[Announce] The Cabal

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Finally, the true story about the secret group which runs the
IF community can be revealed!

Find it at

if-archive/unprocessed/cabal.z5

....before it gets suspiciously moved!

--
IC

 

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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Ike Cooper wrote:

> Finally, the true story about the secret group which runs the
> IF community can be revealed!
>
> Find it at
>
> if-archive/unprocessed/cabal.z5
>
> ...before it gets suspiciously moved!

Nice. Was a fun romp. Though strangely puzzleless..........

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|| Code Monkey < of those necessities is that if ||
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On 14 Apr 2004 05:35:39 -0700, ike_cooper2@hotmail.com (Ike Cooper) wrote:

>Finally, the true story about the secret group which runs the
>IF community can be revealed!
>
>Find it at
>
>if-archive/unprocessed/cabal.z5
>
>...before it gets suspiciously moved!

Nobody is allowed to download this (excellent) work.

It must NOT be played.

In fact, it doesn't even exist.

Neither do we.

 

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Quintin Stone <stone@rps.net> wrote:
> Nice. Was a fun romp. Though strangely puzzleless..........

If *you* discovered that there was a secret conspiracy to make everyone
speak English, you wouldn't get very far spreading The Truth if you only
did it in Lojban, now would you?

I thought not.

--Michael

 

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The real question is NOT
Who is John Galt
but
who is Ike Cooper (really ) ! ! !

 

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In article <24ab77d3.0404140435.12b0f9ba@posting.google.com>,
Ike Cooper <ike_cooper2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>if-archive/unprocessed/cabal.z5

I appear to be one of the Companions of the Twelve Guardians.

I am not worthy.

But *thank you*, Ike Cooper. My years of strife have not been in vain.

Adam

P.S. Your hamster will be arriving shortly, via FedEx.

 

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On 15 Apr 2004 18:13:40 -0700, radical1@qadas.com (Al) wrote:

>The real question is NOT
>Who is John Galt
>but
>who is Ike Cooper (really ) ! ! !
>
>

I don't know how significant it is; but the only recent poster here or in
r.a.i-f with the same NNTP-Posting-Host is Allen Garvin (who announced a Z3
Zcode to Inform decompiler at the end of last year).

Anyway, to whoever did write it, nice job!

Regards,
Graham Holden
if AT g-holden DOT dircon DOT co DOT uk
(to reply by email, replace AT and DOT as appropriate).
--
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those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

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In article <o7hv709ghbkk0o9lg45fp6cc1jd1mum06b@4ax.com>,
Graham Holden <look@bottom.of.post> wrote:
On 15 Apr 2004 18:13:40 -0700, radical1@qadas.com (Al) wrote:

The real question is NOT
Who is John Galt
but
who is Ike Cooper (really ) ! ! !



I don't know how significant it is; but the only recent poster here
or in r.a.i-f with the same NNTP-Posting-Host is Allen Garvin (who
announced a Z3 Zcode to Inform decompiler at the end of last year).

It's not I. I post through Dave Cornelson's Plover. There are at least
20 or 30 other IF people who accounts on the box, though I don't know
how many use the local NNTP server.

Allen Garvin

 

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Ike Cooper <ike_cooper2@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Finally, the true story about the secret group which runs the
> IF community can be revealed!
>
> Find it at
>
> if-archive/unprocessed/cabal.z5
>
> ...before it gets suspiciously moved!

Bah. Lies, all lies, I tell you. Surely a great non-puzzle-based game
like this could have no connection with such a thing.
--
Yoon Ha Lee
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com
Pi = 3, for small values of pi and large values of 3.

 

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Hi,

> Finally, the true story about the secret group which runs the
> IF community can be revealed!

Nice game.
I particularly appreciated the "drop book" text-dump!
Rob




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Ike Cooper wrote:
> Finally, the true story about the secret group which runs
> the IF community can be revealed!

Nice to see you finished it. Nice ending too!

(Nice that you have to move to Zimbamba and change your name and stuff....)

 

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ike_cooper2@hotmail.com (Ike Cooper) wrote in message news:<24ab77d3.0404140435.12b0f9ba@posting.google.com>...
> Finally, the true story about the secret group which runs the
> IF community can be revealed!
>
> Find it at
>
> if-archive/unprocessed/cabal.z5
>
> ...before it gets suspiciously moved!

First, I enjoyed. Much. (But one of the names on the list: Shouldn't
it have been LPS not LS?)

Then, a nitpick: This game and _Madrigals of War and Love_ have an
annoying similarity, which is that you can't choose "None of the
above; say nothing" in the conversation menus. I like having that
choice.

Also, it occurs to me that this could be a clue as to Ike Cooper's
SEKRIT identity. But I will have to leave it to someone wiser
(perhaps more pet-free) than I am to investigate.

--
Daphne

 

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Daphne Brinkerhoff wrote:

> Then, a nitpick: This game and _Madrigals of War and Love_ have an
> annoying similarity, which is that you can't choose "None of the
> above; say nothing" in the conversation menus. I like having that
> choice.

Well, there are one or two places where you can say nothing... but
yeah, point taken. "Press 0 to say nothing" is a default option in
phtalkoo.h, but I removed it here. My excuse for restricting
player freedom *this time* is:
- I wanted the conversations to be as fast-paced as possible,
with no awkward silences
- I wanted to characterize the PC as a guy who always tried
to speak his mind
Okay, that's two excuses.

Stephen.