Gearworld Adventurer
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We leave the secret room behind and try to barricade it before continuing on.
Jimmy offers his labyrinth theory:
“Maybe this is some kind of afterlife for plumbers and the bad ones have to stay here fixing the same faucet for all eternity.”
Jimmy offers his labyrinth theory:
“Maybe this is some kind of afterlife for plumbers and the bad ones have to stay here fixing the same faucet for all eternity.”
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You leave the room behind and spend twenty minutes trying to get the grille more or less back in place. It doesn’t really work, but you manage to wedge it into the opening so that at least it won’t f…
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March 26, 2024 at 12:14 AM
We leave the secret room behind and try to barricade it before continuing on.
Jimmy offers his labyrinth theory:
“Maybe this is some kind of afterlife for plumbers and the bad ones have to stay here fixing the same faucet for all eternity.”
Jimmy offers his labyrinth theory:
“Maybe this is some kind of afterlife for plumbers and the bad ones have to stay here fixing the same faucet for all eternity.”
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We search through the secret room and find...
“Oh, that’s creepy as fuck.”
(anyone else hearing the siren call of the oysters?)
“Oh, that’s creepy as fuck.”
(anyone else hearing the siren call of the oysters?)
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You search the room carefully, even though the space between your shoulderblades itches with the thought of secret doors and people leaping out while your back is turned. Jimmy keeps watch, which hel…
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February 29, 2024 at 8:03 PM
We search through the secret room and find...
“Oh, that’s creepy as fuck.”
(anyone else hearing the siren call of the oysters?)
“Oh, that’s creepy as fuck.”
(anyone else hearing the siren call of the oysters?)
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We check out the "boring" south. Seems like poor Jimmy has gone through quite a few impulsive adventurers.
"You really think Basic Dungeon Survival ought to be a required class at Wentworth, not an elective."
Oh boy, we're about to take on the creepy metal grille...
"You really think Basic Dungeon Survival ought to be a required class at Wentworth, not an elective."
Oh boy, we're about to take on the creepy metal grille...
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You fear no boredom! You go south, around a bend, and past a dripping pipe, whereupon the passage dead-ends at the remains of an enormous rusted grate. The grate overlooks darkness, and some thirty f…
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February 11, 2024 at 2:13 AM
We check out the "boring" south. Seems like poor Jimmy has gone through quite a few impulsive adventurers.
"You really think Basic Dungeon Survival ought to be a required class at Wentworth, not an elective."
Oh boy, we're about to take on the creepy metal grille...
"You really think Basic Dungeon Survival ought to be a required class at Wentworth, not an elective."
Oh boy, we're about to take on the creepy metal grille...
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We check out the clockwork bees' room, this time as an adventurer that can read hobo sign.
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You follow the sound of buzzing and are amused to see the hobo sign for “bad tempered owner” chalked on the doorway. Then you step inside.
…whoa.
Jimmy said “clockwork bees” and it’s not...
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February 2, 2024 at 7:49 PM
We check out the clockwork bees' room, this time as an adventurer that can read hobo sign.
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We find another ex-adventurer and rifle through his pockets. (We got amazingly high marks in Looting.)
We should start a therapy fund for Jimmy.
We should start a therapy fund for Jimmy.
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Whatever’s in the pipe almost certainly isn’t an eighteen foot tall owl, but you just don’t feel like finding out. The guy who stuck his head in a pipe found out Why We Don’t Stick Our Head In...
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February 1, 2024 at 4:38 AM
We find another ex-adventurer and rifle through his pockets. (We got amazingly high marks in Looting.)
We should start a therapy fund for Jimmy.
We should start a therapy fund for Jimmy.
A postmortem (hehe) of our last run, and someone made a map!
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This is my final map of everywhere we explored during the last run.
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February 1, 2024 at 12:22 AM
A postmortem (hehe) of our last run, and someone made a map!
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We head for "THAT" room.
Ah, so *that's* what happens when you stick your head up a pipe...
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Ah, so *that's* what happens when you stick your head up a pipe...
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“THAT” room is way too interesting a description for a bold adventurer like yourself to pass up. You stride confidently down the ramp. Jimmy’s claws tighten on your shoulder.
There’s some kin...
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January 31, 2024 at 6:05 AM
We head for "THAT" room.
Ah, so *that's* what happens when you stick your head up a pipe...
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Ah, so *that's* what happens when you stick your head up a pipe...
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We enter the labyrinth once again.
"Jimmy regales you with descriptions of what lies through the various doors, like a very small tour guide."
Where to?
"Jimmy regales you with descriptions of what lies through the various doors, like a very small tour guide."
Where to?
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When you went off to college, your parents presented you with a fancy Swiss Army knife. It has the knife, the other knife, the corkscrew, the flat AND Phillips screwdrivers, the tiny magnifying glass�...
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January 21, 2024 at 3:46 AM
We enter the labyrinth once again.
"Jimmy regales you with descriptions of what lies through the various doors, like a very small tour guide."
Where to?
"Jimmy regales you with descriptions of what lies through the various doors, like a very small tour guide."
Where to?
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It's a new day, and a new adventurer!
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Okay! Second verse, similar to the first! Let’s go!
You, friend, are the latest graduate of the Wentworth School Of Exploration and Adventure (Goooo Fighting Codfish!) the second-best explorer’s ...
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January 14, 2024 at 7:34 PM
It's a new day, and a new adventurer!
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“Sure,” you say to yourself. “Spend the night in a field of possibly phase-shifting sunflowers! What could go wrong?”
(We're doomed 😭)
(We're doomed 😭)
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“Sure,” you say to yourself. “Spend the night in a field of possibly phase-shifting sunflowers! What could go wrong?”
Jimmy says “Um.” In interpretive bird-dance, this is a slow, wobbly w...
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January 4, 2024 at 6:24 PM
“Sure,” you say to yourself. “Spend the night in a field of possibly phase-shifting sunflowers! What could go wrong?”
(We're doomed 😭)
(We're doomed 😭)
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We leave the sunflower room and continue exploring.
"Jimmy yawns on your shoulder. “It’s been a pretty long day, Boss…” As soon as he says something, you realize you’re exhausted. But where will you sleep?"
"Jimmy yawns on your shoulder. “It’s been a pretty long day, Boss…” As soon as he says something, you realize you’re exhausted. But where will you sleep?"
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The corridor continues south for a few dozen paces after you leave the sunflower field, then opens into a very large room. The ceiling is almost lost in shadow, but you can just make out a regular pa�...
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December 31, 2023 at 11:46 PM
We leave the sunflower room and continue exploring.
"Jimmy yawns on your shoulder. “It’s been a pretty long day, Boss…” As soon as he says something, you realize you’re exhausted. But where will you sleep?"
"Jimmy yawns on your shoulder. “It’s been a pretty long day, Boss…” As soon as he says something, you realize you’re exhausted. But where will you sleep?"
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We wander through the eerie field of sunflowers.
"This place has a way of making things seem significant even when you’re pretty sure they aren’t."
The room is a dead end. Where to now?
"This place has a way of making things seem significant even when you’re pretty sure they aren’t."
The room is a dead end. Where to now?
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You walk around the field of sunflowers, looking for some clue as to how they’re growing so far from the actual sun. You discover three things, the significance of which is unclear.
First of all, t...
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December 20, 2023 at 9:38 PM
We wander through the eerie field of sunflowers.
"This place has a way of making things seem significant even when you’re pretty sure they aren’t."
The room is a dead end. Where to now?
"This place has a way of making things seem significant even when you’re pretty sure they aren’t."
The room is a dead end. Where to now?
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There are sunflowers growing down here! Or... not just down here? Seems we're not the only ones experiencing being in two places at once.
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Sunflowers! Sunflowers growing underground, a whole apparent field of them, the flowers a good eight inches across, with bright yellow petals and a central orange disk. Looking down, you see empty st�...
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December 15, 2023 at 6:37 PM
There are sunflowers growing down here! Or... not just down here? Seems we're not the only ones experiencing being in two places at once.
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We find a waffle room. (Waffled room?)
"If this were a normal dungeon, that would be the key to a puzzle somewhere, but you’ve about given up hoping for anything so straightforward around here."
We also find a room full of plants, growing in the deep dark...
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"If this were a normal dungeon, that would be the key to a puzzle somewhere, but you’ve about given up hoping for anything so straightforward around here."
We also find a room full of plants, growing in the deep dark...
#bookofthegear
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The floor of the room opposite the sea monster’s head is deeply and unexpectedly indented, which you learn when you step down, turn your ankle, hop sideways, nearly turn your other ankle, and wind u...
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December 7, 2023 at 5:10 AM
We find a waffle room. (Waffled room?)
"If this were a normal dungeon, that would be the key to a puzzle somewhere, but you’ve about given up hoping for anything so straightforward around here."
We also find a room full of plants, growing in the deep dark...
#bookofthegear
"If this were a normal dungeon, that would be the key to a puzzle somewhere, but you’ve about given up hoping for anything so straightforward around here."
We also find a room full of plants, growing in the deep dark...
#bookofthegear
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We try the other direction, and pass through the doorway at that end.
"Opposite the doorway is a fossil, or at least the sculpture of a fossil. Obviously the labyrinth isn’t old enough for REAL fossils to have formed, and they wouldn’t form in concrete walls anyway. You think."
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"Opposite the doorway is a fossil, or at least the sculpture of a fossil. Obviously the labyrinth isn’t old enough for REAL fossils to have formed, and they wouldn’t form in concrete walls anyway. You think."
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For lack of any other direction, you head west along the catwalk to the open doorway in the wall. To your total lack of surprise, it leads to another concrete hallway running north-south.
Opposite t�...
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November 27, 2023 at 7:22 PM
We try the other direction, and pass through the doorway at that end.
"Opposite the doorway is a fossil, or at least the sculpture of a fossil. Obviously the labyrinth isn’t old enough for REAL fossils to have formed, and they wouldn’t form in concrete walls anyway. You think."
#bookofthegear
"Opposite the doorway is a fossil, or at least the sculpture of a fossil. Obviously the labyrinth isn’t old enough for REAL fossils to have formed, and they wouldn’t form in concrete walls anyway. You think."
#bookofthegear
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We try the door we.. just...entered?
"You stare at the door for a little bit and wonder what in the blue blazes is going on"
"You stare at the door for a little bit and wonder what in the blue blazes is going on"
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The door at the eastern end of the catwalk is made of metal, but not like the scary iron door is made of metal. It doesn’t mean anything by it. It’s just metal.
And closed. And has no knob, keyho...
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November 22, 2023 at 8:13 PM
We try the door we.. just...entered?
"You stare at the door for a little bit and wonder what in the blue blazes is going on"
"You stare at the door for a little bit and wonder what in the blue blazes is going on"
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Hopscotch got *really* weird.
*Something* happens, and we come out feeling "as if you were having a migraine with someone else’s head."
*Something* happens, and we come out feeling "as if you were having a migraine with someone else’s head."
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Grandma didn’t raise a quitter. You go back to square one of the hopscotch course and start again. Sure enough, a little over halfway through, you find yourself watching yourself from above.
It is ...
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November 14, 2023 at 5:57 AM
Hopscotch got *really* weird.
*Something* happens, and we come out feeling "as if you were having a migraine with someone else’s head."
*Something* happens, and we come out feeling "as if you were having a migraine with someone else’s head."
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We skedaddle north in search of fish.
Ooooh a hopscotch vortex. What could possibly go wrong?
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Ooooh a hopscotch vortex. What could possibly go wrong?
#bookofthegear
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You head north from the round room, in the direction of the enticing gleam of fish tubes. And sure enough, you find them. A bunch of them in fact. The righthand wall is lined with a dozen tubes that��...
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November 9, 2023 at 4:50 AM
We skedaddle north in search of fish.
Ooooh a hopscotch vortex. What could possibly go wrong?
#bookofthegear
Ooooh a hopscotch vortex. What could possibly go wrong?
#bookofthegear
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That's the crisped remains of an ex-adventurer, isn't it? Aaaaahhh.
Time to get away from this room!
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Time to get away from this room!
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You break up yet another granola bar and toss a chunk into the sooty room. It bounces slightly, skids a few inches, and lies still.
Honestly, after the stairweight, you wouldn’t be completely shock...
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November 6, 2023 at 8:20 PM
That's the crisped remains of an ex-adventurer, isn't it? Aaaaahhh.
Time to get away from this room!
#bookofthegear
Time to get away from this room!
#bookofthegear