Start of a transcript of: Portrait with Wolf A rendering by Drew Cook Release 0 / Serial number 250330 / Inform 7 v10.1.2 Inform 7 v10.1.2 Identification number: //89DD0F9A-7F65-497B-A0F6-4B86CEFA7236// Interpreter version 1.3.6 / VM 3.1.2 Undo Output Control version 6.0.220529 by Nathanael Nerode (based on the extension by Erik Temple; integrates Empty Command Handling by Daniel Stelzer based on code by Matt Weiner) Subcommands version 2.0.221104 by Daniel Stelzer (incorporating fixes from Vince Laviano) Menus version 5 by Wade Clarke Basic Help Menu version 4 by Wade Clarke Simple Multimedia Effects For V10 version 6 by Mathbrush Hacking by Mathbrush Press any key to craft a portrait. Portrait with Wolf ^_^ A fun activity <3 by Drew Cook Release Nulla / Serial number 12345 / Inform 7 v10.x / D This is a fun game with a gimmick. A Brightly Lit Room A light shines down from an unknown source. It is so bright that you can barely see anything. An easel stands under the light. It is a very sturdy and safe place for a bit of portraiture. There are four options: (*C*) cat motif (*T*) turnip motif (*B*) boot motif (*A*) astronaut motif >t The turnip symbolizes loyalty and resilience. *** How Fun *** Want to try again? Press any key to restart! Portrait with Wolf ^_^ A fun activity! by Drew "Drew Cook" Cook Release Nulla / Serial number 120B31 / Inform 7 v10.x / D I heard you're into art. A Room (Brightly Lit) A light shines down from an unknown source. You can't see a thing. It's too bright! The easel is small, and covered with chipped, gray paint. It's perfect for more gallery-stuffing! (*C*) harmless cat (*T*) blameless turnip (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) unimpeachable boot (*A*) innocuous astronaut >t Beware of estranged family members. *** You Have a New Blood Panel Available *** Let's keep going! Press a key to restart. WOLVES WOLVES by NOT a WOLF Release Nulla / Serial number WOLVES / Inform 7 v10.x / D There is definitely not a wolf here. Wolf Room (currently empty) A light pours from an unknown source. It's too bright. The easel might be a good place for a Caring Person to pin you, like a bug, and Keep You Out of Trouble. (*C*) cat, definitely not a wolf (*T*) turnip, definitely not a wolf (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) boot, definitely not a wolf (*A*) astronaut, definitely not a wolf >a Expect changes to your work prospects and cortisol levels. *** You Have a New Blood Panel Available *** You're enjoying this, aren't you? A Tin Cup Filled with Incisors A beautiful story by Sincerity Made Flesh Release Nulla / Serial number ADSFJKADFS / Inform 7 v10.x / D What wolf? Wolf Room Light pours in from above. It's so bright. Jesus Christ, Sylvia, just pick a motif. (*C*) cat (*T*) turnip (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) boot (*A*) astronaut (times incorporated: 1) >b A low, gravelly rumble passes through bared fangs emerges The floor catches your eye catches you But a wolf is an idea ? your idea of extraction *** How Lineated *** You think you want to stop, but I know you'll press a key anyway. I Was Only Trying to Help You --- by The Only Person Who Will Ever Love You Release Nulla / Serial number AAAAAA / Inform 7 v10.x / D Are you crying? Convalescence The light is as cold as it is bright. Imagine how cool it would feel on your cheek. (*C*) innocent cat (*T*) unblemished turnip (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) unimpeachable boot (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) irreproachable astronaut (times incorporated: 1) >t Imagine living down there, held fast by the earth. *** Back to the Cellar with You *** I don't know what you're talking about. Portrait of Protagonist with Wolf Red ink on parchment by A. Wolf Release Nulla / Serial number 240731 / Inform 7 v10.x / D Oh, quit. It's not like there were a lot of wolves. An Empty (?) Room There is a further problem with the light. Go on, finish it. (*C*) portrait with cat (*T*) portrait with turnip (times incorporated: 3) (*B*) portrait with boot (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) portrait with astronaut (times incorporated: 1) >t There's no need to be ugly. Later, alone, you part the curtains, and, even in the dark, you see that the grass is overlong. The yellow light of a streetlamp falls over the blades. It is quiet, and you are alone: this is the time that you wait for, this is the secret of a long life. Wow, the DEFAULT ending! I knew you'd be good at this :* *** Is That Winning *** Well? Is that it? Keep pushing. - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? Still Life with Wolf ^-^ A good time by A Loving Friend Release I / Serial number 12345 / Inform 7 v10.x / D Press the "enter" key or choose a letter to make your "art." Wolf Gallery (unoccupied) It's a cool morning in late March, and the air through the windows is sun-drunk and brisk. The floors smell like wood soap, shining dully in the indirect light. Here, the real vanishes into the possible, each day longer and warmer than the one before. This easel certainly looks safe and stable. (*C*) cat motif (*T*) turnip motif (*B*) boot motif (*A*) astronaut motif >b The silence is hot, strong. *** How Aphoristic *** Let's try again! Tilt-a-Wolf @@ A wholesome amusement by The Barker Release I / Serial number BWEH / Inform 7 v10.x / D I know you'll love this crazy gimmick! Midway What lies beyond the light is unknown, and its mystery attracts and repulses. This is a perfect easel, even if it is more paint than aluminum. (*C*) irresistible cat (*T*) rooted turnip (*B*) weighted boot (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) bedside astronaut >a The judge expected you to attend at least three meetings a week, so you found one in Grandview that was on your way home from work. Walking up the block, you saw your reflection in a large, storefront window. It was the first time you had seen yourself, full-body, in some time. You were suprised by how fat you looked, your red, sweaty flesh hiding the bones of your face. You walked faster, looking down. When you returned to your car, you crossed a block away, avoiding the store entirely. *** Is That Your Blood *** It's nice to see you enjoying yourself. Some Wolving Required Easy-to-follow instructions by Top Expert Release I / Serial number WLF / Inform 7 v10.x / D Some fun, huh? Newspaper-Lined Cage A room blanching in white light. The rest is fascination. You're such a cute little bug! I want to pin you to this easel. (*C*) transfixing cat (*T*) firm turnip (*B*) assertive boot (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) supplicating astronaut (times incorporated: 1) >a I'd like to take you someplace cold. *** Doesn't That Sound Nice *** Let's just finish this first. The Bloody Newspaper A profoundly touching account by One Toucher, Profound Release I / Serial number SGR / Inform 7 v10.x / D Is the wolf in the room with you right now? Dewolfification Field You cannot see what tantalizes, its secret work. You're afraid that your scarf will catch and anchor in the wheel. (*C*) cravy cat (*T*) tasty turnip (*B*) buffet table boot (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) appetizing astronaut (times incorporated: 2) >t A wolf is a dog that won't look where you're looking a dog who knows where the action isn't *** You Are Filled with Nourishing Collagen *** Not this again. Everything's OK! You Are OK! A delicious and nutritious treat by The County Assessor Release I / Serial number 12345 / Inform 7 v10.x / D I hope you aren't crying again. Triagery And now you know. But do you? Is there another secret? The wolf consumed by bear. Bear consumed by a family of tigers. Family consumed by a doom of rats, crashing in waves. Lattices of fungi rustling within a book lung. Keep your hands off those snacks! (*C*) satiated cat (*T*) tickled turnip (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) buoyant boot (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) assuaged astronaut (times incorporated: 2) >a You are a lot of not much to look at. *** Convalescence Is Hot *** It's not my fault every time something bad happens to you. Portrait of Patient with Wolf Blue paint on drop-cloth by Lou Puzz Release I / Serial number 240731 / Inform 7 v10.x / D The wolves were just a creative risk! There were never more than two of them of them 0:3 Partially-Filled Room This light, here, and the places without light, here. Get down and smell the metal. (*C*) cuddly cat picture (*T*) turnip fritter photo (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) boot, screen-scraped (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) iron-on astronaut (times incorporated: 3) >t Those who burn meat to please the gods know little of meat or gods Even if you are always alone, it's best in the times when you are alone with yourself. Anything?a car door, a faraway dog, a train whistle traveling far over still air?you are its only witness! These experiences belong to you, they are yours, and someone would have to tunnel through your organs to reach them. So this is the default ending? *** This Must Be What Winning Feels Like *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > guide (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 3. Unfinished Sketches (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) ( - Fundamentals of Portraiture) (a love note) Portrait with Wolf is a portrait gallery, and you are supposed to fill it. You had better fill it }:] Just use the motifs and incorporate them into your doodle. You like letters, I know you do: *C*: pet your cat motif ^_^ *T*: stew a turnip motif ~> *B*: pull up that boot motif \_\_ *A*: get dressed, astronaut <[- (some procrastinations) *GUIDE* - Instructions and post-game "rewards." *RESTART* (or *UNDO*) give up on a portrait and start over. *FORGET* - Wipe out all progress. Give up! Forever! (don't you do it!). *QUIT* - Try to leave (as if you'd ever). *ENDINGS* or (*E*) - Experience the absence of success. Once eight portraits hang in the gallery, the project might feel complete. But will you? ------------------------ (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 3. Unfinished Sketches (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) ( - Fundamentals of Portraiture) (a love note) Portrait with Wolf is a portrait gallery, and you are supposed to fill it. You had better fill it }:] Just use the motifs and incorporate them into your doodle. You like letters, I know you do: *C*: pet your cat motif ^_^ *T*: stew a turnip motif ~> *B*: pull up that boot motif \_\_ *A*: get dressed, astronaut <[- (some procrastinations) *GUIDE* - Instructions and post-game "rewards." *RESTART* (or *UNDO*) give up on a portrait and start over. *FORGET* - Wipe out all progress. Give up! Forever! (don't you do it!). *QUIT* - Try to leave (as if you'd ever). *ENDINGS* or (*E*) - Experience the absence of success. Once eight portraits hang in the gallery, the project might feel complete. But will you? ------------------------ (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 3. Unfinished Sketches (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) ( - After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable)) This content is currently unavailable. ------------------------ (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 3. Unfinished Sketches (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) The gallery's status is two out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables -- Can You Run in Those Boots -- Space Is For Real -- [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? Still Life with Wolf ^-^ A good time by A Loving Friend Release I / Serial number 12345 / Inform 7 v10.x / D Press the "enter" key or choose a letter to make your "art." Wolf Gallery (unoccupied) It's a cool morning in late March, and the air through the windows is sun-drunk and brisk. The floors smell like wood soap, shining dully in the indirect light. Here, the real vanishes into the possible, each day longer and warmer than the one before. This easel certainly looks safe and stable. (*C*) cat motif (*T*) turnip motif (*B*) boot motif (*A*) astronaut motif >b The silence is hot, strong. *** How Aphoristic *** Let's try again! Tilt-a-Wolf @@ A wholesome amusement by The Barker Release I / Serial number BWEH / Inform 7 v10.x / D I know you'll love this crazy gimmick! Midway What lies beyond the light is unknown, and its mystery attracts and repulses. This is a perfect easel, even if it is more paint than aluminum. (*C*) irresistible cat (*T*) rooted turnip (*B*) weighted boot (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) bedside astronaut >b That was when you were still living with the compulsive shoplifter. One night, she came home, and placed something the size of a Thanksgiving turkey on the coffee table. It was was a cleft wad of rubber the color of blushing white flesh. "Look at that," she laughed, "just look at it!" Bending near, you saw that it was a prosthetic?a sculpture of a human butt. Something about the sight of it made you sad. She'll never stop stealing, you thought. She'll get arrested, get out, do it again, get arrested. She'll never stop. So far as you know, she never did. You haven't seen her in three years. *** Hot Ternary *** It's nice to see you enjoying yourself. Some Wolving Required Easy-to-follow instructions by Top Expert Release I / Serial number WLF / Inform 7 v10.x / D Some fun, huh? Newspaper-Lined Cage A room blanching in white light. The rest is fascination. You're such a cute little bug! I want to pin you to this easel. (*C*) transfixing cat (*T*) firm turnip (*B*) assertive boot (times incorporated: 2) (*A*) supplicating astronaut >b Problems with digestion and sleep in full flower. *** Is That Your Blood *** Let's just finish this first. The Bloody Newspaper A profoundly touching account by One Toucher, Profound Release I / Serial number SGR / Inform 7 v10.x / D Is the wolf in the room with you right now? Dewolfification Field You cannot see what tantalizes, its secret work. You're afraid that your scarf will catch and anchor in the wheel. (*C*) cravy cat (*T*) tasty turnip (*B*) buffet table boot (times incorporated: 3) (*A*) appetizing astronaut >b Unwolf. Ungrowling unfixing you with undead eyes An uncall unclose *** Things Are Looking Up *** Not this again. Everything's OK! You Are OK! A delicious and nutritious treat by The County Assessor Release I / Serial number 12345 / Inform 7 v10.x / D I hope you aren't crying again. Triagery And now you know. But do you? Is there another secret? The wolf consumed by bear. Bear consumed by a family of tigers. Family consumed by a doom of rats, crashing in waves. Lattices of fungi rustling within a book lung. Keep your hands off those snacks! (*C*) satiated cat (*T*) tickled turnip (*B*) buoyant boot (times incorporated: 4) (*A*) assuaged astronaut >b A tiny amount of weight, lovingly applied, to a neck. *** You Have Acquiesced *** It's not my fault every time something bad happens to you. Portrait of Patient with Wolf Blue paint on drop-cloth by Lou Puzz Release I / Serial number 240731 / Inform 7 v10.x / D The wolves were just a creative risk! There were never more than two of them of them 0:3 Partially-Filled Room This light, here, and the places without light, here. Get down and smell the metal. (*C*) cuddly cat picture (*T*) turnip fritter photo (*B*) boot, screen-scraped (times incorporated: 5) (*A*) iron-on astronaut >b You want to be caught. It's the catching you crave. You get used to things. If it?yes, it?weren't pressing you down, you'd have to decide. Get up? Shower? Eat? Work? This is the fullness of freedom, this is the agentic experience we all crave. How that boot shines! *** You Like It Down There *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? You're Seeing Things Again An intervention by The Optometrists of Adversity Release II / Serial number ------ / Inform 7 v10.x / D Go on, press "enter" or pick a letter. Wolf Visualization Chamber It's too bright. I hope you appreciate the safety and stability of this easel. (*C*) real cat (*T*) actual turnip (*B*) corporeal boot (*A*) verified astronaut >t What about me? *** How Seen You Must Feel *** Try again! Wolf Story The noble beauty of God's creatures by An Animal Lover Release II / Serial number ahhhhh / Inform 7 v10.x / D I know you love my gimmick. Commissary Teeth gate the bolted sea between light and street. This chipped paint seems so authentic! (*C*) cat you didn't make up (*T*) turnip in today's paper (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) tangible boot (*A*) statistical astronaut >a You should get a new coat. It's too tight, and you've spilled coffee all over it. You don't look good in that coat, so you should get a new one. The color isn't flattering: the gray of its waterproof fabric leaches into your skin. You look exsanguinated, and definitely could use a new coat. It isn't keeping the cold out, so what is it for? You feel cold all the time, and the wind tickles the fine hairs on your arms and neck. You're too big for that coat. *** Is That Blood I Smell *** Go on, press it. There's a Fang in My Soda A Winston Lockheart Mystery by Agatha Crowley Release II / Serial number WHODUNIT / Inform 7 v10.x / D You like fun, don't you? Easel, Light, motifs I will show you light in a handful of teeth. Make trouble and I'll pin you, cheek first, to that portrait. (*C*) wolf-shaped cat (*T*) meat-scented turnip (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) foot cave (*A*) bloody astronaut (times incorporated: 1) >t The pills make your teeth itch. *** You Are Mostly Safe *** We're just getting started. Behind the easel, Under the Light An innocuity by Henry Release II / Serial number HISSSSS / Inform 7 v10.x / D What do you mean you can't take it? You can take it. The Vee Vee Section A fang owes the light its gleam. All by yourself you are a huge camellia glowing and coming and going, flush on flush. (*C*) vegan cat (*T*) fanged turnip (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) slavering boot (*A*) incurious astronaut (times incorporated: 1) >b That's not a wolf. That's not a wolf. That's not a wolf. That's not a wolf. That's not a wolf. That's not a wolf. That's not a wolf. That's not a wolf. That's not a wolf. It isn't. *** Between Things and the Sole *** I can't take you anywhere. The Calm Before the Canid A relaxation by Rhea Surrance Release II / Serial number 07201980 / Inform 7 v10.x / D Your invitation to pity is declined. Transmutation Wing A halo of teeth, whiter than light. Shadows fleeing into the broad dark. Is an easel more than its contents? (*C*) pressed chicken shapes (*T*) terrinous terrine (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) animal cracker (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) fruited gelatin (times incorporated: 1) >a Space pervades. *** Now for the Cold Part *** The only common denominator is you. Portrait of Small Fires with Wolf Red on Black by Loretta S. Fang Release II / Serial number <.< / Inform 7 v10.x / D The wolves were just a creative risk! There were never more than three of them ;) Room (full) All safety is prologue. Kneel before it. (*C*) cat under glass (*T*) turnip over rice (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) boot over bug (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) astronaut with space weasel (times incorporated: 2) >t Is it dark out there, or is it just you. It is dark, and so quiet. Where do you end and where is your edge? You hear your own heart squelching in your ears. There is a place between you and nothing, if you can push through all the something. Life, you know, is pushing. You must be the fault in the default, if you know what I mean and I know that you know what I mean *** That's What I Call Winning *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? You're Seeing Things Again An intervention by The Optometrists of Adversity Release II / Serial number ------ / Inform 7 v10.x / D Go on, press "enter" or pick a letter. Wolf Visualization Chamber It's too bright. I hope you appreciate the safety and stability of this easel. (*C*) real cat (*T*) actual turnip (*B*) corporeal boot (*A*) verified astronaut >a In space you can almost see forever. But not even you deserve that. *** How Orbitular *** Try again! Wolf Story The noble beauty of God's creatures by An Animal Lover Release II / Serial number ahhhhh / Inform 7 v10.x / D I know you love my gimmick. Commissary Teeth gate the bolted sea between light and street. This chipped paint seems so authentic! (*C*) cat you didn't make up (*T*) turnip in today's paper (*B*) tangible boot (*A*) statistical astronaut (times incorporated: 1) >a You should get a new coat. It's too tight, and you've spilled coffee all over it. You don't look good in that coat, so you should get a new one. The color isn't flattering: the gray of its waterproof fabric leaches into your skin. You look exsanguinated, and definitely could use a new coat. It isn't keeping the cold out, so what is it for? You feel cold all the time, and the wind tickles the fine hairs on your arms and neck. You're too big for that coat. *** Is That Blood I Smell *** Go on, press it. There's a Fang in My Soda A Winston Lockheart Mystery by Agatha Crowley Release II / Serial number WHODUNIT / Inform 7 v10.x / D You like fun, don't you? Easel, Light, motifs I will show you light in a handful of teeth. Make trouble and I'll pin you, cheek first, to that portrait. (*C*) wolf-shaped cat (*T*) meat-scented turnip (*B*) foot cave (*A*) bloody astronaut (times incorporated: 2) >a Breathing was never your intent. *** A Minor Thriving Incident *** We're just getting started. Behind the easel, Under the Light An innocuity by Henry Release II / Serial number HISSSSS / Inform 7 v10.x / D What do you mean you can't take it? You can take it. The Vee Vee Section A fang owes the light its gleam. All by yourself you are a huge camellia glowing and coming and going, flush on flush. (*C*) vegan cat (*T*) fanged turnip (*B*) slavering boot (*A*) incurious astronaut (times incorporated: 3) >a Fangs part before the growl You like worrying You do what you like *** Please State Your Emergency *** I can't take you anywhere. The Calm Before the Canid A relaxation by Rhea Surrance Release II / Serial number 07201980 / Inform 7 v10.x / D Your invitation to pity is declined. Transmutation Wing A halo of teeth, whiter than light. Shadows fleeing into the broad dark. Is an easel more than its contents? (*C*) pressed chicken shapes (*T*) terrinous terrine (*B*) animal cracker (*A*) fruited gelatin (times incorporated: 4) >a Space pervades. *** Now for the Cold Part *** The only common denominator is you. Portrait of Small Fires with Wolf Red on Black by Loretta S. Fang Release II / Serial number <.< / Inform 7 v10.x / D The wolves were just a creative risk! There were never more than three of them ;) Room (full) All safety is prologue. Kneel before it. (*C*) cat under glass (*T*) turnip over rice (*B*) boot over bug (*A*) astronaut with space weasel (times incorporated: 5) >a Next time we do date night, let's go someplace endless and empty. The sky is open. It's too open. If you let go of the ground for even one second, you would float away. The air would get thinner and colder, everything quieter and colder until the water in you crystallized, until the jewels of your blood dazzled, polishing cloth without end, amen. Let's have a look at that suit. *** Vacuum Sealed for Your Protection *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? Stop Inviting Wolves Over An unflinching assessment of your shortcomings by The Obligatory Adult Release III / Serial number WLFLVR / Inform 7 v10.x / D Do what I say. The Vampire's Place of Power You, in light. A painting is not its easel. (*C*) your cat, not mine (*T*) turnip, your favorite (*B*) my boot, your fault (*A*) astronaut in the closet >t We met at that Spanish restaurant on Whittier. You were drinking a twelve year-old Macallan, as if alcohol were for tasting. You said that you fell into information technology during the dot-com boom, and felt trapped by the money you made. If you could do it again, you said, looking down at the bar, you would have been a writer. "What sorts of things do you write?" I smiled, wiping a bit of vodka from my lips. I could have just eaten you up. *** How Verdant *** Keep going. Commemorative Porcelain Wallves A priceless keepsake by NOT a WOLF Release III / Serial number 1-800-CALL-NOW / Inform 7 v10.x / D What did I say? Call Center You barely remember the dark. Why do you keep looking behind the easel? (*C*) cat perched on a trash can (*T*) self-interring turnip (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) affectionate boot (*A*) astronaut-shaped sausage >b Getting you getting what you want *** The Panelists Have Returned *** Enjoy it while you can. Our World, Un-Wolved A remembrance by The Right Reverend Wilberforce Release III / Serial number RIP / Inform 7 v10.x / D Let me have a little fun. Studio 8 The only dark here is the kind you bring on your back. Put your hands there while I keep you out of trouble. (*C*) cat lapping at a puddle (*T*) heavy metal turnip (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) boot-heel plumbing dirty water (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) astronaut in flight >t Thick July, blotting you out. Left alone with older children while your parents worked. Blessed is the child old enough to be their own keeper *** Fortunately Gone *** Keep them where I can see them. At Night, They Come An overstated danger by An Ambulating Hunger Release III / Serial number TRY2NJYIT / Inform 7 v10.x / D You're wrong. This is fun. Extirpation Alley The dark is a seduction of voracity. What wonders recline there? Darling, you're caught in your own machinery again. (*C*) cat staring into a wall (*T*) turnip reaching down (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) boot traversing a curb (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) astronaut at the bulkhead door >b The less you look, the better it feels. *** Nothing Never Happens *** Time is a fat circle. I Tried to Tell You A matter of justice by A Well-Regarded Author Release III / Serial number [the current serial number] / Inform 7 v10.x / D Go ahead and cry. Tundra Mauled out in the open again, pried like a scallop. Did you chip the paint? (*C*) cat who knows where the action is (*T*) turnip who knows when to stay put (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) boot who knows when to say no (times incorporated: 2) (*A*) astronaut who knows when to hold their breath >t Behind your arms. That's good. Keep going. *** You Have Met My Expectations *** We can't have nice things. Portrait of Poet with Wolf Mere pixels by The Soft-Hearted Jailer Release III / Serial number DDMMYY / Inform 7 v10.x / D The wolves were just a creative risk! There were only four of them. Echo-Filled Canyon Even surprises announce themselves at the door. Don't worry, I love the way you look! (*C*) portrait with carnivore (*T*) portrait with black earth (times incorporated: 3) (*B*) portrait with flinch (times incorporated: 2) (*A*) portrait with void >b Only the leaver returns. It's dark enough for thinking, now, and quiet. There must be a light beyond the window, and houses housing people and refrigerators. Trash cans and kitchen cabinets. Yours is a world of many wonders. The default ending squeaks over your low bar. *** Another Victory *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > e The gallery's status is six out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables -- Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? Stop Inviting Wolves Over An unflinching assessment of your shortcomings by The Obligatory Adult Release III / Serial number WLFLVR / Inform 7 v10.x / D Do what I say. The Vampire's Place of Power You, in light. A painting is not its easel. (*C*) your cat, not mine (*T*) turnip, your favorite (*B*) my boot, your fault (*A*) astronaut in the closet >t We met at that Spanish restaurant on Whittier. You were drinking a twelve year-old Macallan, as if alcohol were for tasting. You said that you fell into information technology during the dot-com boom, and felt trapped by the money you made. If you could do it again, you said, looking down at the bar, you would have been a writer. "What sorts of things do you write?" I smiled, wiping a bit of vodka from my lips. I could have just eaten you up. *** How Verdant *** Keep going. Commemorative Porcelain Wallves A priceless keepsake by NOT a WOLF Release III / Serial number 1-800-CALL-NOW / Inform 7 v10.x / D What did I say? Call Center You barely remember the dark. Why do you keep looking behind the easel? (*C*) cat perched on a trash can (*T*) self-interring turnip (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) affectionate boot (*A*) astronaut-shaped sausage >t You long to remain after the gazelles have all gone. *** Their Grace Is Their Flight *** Enjoy it while you can. Our World, Un-Wolved A remembrance by The Right Reverend Wilberforce Release III / Serial number RIP / Inform 7 v10.x / D Let me have a little fun. Studio 8 The only dark here is the kind you bring on your back. Put your hands there while I keep you out of trouble. (*C*) cat lapping at a puddle (*T*) heavy metal turnip (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) boot-heel plumbing dirty water (*A*) astronaut in flight >t Thick July, blotting you out. Left alone with older children while your parents worked. Blessed is the child old enough to be their own keeper *** Fortunately Gone *** Keep them where I can see them. At Night, They Come An overstated danger by An Ambulating Hunger Release III / Serial number TRY2NJYIT / Inform 7 v10.x / D You're wrong. This is fun. Extirpation Alley The dark is a seduction of voracity. What wonders recline there? Darling, you're caught in your own machinery again. (*C*) cat staring into a wall (*T*) turnip reaching down (times incorporated: 3) (*B*) boot traversing a curb (*A*) astronaut at the bulkhead door >t Pressed, face-down into the dirt breath humid on your neck smelling like iron and muscle is a choice *** Presented by Mutual of Omaha *** Time is a fat circle. I Tried to Tell You A matter of justice by A Well-Regarded Author Release III / Serial number [the current serial number] / Inform 7 v10.x / D Go ahead and cry. Tundra Mauled out in the open again, pried like a scallop. Did you chip the paint? (*C*) cat who knows where the action is (*T*) turnip who knows when to stay put (times incorporated: 4) (*B*) boot who knows when to say no (*A*) astronaut who knows when to hold their breath >t Behind your arms. That's good. Keep going. *** You Have Met My Expectations *** We can't have nice things. Portrait of Poet with Wolf Mere pixels by The Soft-Hearted Jailer Release III / Serial number DDMMYY / Inform 7 v10.x / D The wolves were just a creative risk! There were only four of them. Echo-Filled Canyon Even surprises announce themselves at the door. Don't worry, I love the way you look! (*C*) portrait with carnivore (*T*) portrait with black earth (times incorporated: 5) (*B*) portrait with flinch (*A*) portrait with void >t You are not lighter than you look. If you go down far enough, the above will abash your atoms. Some lateral abashment can't be helped. Somebody's in the mood for turnips. *** Getting Under the Over *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > e The gallery's status is seven out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? The Portrait We Lost in the Fire A commemoration by The Manager Release IV / Serial number W4WLF / Inform 7 v10.x / D I won't say it again. Do it. Ash-Filled Urn You are a peeled potato blanching in white light. I wonder if it could bear your weight? (*C*) crepuscularium (*T*) rutabag (*B*) lemon-scented tawse (*A*) cold rolling facility >a Weight gain and diminished immune function. *** How Vast *** Don't quit. A Wolf-Lined Terrarium A good time by The Toploftical Helpmeet Release IV / Serial number FFFFFF / Inform 7 v10.x / D We are the police. Box (heated) A painted concrete floor, rust-red and dulled by wear. A metal easel, black-graphite under chipped gray spray paint. A light obscuring its fixture. It can handle a bit of roughhousing. (*C*) taurine (*T*) silicon (*B*) petroleum (*A*) Kodachrome (times incorporated: 1) >t You smell like dirt. *** How Undulant *** Don't start. Portraits in Oil A vivid rendition by Greased Fauna Release IV / Serial number ------ / Inform 7 v10.x / D More of this, less of you. Greased Concrete A light falling from nowhere, another nowhere at the edge of its reach. What do you suppose it tastes like? (*C*) limbic (*T*) zirconian (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) phenolious (*A*) plumbesque (times incorporated: 1) >b Get down. Get down. Get down there. There. Get down. *** I'll Squeeze the Luck Right Out of You *** This is the last time. These are the last times. Your Teeth in a Printer's Tray A memorable occasion by Maxine Toothtaker Release IV / Serial number TTHTTH / Inform 7 v10.x / D When you're having fun, I'll tell you. Calcified Pergola A pinprick of anticipation spearing a dark cloth. You are a pure acetylene virgin attended by roses. (*C*) dinner bell (*T*) reed place-mat (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) flat, long-handled spoon (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) Bakelite flatware (times incorporated: 1) >a This is the perforation you've been waiting for *** You're Bleeding All Over Me *** You are a low fiber food. Waiter, There's a Wolf in my Soup! A reasonable complaint by A Discerning Patron Release IV / Serial number [an indelible mark] / Inform 7 v10.x / D Would you like to hear our specials? Easel Number Five The dead time between the other times. Try not to buck. (*C*) swamp (*T*) desert (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) aphosis (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) alpine (times incorporated: 2) >t Survival is a high-risk investment. *** The Shears Never Lie *** That button won't push itself. Portrait of Throw Rug with Wolf Red, gray, and brown on painted concrete by Today's Discerning Carnivore Release IV / Serial number compile date / Inform 7 v10.x / D Intensity under target Helping Easel (restrained) This light was lit on your behalf, and it will go dark when you leave. Flat, stilted. (*C*) gloating (*T*) superior (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) theory (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) space (times incorporated: 2) >b I can't wait to see you on the ice, you on ice What is here with you, here in the dark? You are only the sound of your systems. Upstairs, the dark is different: less vocal, more convincing. The toilet tank does not always fill, and the sound of its river spills into every empty space. Outside, a car door slams, and you jump. For only a second, you are unhearable, you are absence entire. If default is normal, why are you here? *** A Conquering Throb *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > e The gallery's status is eight out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > guide (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 3. Unfinished Sketches (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) The gallery's status is eight out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? The Portrait We Lost in the Fire A commemoration by The Manager Release IV / Serial number W4WLF / Inform 7 v10.x / D I won't say it again. Do it. Ash-Filled Urn You are a peeled potato blanching in white light. I wonder if it could bear your weight? (*C*) crepuscularium (*T*) rutabag (*B*) lemon-scented tawse (*A*) cold rolling facility >a Weight gain and diminished immune function. *** How Vast *** Don't quit. A Wolf-Lined Terrarium A good time by The Toploftical Helpmeet Release IV / Serial number FFFFFF / Inform 7 v10.x / D We are the police. Box (heated) A painted concrete floor, rust-red and dulled by wear. A metal easel, black-graphite under chipped gray spray paint. A light obscuring its fixture. It can handle a bit of roughhousing. (*C*) taurine (*T*) silicon (*B*) petroleum (*A*) Kodachrome (times incorporated: 1) >b I don't want you but I've got you where I want you *** Hot Metrology *** Don't start. Portraits in Oil A vivid rendition by Greased Fauna Release IV / Serial number ------ / Inform 7 v10.x / D More of this, less of you. Greased Concrete A light falling from nowhere, another nowhere at the edge of its reach. What do you suppose it tastes like? (*C*) limbic (*T*) zirconian (*B*) phenolious (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) plumbesque (times incorporated: 1) >a Stains and radiation are no match for VISOL! *** Patent Pending *** This is the last time. These are the last times. Your Teeth in a Printer's Tray A memorable occasion by Maxine Toothtaker Release IV / Serial number TTHTTH / Inform 7 v10.x / D When you're having fun, I'll tell you. Calcified Pergola A pinprick of anticipation spearing a dark cloth. You are a pure acetylene virgin attended by roses. (*C*) dinner bell (*T*) reed place-mat (*B*) flat, long-handled spoon (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) Bakelite flatware (times incorporated: 2) >b Commemorate your mauling with a signed and numbered porcelain retractor *** You're Bleeding All Over Me *** You are a low fiber food. Waiter, There's a Wolf in my Soup! A reasonable complaint by A Discerning Patron Release IV / Serial number [an indelible mark] / Inform 7 v10.x / D Would you like to hear our specials? Easel Number Five The dead time between the other times. Try not to buck. (*C*) swamp (*T*) desert (*B*) aphosis (times incorporated: 2) (*A*) alpine (times incorporated: 2) >a A rare snow between the holidays. You zipped up your jacket?tan accented with brown and orange?and walked into it. Finding a spot of dry needles under a tree, you sat down. Silence, then a pine creaking in the cold. More silence. You wanted to sleep there under the tree, sleep there forever. *** You Are Atoms and Atoms Are Empty *** That button won't push itself. Portrait of Throw Rug with Wolf Red, gray, and brown on painted concrete by Today's Discerning Carnivore Release IV / Serial number compile date / Inform 7 v10.x / D Intensity under target Helping Easel (restrained) This light was lit on your behalf, and it will go dark when you leave. Flat, stilted. (*C*) gloating (*T*) superior (*B*) theory (times incorporated: 2) (*A*) space (times incorporated: 3) >b I can't wait to see you on the ice, you on ice What is here with you, here in the dark? You are only the sound of your systems. Upstairs, the dark is different: less vocal, more convincing. The toilet tank does not always fill, and the sound of its river spills into every empty space. Outside, a car door slams, and you jump. For only a second, you are unhearable, you are absence entire. If default is normal, why are you here? *** A Conquering Throb *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > e The gallery's status is nine out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > Select of one the options listed, you goose! - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > guide (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 3. Unfinished Sketches (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) The gallery's status is nine out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > guide (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 3. Unfinished Sketches (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) ( - Fundamentals of Portraiture) (a love note) Portrait with Wolf is a portrait gallery, and you are supposed to fill it. You had better fill it }:] Just use the motifs and incorporate them into your doodle. You like letters, I know you do: *C*: pet your cat motif ^_^ *T*: stew a turnip motif ~> *B*: pull up that boot motif \_\_ *A*: get dressed, astronaut <[- (some procrastinations) *GUIDE* - Instructions and post-game "rewards." *RESTART* (or *UNDO*) give up on a portrait and start over. *FORGET* - Wipe out all progress. Give up! Forever! (don't you do it!). *QUIT* - Try to leave (as if you'd ever). *ENDINGS* or (*E*) - Experience the absence of success. Once eight portraits hang in the gallery, the project might feel complete. But will you? ------------------------ (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 3. Unfinished Sketches (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) ( - Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable)) This content is currently unavailable. ------------------------ (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 3. Unfinished Sketches (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) The gallery's status is nine out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? The Portrait We Lost in the Fire A commemoration by The Manager Release IV / Serial number W4WLF / Inform 7 v10.x / D I won't say it again. Do it. Ash-Filled Urn You are a peeled potato blanching in white light. I wonder if it could bear your weight? (*C*) crepuscularium (*T*) rutabag (*B*) lemon-scented tawse (*A*) cold rolling facility >t There's no good reason to go this far east on Broad someone wearing a dress shirt and white cotton underwear yells at you from the corner "where are you going baby" baby, not far. baby *** How Emetic *** Don't quit. A Wolf-Lined Terrarium A good time by The Toploftical Helpmeet Release IV / Serial number FFFFFF / Inform 7 v10.x / D We are the police. Box (heated) A painted concrete floor, rust-red and dulled by wear. A metal easel, black-graphite under chipped gray spray paint. A light obscuring its fixture. It can handle a bit of roughhousing. (*C*) taurine (*T*) silicon (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) petroleum (*A*) Kodachrome >a Since starting the antipsychotics, you've gained at least ten pounds. You need new clothes, but that would be giving up, wouldn't it? Expanding into a whole new wardrobe every year. Are you giving up? *** Space is God's Closet *** Don't start. Portraits in Oil A vivid rendition by Greased Fauna Release IV / Serial number ------ / Inform 7 v10.x / D More of this, less of you. Greased Concrete A light falling from nowhere, another nowhere at the edge of its reach. What do you suppose it tastes like? (*C*) limbic (*T*) zirconian (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) phenolious (*A*) plumbesque (times incorporated: 1) >t The earth birthed every stone hard enough to break your teeth on *** How Delicious *** This is the last time. These are the last times. Your Teeth in a Printer's Tray A memorable occasion by Maxine Toothtaker Release IV / Serial number TTHTTH / Inform 7 v10.x / D When you're having fun, I'll tell you. Calcified Pergola A pinprick of anticipation spearing a dark cloth. You are a pure acetylene virgin attended by roses. (*C*) dinner bell (*T*) reed place-mat (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) flat, long-handled spoon (*A*) Bakelite flatware (times incorporated: 1) >a This is the perforation you've been waiting for *** You're Bleeding All Over Me *** You are a low fiber food. Waiter, There's a Wolf in my Soup! A reasonable complaint by A Discerning Patron Release IV / Serial number [an indelible mark] / Inform 7 v10.x / D Would you like to hear our specials? Easel Number Five The dead time between the other times. Try not to buck. (*C*) swamp (*T*) desert (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) aphosis (*A*) alpine (times incorporated: 2) >t Survival is a high-risk investment. *** The Shears Never Lie *** That button won't push itself. Portrait of Throw Rug with Wolf Red, gray, and brown on painted concrete by Today's Discerning Carnivore Release IV / Serial number compile date / Inform 7 v10.x / D Intensity under target Helping Easel (restrained) This light was lit on your behalf, and it will go dark when you leave. Flat, stilted. (*C*) gloating (*T*) superior (times incorporated: 3) (*B*) theory (*A*) space (times incorporated: 2) >c The bites of cats infect more frequently than dogs, as their narrow fangs create deep punctures that are hard to irrigate or disinfect. The severity of individual cases of feline zoonosis, ranging from trivial (ringworm) to life-threatening (cowpox). Soaking the affected area in fungicide or disinfectant may have little effect, and in some rare cases, not even death of the host will eliminate hostile agent(s). Years of worry regarding invisible organisms thriving in apparently healthy tissues and fluids may persist. What is here with you, here in the dark? You are only the sound of your systems. Upstairs, the dark is different: less vocal, more convincing. The toilet tank does not always fill, and the sound of its river spills into every empty space. Outside, a car door slams, and you jump. For only a second, you are unhearable, you are absence entire. If default is normal, why are you here? *** A Conquering Throb *** New "information" is available in the Docent *GUIDE*. - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > guide (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. Unfinished Sketches (new!) 3. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - Study #9 (pencil on envelope)) Getting good at getting and sticking to cold places ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror)) Goya's donkeys have teeth like greased hominy eyes like a payday loan hooves like wallpaper paste ride the menfolk into town wearing pajama pants and tailored shirts-by moonlight their stiff fine hair a corpse flower white Goya's donkeys read a donkey cuneiform each letter a different equine pose-hooves over heart hooves over head Goya's monkeys play monkey-sized guitars and paint donkey-sized portraits of men, man-sized, real as anything ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - Study #11 (ash on white cotton)) The secrets of mathematics revealed: All these people were a direct result of fucking, & ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - Study # 15 (hand carving the wind)) How does one come to love the hollowed bones of a bird ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass)) My clothes are either too warm or too cold. I thought I might do better than get old & die tangled in your hair, o but just look at that old bicycle, painted that red nobody paints anymore, then bleached by ten sunny Decembers, look at that green widow turning above the crankshaft: it cost me everything to see it so. ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach)) O those must have been somebody else's mermaids ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air)) Mammalia Blues II In the last moments of dusk, the murk coheres & tree bats emerge, tumbling like chutes in a gale, snatching midges from the air. I watch, feeling the carbon & calcium beneath the skin of my hand. They've made the most of their finger bones, out-turning any bird at speed while we & I calibrate ceilings with our thumbs. I should have been a phalanx of narrow bones swimming across these warm August nights, cartwheeling above surfaces that retain the heat & damp of bare skin long after sunset. ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard)) We give up on luck the way we give up on love long after it ends ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - Recognition #13) Should the teeth of your life want polishing, should the heroes of knucklehead Sunday find your door de-wolved, if o if your throat, pale & soft as any eyeless caveling, forsakes its briny promise, only then will you see yourself as we see you. & us, we three, will stumble approaching the limits of making it, waifs fogging the storefront window of making it, before chasing a goblin's lamp across a fatal bog, delimbed in the brute machinery of us, getting exactly what we wanted. ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (Unfinished Sketches - A concluding fragment ?) life, friends, is wanting ------------------------ (Unfinished Sketches) 1. Study #9 (pencil on envelope) 2. Ekphrasis #7 (tail wax on mirror) 3. Study #11 (ash on white cotton) 4. Study # 15 (hand carving the wind) 5. Draft #19 (thumbprints on glass) 6. Epiphany # 8 (a cold wind climbing the beach) 7. Song #6 (mosquitoes and troubled air) 8. Epiphany #21 (exacto on cardboard) 9. Recognition #13 0. A concluding fragment ? (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. Unfinished Sketches (new!) 3. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) The gallery's status is ten out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? The Portrait We Lost in the Fire A commemoration by The Manager Release IV / Serial number W4WLF / Inform 7 v10.x / D I won't say it again. Do it. Ash-Filled Urn You are a peeled potato blanching in white light. I wonder if it could bear your weight? (*C*) crepuscularium (*T*) rutabag (*B*) lemon-scented tawse (*A*) cold rolling facility >a Weight gain and diminished immune function. *** How Vast *** Don't quit. A Wolf-Lined Terrarium A good time by The Toploftical Helpmeet Release IV / Serial number FFFFFF / Inform 7 v10.x / D We are the police. Box (heated) A painted concrete floor, rust-red and dulled by wear. A metal easel, black-graphite under chipped gray spray paint. A light obscuring its fixture. It can handle a bit of roughhousing. (*C*) taurine (*T*) silicon (*B*) petroleum (*A*) Kodachrome (times incorporated: 1) >a Since starting the antipsychotics, you've gained at least ten pounds. You need new clothes, but that would be giving up, wouldn't it? Expanding into a whole new wardrobe every year. Are you giving up? *** Space is God's Closet *** Don't start. Portraits in Oil A vivid rendition by Greased Fauna Release IV / Serial number ------ / Inform 7 v10.x / D More of this, less of you. Greased Concrete A light falling from nowhere, another nowhere at the edge of its reach. What do you suppose it tastes like? (*C*) limbic (*T*) zirconian (*B*) phenolious (*A*) plumbesque (times incorporated: 2) >t The earth birthed every stone hard enough to break your teeth on *** How Delicious *** This is the last time. These are the last times. Your Teeth in a Printer's Tray A memorable occasion by Maxine Toothtaker Release IV / Serial number TTHTTH / Inform 7 v10.x / D When you're having fun, I'll tell you. Calcified Pergola A pinprick of anticipation spearing a dark cloth. You are a pure acetylene virgin attended by roses. (*C*) dinner bell (*T*) reed place-mat (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) flat, long-handled spoon (*A*) Bakelite flatware (times incorporated: 2) >t Mobility is for suckers. *** You're Bleeding All Over Me *** You are a low fiber food. Waiter, There's a Wolf in my Soup! A reasonable complaint by A Discerning Patron Release IV / Serial number [an indelible mark] / Inform 7 v10.x / D Would you like to hear our specials? Easel Number Five The dead time between the other times. Try not to buck. (*C*) swamp (*T*) desert (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) aphosis (*A*) alpine (times incorporated: 2) >b Even a fantasy of height requires height *** Can You See Me Down There *** That button won't push itself. Portrait of Throw Rug with Wolf Red, gray, and brown on painted concrete by Today's Discerning Carnivore Release IV / Serial number compile date / Inform 7 v10.x / D Intensity under target Helping Easel (restrained) This light was lit on your behalf, and it will go dark when you leave. Flat, stilted. (*C*) gloating (*T*) superior (times incorporated: 2) (*B*) theory (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) space (times incorporated: 2) >b I can't wait to see you on the ice, you on ice What is here with you, here in the dark? You are only the sound of your systems. Upstairs, the dark is different: less vocal, more convincing. The toilet tank does not always fill, and the sound of its river spills into every empty space. Outside, a car door slams, and you jump. For only a second, you are unhearable, you are absence entire. If default is normal, why are you here? *** A Conquering Throb *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > g Select of one the options listed, you goose! - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > guide (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) 1. Fundamentals of Portraiture 2. Unfinished Sketches (new!) 3. After the Gallery is Complete (unavailable) 4. Motif Prototypes (unavailable) 5. Regarding Sylvia Plath (unavailable) The gallery's status is eleven out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > e The gallery's status is eleven out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > Select of one the options listed, you goose! - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? The Portrait We Lost in the Fire A commemoration by The Manager Release IV / Serial number W4WLF / Inform 7 v10.x / D I won't say it again. Do it. Ash-Filled Urn You are a peeled potato blanching in white light. I wonder if it could bear your weight? (*C*) crepuscularium (*T*) rutabag (*B*) lemon-scented tawse (*A*) cold rolling facility >c Predation is a marvel, a process. *** You Are Mice Nested in a Rotted Tire *** Don't quit. A Wolf-Lined Terrarium A good time by The Toploftical Helpmeet Release IV / Serial number FFFFFF / Inform 7 v10.x / D We are the police. Box (heated) A painted concrete floor, rust-red and dulled by wear. A metal easel, black-graphite under chipped gray spray paint. A light obscuring its fixture. It can handle a bit of roughhousing. (*C*) taurine (times incorporated: 1) (*T*) silicon (*B*) petroleum (*A*) Kodachrome >t You smell like dirt. *** How Undulant *** Don't start. Portraits in Oil A vivid rendition by Greased Fauna Release IV / Serial number ------ / Inform 7 v10.x / D More of this, less of you. Greased Concrete A light falling from nowhere, another nowhere at the edge of its reach. What do you suppose it tastes like? (*C*) limbic (times incorporated: 1) (*T*) zirconian (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) phenolious (*A*) plumbesque >c Unlike swans, like you. *** Don't Forget Your Arm *** This is the last time. These are the last times. Your Teeth in a Printer's Tray A memorable occasion by Maxine Toothtaker Release IV / Serial number TTHTTH / Inform 7 v10.x / D When you're having fun, I'll tell you. Calcified Pergola A pinprick of anticipation spearing a dark cloth. You are a pure acetylene virgin attended by roses. (*C*) dinner bell (times incorporated: 2) (*T*) reed place-mat (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) flat, long-handled spoon (*A*) Bakelite flatware >b Commemorate your mauling with a signed and numbered porcelain retractor *** You're Bleeding All Over Me *** You are a low fiber food. Waiter, There's a Wolf in my Soup! A reasonable complaint by A Discerning Patron Release IV / Serial number [an indelible mark] / Inform 7 v10.x / D Would you like to hear our specials? Easel Number Five The dead time between the other times. Try not to buck. (*C*) swamp (times incorporated: 2) (*T*) desert (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) aphosis (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) alpine >c It won't happen again unless you complain again *** Don't Forget to Hydrate *** That button won't push itself. Portrait of Throw Rug with Wolf Red, gray, and brown on painted concrete by Today's Discerning Carnivore Release IV / Serial number compile date / Inform 7 v10.x / D Intensity under target Helping Easel (restrained) This light was lit on your behalf, and it will go dark when you leave. Flat, stilted. (*C*) gloating (times incorporated: 3) (*T*) superior (times incorporated: 1) (*B*) theory (times incorporated: 1) (*A*) space >a I want to give your cord a good yank What is here with you, here in the dark? You are only the sound of your systems. Upstairs, the dark is different: less vocal, more convincing. The toilet tank does not always fill, and the sound of its river spills into every empty space. Outside, a car door slams, and you jump. For only a second, you are unhearable, you are absence entire. If default is normal, why are you here? *** A Conquering Throb *** - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > e The gallery's status is twelve out of eight. Is that your best? Really? Underfutured ^_^ Cats Are Our Friends -- Eat Your Vegetables ^_^ Can You Run in Those Boots ^_^ Space Is For Real ^_^ [Hidden] -- [Hidden] -- [An Impossibility] -- - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > quit Select of one the options listed, you goose! - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > script Select of one the options listed, you goose! - Begin a a new portrait (*RESTART* or *R*) - Review completed *ENDINGS* (*E*) - Consult the *GUIDE* - *UNDO* your most recent effort > r You go back, but which (or whose) back would that be? The Portrait We Lost in the Fire A commemoration by The Manager Release IV / Serial number W4WLF / Inform 7 v10.x / D I won't say it again. Do it. Ash-Filled Urn You are a peeled potato blanching in white light. I wonder if it could bear your weight? (*C*) crepuscularium (*T*) rutabag (*B*) lemon-scented tawse (*A*) cold rolling facility >script Transcripting is already on. >script off End of transcript.