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Post by Pinwig on Jan 20, 2019 12:04:41 GMT
Right. I've got no idea what we're offering for what now.
SAY, "alright, alright, alright. I can see you drive a hard bargain. As we agreed. 11 for the clothes and the gourd."
GIVE 20SP note.
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Post by Stomski on Jan 20, 2019 16:12:47 GMT
SAY, "alright, alright, alright. I can see you drive a hard bargain. As we agreed. 11 for the clothes and the gourd." GIVE 20SP note.
"My friend! Surely for merchandise of this quality you must give me 20! I fear I must also tell you something of grave importance, but I can only do so for this price!" he says trying to up the ante again.
He refuses the money for now.
Inventory: | Key card, note | Cash: | SP2000 | Wearing: | Transformers pants, green uniform | Location: | City clearance area | Connected
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 20, 2019 16:26:45 GMT
SAVE game.
PUNCH clothes seller.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 20, 2019 16:44:52 GMT
Interesting. The game seems to want to get us back to the original price we paid. I suspect everything's fixed to be honest, we need to leave this area with a specific amount of money or it'll have a knock on effect later on. We know the Black Mexican has been pitched at 1800, the clothes 20, so we would have 180SP to our name.
I think we need to move on. Realistically, we can try and scrimp and save as much as we like, but when it comes to the game mechanics Stom is only going to let us have what we need when. It's not like this is an RPG where we accumulate cash to buy potions and disposable items. We should look on this as having X amount of cash, and the price of the clothes and the price of the Prowl equate to X with a bit left if we need that for something else. The actual amounts don't really matter.
SAY to clothes seller, "I've enjoyed our banter, and even though we shook on 11 and you now for some reason want 20, here, have the 20. Give us the clothes, the gourd and what is it you need to tell me?"
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Post by Stomski on Jan 20, 2019 19:17:43 GMT
SAY to clothes seller, "I've enjoyed our banter, and even though we shook on 11 and you now for some reason want 20, here, have the 20. Give us the clothes, the gourd and what is it you need to tell me?"
Inventory: | Key card, note | Cash: | SP2000 | Wearing: | Transformers pants, green uniform | Location: | City clearance area | Connected
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 20, 2019 19:28:21 GMT
SAY, "Fine. Forget the gourd. Take the twenty and give us the clothes."
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Post by Stomski on Jan 20, 2019 20:04:45 GMT
SAY, "Fine. Forget the gourd. Take the twenty and give us the clothes."
Cash removed: SP20
Items added: poncho, sombrero (+2 points)
"Thank you, my friend!" the seller says. He leans in close to you as if to convey something covertly.
"Now for my info... Remember this is very important, my friend!"
He stands up straight and bursts out with hearty aplomb "There is no gourd!! It's Monty Python, yes?!!!" He lets out a hearty gaffaw before returning to tending his wares, still chuckling to himself.
Inventory: | Key card, note, poncho, sombrero | Cash: | SP1980 | Wearing: | Transformers pants, green uniform | Location: | City clearance area | Connected
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 20, 2019 20:15:04 GMT
Yes, I think we realised about half a page back that that was going to be how that worked out...
Onward then.
SAY to toy seller, "I have no need to see your entire collection for I fear it may well do me in, but pray tell, am I right in thinking a Black Mexican Prowl is going to cost me 1800SP and there's no negotiation on the price? If so, get it out now, chum."
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 20, 2019 20:18:46 GMT
SAVE game. PUNCH clothes seller. Please. He deserves it. Martin |
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Post by blueshift on Jan 20, 2019 20:23:00 GMT
SAVE game. PUNCH clothes seller. Please. He deserves it. Martin I'm with Martin |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 20, 2019 20:55:51 GMT
I wonder if we can buy from the food seller.
I think Stom realised that every future puzzle would involve us trying to use the gourd and thought better of letting us have it.
Which kinda makes me wonder what we're going to end up doing with these pants.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 20, 2019 20:59:58 GMT
He could have given us the gourd but then made it indispensible in some way, as with the chafing, so that we knew we couldn't use it for anything as it would mean instant death.
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Post by Stomski on Jan 20, 2019 21:12:45 GMT
Literally nearly choked on my Ambrosia rice pudding. But yes, I toyed with the idea of you getting the gourd and working it into a future puzzle, but it didn't quite feel right. |
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Post by Stomski on Jan 21, 2019 9:24:31 GMT
SAVE game. PUNCH clothes seller. Error: SAVE command no longer supported, please load from chapter indexes. You return to the clothes seller full of rage on account of the poor customer service. No one treats you this way! Why can't they just set a price and stick to it instead of such exploitative practices. You call for his attention and before he can finish greeting you, you catch him with your best right hook. The guards don't take too kindly to such physical violence and rush you from behind, one catching you on the back of the head with a baton and you pass out.
You awake in a darkened room, remembering flashes of consciousness; being dragged and lifted somewhere, muffled voices within some kind of bright laboratory and then a nightmarish visage of some kind, black carapaces, hissing and crawling. Your recollection is all too fuzzy to make anything distinct out. You try to move but you're restrained to the wall by some kind of tough structure. As your eyes adjust you see it almost looks organic in nature, like some kind of secreted resin, now hardened to keep you in place. But for what purpose?
You survey your surroundings, the walls are definitely man made, strong looking metal, A sealed robust door lies across the room, a surveillance camera above it and no windows that you can make out. In front of you some kind of leathery egg with a cross on its top, almost translucent at its side. You see something twitch inside as if becoming aware of your presence. Struggling to get free the top of the egg suddenly folds open on four sides as something seems to tense inside. You stretch your head as high as you can out of curiosity to see if you can make out what's inside. Then something leaps at your face so fast you don't even have time to scream let alone process what is happening. Its long tail wrapping around your neck and long bony legs pulling itself around your head tightly. The last thing you remember before blacking out is what can only be described as smothering.
You awake some time later, but you're not entirely sure how long. Whatever it was that attacked you has now detached itself and is no where to be seen. Again you struggle to get free, but can't quite do so. Time passes with you calling for help until you're hoarse... It's a futile struggle, no one comes to your aid.
Then the pain starts. What begins with a slight cramp followed by a cough soon becomes searing pain as something inside you starts moving and ripping at the inside of your chest with tiny metallic teeth. You start convulsing as the pain becomes unbearable as your ribs explode outwards, a creature being born from your death.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 21, 2019 17:38:55 GMT
Aw man.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 21, 2019 17:51:27 GMT
It was worth it.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 21, 2019 17:56:10 GMT
LOAD 2.44.
Martin
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 21, 2019 18:54:04 GMT
Followed by
SAY to toy seller, "I have no need to see your entire collection for I fear it may well do me in, but pray tell, am I right in thinking a Black Mexican Prowl is going to cost me 1800SP and there's no negotiation on the price? If so, get it out now, chum."
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 21, 2019 18:59:14 GMT
Interesting, that's the same death sequence as the previous one, which tells us it probably isn't the toy seller or the clothes seller that is involved in passing on our unconscious body to the Alien experimenters. Makes sense as the game has told us they are reputable and law abiding. Might not be the guards either as last time we just passed out.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 21, 2019 19:20:39 GMT
Yes. I fear there is some kind of Alien Worshipping cult at work here.
Edit:
But how they get hold of our unconscious body, I cannot say. There must be an Alien Cult member who is a guard, or, I dunno, works in the infirmary where we're taken whilst unconscious... something... elusive...
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Post by Stomski on Jan 21, 2019 19:20:59 GMT
RELOADING FROM SAVE POINT 2.44: So what did he show you earlier? LOADING COMPLETE You seem to be in some kind of dirty security clearance area. There's a long queue towards a security check gate where they even seem to be performing X-Rays of people. Scattered around there is something of a middle eastern bazaar. Several people in various attires grouped around many different stalls, all selling and buying various wares. Of them a few catch your eye, one selling toys, clothing, knock off sunglasses and of course several of various delicious smelling international cuisines.SAY to toy seller, "I have no need to see your entire collection for I fear it may well do me in, but pray tell, am I right in thinking a Black Mexican Prowl is going to cost me 1800SP and there's no negotiation on the price? If so, get it out now, chum."
"Indeed! You know the value of your action figures. Do you have the 1800?"
Inventory: | Key card, note, poncho, sombrero | Cash: | SP1980 | Wearing: | Transformers pants, green uniform | Location: | City clearance area | Connected
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 21, 2019 19:25:07 GMT
As an aside, this worries me a bit - 2.44: So what did he show you earlier?
What did who show us earlier? The clothes seller hasn't shown us anything apart from the Mexican gear as far as I can see scanning back. Are we going to miss buying something we need? Need to check when I get a chance.
So - I think we avoid the bartering this time? Just hand over the cash, cos realistically we can't overpay if the game still needs us to have cash left. We'd end up in a dead end.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 21, 2019 19:27:53 GMT
Yes, just pay what we need to.
(Yeah! I own a Black Mexican Prowl at last!)
(also, I love all the different 'saved' animations!)
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 21, 2019 19:30:03 GMT
SAY to toy seller, "I have 1800 smackers right here my friend, count em."
GIVE 1800SP to toy seller.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 21, 2019 19:38:42 GMT
Looking back at what's gone before:
"So what did he show you earlier" should refer to the clothes seller, as the entry it indexes is about him, But having checked back, apart from the sombrero and the poncho, which we already have, the only things he 'showed' us earlier are from this:
"Well now that depends. We've got all sorts of gear. Casual, formal, foreign. Maybe something for the weekend? If you want a particular look, we can probably hook you up."
The only other things we've seen earlier are from the food chap (the curried goat) and this bit from the toy seller:
"Your eyes study the main display behind him. It's like the Prowl shrine you always dreamed would be yours; from a Diaclone Fairlady Police in box, Beast Wars owl figure, Animated Samurai Armour Prowl and a whole host more. Every conceivable official mould, variant and even some obscure paraphernalia lies before you. Prowl's glorious head crests beaming at you from across the stall from all angles, it's all a little too much for you to take and you pass out."
None of that makes sense to me as being something we need to worry about, so I'm assuming for now the "So what did he show you earlier" means the poncho & sombrero.
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Post by Stomski on Jan 21, 2019 22:30:35 GMT
As an aside, this worries me a bit - 2.44: So what did he show you earlier? What did who show us earlier? The clothes seller hasn't shown us anything apart from the Mexican gear as far as I can see scanning back. Are we going to miss buying something we need? Need to check when I get a chance. It's a joke on the fact that the seller clearly showed you a gourd, but is now saying there isn't one. Don't focus on the gourd, just try to realise that there is no gourd. |
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Post by Stomski on Jan 21, 2019 22:45:08 GMT
SAY to toy seller, "I have 1800 smackers right here my friend, count em." GIVE 1800SP to toy seller.
Item added: Black Mexican Prowl (+1 point)
Cash removed: SP1800
Inventory: | Key card, note, poncho, sombrero, Black Mexican Prowl | Cash: | SP180 | Wearing: | Transformers pants, green uniform | Location: | City clearance area | Connected
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 21, 2019 23:36:06 GMT
YES!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 22, 2019 19:48:44 GMT
WEAR sombrero and poncho
before we forget to do that.
Right, we're ready I think to go through the security check unless we want to try and buy some goat curry. Do we want to buy goat curry? or look at anything else? oh, fake sunglasses. Do you think we need some fake sunglasses to complete the mexican look?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 22, 2019 19:54:03 GMT
We might suddenly and violently die of hunger if we don't eat something.
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