Mithrandir
Endurance and victory!
- Location
- Lighting the Blue Beacons.
[X] Use the SCREWDRIVER to force open the DRAWER of the MAHOGANY TABLE.
Questionably Soteriological: A Puzzle/Mystery Quest with Kids, Science, and Fun!
- Thread starter causticAccolade
- Start date
- Original
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
You use the SCREWDRIVER to unscrew the HINGES of the STRONGBOX. It works! Inside the STRONGBOX is...
A key! You briefly consider the philosophical implications of a key being locked inside a box. Deep stuff, right there, you think. Yeah.
[TALLY UNLOCKED! KEYS ENCOUNTERED: 1]
Although the SCREWDRIVER proved perfectly servicable to get at the contents of the STRONGBOX, you through it at the ground anyway because you feel that it has personally victimized you. Take that, inanimate object! Yeah!
The SECURITY CAMERA examines you, too. It's firmly bolted to the wall, and looks very modern. A small inscription on the side reads:
The SCREWDRIVER doesn't seem to be UP TO THE TASK. The KEY, however, fits perfectly into the DRAWER'S lock. Inside the DRAWER is a HANDLELESS NET and a JOURNAL. Today is a good day to be Lucy Calloway and also to be solving puzzles!
It's totally okay, but you do raise a good point. I'm making it an OFFICIAL RULE that nobody can send in more than THREE COMMANDS IN A ROW.
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- Location
- Rochester, NY
[X] use DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES on the JOURNAL
EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
GSC? Gold Silver Crystal? 
[X] Attach the Pendulum to the Net to act as its handle
[X] Attach the Pendulum to the Net to act as its handle
- Location
- Rochester, NY
Perhaps something like a Space Center or a Science Center given the astrological theme of the ceiling and the symbol on our clothes.GSC? Gold Silver Crystal?
Rem
fite me
So we can only use DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES on items in our inventory? If so, we should probably drop the portraits for now--we don't have enough room for the two new items, and the other items seem more important. Maaaybe we could equip the Pendulum as a weapon, I guess, which would free up aslot.
[x] Use DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES on KEY
[x] Use DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES on KEY
EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
The pendulum could be the net handle, according to this.
Someone vote for using deduction on the net too btw.
> Lucy: Examine an interesting journal
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
Although your INVENTORY is FULL, you are able to free up a space by keeping BOTH PORTRAITS in the SAME INVENTORY SLOT. If you have items that are NEARLY IDENTICAL they can often be kept in the SAME SLOT like this, as long as they are a REASONABLE SIZE. Of course, you aren't AWARE of any of this, because at only 11 TENDER YEARS OF AGE you are ignorant to such MECHANICAL ABSTRACTIONS.
The CLASS MACHINATION [DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] has been activated!
That aside, you examine the JOURNAL. It is rectangular, with a sleek and glossy black cover and white lined paper. There is writing all the way through in cursive handwriting - however, someone seems to have crossed out most of the writing with a RED MARKER, and added their own comments on the last page in a HASTY SCRAWL. In fact, being a JUNIOR SLEUTH, you can tell that the person writing in RED MARKER got weaker and weaker as they kept writing.
The FIRST PAGE of the journal has the only legible cursive text in the little book, which reads as follows before the rest is scrawled out in RED MARKER:
Everything after here is SCRAWLED OUT apart from what the RED MARKER PERSON has written on the LAST PAGE.
Huh. That... has kind of put a damper on your mood. You feel your hands shaking as you stare at that last desperately scrawled message. Maybe this is one mystery that you'd be better off not solving... No! Even if you're scared, you are LUCY CALLOWAY and you are GETTING TO THE BOTTOM of whatever is going on here. You take a deep breath to calm down and turn your attention back to puzzle solving.
You SUCCESSFULLY CRAFT a LONG-HANDLED NET. You are VERY PROUD OF YOURSELF.
The CLASS MACHINATION [DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] has been activated!
The KEY is unremarkable. It's silver, small, and looks quite MODERN, like a set of car keys more than any OLD-FASHIONED NONSENSE. It has the letters 'GSC' etched into it. For a second, looking at the KEY makes you feel like you might REMEMBER SOMETHING... but then it's gone. You wonder if ENCOUNTERING MORE KEYS might lead to you REMEMBERING PAST EVENTS. Then you stop wondering that because such a thing would only happen in some sort of SILLY, CONTRIVED, ADVENTURE GAME.
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causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
[DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] does only work on items in your inventory, yes. Shuffling items around in your inventory, equipping and de-equipping, and other such things don't count towards the command limit, by the way, so mess around with what you're carrying to your heart's content.
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EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
Welp, we're some sort of child labrat being used to unlock the TRUE potential of HUMANITY.
EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
[X] DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES on the LONG HANDLED NET
- Location
- Rochester, NY
Why remove the journal from our inventory when we can just
[X] Equip the LONG HANDLED NET in our WEAPON SLOT
DeepWaters
No one will be the wiser.
- Location
- Land of Spiders and Shipping Charts
[X] Use DFD on the JOURNAL
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
The CLASS MACHINATION [DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] has been activated!
There's honestly... not a lot to see here. It's just a FAIRLY GENERIC NET with the only distinguishing feature being the fact that the HANDLE is PENDULUM. The two really seemed PERFECTLY DESIGNED to be SCREWED TOGETHER, however. You wonder if at some point in the future you might find OTHER THINGS that can be screwed onto the PENDULUM.
Unfortunately, the CHANDELIER is way too high up for that! It's a pretty thing, cut glass and bright lights. It must have cost a lot of money. You try to think of ALL THE MONEY YOU'VE EVER SEEN and decide that it must have cost AT LEAST TWICE THAT.
You remove one of the FISH from the AQUARIUM with the LONG-HANDLED NET. For a few seconds, you feel a pang of GUILT at taking the poor FISH out of the water, but the closer you look, the more certain you are that there's something weird about it.
The CLASS MACHINATION [DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] has been activated!
Hey, wait a second! This FISH isn't even alive! You can hear it ticking! The CLOCKWORK FISH is VERY REALISTIC, but you can even see the SCREWS holding it together! This really is one hell of a bath toy.
You wisely make use of the MECHANICAL ABSTRACTIONS that you are NOT AWARE OF to free up more inventory space! The LONG-HANDLED NET is a CLUMSY AND INCONVENIENT WEAPON, conferring a -5 PENALTY to your FISTICUFFS STAT when used in a COMBAT SITUATION. However, it also greatly increases your COMBAT REACH.
You already did that!
Rem
fite me
Clearly it's a bomb!
[
] Throw bomb at the bricks behind the door[x] Take journal
[x] Apply screwdriver to fish
- Location
- Rochester, NY
[X] Perhaps equip the SCREWDRIVER as a weapon and return the LONG HANDLED NET to your inventory
(Just a little experimentation, see what makes the best weapon.)
[X] Use the SCREWDRIVER to unscrew the CLOCKWORK FISH
(Just a little experimentation, see what makes the best weapon.)
[X] Use the SCREWDRIVER to unscrew the CLOCKWORK FISH
EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
There are two fishes, right?
Not much else to do but unscrew it. Hmm...
[X] Examine the ceiling to see if it has a SATURN symbol
Not much else to do but unscrew it. Hmm...
[X] Examine the ceiling to see if it has a SATURN symbol
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
You use the SCREWDRIVER to THOROUGHLY DISASSEMBLE the CLOCKWORK FISH. The CLOCKWORK FISH is now a PILE OF ASSORTED GEARS. They're shiny!
You continue to engage in INVENTORY SHENANIGANS. The SCREWDRIVER doesn't seem like it would make the BEST WEAPON - although it would be nasty if it got someone in the right place, it's not sharp enough to make it deadly for someone with your LOW FISTICUFFS. [No change to FISTICUFFS, +5% CRIT CHANCE]
Yes! Well. Now that you've DISASSEMBLED ONE with EXTREME PREJUDICE, make that ONE FISH and ONE PILE OF ASSORTED GEARS.
It does! While looking, you also recognize the symbols for EARTH, MERCURY, VENUS, MARS, NEPTUNE, JUPITER, THE MOON, and THE SUN, as well as the TWELVE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. You sure are glad that you are a WELL-READ YOUTH with high ACUMEN!
- Location
- Rochester, NY
[X] DFD the PILE OF ASSORTED GEARS
[X] Attempt to install the PILE OF ASSORTED GEARS in to the GRANDFATHER CLOCK
Hopefully putting the gears in the clock frees up room for the second fish in our inventory.
[X] Attempt to install the PILE OF ASSORTED GEARS in to the GRANDFATHER CLOCK
Hopefully putting the gears in the clock frees up room for the second fish in our inventory.
EvilPorygon
Cookie Monster
- Location
- a phone
[X] Check the underside of the table for clues
causticAccolade
dead yet dreaming
- Location
- Silent Sound, Cipher Cove, Levoile.
The CLASS MACHINATION [DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] has been activated!
These gears appear to have been LOVINGLY HAND-CRAFTED, or at least of high enough quality to give that impression. Other than that, there's nothing TOO INTERESTING ABOUT THEM.
You once more reach into the grandfather clock, trying to find places where the ASSORTED GEARS fit. You feel a rush of SLEUTHING VICTORY as you find that they all fit perfectly! However, once you're done, you realize that it looks like you've only replaced HALF THE MECHANISM. You wonder aloud, in a slightly sarcastic tone, where you could possibly get MORE GEARS.
The underside of the TABLE is completely ordinary! You've looked under many tables in your PRESTIGIOUS CAREER as a JUNIOR SLEUTH, and the only thing remarkable about this one is the LACK OF GUM or GRAFFITI.
- Location
- The Geth Collective
[X] Disassemble and install the other fish/gears.
- Location
- Rochester, NY
My god... This is genius!