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# MANOR

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## Study

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### What do I do here?

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Just examine stuff to get an idea of what the game is about.
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And what your powers are.
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The item names should be a clue.
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A rich chair, pedanto-notepad, the sad ads.
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You may note the book titles as well.
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The diorama probably clinches it.
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You need to find three pieces of evidence that tell you about your power to further the story.
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You can look at the bookshelf, take the notepad, consult the notepad, try to "flip" something successfully, examine the diorama, or flip something in the diorama.
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You can also THINK.
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You may also notice something curious about the location names, if you looked ahead in this document.
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You probably figured it out by now, but your power is to turn things into anagrams of themselves.

### Short answer: what is my power, anyway?

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You have the ability to magically anagram things.

### What is the knock at the door?

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Someone to see you. You can find out if you open it, or you can wait a few turns.

### What should I talk to Gunter about?

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The first discussion is the main one. Everything after that is babble.
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You'll discover the latches after you wake up if you didn't already.

### It's dark! Where can I get light?

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The palm soaked up light during the day.
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Wait and stumble around a bit.
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The game gives hints, often misspelled, which clue your special power.
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Do you notice P-A-L-M or some permutation in each clue?
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What is one that would give light?
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LAMP.
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You will take it automatically.

### What's the pedanto-notepad good for?

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You will track hints and procedural stuff as the game goes by. It'll even remind you of stuff you couldn't yet flip.

### What is the op-ed good for?

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A better question is, what isn't it terrible for?
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It's a bit longer than most op-eds.
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It's pretty much propaganda, by Elvira, for Elvira.
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Hopefully it is good for a few laughs.

### What are the latches for?

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The list that comes with them is a clue.
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Do you notice how the words are similar?
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Adjacent words have their first and last letters flipped.
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So, latches can become...
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SATCHEL.

### What does seeing red mean?

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It means that all the letters in the current object or its description are wrong compared to what they should be.

### How do I get out of here?

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The tables and the ten beams hide ways out. So is "my niche" on the ceiling.
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What are other rooms in a mansion? And what is something that leads up
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The TABLES become a STABLE you can enter, but it's intermediary...
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...and so is the CHIMNEY...
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...because you can just go directly to the BASEMENT.

### What is the giant pin for?

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It's an optional last lousy point.
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If you use the settler on it, in cheat mode, it may be obvious what it is.
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Last hint before a spoiler: it can become something more usually on a wall, and that gives hints of how to get other places.
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The pin can become a PAINTING.

### How do I neutralize the oafs?

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There are only twenty-three possibilities.
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In fact, with the settler on cheat mode, there is only one. Without it, there are four.
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But wait! Your dusty study doesn't need a sofa...
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...which is okay since there are no oafs, anyway. However, if you wish to play a game with oafs in it, my IFComp 2014 game Ugly Oafs has lots of them!

## Stable

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### What's the sitar for?

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It could be sitars...
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Or rather STAIR or stairs.

## Heights

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### What is this pram doing?

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It gives you a slow sinking feeling.
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What else is slowly sinking with the letters P-R-A-M?
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And, if you examine it, has nothing in common with Mr. Pa?
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The pram can become a RAMP.

### How do I use the closest closets?

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Enter them to go back to the study. You'll see them everywhere in your manor once you know where to look.
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Or if in you're the study, you go to the heights.

## Basement

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### Stria?!

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Above you...an odd word, but another way to walk around.
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STAIR.

### Anything remaining to do in the basement?

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Figure how the letters settler works, though you don't have to, as you'll get a tutorial.
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Then go IN.

### Help! There's a guy with a gun!

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He doesn't have a gun. It's a RIFLE.
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You won't make it to the rifle in time, and he doesn't seem too enthusiastic to shoot it, so maybe you can use some magic?
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The name is in red, which may help eliminate possibilities.
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The rifle with the bullet with your name on it...
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...can become a FLIER with your name on it.
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Now that you've shown your powers, your former antagonist will be more friendly to you.

### What can Elmo tell me? Do I need to listen?

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You can solve the game without Elmo, but he can tell you how to use the settler if you're not sure. It's a de facto tutorial about the settler
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You can also ask Elmo about the areas ahead.

## Carven Cavern

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### What's with the plates?

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They appear to be embedded in the plaster.
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They are sort of square, with metal trim around them.
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What is metal and looks like half a square?
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STAPLE.

### What's with the plaster?

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You need to get rid of it, somehow.
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If you did something with the plates, it'll be a bit easier to know what to do with the plaster.
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The settler gives you three letters.
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What does a staple (plates) go in?
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The plaster becomes a STAPLER.

### Stupid paperwall!

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It's not quite wallpaper, and you can't peel it back.
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You can hook it back through the holes in the upper left.
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PUT STAPLE IN STAPLER.STAPLE PAPERWALL.

# The Settler

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## Basic Use

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### Can anyone in-game help me?

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Yes. If you leave the basement, you get a de facto tutorial.

### What are the different colors on the settler for?

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We'll assume you're not in cheat/teach mode now.
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If you examine the settler, the graphic shows different colors.
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More fourth-wallishly, you can see the game's title.
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Look at items on the diorama.
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What sort of letters do reds go to? What sort of letters do yellows go to?
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Reds go to consonants. Yellows go to vowels.

### What's the diorama good for?

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It can't be changed, but its components can.
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The pedestal/steel pad and brass crag/crabgrass give good clues.

### What is cheat mode good for?

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Reds may become purples. Yellows may become greens. But it's a bit rare.
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What makes a color add blue to it?
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Try scanning the brass crag and crabgrass.
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bRAss crag, cRAbgrass change colors.
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Those two letters are already in the right place.
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So purple = consonant in the right place and green = vowel in the right place.
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This is obviously very powerful with relatively few vowels/consonants. The right guesswork can logically eliminate a lot.

### I found an orange/brown letter!

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If you know what red/yellow are, maybe you can reason what orange could be.
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Or you could note a special unusual letter in that word.
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Also, orange = red + yellow.
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What letter may be a consonant or a vowel?
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The letter Y.
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So orange/brown is a bit of a gimme. Though it is rare.

### What's the slider for?

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If you switch it, you'll see red when you totally guess wrong.
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You only get a limited number here, but not seeing red is a sort of clue, too.

### What's the Equals Sign for?

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If cheat mode is on, it warns you if the clue might make things too easy.
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In fact, for certain puzzles, it warns you even if cheat mode is off.
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That's a clue in itself, perhaps.
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My evaluations of what makes a puzzle too easy are a bit subjective. However, I wanted to mitigate total spoilers, or give the player a chance to pause and think on the easy ones, so I added this.

# STORES

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## Which stores are useful?

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The limestone milestone acts as a directory.
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K and N are optional. P, U, V, T, W and Y are useful.

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Of the stores you can enter right away, U is easiest, then V, then P, then Y, then W.
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Y's individual puzzles may be the easiest, but it's got quite a few.
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T is not so tough, due to its theme, but it's last. H is hopefully cake once you've got T. H has its own theme, which will be kind of obvious.

## What does store H become?

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You can't do anything with it until after you solved the game.
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The "extra good ending" is behind it, but the hoster won't let you in.
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You may've guessed it was OTHERS.

## What does store P become?

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Well, it becomes a vortex, but you need a magic word, according to the poster.
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Store P, Poster...
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P-E--O with the settler on cheat mode. And you can eliminate others to get...
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...PRESTO!

## What does store T become?

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Some kind of water animal.
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OTTERS.

## Why can't I enter store T?

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It's the final scenario, where Elvira waits.
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Well, one store has to be.

## What does store U become?

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The settler, with cheat mode on, solves the vowels.
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Roads, but with signs.
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ROUTES.

## What does store V become?

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The settler, with cheat mode on, solves the vowels.
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Something valuable and glittering.
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TROVES.

## What does store W become?

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The settler, with cheat mode on, isn't much help.
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If you look at it right, it seems taller than the others. It's not just an optical illusion.
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It also seems to split in two.
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What's tall and plural?
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TOWERS.

## What does store Y become?

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The settler, with cheat mode on, solves the vowels. And the letter Y.
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It's something seawatery.
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OYSTER.

## STORES K AND N

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### Why are K and N smaller than the others?

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They're a totally optional subquest.

### What's store K?

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This is a bit of slang. I let it go for a reason. Suspicious smelling smoke.
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KT Rose is a clue and it should be enough, abstractly...
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...to get TOKERS.

### What's store N?

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You need to figure the guy's name.
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Again the settler logics this one, but clues like underwater and Tintin may help.
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NESTOR.

### What's in the cloud?

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The start of your "quest." Enter it to find out.

### CRUELEST LECTURES

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#### What's with the tedious lecture and studio E and 'I used to?'

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They're clues to how to disrupt this whole joint. Ha ha. Joint, geddit?
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This is a wild card word.
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Your settler gives a huge clue if you look in studio E.
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OUTSIDE.

#### What's with the munchies?

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They aren't an actual game item, but they will help you use the slider on the settler more often.

## STORE B

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### What's in here?

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Some sort of food. It looks sort of misty--cold misty.
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SORBET.

# STORE P

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## GREY GYRE

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### What do I do here?

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Look around. There are quite a few exclamations.
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Many of the things you need to get are relatively short words, so maybe you can figure it out by accident.
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Interjections are what work here.

### Poor lamb! What can I do?

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Maybe you can scare him off without being mean.
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Turning him into balm won't give him balm.
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You can, however, make a scary noise.

### How to get over the hump?

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You're grunting wrong.
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UMPH.

### The maze is gone now. Why can't I go north?

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The ether hides enemies. If only you could point them out...
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...saying THERE.
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That doesn't quite work, though, without ammunition.
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Don't continue until you've fixed the popgun.
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Also, did you find the dart?
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PUT DART IN POPGUN.

## AUSTERER TREASURE

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### How do I reach YE HOOP?

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If you try to take it, your possessions weigh you down. You can't find the right way to ditch your possessions for a second.
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Say POOH...
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...or, to really do the job, say PHOOEY.

### What can the censer be?

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Onyx is out, as is onyx censer.
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The green semi-text on black may be a clue.
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It becomes a SCREEN.

## BURNT BRUNT

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### What's in the dumpster?

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A dart. It's frustrating to get. You'll probably get it as soon as you give up.
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Or say DRAT.

### How do I get the star?

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Again, you'll probably get it as soon as you give up. But you can't just give up on purpose. You must be legitimately frustrated.
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Say RATS.

### Can I budge the yak? Or the yoke?

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Not til you've been in the shack. The yoke and yak are no joke. Jack.
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You need to gain the yak's trust. It looks herbivorous.
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Seen anything eatable and plant-y?
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The flea, when changed to a leaf, is edible. Well, for a yak.
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But you don't just want to give the leaf to the yak.
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If you've got the skid, you can put the leaf on the skid, then push the skid south to the brunt. The yak will walk on it.

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The yoke has a safety, so if it's jarred, it'll snap.
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There are three ways to do things.
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First, you can just push the skid back north. The narrow entry will unlock the yoke.
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Second, if you flipped the escaroles, they become good food for Leo and Rand. You can go south and give them a workout!
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Third, you can take the bad book from the shack and give it to the yak, who gets indigestion.
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You may or may not know what to do with the drab yoke. The exciting conclusion is in the Shack section.

## MARINES SEMINAR

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### What do I do with the pop-gun?

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It's pg-on-up, but twiddling that does nothing.
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The boing mechanism could use a moment of discovery.
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So say BINGO to get it working.

## DIRGE RIDGE

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### Who's this Leo and how can I avoid him?

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He's too clumsy to get you, but maybe you can get him good.
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He does bull at you.
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OLE.

### Oh no! Rand joined in!

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He doesn't look too smart, like he can be fooled by a feint.
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If you say DARN, it will get him.

### Oh no! I hurt their feelings!

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They do talk about how they're washups. Their dialogue also cues other words.
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Say WHASSUP to get in their good graces.

### Are they going to follow me everywhere?

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Well, until you get close to the end.
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And not into the volt maze. You have to go there yourself.

## VOLT MAZE

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### Do I need to go through the volt maze? How many times?

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No. You need to figure a word. This is a tricky one, but there are a lot of clues.
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Touching the walls or reading E-Z Ol' Av will give a clue.
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Scanning the fellows at the end helps, too.
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There should be some clues about Yiddish language.
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You can say MAZEL TOV at any time.

## PHAT PATH

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### How do I deal with the hogs?

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You can annoy them or get their keys.
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The hogs look up for heavy duty swears, and they'll probably be annoyed by mild expressions.
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You can pretend you don't really want the keys by saying SYKE...
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...or you can bug the hogs by saying GOSH.
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Either way, the hogs get mad at you, tire themselves out chasing you, and leave the keys open for Rand and Leo.

### What's the smart people's sign for?

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Leo and Rand are nice, but they don't belong in the shack. But they have a hard time leaving.
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So do you, surprisingly. But the sign has ALERT, LOGONS and OUGHT.
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Two of these three work.
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TOUGH...
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...LATER...
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...SO LONG.

## HACKS' SHACK

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### There's a lot to do here! What's my ultimate goal?

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Write a computer program.
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Note that you can change stuff to stuff since it is out of the scope of SHATTER-THREATS.

### What's the CLOCK SAP for?

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Hm, THE GAME DESCRIBES IT WITHOUT LOWER CASE LETTERS.
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It makes a CAPS LOCK key.
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Once you have a keyboard, you can PUT CAPS LOCK IN KEYBOARD.

### The gum?

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Aw, c'mon. If you got here...
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...a MUG.

### The flea?

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Something else organic.
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Make it a LEAF.

### The pile of coal?

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A good source of energy. Dirty and short term, but hey.
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More important it's coal than a pile...
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...so it's COLA.
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Once you've got the bottle, POUR COLA IN MUG for an endless supply.

### The disk?

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Well, it has portability etc.
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It can become a SKID...
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...then flip back later.
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You'll need to move the skid around, unsurprisingly.
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However, once you've gotten rid of the yak, the game will let you flip the skid to the disk without a lot of trouble.

### The slab?

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You can put computer components on it as you find it.
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The screen, the keyboard.

### The fount?

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It's dry but restful.
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FUTON.

### The trim socks?

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These aren't critical, but if you figure them, good job.
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ROM STICKS.

### The escaroles?

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Make 'em into something more workmanlike, less froufrou. More nourishing.
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CASSEROLE.
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There is too much for you to eat. Maybe a friend or friends can.

### The scratch paper?

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You can't do anything yet.
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You may notice the polemic by Mel Copi.
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It will teach you how to COMPILE, later.

### The textbook?

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It's not useful til you need to program, then you'll use it automatically.
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It's mostly for amusement.

### The horrible book? (Note: there are five possible titles)

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It's an alternate solution.
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It also clues that you need to make a KEYBOARD.
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If you've got the yak on the skid...
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...you can GIVE BOOK TO YAK, and the yak reacts with indigestion and runs away. Click ahead for all four names of the books.
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Day Broke by Rob Adkey, eBay Dork by Kary Bode, Bred Okay by Bad Korey, Dear Koby by Yoda Berk, and Yo, Be Dark by Dr. Bo Kaye.

### How do I work the hard drive?

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You need the keyboard to work, first. Then it needs to go on the slab.
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You also need to have put the screen on the slab.
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Switch the skid back to the disk, too, and you're ready--but there's a stupid error.
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There's a TO BE OR button. You want to push it, but you're not sure what it's for.
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Once the disk is in, and the keyboard's attached, REBOOT or PUSH REBOOT.

### How do I get a keyboard?

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See the Burnt Brunt section.

### Great. I have the drab yoke. What to do with it?

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Its scratchings contain 26 letters, all the numbers and punctuation.
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It can become a KEYBOARD.

### What do I do with (what the yoke became)?

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PUT KEYBOARD ON SLAB.
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You can try to run things now, but you run into a case sensitivity error.
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PUT CAPS LOCK KEY IN KEYBOARD.
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You still have more to do, but this is a start.

### What's the TBA key?

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TBA is not just TBA.
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It's a TAB key. It helps with programming and formatting, but it's not critical.

### Help! I can't work the polemic!

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First, you need to COMPILE, but you're too tired to get it to work. You're annoyed by the Speel, slipping on peels.
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The cola won't help. You need to crash.
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Or SLEEP.

### The program still won't budge!

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Of course. It never works at first.
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Now you're awake, you've got the energy to DEBUG.

### What do I need to do with the USB?

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You have two options! Lucky you. It'd be nice to have transport out.
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There are only five possibilities. Come on.
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You can take a SUB or BUS out.

# STORE U

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## ABOVEGROUND

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### SAME MESA

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#### Is the worst ad good for anything?

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It's bad for society in every way. Err, I mean, it's a last lousy point.
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You can pick it off at any time, and if you get it first, you get a clue to the area. Once you know what the area's about, it can be pretty trivial.
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RADWOST shuffled gives...
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TOWARDS.

#### How do I get into the church?

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Going IN is not formal enough.
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Read the church sign.
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DIE SIN.
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You can switch it to make SIN DIE. Which helps, if you use the settler.
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Going IN is simply not enough.
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You need to go INSIDE.

#### How do I get into the restaurant or the store?

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Hmm, Pat's and Oscar's.
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If you haven't scored a point yet, you might not know what to do with these.
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If you have, you know this area relies on prepositions.
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Pat's--you need to go PAST.
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Oscar's--you need to go ACROSS.

#### What is the bench for?

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It's a giant's.
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That means you can lean AGAINST it.
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But you need to have visited the cleric circle and seen the reagent list first.

#### The giant is here. How do I do stuff with him?

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You can't climb directly on the bench, but the armrest is thick enough to sit on.
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Get ASTRIDE it.
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Once you do, you can't leave, but you don't have to.
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Avoid his elbow next.
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You need to go BELOW.
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Next, he pulls out a copy of Rude 'N Nuder.
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You need to hide UNDER, and he will give up and leave it behind.

#### I helped Brother Horbert! What's the thing in the sky?

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Don't develop another hint in this question or the next unless you see it.
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It's a thing form above, and that's not a typo.
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Thing FROM above.

#### What's with the crowd?

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They're all staring at the bean. What clue can it hide? Where?
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You need a good first word to tell the crowd what to do.
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THE BEAN holds something under it. Wait, we've done UNDER before.
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Something BELOW it. Wait, that's been done too.
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BENEATH.

### CLERIC CIRCLE

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#### What is there to do here?

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See on the wall--there's a list of three things you need for a magic potion.
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Come back once you have all three items.

### IDLE DELI

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#### What should I say to Pat?

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Not much. Well, just one word. It's the seed pit that's important.

#### What to do with the seed pit?

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It's where PETS DIE.
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Pat discourages you from entering the seed pit. IT'S DEEP.
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What's a preposition that counters something that's been said?
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DESPITE.
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Now you have the mushrooms--another third of the reagents needed in the church.

### ADOBE ABODE

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#### What should I say to Oscar?

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Not much. It's the pipe soot that's important.

#### What about a trashy ashtray?

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It's holding pipe soot! But you can't just up and steal it.
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It's on the other side of Oscar.
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Position yourself OPPOSITE, and you can take it behind your back without him looking.

## BELOWGROUND

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### SUN SPARED UNDERPASS

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#### Help! It's almost too dark to see!

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You have no light, and your lamp was broken a long time ago.
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You can say it was dark and unlit, before...
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...I mean, UNTIL.

#### Where do I go? How do I find a trail?

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You need to NAG OL' NO-GAL LOGAN. There's an UN-ROAD you need to use to get there.
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So, first, you need to look AROUND.
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You're on your way to finding him, now.
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Then, you need to go ALONG.

### RIPE PIER

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#### What's with the mist?

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Well, it's also DA MIST, if you read the sign. That allows for two solutions.
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One is thinking of DA MIST helps you feel more familiar, and you can go...
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AMIDST.
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The other is to listen to the voice yelling ABROAD.
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Again, not much is shuffled.
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ABOARD.

### CRIPPLE CLIPPER

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#### What do I need to look for?

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The Hit Win button Ben hid.
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There are two solutions here.
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WITHIN will reveal it.
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As will BEHIND.

#### How do I get past those two--things?

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You don't want a Thor-Hug, and the New Beet looks lethal, too.
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Again, you have a choice of two things.
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THROUGH will get you past Thor.
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BETWEEN will get you past the beet.

# STORE V

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## LOATHER RATHOLE

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### What do I do here?

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The self-help book tells you IT IS A WAY TO THINK.
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Standard actions don't work.
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You need to think straight.
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Spoiloplis is about passive verbs.

### How do I get heat?

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Hm, heat.
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Burning anger may be literal and figurative.
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Or burning HATE.

### I'm not emotionally invested enough to race!

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Of course not! You need to CARE.
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The game then mentions that emotion alone won't do it. Time to get more analytical.

### What do I do with Pa, Egg, Pea?

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You don't have to do anything.
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It's by Peg A. Page. It's about Peg A. Page. It profited Peg A. Page when sold.
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Okay, I think I beat this into the ground.
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GAPE at it.

## Loudest Used Lot

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### What's the stop post for?

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It can't turn into POTS or TOPS. Or expand your OPTS.
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It will help you SPOT. But you need to get rid of things verbose.

### What do I do to make things less/more verbose?

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Zone it out. What is obverse?
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OBSERVE.

### This stupid evil bee is so near!

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It's an evil bee. It feeds on your doubt.
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BELIEVE.

### Should I do anything with the vile bee?

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You don't have to. But you'll get an extra point.
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It is still SO NEAR. It is a senora. It has no ears.
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REASON that it cannot possibly exist.

### That took time! I can't find the cellar!

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You'll never remember.
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You can't become a caller.
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But you can RECALL. There's another solution, too.
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I'd veer...ever I'd--a way to figure where it was?
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DERIVE.

## BOREDOM BEDROOM

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### A spider, sad pier, diapers...

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You can scan them all. But you need to hit rock bottom.
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You must give up, sort of, and not give up.
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DESPAIR.

### How do I lead?

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Some despair still lingers. Dale Elda and Leda Adle have advice on how to lead in their book.
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You need to learn to DEAL.

### I may or may not want to drink the lager!

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Turns out you don't.
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It is upsetting to find it there. Such productivity lost!
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This is a last lousy point.
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The settler's cheat mode breaks it open since it scans 'REGAL LAGER' as red. That makes the first letter clear. Then four possibilities are left.
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You can cut them down further reading the red text about Ergal Agler.
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Or you can GLARE at it right away.

## DOUR TAN ROTUNDA

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### How do I reside somewhere now?

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You are ready to want a bigger place.
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The brochures may help you here.
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Sir Dee tells you to Reside...
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Or to DESIRE to.

## PERKY CRASS SKYSCRAPER

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### Who is the statue? What should I do with him/it?

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Trevis Vister. Hmm. And there are rivets.
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The statue is there to make people want to be like him.
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STRIVE.

### What else should he inspire me to do?

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This is an extra point.
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Re-scan the rivets spelling praise.
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ASPIRE!

### I need to enter the skyscraper, but my sales pitch isn't refined enough!

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The bottle of Pernod is a bit of a hint.
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Notice whom it's from in red.
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PONDER.

## FIEFCO OFFICE

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### The guy I deposed is bugging me!

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What can you do to concentrate on your REGION? Your tan ivy vanity title provides some hints. As does the banging on the door.
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IGNORE him.

### Why can't I eat the lobster?

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You need to feel you can, you deserve it.
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The settler busts this wide open in cheat mode.
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BOLSTER.

### Why don't I understand the motivational picture of the stream?

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You aren't on top of things yet. The stream should refocus you...
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...if you MASTER things.

### I'm not worth my salt!

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You will be, with time.
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You need to LAST.

### I'm jealous of the singer! Well, there are two!

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Siren G. Grines makes you want to give it all up.
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You need to have dealt with the salt.
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Then you can RESIGN. But there is another solution.

### Is the song being played important?

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Eddie C. sings "I'd Cede" or, worse, "I Ceded."
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The CDEDE... "I..." that reddens your eyes is another clue.
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You can DECIDE.

### DIVORCES magazine. Is it useful?

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It's worse than useless from society's perspective, but hey, it gets you a last lousy point.
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You need to realize something...
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...there's an actual magazine called the word you need...
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...DISCOVER it.

# STORE W

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## LOFTIER TREFOIL

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### How do I get out?

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Get rid of Rodney and his goons.
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Get rid of three--any three--and he's more attackable.
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You can get a clue what sort of word to use if you listen to his babble about people that didn't make the cut.
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He describes them with anagramming adjectives.
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Once they're gone, you can send him YONDER.
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Or you can make him DRONEY and his goons will get bored.

### RODNEY'S GOONS

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#### Wow! That's a lot, listed below.

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Six of twenty-five are randomly chosen. Well, randomly chosen, one from each subgroup.
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Geno, Shane, Tyson, Wade
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Edwin, Eldon, Floyd, Royce
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Blake, Bredo, Daryl, Dewey
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Ernest, Marcel, Marlon, Reggie
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Andres, Andrew, Archie, Barney
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Cedrick, Demitri, Leander, Preston, Terrance.

#### Andres

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Roaming freely in his territory...
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...until SNARED

#### Andrew

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A careless looking fellow.
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WARNED

#### Archie

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Free of pain.
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ACHIER.

#### Barney

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Don't have to make him flee too far.
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NEARBY.

#### Blake

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A positive looking chap.
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But he can be made BLEAK.

#### Bredo

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Very interested.
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Til he is BORED.

#### Cedrick

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No visible injuries.
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CRICKED.

#### Daryl

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He is in shape for the job. Fix that.
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LARDY.

#### Demitri

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Stiffest upper lip here.
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TIMIDER.

#### Dewey

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He is muscular.
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Not when you make him WEEDY.

#### Edwin

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An anti-alcohol guy?
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A swig might turn him.
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WINED.

#### Eldon

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Full of boundless youth.
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Until he is OLDEN.

#### Ernest

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Very relaxed.
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Make him TENSER.

#### Geno

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Just sort of there. What if her were not?
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GONE

#### Goldy

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Not very holy.
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GODLY.

#### Leander

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Seems kind of dumb . Give him book-smarts.
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LEARNED.

#### Marcel

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Very animated.
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CALMER.

#### Marlon

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Thinks he's a cut above?
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NORMAL

#### Preston

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The best placed for defense?
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Not when PRONEST.

#### Reggie

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Smells and looks spotless.
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Make him EGGIER so he must go freshen up.

#### Royce

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Not shy.
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Unless COYER.

#### Shane

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A ruddy complexion.
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Til he is ASHEN.

#### Terrance

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He is not shirking.
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RECREANT.

#### Tyson

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Many emotions...
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...unless he's STONY.

#### Wade

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Confident and poised.
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Til he's AWED.

## TOPSIDE DEPOSIT

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### What can I do with the flowerpot?

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Nothing, until near the end.

### What can I do about the strudel?

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You can just take it. Or you can take it with style.
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Doing so is a last lousy point.
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It can be RUSTLED.

### What's the toaster for?

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It's a rosetta toaster.
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Put bready products, like the strudel, in the toaster, and you can see through stuff to what it should be.
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Including the final puzzle.
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Budget as you need to.

### Is there any functional difference between the pastries I find? And how many are there?

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No. They are all the same.
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There are five pastries total.

### Some dude called Ray Eck is blocking me!

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What a yacker.
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He has that annoying keycar. Maybe if it broke down, he'd stop ramming you with it.
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Make him and/or the car CREAKY.
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Now you can explore other places.

## GUARDIANS, GUARDIANS

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### How many do I need to clear?

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Eleven, minimum, including the serpent.
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There are eighteen total including the serpent.
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You must clear five guardians to reach and leave certain corners (NW-N, SE-E, and by the copse,) and you must clear both guardians by the coastline so the smart kid is not scared.
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To get to the Coastline and clear it, you must zap at least seven guardians. You can actually avoid visiting (saltbed and shoreline) or (sunbelt and deltas).
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The minimum guardians to zap are clued very tangentially by the spec-o-scope, which says HI. The H corresponds to clearing the west and east sides, as well as west and east in the ravages. The I corresponds to the north and south sides, as well as north and south in the ravages. The next hints contain rough reasoning why you need to clear seven guardians inside the three-by-three area.
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You must clear two guardians from the Coastline, one from the Garden, and one from the Cinema. You must clear one from the Copse, and one from/to the Ravages. All these exclude each other.
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The quick and dirty observation is that the one path from the Ravages can connect to the Copse or Coastline, but not both. Then there's no way to connect anything else.
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To grind through things, let's take the path you chose from the Copse. Assume it's to the north. It must hook up to the one you chose from the Cinema or Ravages. If it hooks up to the Ravages, the Cinema can hook south (missing the Coastline) or east (missing the Copse.) Note we didn't even worry about the Garden, here.
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We can mirror this reasoning across a line northeast from the copse (proof by symmetry) to eliminate the path east of the Copse, too.

### Can I walk around guardians I can't solve?

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For the most part, yes, eventually, except those guarding corners.

### How can I figure guardians a bit more easily?

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Trying to walk past, attack or talk to them may give clues.
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Of course, you can x-ray them.
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The kid and Dr. Yow also give one clue.

### Specific guardians (alphabetical order)

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#### Admirer

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(S)he'd have less of a crush on you...
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...if (s)he were MARRIED. If you're obscure and mean, you can make her/him...
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MARDIER.

#### Alarming Grailman

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You can't be a grailman unless you are a cut above.
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He can't imagine being worse than average.
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MARGINAL.

#### Atheists

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They're patient and willing to explain their views.
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Could you make them hurry up?
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Yes, make them HASTIER.

#### Bonker

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It works perfectly.
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Til it's BROKEN.

#### "Flemish" man with inapt paint.

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The inapt paint is wrong.
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His name is Mel Fish.
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He just wants not to be defined by social conventions.
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I.e. he wants to be HIMSELF.

#### Ingrates

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Currently the ANGRIEST.
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If the madness became whining...
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...they could be ANGSTIER.

#### Muscly hulk

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Strength doesn't matter without dexterity.
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So make him CLUMSY.

#### Nameless salesmen

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It's LAMENESS to mess with them.
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They like to focus on their product, NERD-AID.
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Plus they are proud of their clothes by ED INDAR.
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They are DANDIER.
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Make them DRAINED.

#### Natives

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These guys could be one thing, or the other.
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If you want to sucker them with pride, VAINEST.
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If you want to sucker them with stupidity, NAIVEST.
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Neither is better or worse than the other.

#### Once-Sad Deacons

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They're very hostile. The opposite of what you'd expect. They're planning a hostile ol' heist.
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Make them feel differently.
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Make them the HOLIEST.

#### Organised Ego-Drains

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They make you feel like you can't do anything, and they're very reasonable and not overdone.
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You can laugh at them if they become GRANDIOSE.

#### Pirates

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They have impressive tans they're proud of.
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How to make the pirates lose them?
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Make them PASTIER.

#### Reed's Ale man

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Between famous endorsers and all, he isn't sure if he wants to leave his job or continue.
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There are pros and cons to both, and you can help him go either way with two very similar words.
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He can become RESEALED or RELEASED.

#### Rewired Robot

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It drew ire and made you see red.
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It's been REWIRED to be normal.
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WEIRDER.

#### Sweatier wait-seer

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He doesn't seem to get tired of blocking you.
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Make him WEARIEST.

#### Unripe i-Prune

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Whatever it is, it's terrifyingly big.
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Make it PUNIER.

## LOCATIONS THAT DON'T 100% MATTER

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### Which ones have nothing besides guardians??

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Ole Shrine Shoreline and Salted Deltas.
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Danger Garden and Anemic Cinema only have guardians you need to pass.
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Baldest Blasted Saltbed and Unblest Sunbelt have LLPs.
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Outer Route and Lost Lots have pastries but nothing critical.
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Of course, you must pass through one of the Shoreline/Deltas and Saltbed/Sunbelt. But you don't have to visit both.

## SCOPE COPSE

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### What's the scope for?

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It shows you where you need to go.
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It also creates a map in the upper window that lasts until you cross the lake.

### What are the yurts doing? How can I get rid of them?

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They're quite eco-friendly or seem to be.
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Unless they're RUSTY.

## CAMPIEST CAMPSITE

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### What's the rapier repair for?

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Fixing worn down swordy things.
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There's one behind the weeds in the ravages.
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The ragged dagger.

## SAVAGER RAVAGES

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### Do I need to get rid of the weeds?

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No, but you can (and need to) make them immobile.
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Make them SEWED.

### What's a raves saver?

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A tape recorder.
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Note it can RETAPE or REPEAT.
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You'll need to use both to get through.
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If you notice its brand name, you can get an LLP.
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It's a replay player.
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So it can be PEARLY, too.

### What's the denim for?

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You can't cut at it with anything normal.
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It can, however, be MINED.

### What's the ragged dagger for?

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It needs to be toned up.
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You'll find something for that in the Campiest Campsite.
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PUT DAGGER IN REPAIR.
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The gizmo is handy later.

## SHAVEN HAVENS

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### What can I do with the duck?

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It has a nametag.
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Have you seen anyone by that name?
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Dr. Yow is locked up in the subsector.
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You can't move Dr. Yow to the ravages, but you can move his voice.
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The duck might trust that.

## OBSCUREST SUBSECTOR

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### Who's the man in prison?

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Read the fence.
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Dr. Yow.
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He won't speak until compelled.

### How do I get him to speak?

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Scanning him gives a word...
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...or two.
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ROWDY is one.
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WORDY is the other.
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Dr. Yow's voice is useful.
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But the duck probably doesn't need him yelling.

### Is the fissure important?

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Try making it FUSSIER.
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Nothing happens--with just you there.

### The fence doesn't have anything I can unlock!

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Right. You'll need help.
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The lone duck may be a clue.
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If only it were in the subsector!
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How could you lure it there?
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By moving Dr. Yow's voice over.
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The raves saver can record it.
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PUSH RETAPE after getting Dr. Yow to speak.
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PUSH REPEAT in the ravages.
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Return.
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The lone duck can't be unlocked, but it seems to know to go to the fissure.
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Alternatively, making the fissure FUSSIER causes the duck to go over.

### Is Dr. Yow good for anything else?

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Yes. Don't go on til you see someone new on the coastline.
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The kid is interested in technical stuff.
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Playing the raves saver isn't enough.

### How should Dr. Yow lecture his audience?

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WORDY has been done. This is an exciting lecture. Or it needs to be. Kids get bored easily!
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ROWDY.

### The audience isn't listening!

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The kid is trying. He's just too TENTATIVE.
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Make the kid ATTENTIVE.

## ACTIONLESS COASTLINE

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### Somebody seems to be hiding. What gives?

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Ray Eck and the deacons are hard to hang with.
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You need to get rid of them.

### What's the kid interested in?

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Technical stuff. Like Dr. Yow knows. He's in the subsector.
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ASK KID ABOUT DOCTOR once you rescued the doctor.

### The kid needs a tool. What's a good one?

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The gizmo will be useful. It baffles you--and, well, me, to be honest.
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GIVE GIZMO TO KID.

### Is the kid's contraption safe?

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Not safe enough.
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The turbos and blaster are broken.
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You need to fix one, preferably both.
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The turbos can be more ROBUST.
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The blaster can be STABLER.

## RAWEST WATERS

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### Help! Which shore?

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Northern, Eastern and Northeastern.
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The settler gives seven letters.
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What can be done to get closer to the eastern shore?
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Make it NEAREST.

### Hey! I never saw this location. What gives? Is this a fake clue?

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You fixed the jetskis completely. If you'd only half-fixed them, you'd have landed here. The puzzle is about as easy as the other two.

## MISLIT LIMITS

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### What can I do about the pester'n serpent?

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You don't need to get rid of it, strictly. Unless you want maximum points.
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Can't make it so it REPENTS. That's a verb.
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You can't make it go away.
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But you can make it just PRESENT.

### What's with the crocus?

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It's not fully necessary, either. You can't touch it when it's so bright and radioactive looking.
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If you read the flowerpot, you may note a hint.
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The crocus is DYING, but maybe you can make it...
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DINGY.

### There aren't many hints here for the curst palace!

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If you opened the solo den, you can return, talk to Ed Yerg, and come back.

### Eleven letters for the curst palace? Really?

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It is a big castle.
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Ed Yerg, once friendly, seems to indicate it inspires generic superlatives.
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Like fantastic, incredible...
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...SPECTACULAR.

## OLD ONE'S SOLO DEN

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### Do I actually need to be here?

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Only if you want full points.

### Ed Yerg sure is greedy!

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He could shrug off the veneer of false youth...
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...if he were GREYED.

### How do I get any useful concrete information from Ed Yerg?

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Give him a gift.
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If the crocus is no longer dying, and it is in the flowerpot, you can do so.

# STORE Y

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## Posh Hops Shop

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### Why do the pills have a warning?

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They're dangerous.
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Dangerously addictive, because they allow a free pass through some puzzles here.
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If you SPILL PILLS, in various places, they do different things. But you only get one use.
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Okay, more, if you save before using.

### What do I need to do to get by the trolls?

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Well, you need to be all cool.
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STROLL.
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But you need to do a few things to be a more undesirable patron.

### What's the gins sign for?

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It should suggest a standard Inform verb when you examine it--or by its letters.
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SING.

### What's the perma-amper for?

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You can fiddle with it if you know the technical terms.
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REMAP it. This means you can't deal with the tunes for a point.

### Can I get rid of the tunes?

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Sure.
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Just UNSET them. This means you can't deal with the amper for a point.

### What are the stumbler tumblers for?

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They're because TIPS are the PITS.
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How could you do worse than not tip?
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SPIT.

### Can/should I bug Casper?

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He has good general information.
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But you can also do something to irritate him.
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Casper Spacer, Capers Recaps...
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SCRAPE.

### What do I do with the stein?

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Well, there are tines.
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You can't quite INSERT...
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...but you can INSET.

### Why can't I do more than three annoying things here?

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The trolls would get too upset.

## Olde Lode

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### What's the clam doing?

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It's agitated.
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Perhaps you can CALM it.

### What's this urn? Why can't I walk away?

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Taking it kills you.
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You need to do something faster than walk.
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You need to RUN.

## Heros' Shore

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### What're the boats for?

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You can make some noise to get their attention.
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If you SOB AT them, they're not interested.
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You need to BOAST.
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Once you're on the fighter frigate, your next action should be pretty clear.
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The scary crays aren't going to help, but the pale plea might.
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You need to LEAP.

### Can I cross on the raft?

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Yes, and you get an extra point for doing so.
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The oars on the raft are odd.
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Get on the raft first. What can you do there?
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FART.
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The oars are fuller now. You can't cross the river at ground level...
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SOAR.

### Is the canoe useful?

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Well, to see ALL the game, yes.
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You can turn it into an ocean...
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...but that's counterproductive.
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It's just a dumb joke/Monty Python reference. You can undo the silly death.

## Anger Range

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### How to stop the bullies?

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Hmm. Carps and Pikes.
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You can SCRAP...
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...or you can SPIKE.

### How do I release the haunter?

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Etahn Ru is its name. Lots of red letters!
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You need to UNEARTH it.
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But you also need to help it recover its ruby.
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Don't go on 'til you've found a jewel.
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There's one inside the bubble wrap.
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He will take revenge on whoever stole it.
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What can you do with a ruby?
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BURY it.
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You'll need the right tool.
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And the right place.

### Why's anger range so angry?

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The haunter lies beneath.
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You must release him to make him less angry.
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You need to UNEARTH him once you have a shovel.

### How do I calm the ghost down?

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He is a SAUSAGE.
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ASSUAGE him.

## Blowfish Fishbowl

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### No one's here but I hear something.

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They're EEKS.
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Try to SEEK them.

### What does Aunt Tuna want me to do?

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She informs you her nephew the trout's name is Tortu. He hates bullies.
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He needs to be taught.
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You can TUTOR him.
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Then you get what's in the reward drawer.

### What do I do with the tea?

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You EAT it.
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The paler pearl is useful later.

### Is the dent in the desk useful?

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No, except for getting one more point.
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It's a rather easy point. Let's just say if you scan it in cheat mode, it falls out.

### What do I do with the Bubble Wrap?

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You WARP it.
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Well, not here. But it's useful against someone.

### What can I ask Aunt Tuna about?

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She will tell you about her friend Valeri who gave her a packet.
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Which you can get, or you do have.
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It's what the ghost is after.

## Lapsin' Plains

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### How do I unlock the rude door?

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This is a two part question.
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The skis and knob are in the way.
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KISS the skis.
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The knob is also stuck.
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BONK the knob. But wait! A crate.

### How do I avoid being hit by a crate?

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This is another two-parter.
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They're too broken to cater with.
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You need to figure where it's coming from.
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TRACE it.
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But that's not enough. You need to avoid it.
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REACT.

### Anything else I can do?

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You can talk to nobody in general for a last lousy point.

## Uh, at a Hut

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### What do I do with the tubs?

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Maybe there is something inside.
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You need to break them open.
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Or BUST them.

### That's not a prod. It's a shovel!

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The way to open it is simple yet annoyingly weird.
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DROP the prod.

### Does the waste need clearing?

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Not if you don't want ALL the points.
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It's work to clear.
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SWEAT.

### Can I do anything with the heaps I left?

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Yes, but you don't have to.
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They're lumped inartistically.
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This is a last lousy point.
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SHAPE the heaps.

### What do I do with the shovel?

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Two things. First, it can release the haunter...
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...if you UNEARTH.
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Second, once you have the ruby...
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...you can BURY it.

## Achers' Arches

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### Do the arches hide anything?

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Yes. Examining's not enough.
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You have to SEARCH. But the sardine will block you.

### How do I get rid of the sandier sardine?

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He hates noises.
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You need something that makes noises.
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Here's where you WARP the bubble wrap.
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Now you can SEARCH.

## Horned Hedron

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### How do I get rid of the weaselly walleyes?

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They're not scared of much.
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The ghost might scare them.
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If the ghost passed by them to find a ruby, they'd be scared.

## Collapsed Old Places

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### What can I do here?

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This is a good place to hide stuff.
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Like the ruby.
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BURY the RUBY.
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Then dig the haunter up and lead it by.

### How do I disable the ol' trap?

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It would be nice as a portal.
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You must be able to disable it somewhere.
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Look around.
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Better yet, PATROL.
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Of course, you need the walleyes gone.

## END DEN

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### Is this where I want to be?

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No. You need an item to scry.
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Do you have the two pearls?
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They make a general gleaner.
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It's not big enough to see clearly.
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ENLARGE it.

## TENFOLD TEFLON'D LOFT-DEN

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### Stupid papery yapper!

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He wants to be bribed, but use a different word, maybe?
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The settler can show you what to do. Though it seems to blink.
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That is because some letters in one word are right, but not the other.
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P or Y is right. E or P is right. Y or R is right. But we know if there's a Y--orange or brown color. And we can tell vowel or consonant.
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PREPAY him.

### What do I do with the lever?

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It's an optional point.
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Have fun knowing you found it.
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REVEL.

### What do I do with the dialer?

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There's also a clump of letters that can be relaid.
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DIALER may become something else.
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DERAIL.
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You need to pull the lever, then redo DERAIL. Try again.
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REDIAL.

# STORE T

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## WHAT I CAN DO WHEN I'M POWERLESS

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### BLEARY BARLEY

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#### Help! I lost my powers! What do I do?

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You're severely weakened.
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What's the least powerful type of word in the English language?
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The adverb.
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The barley covers everything...
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...BARELY.

#### Ed Riley won't let me by!

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He's not a YIELDER.
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He won't even share his DELI RYE.
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His voice sure booms.
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Not if he speaks REEDILY.

#### Cinders? What for?

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You can use them to DISCERN what word to use.
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Showing you don't need them gets another point.
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You can also RESCIND them.

### GENT-FORA FRONTAGE

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#### Why can't I go west?

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You need to help the maiden.

#### How do I disperse the macks?

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They're talking total rubbish.
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But how they talk it isn't failing yet.
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You can only use adverbs to take them down, so look for words with LY.
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There're many possibilities, but you only need three. You don't have to respond right away, either.
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They talk about reality a lot.
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This can make them too mad or too whiny.
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IRATELY or TEARILY.
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Also, if they start acting saintly...or even if they don't...
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...You can get them acting NASTILY.
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They compare her to Lindsey, too.
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SNIDELY. That should be enough. There are others.
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The full list is WEARINGLY, BLEARILY, NASTILY, SNIDELY, SEEDILY, COITALLY, MARTIALLY, SHADILY, IRATELY, TEARILY, RIBALDLY, CATTILY, TEDIOUSLY, STARKLY, DESPAIRINGLY, DRAWLINGLY, SOBBINGLY, SILENTLY.

#### What good are Gretta's medals?

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The IQ and Lucky medals help later. You may guess how.

### TAPERING ANGER PIT

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#### The sly imp simply blocks me!

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LY-words again.
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With LEGENDARY patience, BUTLERY and RANGILY.
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You only need two. Make him lose his cool.
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ANGRILY.
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BRUTELY. And, for the curious...
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...ENRAGEDLY.

### ROTE-MOAN ANTEROOM

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#### The men block me noisily!

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They restyle, tallyhoing with callosity.
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Tune their volume down.
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You need two of three. TERSELY. STOICALLY.
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LOATHINGLY

## GETTING MY POWERS BACK

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### Where do I go?

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You only need to go north or south of the Maiden Median. The Loop Pool is a bit easier. But going both ways gets you all the points.

### LOOP POOL

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#### The sea cube...

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You can't waste words.
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But you can't use adverbs.
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What word is meaningless by itself?
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BECAUSE.

#### The eels aren't convinced...

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Tell them 'Or...
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...ELSE.'

### BRAN BARN

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#### Mr. Lee says 'Hola Thug!'

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You have one word to grab his attention...
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...ALTHOUGH.

#### Rev. Howe didn't quite prophecy me?

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HOWEVER...

## WICKEDER WIRE DECK

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### Owls attack me!

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You need your powers back.
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They are too quick for you.
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Unless they are SLOW.

### What of the other animals?

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The leopard can be PAROLED.
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The ocelots can be COOLEST.
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The badger can be GARBED.
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The satyr can be ARTSY.

## PERVERSE PRESERVE

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### Whoah! A raptor!

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Brute force won't work.
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You need your powers back.
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Make it a PARROT.

### What do I do with the whistle?

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Practice when nobody's around.
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It sounds like someone yelped, but you need to make it less piercing.
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Maybe if you could play it DEEPLY.

### Nails?

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Nothing's slain.
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Just an ex-SNAIL.

### Thrones?

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Buzzing noises? Sting if you sit on it?
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HORNETS.

### Pines aren't an animal!

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They have no spine...
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They're not a SNIPE.

### The corona is spooky!

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It can be a RACOON.

## COEVALS' ALCOVES

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### Why are Elmer and Merle doing things on the sly?

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You can get the truth out of them.
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It's a last lousy point but not a trivial one. Plus they have silly things to say if you trigger it.
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You can make them talk HONESTLY.

### How do I go west?

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You need something that can beat a hydra. Seen an animal?
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The raptor.
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Your friend the ex-ex-parrot will help you...
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...RAPTOR.

## TORPID TRIPOD

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### Does the conversation with Elvira matter?

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No.

### How do I defeat Elvira?

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The whistle on its own doesn't work. Especially if you haven't "adjusted" it.
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You may need to retreat and come back to do so.
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See the note in the preserve if you're stuck.
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Have any other gifts?
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The medals, IQ and LUCKY.
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Neither alone speeds you up, but they clinked together when you rescued various animals.
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So go QUICKLY.
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Then PLAY WHISTLE.

# STORE H

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## What does it become?

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The clues lead you to somewhere random, different, that doesn't fit in anywhere.
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OTHERS.

## I don't get to enter the 'new' area if I restart the game!

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This is just a buffer so people who viewed this accidentally won't find the shortcut command.
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It's referenced when you win.
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ROVE OVER.

## Rustic Citrus

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### What do I need to do for Curtis?

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For starters, get 4 fruits. A few are easy.
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The Spear will be PEARS.
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The Lumps can be PLUMS.
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The Pagers can be GRAPES.
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Examine the drinks stand, then the slime can be LIMES.
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There are more potential fruits, which you may be able to guess, but you only need four.

### What's this stupid moss cap for?

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The moss cap is supposed to help you with directions.
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It doesn't work so well in its present state.
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Try making it a COMPASS.
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Now you can go north!

### Anything else I can do besides make fruit?

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Curtis gives you something new every four fruits.
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A tekno-token,
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A coin,
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Another coin,
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And a droll dollar.
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Beyond that, he just takes stuff.

### Mad Train?

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TAMARIND.

### Eerie Blurbs?

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Painted blue-purple.
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BLUEBERRIES.

### Peanut Cola?

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Some clues on the can.
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CANTALOUPE.

### Mopeage rant and other writings?

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They're real pips.
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POMEGRANATE.

### What's the video tape collection for?

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All in red. Clues for a fruit.
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Nope, Mr. Sim sounds almost like...
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PERSIMMON.

### Barren cries?

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CRANBERRIES.

### Harmonicas?

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MARASCHINO (cherry.)

## Swell Wells

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### ESP Pal t-shirt?

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Six letter fruit.
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APPLES.

### What about the riot cap?

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An APRICOT.

### And the sorer bogey?

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GOOSEBERRY.

## Filed Field

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### Anything besides fruit here?

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No.

### Where is Fidel?

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"I fled." He's not coming back.

### The buried raft?

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Philip Larkin would figure this out.
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BREADFRUIT.

### Pipe Panel fence?

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Hm, pipe panel.
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PINEAPPLE.

### Barriers West?

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STRAWBERRIES.

### Barber Sickle?

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BLACKBERRIES.

### Pryer Bars?

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RASPBERRY.

### The rapt figure?

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White and pink with a weird spoon.
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GRAPEFRUIT.

## Scape Space

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### How do I trade for the storage?

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Got any seedy currency?
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Did you try giving the trader a coin?
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The coins aren't seedy or valuable enough. Give the trader something more valuable.
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Like, after you give Curtis twenty fruits, ...
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...the (a) droll dollar.

### Do I need any of the fruits down here?

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No, and in fact, they're meant to be a bit tricky.

### I can't take the orange!

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You're being too direct about it.
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Perhaps if you get close...
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...or GO NEAR...

### What to take from the bucket?

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Rather, what to nab.
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NAB AN A. It will change to a BANANA.

### What about the pugnacious plant?

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Hmm, pugnacious and plant don't work.
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Look at it--it wants you to attack it.
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If you attack it, odd things happen. You say odd things.
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Burr, Bah, etc.
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RHUBARB.

## Clangier Clearing

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### Why can't I trade?

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You need to have currency, and a coin isn't enough.
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Curtis gives you a tekno-token for fruit number eight.

### Is there any theme, beyond the obvious?

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Not really. This is a sort of runoff area.
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Though there are a lot of adjectives.

### Why should I listen?

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A voice says 'go, man.'
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MANGO isn't quite it.
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You need to get AMONG.

### Lemons?

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SOLEMN.

### Melons?

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SOLEMN, again.

### The peach?

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CHEAP.

### Tangerine?

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Looks like Jorge Luis Borges if you examine it twice.
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ARGENTINE.

### Nectarine?

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Needs to be older.
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ANCIENTER.

### The auction caution?

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Says Pay ASAP.
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PAPAYAS.

### List of prices?

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An error makes you want to lash out at the prices.
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CRIPES!

### The quince needs something in Italian!

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A price, or a number,
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Uno, duo, tre, quattre, ...
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CINQUE.

### What's the RESERVED sign for?

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It can be REVERSED for a fruit.

## Gates Stage

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### What's behind the gates?

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The happy ending.

### How to get through the gates?

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You need a passport.
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The rest of the questions won't make sense until you talk to Curtis.

### How do I open the storage?

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Examining it mentions a lost slot.
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You can't see it because it is lost.
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You need something to put in the slot.
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But not a coin.

### What do I put in the slot?

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Coins don't seem to work. Neither does a coin.
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The thing doesn't like money--maybe more a token?
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Perhaps an ICON would be more your thing.
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Or, if you have two coins, they can be ICONS.

### Why does the storage spit my offer out with a hum?

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A weird hum. Like sound waves.
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You need something to counteract that.
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Once you have two coins, you can make them SONIC.
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Similarly, ICONS can become SONIC, too.

### What do I do with the final item?

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It can take you pretty much anywhere.
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But you need to pay attention to it.
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A viewer and searcher are pretty easy to use. You feel they could be.
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REVIEW or RESEARCH.
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You're also called a PERP in the demo dome.
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In that case you could PREP a bit. But you can't do all three actions.
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Just go through the gates for the finale.

# DEMO DOME MODE

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## What do I do here?

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You don't need to do much.
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Just explore everywhere and examine what you want. The SCORE should keep track of things to you.

## What's Benford's Law?

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It's on Wikipedia, yeah, but the example in my own code was maybe a cool learning moment, if you care. And if you clicked here, you actually might.
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Benford's Law says that randomly occurring measurements' first digits occur at a rate of [log X+1 - log X] for X from 1 to 9. As long as the measurements span several orders of magnitude.
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Of course, you need enough data points to make it significant, too. With 40+, you can start to see the shape.
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In my case, the random anagram sets conform to Benford's Law, though it's probably skewed towards the ones digit, because I didn't make a random table until I had ten entries.
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Plus I enjoyed working to round numbers like 1000 or 100 just to hit goals. This was particularly evident when I hit 80 entries.
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Since the books hit 2600 titles (I include both # of entries and KB of entries) I had enough orders of magnitude for Benford's Law to apply. But the general pattern is still pretty clear.
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Yay, scientific rules and scientific thinking why data might be skewed! See, this game isn't just about anagrams.

## What's Zipf's law?

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It's on Wikipedia, but basically it says naturally countable measurements (like city populations) follow x, x/2, x/3, etc. Or x, x/2^,z, x/3^z.
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My anagram lists do so--but in two segments. That's probably because I introduced many lists late. You can calculate, though, that it roughly works for the top ten.
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Some anagram lists outstripped others at various times. But the laws were still roughly followed.

# GENERAL QUESTIONS FOR YOUR (POTENTIAL) AMUSEMENT

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## How many ways are there to die?

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Not many. And I think they're relatively obvious deaths. Easily undoable too.
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You can create an OCEAN where there's a canoe.
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You can wait around by Elvira.
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You can curse in the Cleric Circle.
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You can wait around and not change the owls or the raptor.
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You can face Elvira when not up to speed.
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You can troll the trolls four ways instead of three in the Posh Hops Shop.
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You can take the urn in the Olde Lode.
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You can attack the scary crays on the fighter freight.

## Bad anagrams:

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...making the plates or staple PASTEL, PLEATS or PETALS?
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...trying to STUB or say BUTS/BUTS around the tubs?
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...making GAPERS around the pagers or grapes?
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...saying TARD to get the dart? (don't say this word in real life. It's not nice.)
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...saying HORSE at the shore?
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...saying EOL or ELO by Leo?
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...saying SNOG when you hear the song in FiefCo Office?
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...saying SPINE around the pines? There's another one, too.
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...looking in the source code for the rest? ("table of anayux")

## Is Casper Spacer "anyone"?

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He's a lame parody of a pastiche of great writers, but nobody in particular.
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He could be the fish equivalent of Hemingway, if you wanted him to be.
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Regardless of your opinion of Hemingway's works, I hope you agree with me that there are never enough Hemingway parodies.

## Is Elvira "anyone?"

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Not really. But her backhanded compliments and misguided charisma are things I generally find annoying.
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The name just worked out right, and I'm no good at making straight-out evil characters.
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I hope she felt evil enough for you.