Mithrandir
Endurance and victory!
- Location
- Lighting the Blue Beacons.
[X] Use the SCREWDRIVER to force open the DRAWER of the MAHOGANY TABLE.
You use the SCREWDRIVER to unscrew the HINGES of the STRONGBOX. It works! Inside the STRONGBOX is...
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![x] Throw BOX onto the GROUND to see if it'll break in case screwing doesn't work
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![X] Use the SCREWDRIVER to force open the DRAWER of the MAHOGANY TABLE.
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.I feel a bit bad doing three commands in a row... Should I hold off?
Perhaps something like a Space Center or a Science Center given the astrological theme of the ceiling and the symbol on our clothes.
The pendulum could be the net handle, according to this.You examine the object carefully, noting every notch and every detail. It's long, long enough to serve as the handle to a broom, mop, or net. It seems like it's designed to be screwed on to something at the end - this is the way it was kept, albeit loosely, in the GRANDFATHER CLOCK. Although it is heavier at one end, like a PENDULUM ought to be, it still feels like it has the perfect balance to be a HANDLE to something. Almost as if it were designed with this purpose in mind.
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.
Everything after here is SCRAWLED OUT apart from what the RED MARKER PERSON has written on the LAST PAGE.Hello. If you are reading this, then you're probably confused. Don't worry, though! We've written this journal in order to help you. You've obviously got a sharp mind if you've progressed this far, but we know you have even great potential! Potential you couldn't possibly dream of! And this whole situation, this is just helping you to reach your potential. At no point will you be in any danger. All you need to know is contained within this journal! The first thing to forget is-
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.IT'S LIES IT'S LIES IT'S LIES IT'S LIES THEY'RE LYING TO YOU FUCKING LIARS FUCKING LIARS THEY'RE MONSTERS THEY'LL NEVER LET YOU GO NEVER NEVER NEVER DON'T TRUST THEM DON'T
You SUCCESSFULLY CRAFT a LONG-HANDLED NET. You are VERY PROUD OF YOURSELF.
The CLASS MACHINATION [DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] has been activated!
[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.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.
Why remove the journal from our inventory when we can just[x] Examine Chandelier. Could we reach it with the net if we stood upon the table?
[x] Scoop fish out of the aquarium with net.
-[x] Remove journal from inventory
-[x] Take fish
[x] Use DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES on fish
The CLASS MACHINATION [DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] has been activated!
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.[x] Examine Chandelier. Could we reach it with the net if we stood upon the table?
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.[[x] Scoop fish out of the aquarium with net.
-[x] Remove journal from inventory
-[x] Take fish
[x] Use DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES on fish
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!
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 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][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.)
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!
The CLASS MACHINATION [DEDUCTION FOR DUMMIES] has been activated![X] DFD the PILE OF ASSORTED GEARS
[X] Attempt to install the PILE OF ASSORTED GEARS in to the GRANDFATHER CLOCK
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.
My god... This is genius!