Escape RoomI

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Escape RoomI

Escape Room

It's dark in here. If you hadn't felt so dizzy--side effect of the white tea (at least you hope it was tea) they had given you before they had knocked you out--and seen a small sliver of light through the door of wherever you are, you'd think you were still unconscious.

You can feel bands on your shoes, doubtless attached to the floor or the wall, the same way you've seen toys packaged. You'll have to take them (or your shoes) off, if you want to walk around.

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This escape room works in the same way as a Text Adventure, but there is not necessarily a story, and there are numerous codes, keys, and typical Escape Room objects. Parts will be short, and I will try to post at least every other day. There is no time limit (because time limits are stressful), and you can interact with anything or everything, to some extent (Hint: first, try looking for a light! You cannot see anything in the room until you find a lkight) 

Remember, Admin will need to approve each comment before posting, including any code, which we usually avoid.

Admn

submitted by Lyric, age ?, The Garden
(February 11, 2024 - 12:23 pm)

back to the Inkwell

I love escape rooms!! Just clarifying; you are writing this? text adventure as you said? and we give commands?

submitted by Hawkstar, age Purple you, *finger heart*
(February 11, 2024 - 3:56 pm)

@Hawkstar, yes, this is a written escape room that works in the same way as a text adventure. I love escape rooms as well :)

@Admin, the type of code I was thinking of was more like random number combinations (and a lock with painted flowers on it, as clues), not symbol based or scrambling up letters codes. I think passwords (NOT passwords from real life btw!!) might have described what I was trying to say better, whoops.

 

Important note for everyone: I know I said that I will try to post every other day, and I know I have a reputation for...not doing that with written projects. However, because there is no story/character development for this Escape Room it will take way less time to write and with the exception of finals week (*panics*) I can probably write parts quickly and consistently.

submitted by Lyric, age :D, The Garden
(February 11, 2024 - 8:26 pm)
submitted by Tipple Top, Joy and, Jaunt, come and be Jolie!
(February 11, 2024 - 8:11 pm)

text adventure cinematic universe! this is, like, my dream come true. i love text adventures :>

i'll try to submit commands more often, i'm not pulling my weight!

submitted by Lord Entropy
(February 11, 2024 - 9:49 pm)

Escape rooms are so cool!! :) 

For a command, take shoes off and open the door where there's light?

submitted by Moon Wolf , age lunars, A Celestial Sky
(February 11, 2024 - 11:45 pm)

You untie your shoes expertly, slip out of them, and rush towards the door. You bump into several hard objects on the way, including what feels like...a haystack? The door turns out to be two doors, with a crack between them where sunlight is ebbing through. A looped chain attached to one door crosses over the crack, before circling around a rectangular lock, on which is carved painted shapes. It is too dark to see what colors the shapes are, but regardless of that, the lock keeps the doors shut and you trapped inside. You put your eye to the crack, causing the chain to jingle and the doors to creak.

Outside is a garden that floats on blushing, rose gold water, like a lily on a pond, beneath a radiant sunrise. Tiger-colored butterflies weave between rows of pastel flowers, in beds lined with intricately painted stones. A white fence surrounds the garden, and beyond it, you can detect the faint outline of another garden, another island.

You draw back with a sigh, guessing that you're locked inside a shed in the garden, like a bird in a cage. And speaking of birds, you don't hear a single one of them. In fact, the entire garden is deathly, unnaturally, silent.

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Sorry, the door is locked. There is a light in the shed, if anyone cares to feel around for it.

submitted by Lyric, age :D, The Garden
(February 12, 2024 - 2:31 pm)

So cool! Sure, let's feel the walls for lights/other objects!

submitted by WiLdSoNg
(February 12, 2024 - 4:49 pm)

You feel around on the wall--cautiously, because the last thing you want to do right now is pull splinters from your fingers, in the dark. On one wall, there are several piles of haystacks. On the other is a chest of drawers and planks if wood. Something dangles from the ceiling. You tug on it, and a light clicks on.

The shed is very sparsely decorated, even for a shed. There are thirty haystacks (piles of five, six stacks), a watering can with water in it, and the planks of wood, all of which belong in a shed. The rest are a chest of drawers with an Algebra workbook, a copy of The Secret Garden, and a small pamphlet about rattlesnakes on top of it (and two drawers, the first of which is locked with a four digit combination lock and the second of which is locked with a lock-and-key type of lock), a clock that had run out of batteries at 4:37 A.M. or P.M., a yardstick that looks very small and frightened behind the planks of wood, and a chalk message on the wall that reads "341, 18b". The lock on the doors, you find, consists of five hollows in the metal: a red circle, an orange square, a yellow triangle, a blue diamond, and a purple octagon (or pentagon, or octagon, or dodecahedron...the shapes do not matter.

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This is the true beginning of the Escape Room! :D Investigate the objects to look for clues, then figure out how to escape the shed. There are no codes, @Admins, just clues, and passwords that are not from real life.

submitted by Lyric, age :D, The Garden
(February 12, 2024 - 10:37 pm)

Flip through the algebra workbook and secret garden book for any keys or clues

submitted by Moon Wolf, age lunars, A Celestial Sky
(February 13, 2024 - 8:31 pm)

You walk over to the chest of drawers (now you can see that the combination lock on its first drawer has four digits) and take the Algebra workbook and The Secret Garden down from the top. 

The Algebra workbook is purple, with 460 pages. It looks very much like any math workbook you've ever seen, but just in case, you open it and shake it, guessing it's not placed there for homework purposes. Something falls out, a piece of blank paper being used as a bookmark, but you can't tell what page it fell out from.

You set down the Algebra workbook on the desk, picking up The Secret Garden instead. This particular one is published by Children's Classics New York and has 272 pages. Maybe you will read it, if you get frustrated while trying to open the shed door. You shake this one two, but nothing falls out

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*goes to put away the Algebra workbook and The Secret Garden, which do have 460 and 272 pages, exactly* 

submitted by Lyric, age :D, The Garden
(February 13, 2024 - 11:57 pm)

In case anyone is stuck and that's why no one is replying (so far), I will provide a hint: The Secret Garden book, the planks of wood, and the pamphlet on rattlesnakes are not important for escaping. The message on the wall is one of two clues that are in plain sight. I will explain what they mean if neccessary.

submitted by Lyric, age :D, The Garden
(February 15, 2024 - 5:20 pm)