eastwood, is he?"
zaphod squints
maga looks down for a moment, and takes a deep breath to Get Into Role
Olly hopes maga isn't going to talk to the chair.
Tale says, "Give 'em hell kid" [peanut-gallery] Doug says, "haha"
[peanut-gallery] Lucea says, "oh lord"
[peanut-gallery] * Chief_0110 has joined the channel.
maga sits on the chair
maga says, "Hello, everyone! I'm Deirdra Kiai." [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "ha ha ha oh dear"
[peanut-gallery] Wade says, "It just means I'm up too early"
Olly says, "Hello."
Bainespal blinks.
Ellison says, "we love you, Deirdra!"
Fang says, "huh, I thought you were maga" [peanut-gallery] Wade says, "I don't mean like there's an eclipse or something"
lpsmith cheers wildly, and returns to the stage.
DavidW says (to maga), "Wow, Deirdra, you've changed."
maga says, "Well, actually, I'm not really Deirdra Kiai, just a much better-looking model slash actor playing the part in their absence because they had to go off and play music or something this weekend..."
Emily waves to virtual Deirdra
lpsmith says, "Oops, you're not done, sorry."
lpsmith exits stage left.
Johnny applauds by proxy.
Jacqueline says (to Deirdra), "You're sleeping on the couch this evening."
Doug laughs at lpsmith [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "the idea of maga being a "slash actor" is a little disturbing"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "haha"
maga asks, "Although I'm really not sure about this sequined vest and bowtie combo they made me wear. What do you think? Too garish?" [peanut-gallery] Lucea says, "in 2013 all actors are slash actors"
[peanut-gallery] Binder snorts
zaphod cheers!
Ellison laughs
lpsmith hollers, "Never!" [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Disturbing but perfectly natural, scarily enough."
Olly exclaims, "Not possible!"
maga says, "Anyway. Tonight, I'm here to present some sort of award for Best Story? Huh. Guess I'd better read the nominees, then."
Lucea says, "they might have provided pants" [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks (of Jacq), "Is maga cosplaying right now?"
maga says, ""Changes", a body-snatching sci-fi game about an alien planet of animal-like creatures." [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "no, this is his normal dress"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline asks, "What makes you think he's wearing anything?"
eu claps.
inky updates the BEST SETTING entry on the chalkboard.
Olly barks.
zaphod claps [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "Make a game that is shortened if the game disc is not the original game disc."
[peanut-gallery] Wade says, "No offence to Deirda but I don't think she's a pop culture figure"
maga says, ""Eurydice", a game about grieving a loved one and travelling to the hospital slash underworld to retrieve her."
DavidW says, "yay Changes. Bewildering frustrating Changes" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Jacq), "I'll say there's no picture in my head, and we'll both be happier."
Ellison claps [peanut-gallery] Lucea says (to zzo38), "I believe that is 50% of all games released before 1995"
[peanut-gallery] maga says, "this isn't cosplay, dahling, this is theatahr"
[peanut-gallery] Zach says (to DavidW), "heh"
zaphod applauds! [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "I mean Z-machine games, to be specific."
Wade claps.
maga says, ""First Draft of the Revolution", a game about the process of writing and rewriting letters in an alternate 18th century France with magic in it."
DavidW claps for Eurydice. [peanut-gallery] Doug says, "it's a play, with a costume"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to Wade), "You have a right to your opinion, but Deirdra is my favorite sousaphone player."
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to maga), "Nice bowtie."
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "I don't mean the other one."
[peanut-gallery] Binder asks, "wait, is maga heckling his own performance?"
[peanut-gallery] Wade exclaims, "It's pronounced You-ree-dice!"
maga says, "And finally, "howling dogs", a game about being trapped in a cell and experiencing virtual reality simulations of various degrees of symbolic meaning."
J_Chastain screams
Porpentine shrieks [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "Deirdra *should* be a pop culture figure!"
Johnny applauds all at once. [peanut-gallery] Doug asks, "could maga put on a performance that even maga couldn't heckle?"
Fang says, "woo"
eu applauds all the nominees.
Zach claps
zaphod cheers!
Emily claps
lpsmith cheers!
maga says, "And the winner is..."
Wade claps.
DavidW claps for howling dogs and First Draft
Ellison cheers
Porpentine rolls around
Flourish claps
Flourish claaaaaaaps [peanut-gallery] Binder says (to Doug), "my brain aspode"
maga mimes pulling an envelope from one pocket, opening it up, and reading a note with great attention
maga exclaims, "howling dogs!"
J_Chastain SCREAMS (APPROVINGLY)
Fang says, "WOOOF"
Binder cheers!
Johnny cheers.
GDorn exclaims, "woo!"
zarf says, "woo"
Emily says, "YAYYYY"
eu cheers!
DavidW says, "WOOT"
zaphod applauds wildly!!!
prevtenet exclaims, "Huzzah!"
Zach cheers
Bainespal claps.
Wade claps.
djfletch howls
Flourish cheers for porpentine!
Porpentine FLIES AROUND THE ROOM POURING LIQUID FIRE FROM BEAKHOLE
Tale says, "Fuck yeah!"
lpsmith exclaims, "Yaaa!"
Lucea claps
Olly exclaims, "Arooo!"
Fang thumps Porpentine on the back.
nm claps rougly, rougly, rough ... rough
GDorn exclaims, "aaaa my eyes!" [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "aaaaa firey death"
lpsmith says, "...y"
SimonChris stands up and applauds wildly
Porpentine SLUDGE POURS FROM CLOACA AND CONSUMES EVERYTHING
JamesPKing cheers.
Ellison cheers
DavidW says, "congrats, Porpentine"
Flourish runs from the sludge
HairBrain says, "Napalm win!"
Fang says (to Porpentine), "you should probably have a doctor look at that."
Gunther says, "jesus christ what"
Porpentine flaps on stage
zaphod dissolves
Jacqueline exclaims, "Hooray!! Well done, Porpentine!" [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "stands on his chair to escape sludge."
ASchultz applauds [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "man, this umbrella is turning to be a more important part of my XYZZY outfit every year"
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "ha"
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "ha ha ha"
Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Good advice." [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "ha ha"
J_Chastain HUGS PORPENTINE UNTIL THEY BOTH EXPLODE INTO PURE LIGHTWAVES, SERIOUSLY DISCOLORING THE FURNITURE [peanut-gallery] Tale says (to emily), "haha"
[peanut-gallery] eu says, ""haha"
[peanut-gallery] nm says, "your dog days ate my salad days!"
[peanut-gallery] maga says, "strangely, we budgeted for cloaca sludge cleanup"
Fang sighs and starts mopping. [peanut-gallery] GDorn tries to click on words.
Porpentine says, "thank you..."
DavidW checks his outfit for explosion and cloaca damage.
inky updates the BEST STORY entry on the chalkboard.
Porpentine curtseys explosively
Binder um [peanut-gallery] GDorn says, "no branch from 'cloaca'? I am disappoint."
DavidW says, "boom-chick"
JamesPKing applauds IN CAPS LOCK. and blinking text. and colors.
lpsmith says, "Ha."
Fang finishes mopping.
Porpentine says, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Olly gives Fang a cookie.
Tale says, "Best speech yet!"
DavidW says (to Fang), "don't worry. The cleaners will handle it later."
Porpentine says, "thats my whole speech"
lpsmith exclaims (at Porpentine), "Congratulations!"
DavidW says, "hee hee"
eu claps wildly.
Fang exclaims, "congrats!"
Porpentine rolls around breaking everything
Fang exclaims, "yikes!"
Tale asks, "Even my heart?"
lpsmith signals the stagehands, who come out to the stage, see the mess, and replace teh entire stage instead of trying to clean it up. [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "The awards just get shorter the more categories there are, don't they?"
Olly tries to fend Propentine off with a toad.
nm asks, "even the more than adequate seating?"
lpsmith steps up onto the new stage, testing it out gingerly.
nm says, "wait, that's in the lounge"
DavidW asks, "Perhaps some espresso to calm everyone down?"
Fang does a casualty count.
Fang boggles.
lpsmith exclaims, "OK! Next up, we have the award for Best Writing! And here to present the nominees: Robb Sherwin, aka Recchi!"
Johnny woo.
Fang says, "hurrah writing"
Tale asks, "Hey Robb, how is your house?"
Binder claps for words.
DavidW says (to Olly), "I forgot you had a toad."
Recchi jumps on stage, slips
Ellison cheers
Recchi recovers, does some jazz hands
Doug says, "yay best handwriting!"
Recchi says, "Writing is my favorite aspect to IF. To games in general. While I like filling up the heads of a bunch of bad guys and Nazis with lead, when it comes to filling my head with something, I turn to interactive fiction. =)" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "Recchi is in a house full of animals right now, so he'll probably update us on his cryptid-making progress"
Recchi says, "I didn't get a chance to play this year's nominees for best writing YET, but I will shortly do so for the XYZZY reviews. I am on a laptop with 512MB of RAM, which can only fit into memory about a hundred MP3s, a lightweight-ish modern operating system or the introduction to one of my games."
Tale says, "haha"
Wade exclaims, "zing!"
Recchi says, "I'm on a laptop because I am watching my friend Ben Parrish's dogs in New Mexico. I met Ben in real life after knowing him on-line due to text games. I am so happy to have met so many wonderful people thanks to this hobby. Some of you do not even ask me to watch five (5) dogs."
Jenni goes home. [peanut-gallery] Doug asks, "did Bruce Vilanch write Recchi's jokes?"
[peanut-gallery] Binder asks, "These are jokes?"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "Is that foreshadowing?"
lpsmith laughs, and claps.
Recchi says, "All right, the nominees are:" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Binder), "This is why text games are awesome."
Tale says, "Some only ask you to play howling dogs"
Recchi exclaims, "The lovely CYOA game Bee by Emily Short!" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "Ben Parrish also wrote Annoyotron, which Recchi is going to live-play for us in a moment"
zaphod claps!
Johnny buzzes.
maga claps
Wade claps.
Ellison cheers
Tale claps
SimonChris claps
Lucea applauds
Olly douses neighbors with mead.
Porpentine claps claps claps
Recchi exclaims, "Dinner Bell, a They Might Be Giants-comp game by Jenni Polodna!"
Johnny rings.
maga cheers
lpsmith cheers!
Ellison says, "yay Jenni"
metasynthie salivates.
Binder claps.
DavidW claps.
Tale claps.
zaphod applauds!
Emily says, "yay hilariousness"
Recchi says, "Eurydice, a game of grief by Anonymous! (The author's words, not mine!)" [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "or WERE they"
Johnny uh lyres.
eu claps.
zaphod cheers
Ellison pours out a bit of his 40 for Eurydice [peanut-gallery] Flourish asks, "Is there a Twine channel?"
DavidW strums a lyre
Olly looks behind.
Wade claps. [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "...randomly."
[peanut-gallery] maga says, "yep, #twine"
Tale says, "hooray" [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "hm, need to leave for airport in about ten minutes"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "This was the gardest category to vote for."
Recchi says, "And howling dogs by Porpentine! A game with a title that, well, you can imagine right now."
Johnny arfs. [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "CYOA should be easy enough to do in Z-machine. I can try to program one if you want."
J_Chastain is completely freaking out [peanut-gallery] Doug says, "take it to #let-me-@stat-that-for-you"
zaphod stamps feet!
Binder barks.
Ellison cheers
Emily says, "yay Eurydice! yay howling dogs!" [peanut-gallery] Flourish says, "shaddap"
Zach howls
Porpentine hyperventilates
DavidW arf arf
Flourish claps
eu exclaims, "Yay nominees!"
lpsmith claps.
Recchi says, "OK, lemme get the winner....."
Porpentine furiously inspects her fabulous muscles
Johnny anticipates... [peanut-gallery] Ellison says (to Emily), "just imagine you win every other award. you'll probably be off by only a couple, at most."
metasynthie puts Dark Porpy on Porpentine's neck to calm her. [peanut-gallery] Felix says (to zzo38), "Check out the mca library for I6."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Any one of these is deserving."
Olly doesn't know if the place can stand another win by Porpentine.
Porpentine calms down at dark porpys soothing touch [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "I hope one of this five (5) dogs didn't eat the winner envelope."
Recchi says, "The winner is:"
SimonChris holds his breath
Recchi exclaims, "howling dogs by Porpentine!"
J_Chastain BURSTS INTO FLAMES
Emily says, "hooray!" [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "Ah, OK, I still don't really like Inform much though."
jmac hrays!
Porpentine BURSTS INTO FLAMES
Johnny applauds.
DavidW says, "WHO'S a good doggie!"
SimonChris applauds wildly
zaphod says, "Represent!"
Jacqueline applauds!
eu cheers!
Tale says, "hell yeah"
zarf says, "woo again!"
Flourish howls
Porpentine SHRIEKS
Ellison cheers
Recchi exclaims, "Congrats!"
metasynthie { * } all over the place
Porpentine CRAWLS ON STAGE
djfletch says, "hurrah"
Bainespal claps fervently.
zaphod cheers
Porpentine says, "thank you"
DavidW says, "bow wow WOW"
Binder CHEERS
JamesPKing cheers.
Zach huzzahs
Jacqueline holds her parasol over her head and stands on a chair.
Binder says (to Porpentine), "Please don't destroy me with corrosive exuberance. Again."
nm woort
inky updates the BEST WRITING entry on the chalkboard.
Porpentine says, "i made howling dogs at a very transitional and hard time in my life, and i'm just very glad that people got anything out of it"
lpsmith helps Porpentine to her feet, whispering, "We only have one extra stage; be careful with this one." [peanut-gallery] inky says, "IRTA "traditional", which seemed implausible"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "heh"
Tale says, "hooray for writing from the heart"
lpsmith claps!
zaphod says, "Hear hear!"
DavidW says (to lpsmith), "y'know, we could just put some sage in the t-inserter. Just sayin'."
Lucea applauds
Porpentine says, "every time i play it, i can smell and hear and see everything from that time"
Jacqueline listens.
lpsmith nods.
Porpentine says, "it is a time capsule for my memories, on the East Coast, spending time with a friend"
Porpentine says, "thank you again for feeling however you feel about it"
Porpentine flops offstage
Emily applauds porp
JamesPKing says, "nice work Porpentine. I couldnt figure out a piss about your game, being a foreigner, but I understand that was an awesome piece of art."
zaphod applauds!
eu applauds.
Olly claps.
Binder applauds for feelings.
J_Chastain howls
Ellison cheers
JamesPKing cheers!
lpsmith claps and cheers!
Jacqueline applauds for a really evocative experience of a game.
GDorn says, ".."
Flourish cheers [peanut-gallery] prevtenet says, "I still can't decide if it's brilliant or just inscrutibly bizarre, so I'm going to tentatively go with both. Cool stuff."
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "I go with brilliant."
GDorn exclaims, "also yay!" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "I didn't realize anyone was live-tweeting."
lpsmith returns to the stage. [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "iy's so much expressive that I lost it on the second page. too much emotions for my lil brain. ut extremely creative and resonant"
lpsmith exclaims, "And now, the moment we've all been waiting for, because all of us wait in the present for all moments in the future: the nominees for the Best IF Game of 2012!" [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to Johnny), "You didn't? #xyzzy2012 is trending right now! TAKING OVER THE INTERNETS"
Allen walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Okay, not really."
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "drat"
lpsmith says, "As a technical note, be sure to '@joinc jumbotron' if you're not there already."
Porpentine sheds ten layers of scaly skin
[jumbotron] * Bainespal has joined the channel.
lpsmith exclaims, "First up: Andromeda Apocalypse, by Marco Innocenti!"
[jumbotron] * jmac has joined the channel.
Porpentine sprays purple glitter goo [peanut-gallery] Allen says, "or if you left it after lpsmith's pastebomb yesterday"
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "finally the secret of #umbotron revealed"
[jumbotron] lpsmith | What has happened here, you wonder, looking into the gaping hole. Then, you
[jumbotron] lpsmith | turn to face up, and the sight of the open sky catches your heartbeat for a
[jumbotron] lpsmith | second.
[jumbotron] lpsmith | >X SKY [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "Strange how Tzahnke isn't here."
[jumbotron] lpsmith | The hole has been dug by something, quite big, punching through the metal
[jumbotron] lpsmith | boundaries of the structure you are in. Below, it plunges into darkness.
[jumbotron] lpsmith | Above, a hundred meters away, it opens into the emptiness of space.
[jumbotron] lpsmith | There should be no air here, you shiver. How in Monarch can I breathe?
[jumbotron] * JamesPKing has joined the channel.
eu oohs.
Wade applauds.
maga claps
Tale claps.
JamesPKing bows.
lpsmith exclaims, "Next: Bee, by Emily Short!"
Jacqueline looks up, slight smile on her face, watching the jumbotron, trying to look good in case the cameras show her watching it.
[jumbotron] * jacksonmead has joined the channel.
Porpentine CLAPS MASSIVEL
Porpentine buzzes happily
Porpentine sprays honey
Jacqueline holds up her parasol again.
Wade claps.
[jumbotron] lpsmith | Sara slumps in her chair. "Okay, look," she says. "Every time you read
[jumbotron] lpsmith | something, you're building a bridge between you, the person you are now and
[jumbotron] lpsmith | the time you're in, to the author, the person she was and the time she
[jumbotron] lpsmith | belonged to."
[jumbotron] lpsmith | "Or he."
[jumbotron] lpsmith | "Or he," Sara agrees amiably. "So what the story means, that's partly about
[jumbotron] lpsmith | you and partly about the author. It doesn't just, just mean in the
[jumbotron] lpsmith | abstract. It means something to someone. Meaning exists in relationship." [peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "i have so much emotional luv for Bee"
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "You have to save the monsters from various things (other monsters, human sorcerers, the weather, etc), and touching any monsters (good or bad) by bare hands causes instant death; therefore you have to wear gloves. However, gloves prevent you from wearing rings and activating fingerprint scanners, and takes up part of your maximum carrying weight. Gloves can be used for other things too."
[jumbotron] lpsmith | >EXCEPT IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE RIGHT MEANINGS OF WORDS.
[jumbotron] lpsmith | "Yes," you say. "But what if I don't know what all the words mean? Maybe I
[jumbotron] lpsmith | think 'handkerchief' is a word for a kind of goat. Then the story won't
[jumbotron] lpsmith | mean the right thing."
[jumbotron] lpsmith | "Fortunately you are very good at vocabulary," says Sara, with a mild
[jumbotron] lpsmith | smile. "I don't think you will be having that kind of misinterpretation."
Olly douses Jacq with mead this time. [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "handkerchief is my favorite kind of goat!"
Jacqueline crinkles up her nose at Olly. [peanut-gallery] Doug says, "huh, I don't think I got to that passage"
eu claps. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Hooray GOATS"
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "Renowned for their absorbancy."
lpsmith exclaims, "Next up: Counterfeit Monkey, also by Emily Short!"
Porpentine CLAPS
Olly cheers.
Binder stares raptly at the jumbotron.
maga claps
Amber waves!
[jumbotron] lpsmith | > X POSTER
Wade claps.
[jumbotron] lpsmith | "WARNING: Have you seen these dangerous individuals? If so, avoid contact
[jumbotron] lpsmith | and report all interactions to the Bureau of Orthography."
[jumbotron] lpsmith | Below, there's a picture of several people. One of them is you, before your face got
[jumbotron] lpsmith | shuffled with mine. It's funny that when we met, you mentioned you were a
[jumbotron] lpsmith | user of illegally modified language-tools, but you didn't emphasize the
[jumbotron] lpsmith | grand larceny side so much.
[jumbotron] lpsmith | Not to worry. I won't turn you in. I can hardly afford to, can I?
[jumbotron] * Jon has left the channel. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "This jumbotron thing is awesome."
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "yeah, so cool."
[peanut-gallery] jmac says (to Jacq), "Yup."
[jumbotron] * zzo38 has left the channel. [peanut-gallery] Allen says, "another word for "counterfeit monkey" is goat"
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "It's even better with 3-D glasses."
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Because they make you look like a total dork."
lpsmith exclaims, "And finally: howling dogs, by Porpentine!"
J_Chastain gasps, faints, sits up, eats granola for strength, faints again. [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "But I prefer it without 3-D glasses."
[peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "so that's where the XYZZY Awards budget went to!"
maga cheers
SimonChris stares at the jumbotron in awe
jmac says, "Yay for games"
Olly hides under their blanket.
[jumbotron] lpsmith | They prepare you for the day you shall be assassinated by draping your body
[jumbotron] lpsmith | in red streamers and arranging you aesthetically across carpets and divans.
[jumbotron] lpsmith | You are instructed in
[jumbotron] lpsmith | >the art of dying in the proper light
[jumbotron] lpsmith | Evening's crimson light is perfect for covering up blood.
Johnny applauds too early. [peanut-gallery] Emily says, "yay"
J_Chastain weeps
Porpentine weeps
eu claps. [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "oh man THAT passage"
[peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "i wanst aware of this jumbotron thing"
lpsmith exclaims, "Let's hear it for all the nominees this year!" [peanut-gallery] Binder says, "That one still haunts me."
[peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "guess i've lost a lot"
[peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Well, that and cloaca sludge cleanup."
zaphod shivers
Binder claps for nominees
djfletch says, "hurrah"
Porpentine SHRIEKS FOR NOMINEES
Olly stamps and whistles.
Porpentine HUNGERS FOR NOMINEES
DavidW claps loudly.
zaphod laughs
Wade claps. [peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "Has anyone made any Z-machine games yet that use the 0OP:191 instruction for anything?"
[peanut-gallery] Ellison hungers for nom-nom-nominees
Tale says, "woooo"
Jacqueline applauds for the nominees and the jumbotron.
Flourish hungers for brains
lpsmith says, "And the winner is...." [peanut-gallery] Nitku asks (of zzo38), "Could you please wait until the ceremony is over, or use some other channel?"
[jumbotron] lpsmith | In the rocking boat, with the sound of the motor beneath us, you dream
[jumbotron] lpsmith | of a ceremony on a clifftop with our two families seated looking on, and us
[jumbotron] lpsmith | in a long white dress, carrying a bouquet of scrabble tiles, walking down
[jumbotron] lpsmith | an aisle alone to be formally unified with ourself
lpsmith exclaims, "Counterfeit Monkey!" [peanut-gallery] zzo38 says, "OK"
Porpentine CLAPS CLAPS
Johnny ooks!
eu cheers!
Wade claps.
jmac says, "Yaywoo"
Ellison claps
zaphod applauds!
zarf cheers
maga claps
prevtenet exclaims, "Wahoo!"
Recchi cheers
Bainespal claps. [peanut-gallery] Jon says, "the #z-machine channel would seem appropriate"
[peanut-gallery] Porpentine says, "YAYYAAYAYYY EMILYYYYY"
Tale says, "yay"
Flourish claps
djfletch cheers
Emily gets up on stage
JamesPKing CHEERS WOWS AND CHEERS!
Binder cheers and stomps.
Flourish is unsurprised, but nevertheless delighted!
Jacqueline applauds for all the nominees and the jumbotron.
nm claps, laps, and las [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "I didnt' know it was gonna be a short ceremony!"
DavidW says, "oh my. Bouquet of Scrabble tiles." [peanut-gallery] (from Ellison) Emily says, "Plane to catch! See ya!"
Emily says, "I am actually feeling a tiny bit tearful right now AND ALSO there is a taxi that wants to take me to the airport, like, right now"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh, wait, that was the winner!!!! Yay, Emily!"
Emily says, "so this will be really short"
Nitku exclaims, "yay!" [peanut-gallery] Binder says (to Ellison), "ha ha"
jmac ha ha
lpsmith exclaims, "Timing!"
Wade laughs at Jacqueline.
inky updates the BEST GAME entry on the chalkboard.
SimonChris applauds
lpsmith exclaims, "Just like you!"
Emily says, "but this game was really special to me"
Fang is told of the death of Christ, and becomes so angry that the brain bursts from his head, and he dies. The blood from the wound baptises him as a Christian, and his soul goes to heaven.
Porpentine listens [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to Wade), "Sorry, I was so distracted by the Jumbotron, you see...."
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "What is the WORSE GAME entry?"
DavidW says (to Emily), "Thank you for Best Game of 2012!"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Yes, thank you!"
Ellison says, "hooray" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "These are awards, not dewards."
Emily says, "and writing it I spent a lot of time struggling with what it means to write things, and about language and community and democracy and the worlds we construct with our words"
Tale says, "sweet"
Emily says, "and this is a great place to think about and do those things" [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to Emily), "So many years of work, thank you."
Olly looks solemn.
Emily says, "and now I am going to get on a plane and try not to be glorpy"
Lucea applauds!
Zach cheers
Emily waves
maga exclaims, "safe flight!"
zarf applauds
eu cheers.
zaphod cheers!
Jacqueline exclaims, "See you soon - safe flight!" [peanut-gallery] HairBrain asks, "The mud is a democracy?"
Tale asks, "Did she mean gblorb?"
Felix exclaims, "Take care!"
lpsmith hollers, "Be as glorpy as you want!"
Jacqueline exclaims, "Well done, you!"
Wade waves.
jacksonmead exclaims, "Bon voyage!"
JamesPKing says, "it was an honor to be a nominee among these people."
Porpentine glorps in solidarity
Emily goes home.
Emily has disconnected.
Bainespal says, "Congratulations."
DavidW says, "yay CM and all other nominees!"
djfletch says, "monkey monkey monkey" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "granola, lox, oatmeal, raisins, peanuts, yogurt"
lpsmith exclaims, "Thank you all for coming!"
Ellison cheers
eu claps for all of the 2012 awesomeness.
Flourish claps for everyone
zaphod applauds
Zach says, "Thanks for organizing it!"
Ellison says, "thanks, MCs and organizers!"
Johnny clap-claps.
Wade claps JamesPKing on the back.
lpsmith exclaims, "And we'll see you all next year... AT THE XYZZYIES!"
jmac says, "Damn good year for text games."
Olly hugs people.
Porpentine grabs j and soars up into the sky
Fang arrives from the west.
Zach dumps honey on Olly
Binder applauds the MC. [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "next year, the jumbotron will gain sentience"
Porpentine crashes through the skylight
Binder says (to lpsmith), "Excellent job."
Tale says, "Thanks to all the organizers & presenters!" [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "aie"
Bainespal stands up and walks over to get a good look at the chalkboard.
(From lpsmith) Lights illuminate the stage as the music starts up once again, and lpsmtih dances off, stage left. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says (to jmac), "Well said."
Gunther disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
[jumbotron] lpsmith says, "Sure, it's traditional." [peanut-gallery] Nitku says, "Next, the kiss cam"
[peanut-gallery] Binder says, "JumboVolTron"
Olly sticks to the stage.
Wade exclaims (at Aschultz), "7 am here. I guess I'll plow on to breakfast!" [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "Anybody need examining?"
[peanut-gallery] Fang asks, "I missed the jumbotron?"
[peanut-gallery] zzo38 asks, "Examining what?"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "noooooooooooooooo"
lpsmith says, "If you'd like to hang out in the Carousel Bar and Grill, as is traditional post-XYZZYies, you're welcome to do that." [peanut-gallery] Binder needs alcoholing.
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to zzo38), "Nothing!"
lpsmith says, "It's w. n. u."
Flourish leaves the auditorium to the west.
nm goes home.
Wade says, "breakfast time for me."
Olly leaves the auditorium to the west.
maga leaves the auditorium to the west.
Recchi goes home.
Zach leaves the auditorium to the west.
jmac goes home.
zzo38 leaves the auditorium to the west.
prevtenet disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
Fang asks, "where will the transcripts appear?"
Binder leaves the auditorium to the west.
eu departs.
Roger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. [peanut-gallery] JamesPKing says, "cheers all. it was a nice evening."
SimonChris leaves the auditorium to the west.
JamesPKing leaves the auditorium to the west.
Ellison is whisked away by a violet beam of violent energy!
zarf leaves the auditorium to the west.
lpsmith says (to Fang), "Good question! I presume they'll at least be linked from xyzzyawards.org"
jacksonmead goes home. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Aloha."
Ellison walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side.
Johnny does like justice, but that's taking it a bit far.
Ellison leaves the auditorium to the west. [peanut-gallery] Zach says, "We have a grill? I've been eating cereal this entire time."
DavidW says, "Brass Lantern tends to have transcripts."
Fang says, "okeydokey"
Johnny walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side.
DavidW leaves the auditorium to the west.
Wade leaves the auditorium to the west. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "This was possibly the craziest ceremony yet."
Nitku leaves the auditorium to the west. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "dangit"
Johnny leaves the auditorium to the west.
djfletch leaves the auditorium to the west. [peanut-gallery] Jacqueline says, "Wait, forget I used the word 'possibly'"
[peanut-gallery] Fang checks the awards he missed. Very deserving
[peanut-gallery] Felix says, "So it wasn't just me."
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says (to Jacqueline), "please. You've not seen the pre-you-joining-the-MUD ones"
[peanut-gallery] DavidW asks, "inky, did you lose a 'the monocle'?"
Jacqueline concentrates, and disappears.
Jacqueline walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice her approaching it from the other side.
Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
Allen leaves the auditorium to the west.
Fang leaves the auditorium to the west.
Doug leaves the auditorium to the west. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Maybe it's part of a puzzle."
[peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "oh, from inky's quest? Then I'll put it back."
[peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "No!"
[peanut-gallery] inky says, "it popped out when I was astonished"
Bainespal goes home.
Chief_0110 goes home. [peanut-gallery] DavidW says, "oh"
Miseri disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
Porpentine goes home. [peanut-gallery] inky says, "or possibly scandalized by an anecdote about the lower classes"
DavidW arrives from the west. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "l"
[peanut-gallery] Binder says (to maga), "No doubt. If I could send you beer over IP I would."
Lucea disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
DavidW gives the monocle to inky.
[jumbotron] * Lucea has joined the channel.
inky leaves the auditorium to the west.
DavidW leaves the auditorium to the west.
Tale leaves the auditorium to the west.
inky walks out from under the archway south of here, although you didn't notice him approaching it from the other side.
Felix leaves the auditorium to the west.
inky leaves the auditorium to the west.
Recchi arrives from the west.
Recchi leaves the auditorium to the west.
J_Chastain goes home.
zaphod disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
HairBrain leaves the auditorium to the west.
lpsmith leaves the auditorium to the west.
metasynthie leaves the auditorium to the west.
The 'Carousel Room' Bar & Grill
Zagat's says, "The Carousel may not actually spin -- but after a couple cocktails prepared by master mixologist Flanz Loomi, you'll think it does!" This more than makes up for that barb in the local indie weekly declaring, "Why do they call it the Carousel? Because the men act like small children and the women look like horses." Goddamn smart-ass Gen-X punks.
You can see: IF WRITER'S FORUM ground rules, Grue Bouncer, MUD Author Chat Suggestion Book, verbs for interview situations
Players: Flourish, maga, zzo38, Binder, Zach, JamesPKing, SimonChris, zarf, Ellison, Nitku, djfletch, Wade, Jacqueline, Fang, Doug, DavidW, Tale, inky, HairBrain, Recchi, lpsmith, metasynthie
Visible Exits: down
lpsmith has teleported you to The 'Carousel Room' Bar & Grill.
Tale says, "Me too"
zarf says (to doug), "yeah, I figured you'd make up a word at random"
Nitku says, "hee"
zarf says, "It was a last-minute thing"
DavidW looks around for the bartender.
Zach says (to DavidW), "Surprise! It's you!"
zzo38 says, "I make up names at random for my Dungeons&Dragons character by using a Texas Instruments graphing calculator"
Fang says (to DavidW), "well, I have some porpentine gloop if you want any"
zarf says, "If I'd been planning, the whole Westing Game quote would have actually been smooth"
DavidW reaches over the counter and helps himself.
Binder says, "Well, that didn't last."
Binder re@gags.
JamesPKing says, "The beer was meant for maga, tho."
DavidW says (to Fang), "Thanks, but I'm okay with more traditional beverages."
maga says (to JPKing), "it's a little early for it here, but sometime"
Binder says (to Jacqueline), "So you convinced me. I'm going to try to enter IntroComp"
Jacqueline exclaims (at Binder), "Yay!"
Ellison says, "inside IntroComp, it's too dark to write IF"
metasynthie waves bye to Inky. "Nice to bump into you again!"
Doug asks, "has there been a TitleComp?"
metasynthie goes home.
DavidW says (to Doug), "yes"
JamesPKing says, "this very moment, my IF friends here in Italy are DROOLING just because i'm here, nominated, sharing a virtual room with zarf and the likes."
DavidW says, "It was called StupidTitleComp, iirc,"
JamesPKing says, "imagining there is something like a zard alike somewhere"
Binder says (to JamesPKing), "I bet they also want to lick Tim Schafer."
Wade says, "I concede it's pretty special to be in the room with me"
Jacqueline says (to JPK), "They could be here, too."
Jacqueline says, "Possibly not nominated, but here."
Flourish asks (of JamesPKing), "They won't get on the MUD for the sake of Zarfliness?"
DavidW says, "http://ifwiki.org/index.php/StupidTitleComp"
zzo38 asks, "StupidTitleComp? Is that the one that you can only make the title and the game doesn't work?"
Wade asks, "What time is it in Italy?"
JamesPKing says, "yes ofc they want to have your autograph, wade"
JamesPKing says, "23:18"
Wade exclaims, "Alriiiiight! I got fans!"
JamesPKing says, "aka 11.18pm"
HairBrain is no hero, he's just a guy who likes insulting people.
HairBrain has disconnected.
zzo38 asks, "How do I make a competition for text adventure game?"
Wade says, "7:18 am here"
Binder says, "Whoa, you guys are time travelers."
JamesPKing says, "'You know peeps? I was nominated alongside Emily Short.' 'OOooohhhHh! Were you seating next to her?!""
Binder laughs.
Wade makes spooky noises.
DavidW says (to zzo), "You decide on a title, rules, format, restrictions, deadlines, then announce it somewhere or several somewheres."
Doug says (to DavidW), "hm, I was thinking a TitleComp would be more like IntroComp for the really really lazy"
Fang disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
Binder says (to Doug), "I like the way you think."
JamesPKing says, "k, cig. brb. zzo38, if you are not a Pudlo Drone, check the intfiction forums and look fot the Andromeda legacy Comp. I made it, and it was simple"
zzo38 says (to DavidW), "O, OK, so that is how it work."
Jacqueline says, "I kind of wish there was an excerpt or ending comp."
Binder asks, "How would that work, write it backwards?"
zzo38 says, "Perhaps I can post a sign in my room with the rules in it and a machine to enter and vote on it, and then announce."
JamesPKing asks, "jacq when is the transcript going to be online?"
Jacqueline says, "Well, you'd write the ending and people would then be all GOSH, HOW DID IT COME TO THIS"
Doug asks, "how about a Finish Someone Else's Unfinished IntroComp Entry Comp?"
inky says, "Ghogg had an excerpt comp"
Zach says, "An excerpt comp would be interesting, though it might be even more fun if the other parts of the game were left to the imagination."
Jacqueline says (to Doug), "hahaha - great idea"
Binder says, "Sounds a bit like the Star Wars prequel movies, had any been made."
zzo38 says (to Doug), "That is another kind of idea; that might be OK too."
Jacqueline says, "Possibly people would be incited to murder, but great idea."
Binder says, "Murder IS a great idea."
Doug says, "MurderComp"
maga asks, "so, which games from 2012 do folks think missed out on nominations?"
DavidW says, "There was one little known game that did something unusual with presentation."
Doug says, "I didn't play it, but from the buzz I was a little surprised Endless Nameless didn't get more noms"
Wade says, "hm, I think it was pretty good. As usual, it's hard to nominate things because of the glut of things and the specificity of some categories"
zzo38 says, "My rules are that the format must be Z-machine (any programming language is OK), versions 1 to 10 except 6, no Blorb containers, no Unicode, no sound effect (other than beeps), no picture."
Wade says, "And you've already addressed some of those things with those lists on ifdb"
zzo38 asks, "What things? What lists?"
Zach says, "I wonder if Endless, Nameless didn't suffer for being released early in the year."
Tale asks (of davidW), "baby tree?"
Binder says, "That's a valid concern. It's hard to be early and not get overshadowed."
maga says, "I think E,N was pitched in a way that led to relatively few people actually playing it"
DavidW says, "The Small World of Professor Strange: http://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_23_tiny_world/"
Jacqueline asks, "Well, and then CM was released like, what, on New Year's Eve?"
lpsmith says (to maga), "Oh, right, that was the game that claimed, "I'm not actually a new game!""
zzo38 says, "O, there is another rule, which is that the license is not more restrictive than CC-BY-NC-SA or GNU GPL."
Binder laughs at the [programmer at work] mode button.
Ellison says, "I think E,N itself has a certain barrier keeping casual players from seeing the heart of its point, but I have to admit that I also didn't vote for E,N for things since I didn't think it'd mean much to Adam to win more awards."
Zach says, "Yeah, E,N took some time to peel away the layers."
Doug says (to maga), "that's exactly why I didn't play it :)"
Wade says, "I read a lot of reviews but didn't play it either"
maga says, "I think Bee deserved more love than it got, and Zero Summer had an awesome NPC cast, and Choice of Kung Fu deserved a nod or two"
Zach says, "Oh yeah, Choice of Kung Fu was great."
DavidW says, "I never did finish Endless, Nameless. I got so far, and then got very very stuck. Possibly because I don't share Adam's viewpoints on much."
Jacqueline says, "Belatedly, in response to maga, I think Choice of Kung Fu deserved some nominations."
Zach asks, "What was that barbarian sci-fi game? Was that from 2012?"
inky says, "hmm"
inky says, "it was released as a pay version a while ago"
maga asks (of Zach), "what, Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom?"
inky says, "and then later released as free, I think"
Ellison asks, "Treasures of a Slaver Kingom or whatever?"
Zach says, "Oh, 2007. Yeah."
Wade says, "I sorta wish the Choice Of games had better names. Choice Of (X) over and over is so boring! And I know that's the point, but I can only speak for myself."
Binder says, "I do tend to zone out after three Choice Of $foo names in a row."
Jacqueline says (to Binder), "It was very good."
Jacqueline says, "Felt epic."
Binder will have to give it a spin.
Jacqueline says, "With one NPC I loved."
Binder says, "I do like epic. Except, apparently, for epic rock."
Wade exclaims, "I need more choice of choice of games game names. Ha!"
Zach says, "Yeah, it was a CYOA that really seemed like the choices mattered in shaping the plot."
djfletch says, "Sometime I'm going to learn Choicescript purely in order to write a game called Choice Of Desserts From The Trolley."
Doug says, "Choice of the Hobson"
Jacqueline says, "I think that's what I nominated for, Feng for best NPC."
maga says, "yeah, its title is totally $GENRE ADVENTURE #7, but it's really the best thing they've done since Broadsides"
DavidW says, "The Spiffy one: Choice of Orifices."
maga asks, "I have to choose?"
Zach says, "haha"
inky says, "hmm ok"
inky says, "I was going to comment I can't really tell the difference in quality between choicescript games"
Ellison says, "ha"
inky says, "but if that's just because I've mostly played the best ones"
DavidW says, "I've only played a few of them, via CF."
Binder says, "LIkewise"
Jacqueline says, "We actually have a couple loaded up on Floyd that we haven't played yet."
Jacqueline says, "We should try those."
JamesPKing asks, "so, erm... sorry fpr beng continuously lame... but how do you leave a channel?"
Jacqueline says, "Though tomorrow I think we're finishing up last week's game."
inky says, "@leave #channel"
Jacqueline says (to jpk), "@leavec"
JamesPKing says, "thx"
Binder asks, "So what does CF become in the wake of the XYZZYs, playing overlooked should-have-contendeds?"
Wade says, "Thinking of leaving peanut-gallery by any chance? I just did, hehe"
Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, maybe it's what inky said instead, or maybe those both work."
Zach asks, "Are we going to finish Shuffling Around?"
inky says, "you can in general shorten commands here"
zarf walks off through the wall; vivid gold light flares briefly around him.
Binder says, "@leave #channel -huffily is how I do it"
inky says, "(the actual name is @leavechannels)"
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Son of Stagefright? yeah, I've been good and not played past the point we stopped at."
JamesPKing says, "I HAVE to make a sheet for this mud thing"
Wade says, "Zarf left before I got a chance to tell him how I didn't understand anything he did or said"
JamesPKing says, "guess he knows"
JamesPKing says, "was part of the puzzle"
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "also, I suggest adding Rat Chaos to the list of CF games-to-play."
Jacqueline exclaims, "This has been a great Xyzzy year, with a good ceremony, but I need to head out for a bit. Good to see everyone!"
Zach says, "Definitely, I need to play that one too."
JamesPKing asks, "I suppose CF can't play twine games?"
Wade says, "seeya Jacqueline"
Zach says, "Bye"
Jacqueline walks out the door says, "...and remember to submit your intent to enter for IntroComp!"
Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
SimonChris asks, "How do you "exclaim" things?"
Binder says, "Yeah, I hadn't heard of Rat Chaos before it won (oops, bad person)."
Wade exclaims, "put an exclamation mark on the end!"
JamesPKing says, "by putting a '!' at the end"
SimonChris exclaims, "Oh!"
JamesPKing exclaims, "THIS I KNEW!"
DavidW says (to James), "I'm not sure if Floyd handles Twine yet or not."
Wade flips SimonChris over his shoulder.
Binder laughs.
Ellison says, "you can turn it off by '@set me = noexclaim', but it sounds like you wouldn't want to!"
Binder says, "I kind of like the idea that one can opt in to monotone."
Tale says, "Noexclaim is for the cool kids!"
Fang has arrived. [peanut-gallery] Johnny says (to Fang), "I'd like to hear your thoughts on To The Moon."
Wade says, "I'm suspicious of all monotoners."
inky says, "you can also type !stuff instead of "stuff or say stuff" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "I liked it a crapton."
Binder exclaims, "stuff"
inky says, "and then you will exclaim everything"
Binder says, "whoa"
Tale exclaims, "I wonder if that overrides the noexclaim"
Binder says, "inky, you just became my hero."
Ellison says (to inky), "dang"
Binder exclaims, "this is the best" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Okay, I guess that's enough."
SimonChris says, "I always have to re-learn how to use the mud every year. Maybe I should try to to stop by some day between awards."
inky says, "(this doesn't work on channels, although maybe it should)"
Binder exclaims, "I can monotonically yell all the time"
DavidW says, "And ?this" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "hah"
SimonChris exclaims, "stuff" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "I kinda wonder if it should have been eligible for the xyzzys"
Tale says (to SimonChris), "You could heckle me a bit"
DavidW asks, "does it work"
SimonChris says, "stuff" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "but I suppose putting graphical stuff into the competition is pushing it"
Zach asks, "That's weird"
Binder asks, "that's awesome!"
Binder exclaims, "now I don't know how to feel?"
DavidW says, "ha ha" [peanut-gallery] Johnny says, "Okay, I'm making a VN channel already."
Wade exclaims, "LOUD NOISES!" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "hah"
[peanut-gallery] inky says, "it's an elastic definition, but I think in general only games that are *by* members of the community are eligible"
Flourish says, "OK, I am off. Farewell all.""
JamesPKing exclaims, "i hate when peeps look at me bad because i achronymize sentences of lmao or gt because in the reading class this is considered gross"
Wade says, "Seeya Flourish"
Flourish goes home. [peanut-gallery] Fang says (to inky), "enh, I don't like that"
[peanut-gallery] inky says, "that's fine"
JamesPKing exclaims, "i mean: i'm from the bad part of town. i may have become rich and brilliant but i'm still from the bad part of town" [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "The new eligibility rule is "it's on IFDB" I think?"
SimonChris exclaims, "I should probably get to bed too. It's been great seeing everyone!" [peanut-gallery] Fang asks, "you mean rulebreaking games that are by members of the community?"
Wade says, "hehe"
JamesPKing exclaims, "98% of the words I've spoken online were in World of Warcraft" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says (to Fang), "thing is, if you let TTM in, you let in all graphic adventures"
Binder says (to JamesPKing), "But now you've gentrified the bad part so no one can live there." [peanut-gallery] vimes says, "hm, i thought there was some discussion on intfiction re: that and it was basically decided that "games are eligible if someone puts them on ifdb""
Wade says, "bye Simon" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "because otherwise see insularity"
Tale says, "Laters, Simon" [peanut-gallery] Fang says (to vimes), "hah"
JamesPKing says, "bye simon" [peanut-gallery] Fang says (to Gunther), "yeah, that's the difficulty"
SimonChris goes home.
JamesPKing exclaims, "what does gentrified mean?"
Wade says, "I was complaining about the sun, but actually the sunrise was spectacular, with great shafts of light. Turns out there's a bunch of smoke in the air that's making the light look great" [peanut-gallery] inky says, "yeah, sorry, I should have commented I was giving the old, unwritten definition"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "fortunately, there are many other prizes for it to win"
JamesPKing says, "lol"
Wade says, "Hm, how to explain it."
Binder says (to JamesPKing), "Oh, like paying so much for housing that other housing is raised in price."
JamesPKing says, "you bless the pollution" [peanut-gallery] Fang asks, "what about VN, though?"
Zach disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
Wade says, "This isn't Shanghai :) If there's smoke in the air here, someone is either burning rubbish near me (which is illegal) or maybe there is a bushfire somewhere (more likely)" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "I think that if twine is elligible, stuff like Love's Digital:ALS should be eligible"
Binder says (to JamesPKing), "Or having a block of tenement apartments torn down to build an expensive condo building."
JamesPKing says, "yep. guess i'm a rapper with the gold crosses round his neck and the chicks and everything"
Binder says, "Yup."
Tale disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again.
Olly has arrived.
Binder asks (of Wade), "Maybe you're just on fire?" [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "Too much overloading, you think?"
Wade says, "I kinda thought I was, though that stupid unicode translation of some of my punctuation during my presentation almost got me"
JamesPKing asks, "wade. is the smoke in front of you, on your back or all around you?" [peanut-gallery] Johnny asks, "ilac?"
Wade says, "Only in the back yard :)" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "maybe xyzzy could do with a 'non-traditional' category"
Olly has left. [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "for weird stuff that's tangentially related to IF"
JamesPKing asks, "i mean: you DO have an escape route, right?" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "again, there are already awards for that stuff"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "sure"
Wade says, "Oh yeah. I mean if it is a bushfire, it is still far off and I am in a highly urbanised area" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "otherwise you get VLR and its tens of thousands of fans ruining the polls"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "but awards don't have to be non-overlapping"
[peanut-gallery] Fang asks (of Gunther), "well, if they only vote in that one category, does it matter?"
Wade says, "And now it's definitely breakfast time for me."
Wade says, "It's been real! I'll see ya all later, probably on intfiction as I'm only on this mud a few times a year" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "there's a nomination for every category from all eligible games"
JamesPKing says, "i'm a bit depressed. my book is not selling" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "and hey, suddenly VLR is in each of them with a 100,000 vote advance"
Wade asks, "oh which book is this?"
JamesPKing says, "guess i should stop pretending I'm a writer." [peanut-gallery] inky says, "well, it matters if the xyzzy organizers have to do a bunch of extra work to track down the games and handle the votes and stuff"
JamesPKing says, "a novel. published it in Amazon. ebook" [peanut-gallery] Roger says, "I guess it is traditional to have this conversation after every awards, every year"
JamesPKing says, "in a week I sold ... SIX copies" [peanut-gallery] Ellison says, "I dream of a world where Bioshock Infinite *can* sweep the XYZZY awards!!"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says (to Roger), "haha"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "I just think that it'd be valuable in terms of building connections with other genres and stuff"
inky says, "well, that's not bad"
Wade says, "ah. Well, it's a super hard market to shift units in without some kind of backup"
inky says, "presumably your mom only bought one"
Wade says, "I mean promotion or groundswell or insane word of mouth..."
JamesPKing says, "fun part, if you have fun with maths, is that in 3 days, selling no book, i dropped from 900th to 4500th position in the global charts."
JamesPKing says, "then, by selling ONE, I jumped up to 1,500th"
Ellison says, "this is where you tell your (hopefully still living) father to re-marry. then you can have more mothers."
JamesPKing says, "this means Amazon doesn't sell a lot of ebooks, in general :)"
Wade says, "heh" [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "I mean, heck, I've seen the awards on Furry Media or what's called, having a category for best non-furry movie"
Wade says, "ok really gotta go"
Wade says, "bye guys"
Binder says, "Later Wade"
Wade goes home. [peanut-gallery] Fang says, "so, I don't think there's *really* much threat for people stuffing the polls"
JamesPKing says, "cya wade"
JamesPKing says, "my mother and father, although both living, surely DIDN't buy my book" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "you must've missed the last decision over this because of this, then"
JamesPKing says, "friends did, I think"
JamesPKing says, "This means I have 6 friends with a kindle reader or similar" [peanut-gallery] Fang asks, "did it actually happen?"
Binder says, "So then the solution is easy, make more friends with Kindles."
Binder says, "Or give Kindles to all your friends who lack them." [peanut-gallery] inky says, "hmm"
[peanut-gallery] Roger says, "There remains the risk that someone might game the system and win all the awards. Just like Emily did this year."
[peanut-gallery] inky says, "ha ha"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "haha"
[peanut-gallery] Fang says, "ITYM zarf"
JamesPKing says, "that would be the usual half-solution. you find the key and go for the door. when you unlock the door, the key breaks and then you cannot go further because of the broken key you'd need somewhere else." [peanut-gallery] Fang asks, "who the heck zarf-proofed that envelope?!?"
[peanut-gallery] Gunther asks, "zarf did, why?"
JamesPKing says, "i want to sell MILLIONS of books, not hundreds" [peanut-gallery] inky says, "the problem was the zarf was coming from inside the envelope"
JamesPKing says, "that, or being reborn with a far larger d**k" [peanut-gallery] Tale says, "It's zarfs all the way down"
JamesPKing says, "whatever is easier" [peanut-gallery] Doug says, "it was a Klein Envelope"
Binder asks, "Well, how hard is it to create reincarnation?" [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "a kleinvelope"
Binder says, "It might be easier than writing a best seller."
JamesPKing says, "harder than me selling millions of books"
JamesPKing says, "i mean easier, sorry"
Binder says, "The joke works, either way."
inky has left.
JamesPKing says, "infact i agree"
Binder says, "Hey where'd the afterparty go."
JamesPKing says, "this is why i'm leaving now. to commit suicide while praying Buddha for a bigger penis"
Binder says (to JamesPKing), "OK, good luck with that."
JamesPKing says, "eventually not glowing light blue"
JamesPKing says, "night people. it was realy awesome being part of the night. thanks al who voted me"
JamesPKing says, "i mean: my game"
Binder says, "Later, JPK."
JamesPKing says, "bb"
JamesPKing goes home.
Nitku says, "I choose to read that as "Thanks, Al, who voted me""
Binder heh
Ellison says, "thanks, Radical Al. you are radical."
djfletch can produce a dozen witnesses to swear he was elsewhere.
Ellison says, "ok, later all!"
Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst..
Ellison has disconnected.
Binder resumes idling in the designated idling room.