Go back to the wardrobe & search inside. At the back you realise there is another door - use the clipper lighter carefully (save first as if you set fire to the coats it's game over) & notice that it is secured by a series of bolts. Clicking on each operates other bolts as well. Don't bother working it out - clicking randomly for approx 30 mins - 1 hour will get you there. Go through the door & you are in a strange, cold snowy environment but to your left there is a log cabin with a table outside. You can't go anywhere else in the environment as it's just scenery. On top there is a potted lemon tree & a recipe book. Take the recipe book & pick 2 lemons - they have a strange glow about them. Examine recipe book & notice one for BBQ herring......

You her a loud ringing sound!

>look around

You look around and see the environment is fading. After a while it's pitch dark with just a small white blob in the the middle of your view range.

>open eyes

You open your eyes and see a computer monitor right in front of you. The screen is blue and there's some gibberish on the screen about system failures and so on.

>look computer

You look at the computer and you see a CD-rom was ejected, the title on it is The Infinite Repeat of Themes.. You hear the mail man at your letterbox. You leave the white house and you stand before the letter box.

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Bernard

> there's somthing stucccckkkk in it. Mmmm - I think it's the next installment - how do I retrieve it! (do I really want too! )
>...

In your pocket you find (miraculously) a bottle with a little olive oil and a test tube with a saliva sample.

>Combine olive oil and saliva

You now have a greasy liquid.

>Use greasy liquid on letter box.

The letter box opens and you find a computer disk, wrapped in sealskin with a skull and bones symbol on it. You notice that it came from ConTemplar.Inc.com. Do you open it?

Open the box... a Templar voice is heard... "Who dares to enter enter my domain?" You think this voice is familiar but from where?

Hi

Are you all in the same ward ??



Cheers.

Mad

In the letter box there's a package.

>take package

You take the package.

>open package

You open the package and you see there's an orb inside. The orb shows an old man with a beard. The picture is very unstable. Maybe you need new batteries.

>enter house

You're in the hallway. You can go South, East or Outside the house.

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Bernard

Go east... Hear a squeeky sound from above...

We shut the box for a mo & concentrate on the sealskin cover. Use the magnifying glass & find something to use the swab with - it's DNA & matches that of a recently unearthed skeleton believed to be one of the lost Knights Templar who is now 'resting' templararily in an archaeological institute in California. The sealskin with skull & crossbones is puzzling because it was something made by pirates in the 16th century to 'house' throbies (made out of small circles of flint) which were used for a game - similar to playing frisbie only more lethal (& often fatal) as they were sharp .....

I don't think so!

Hi

If you had been, I was thinking I might visit - grapes, flowers, the whole thing, you know ??

But then again, I dread to think what use my gifts might be put to - and of course there's also the risk of infection

Cheers.

Mad

Are you sure chrissie? Didn't you meet that good looking blue skinned nurse by now? The ways she takes your temperature are amazing!
Back to the game now:

You're in front of the stairs, you can go Up or West.

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Bernard

>go up

You go up. The squeaking noise is becoming louder.

>look up at ceiling

There is a large dark mass stuck to the ceiling

>prod dark mass with broom

Oh, I wouldn't do that if I were you.

>PROD DARK MASS WITH BROOM

Ok, Ok. You prod the dark mass. It gurgles. Now look what you've done.

>Run away

No, it's too late for that....

>_

You slowlly start to walk the stairs... It's dark up here... The walls are full of paintings from the previous owners of the house... There is a long hall with a lot of doors... You try the first one The door was locked and the key is from the inside. Look at keyhole

It's quite safe Mad, didn't like to mention earlier that we're each confined to our own padded cell.(stigma & all that) We were all kidnapped by this big publisher that wanted to make his mark on the AG genre (but he's got no ideas himself but will ultimately take the credit) There's this big screen on the wall you can't reach & some bouncy soft controls - all we have to do between us is to come come up with the ideas to make the ultimate Adventure Game. How are we doing?

You look at the keyhole and you a red eye gleaming at you! That's not a key, it's an albino mouse!

>inv

You are carrying 3 item(s):
A needle, a ruler and a piece of brie.

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Bernard

Hi

"all we have to do between us is to come come up with the ideas to make the ultimate Adventure Game. How are we doing?"

I'd stay with the treatment a while longer

Cheers.

Mad

Glad you enjoyed it Bernard! - she wasn't my type! & I can't believe you were fooled by that old 'taking the temperature trick' - naughty boy!

Okay back to game:
> if you look closely it's a clockwork mouse with infrared eyes - they don't look quite right to me .............

(I'm wondering why game developers need such a long time to produce a new AG, aren't you?)

>look keyhole again

You notice it's not his right eye you're looking at, it's it left eye!

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Bernard

Well, you can take all the time in the world if you've got hostages who dearly want to be free - much cheaper than paying a development team.

>Okay we've got a needle, a ruler & a piece of brie. We can try the brie but no - it doesn't work. You try the needle but you get an electric shock & the ruler doesn't fit through the keyhole. I think we need the right eye.......... maybe that gurgling dark mass might help?

Wasn't there something in the bible about a camel and an eye of a needle?

>use needle with brie

Some brie settled in the eye of the needle.

>use needle with keyhole

The mouse is threading itself through the eye, while doing this the tail moves the tumblers of the lock. The door is unlocked now!

>open door

You open the door and you see a scared beta tester sitting on the floor.

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Bernard

He has a gun and some granades on him... He is hunting bugs...

(This is getting to be the most ridiculous thread here! )

>give ruler to beta tester.

He gratefully accepts your ruler and immediately starts to make some calculations. He drops his gun and the grenades.

>take gun and grenades

You take the weapons and a big grin is showing on your face. Now you're armed and dangerous!

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Bernard

Go back where you saw the black mass thing on the sealing... Start shooting at it... You now realize that it is a pigniata... Rotten eggs are falling like rain

>take eggshells

You pick up the eggshells.

>go downstairs

You go downstairs and you decide to never go upstairs again because the stench is overwhelming! You're back in the hallway again, there are exits to the South or the Outside.

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Bernard