You see an Interactive Fiction Mafia. Command?

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Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Maugrim posted:

Can us unspoiled obs play too?

# ¿ Jul 7, 2024 07:20

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# ¿ May 21, 2025 09:54

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

My Second Re-Reg posted:

Yeah, we need somebody to look at self so we can see what our current rank is

##look at self

# ¿ Jul 10, 2024 06:39

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

##think about fireplace

# ¿ Jul 11, 2024 20:37

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

CirclMastr posted:

Do you have anything flammable from previously solved puzzles?

Okay, so it sounds like we�re on the right track with the page, but may need more (or different).

# ¿ Jul 11, 2024 21:01

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

So that would be what, the hand-written note and the scroll?

# ¿ Jul 11, 2024 21:02

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

CirclMastr posted:

Taken.

Your score has gone up!

That seemed so anticlimactic for as long as we�ve been on this one.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2024 04:57

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Are we a Greenhorn yet? ##look at self

# ¿ Jul 16, 2024 04:58

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Maugrim posted:

Fantastic work. You rock!

# ¿ Jul 16, 2024 14:49

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

kaschei posted:

I'm on cooldown but I think it is only 4 chains we need and that b and d are the fakes

So I propose c,f,e,a

I agree with this, I think.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2024 14:51

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

Thinking about it, we might have to take the sconce with us to light up the hallway.

Agreed with this.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2024 17:53

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

We don�t have anywhere else to explore at the moment, correct?

# ¿ Jul 20, 2024 20:47

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

##look at lettering on sleeve of ranger

# ¿ Jul 21, 2024 06:45

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

##look at statues

# ¿ Jul 22, 2024 14:54

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

##take note in case this is required to read it first.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2024 17:21

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

kaschei posted:

##solve drop key; open box key was taken to; take all keys from box

Very nice!

# ¿ Jul 22, 2024 21:56

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Maugrim posted:

We never searched the chests of drawers in the vault room iirc. Like, there's potentially things we missed in there.

We could do with a light source to explore the dark halls. What if we went back to the fireplace and took a burning log or something?

I like both of these points. Feels like we might find something to translate in the darkness, maybe. Though I don�t know about taking a burning log. There might be something to stick in the fire to turn into a torch, though?

# ¿ Jul 24, 2024 16:59

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

CirclMastr posted:

Which key, the gold key or the silver key?

##examine silver key

# ¿ Jul 24, 2024 18:47

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

CubicalSucrose posted:

It should be the bottom row, no?

This is what I�d think. Counting from the left, gold key in position 6 and silver key in position 10?

# ¿ Jul 24, 2024 23:27

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

kaschei posted:

##solve: place gold key in sixth slot on bottom row; place silver key in tenth slot of bottom row; turn keys simultaneously; open door; walk through door

If this doesn�t do it maybe we go back to the automaton room and drop whatever else we have to see if the robot leads us to a third key?

# ¿ Jul 25, 2024 05:51

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Maugrim posted:

Someone else use the gold key in the 9th lock?

##Insert gold key into 9th lock, 13th row

# ¿ Jul 25, 2024 22:10

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Excellent. Someone just hopefully needs to turn the gold key and we�re in business.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2024 00:24

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

We haven�t gotten any indication that the two clamps have re-closed. Is this something as simple as �open door?�

Or do we need to think about how many clamps there actually are? Is there a third clamp since this is a �triangular lock?�

I�ll wait for the last action to resolve before doing anything else.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2024 02:38

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Well, okay, so we either turned them a second time and re-locked them or turned them both at once and re-locked them.

##turn gold key

# ¿ Jul 26, 2024 06:32

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Maugrim posted:

Ref what are you expecting to happen with that action that we didn't already see

Maugrim posted:

Did people somehow miss that mod confirmed that "using" a key is the same as simultaneously inserting it and turning it, which is why I did that, because the implication would be that turning them simultaneously doesn't matter

And why didn't we try to push the door open once the clamps were open

Apparently I did, so I was going back to trying them singularly since turning them both at the same time re-locked it. My bad.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2024 06:55

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Maugrim posted:

And why didn't we try to push the door open once the clamps were open

I basically asked this same question but the clamps were re-locked before anyone could act.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2024 06:56

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

There were four clamps. Looks like two that were opened by the row 5 commands and two that were opened by the row 13 commands. Unless we have to take the keys first, it looks like the door should now be unlocked.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2024 17:49

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

##look at west wall fresco

# ¿ Jul 28, 2024 15:12

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

I don�t think we currently have anything, do we? ##check inventory

# ¿ Jul 30, 2024 05:06

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

##look at ceiling

# ¿ Jul 30, 2024 05:14

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

I think you're on cooldown Ref

Whoops, thanks!

So yeah, as of now it doesn�t sound like there�s anything we can directly interact with on any wall, and we don�t have anything in our inventory. Is there any chance we have to do something with the large metal slab from the doorway? I don�t know why else that would be there.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2024 05:50

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

I�m guessing fireplace room first.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2024 15:36

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

I�m happy to help submit directions to move things along but I�m awful at reading maps so once it�s confirmed what moves we need, I�ll jump in and help.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2024 16:19

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

Hal Incandenza posted:

Maugrim says north 5 times and I am willing to trust such a reliable soul

Okay. Worst-case scenario we run face-first into a wall two or three times, right?

##north, north, north, north, north

# ¿ Jul 30, 2024 18:14

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

I�m pretty sure I�m still on cooldown, but did we ever look at the writing desk?

# ¿ Aug 1, 2024 06:48

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

CirclMastr posted:

It's too long to read in one sitting. Maybe you should just take it with you.

[Description removed by Hasbro]

##take Volo�s drinks guide

# ¿ Aug 1, 2024 22:32

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

TwelveBaud posted:

If this were an actual Infocom game, I'd blame the persnickety parser and ##open box of notes instead of taking and ##use book on scraps again.

Since this is being GMed by a human who saw our intentions from pages away, I'm guessing there wouldn't be any luck for us here even if we were able to pronounce things correctly.

I'm on cooldown, but could somebody...?

##s, s, s, n, n, s, s, w, up, n

I�ve lost the plot a little here but I can do this.

##s, s, s, n, n, s, s, w, up, n

# ¿ Aug 14, 2024 18:36

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# ¿ May 21, 2025 09:54

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

# ¿ Aug 19, 2024 01:11

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