The Consequences [Concluded]

[Beefy187]

Take your shirt off and examine your self.
Make sure no one did a creepy scientific experiment on you.

[Beskar]

Take your shirt off and examine your self.
Make sure no one did a creepy scientific experiment on you.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You enter the kitchen and open the fridge and pantry, searching for some food and drink. You toss a few bottles of water, a loaf of bread, and a box of Cheez-its into your backpack.

The items "3 bottles of water", "bread", and "Cheez-its" have been added to your inventory.

You start rifling around for some weapons - knives, etc. when suddenly one of the bedroom doors bursts open. A man in his 50s, large, balding, and wearing only a wifebeater and a pair of boxer shorts is staring at you, and he looks angry. You also notice he is holding a shotgun.

"You got three seconds to get out of my house before I blow your head open!!!" he yells.

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

Put your hands in the air and try and appear as nonthreatening as possible. Calmly say you have no idea how you got here and that you are very sorry if you have intruded on this mans home apologize a few more times and ask if he knows how you got here, while saying that if he doesn't you will leave as soon as he shows you the door. Also state you seem to be suffering from amnesia, and would love to know where you are.

[Myrddraal]

Risky stuff CDF, you might just have gotten yourself/us/him killed.

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

Risky stuff CDF, you might just have gotten yourself/us/him killed.

True, but hey, he has a shotgun while us/we/me have nothing If you tried to go for a attack then there is a far greater chance of our brains being splattered then wrestling the gun away from him.

For me at least it is no less risky then trying to get the gun and kill this guy, especially when one considers there may be another person (wife) here who could hit us while we were distracted.

[Beskar]

If CDF plan fails and the man is going to fire/shoot at you, use the bagpack as cover and throw a knife (if no knife, anything to at least distract him) with your Jason Bournetm combat skills, trying to surrive as long as possible disarming the man while you use another knife/your fists to pummel him. Preferably disarming/neutralising/not killing him

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

If CDF plan fails and the man is going to fire/shoot at you, use the bagpack as cover and throw a knife with your Jason Bournetm combat skills, trying to surrive as long as possible disarming the man while you use another knife/your fists to pummel him.

when did a knife get found?


Also if I just got everyone killed sorry....

[Beskar]

I edited it, hopefully your plan works anyway.

[Thermal]

I think CDF's plan is better... trying to fend off a man with a shotgun when you have no weapons is virtually impossible. And Beskar's idea of using a backpack for cover, well lets just say thats gotta be a metal backpack to make a good shield.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You drop to your knees and throw your hands in the air, calmly explaining your situation to the man with the shotgun. He doesn't appear interested in your excuses, however. "Shut it!" he yells, and whacks you with the butt of his gun. "The heck you think you're trying to pull, going through my stuff in my house and then not getting out when I had my gun pointed at you?! Let's have a look at what you got here."

He rummages through your backpack, paying special attention to the food and drink you nicked. "Well, I'll be having these back," he says, glowering at you the entire time. "As for the rest of this stuff, I don't recognize it, so I guess you can keep it... minus a small fee for breaking and entering into my home and trying to rob me blind."

The items "3 bottles of water", "bread", "Cheez-its", and $100 have been removed from your inventory.

"Now get out of my house and this neighborhood before I shoot you for real."

He quite literally boots you out of his house, and scurry off his modest front lawn and into the street.

******Status update******

Stage completed: House

Inventory:
- Wallet with $100
- Backpack
- mp3 player with "Rosetta Stoned" loaded on it
- Slip of paper with "Croatoan" written on it

Feedback:
This was the opening stage to kind of get you familiarized with the game. Congratulations on making it out of the house alive, however, you need to think more carefully about your actions in the future. Rummaging around for too long was bound to attract attention if somebody else was in the house, and not getting the heck out of Dodge right away once the guy with the shotgun came out was not the best idea. Normally, it probably would have cost you your life, but since this was the first stage, I was a bit more lenient.

Remember, I only accept the first set of orders in italics. Talk it out with the myriad voices in your head first before coming to a decision. It might save you a little more than 100 bucks and basic supplies in the future.

[Beskar]

Guessing "going into the bedroom and making friends with his wife" was a bad idea.

Though, still, why were you in that guys house in the first-place? Wouldn't have heard you/people entering/etc.

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

Maybe we are some kind of burglar who hit his head? I got nothing.


So we were supposed to run away. Ahhhh. Interesting.

Well I did not get us killed at least

[Myrddraal]

Well he did say "You got three seconds to get out of my house before I blow your head open!!" Pretty big hint there.

[Myrddraal]

Look around us. What kind of street is it? Any indication of where we are?

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

Well he did say "You got three seconds to get out of my house before I blow your head open!!" Pretty big hint there.

Yes, but I assumed bolting would cause him to open fire anyway. You would have to get to the front door open it and get out all before being shot by someone who was not that far away and was probably trigger happy. Did not think it was worth the risk

[Crazed Rabbit]

Well he did say "You got three seconds to get out of my house before I blow your head open!!" Pretty big hint there.

Really. CDF, you do not try to explain things to an angry, unkempt man with a gun and a reason to shoot you. You do as he says and get the heck out of there.

I'm thinking we ought to look and see what kind of neighborhood we're in and see if we can see a street sign.

And for crying out loud, don't try to contact the police or attract attention to ourselves. We might be some sort of hardened criminal ... er, or a political prisoner.

CR

[Beefy187]

Actually, I'm not sure if we are allowed to post "outside" info but here it is.

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Ok this is what I got from the quick search on the net

Croatoan
-Island apparently which used to exist near North Carolina
-It is also used in the way "gone Croatoan" which means "Returning to wilderness"
-Virus which turns humans to Zombies in drama series "supernatural"
-American Air Craft Carrier Croatan (Miss spelled)
-Miss spell of Croatian, as in the country.

Rosetta Stoned
-Song by tools.
-Didn't listen to the whole thing, but the comment suggest something about UFOs and prophecy. Another comment suggested something along the line of guy waking up with a lost memory, so it might have something to do with this game.

According to bit of psychology stuff I read, people usually lists useless stuff first, and name something important 2nd or 3rd to protect it. If thats true, Rosetta Stoned is the biggest clue we have.

[Thermal]

Nice thought out Beefy.

[GeneralHankerchief]

You take in your new surroundings. You are in a residential street, most probably part of a suburb. Identical houses populate the landscape for the most part, although you *think* you can see a downtown area to the east. To the very far north, you think you can make out mountains.

The climate appears to be warm-to-hot and dry. You look up and don't see very many clouds in the sky.

The road you're on runs east to west.

[A Very Super Market]

Being screaming your head off, taking every opportunity to call the residents effeminate and uncultured. Follow up by stripping off your shirt and rubbing up on the first pink flamingo you see.

Not italicised ^^

[Jolt]

Head for downtown. Try to find a bus stop. If you find one check the schedules. If a bus for downtown is inbound, then wait for it and pay for a ticket with the remaining 100$. If not try to hitch a ride.

Once you arrive in downtown, ask for people the direction of the police station. If inquired as to what is the matter, say it is private matter.

[Chaotix]

Oh, I can give the whole story on Croatoan.

Supposedly, when Sir Walter Raleigh first decided to establish a British colony in North America, under Elizabeth's jurisdiction, he set one up on an island off of N. Carolina called Roanoke. He left the settlers there to go back to England and ship in some supplies, but political tensions with Spain kept him from sailing again for at least a few years. When he finally returned five or six years later, they found the island deserted, and the only clue they could find was a message that said "Croatoan". Supposedly, and this is where it gets really uncertain, any of the survivors of the Roanoke colony left for the mainland and joined the Croatoan Indian tribe.

That said, I am unsure how that clue will help any of us. Perhaps that and the Tool song lyrics have something in common? The amnesia part is obvious, but maybe there's something else in the conspiracies...

As for what to do, I think our little amnesiac should head downtown, yes. It will undoubtedly have something important, because otheriwse it wouldn't exist. Such is the way of these games.

[rhawn]

You guys should head east and see if you can find a bar or gentleman's club.

[Subotan]

Find Problem Sleuth, Ace Dick and Pickle Inspector, and together go on an MS Paint Adventure to defeat the Mobster Kingpin

[GeneralHankerchief]

A reminder that there haven't been any italicized orders yet.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Head east and try to find a bar or gentleman's club.

[Jolt]

Head for downtown. Try to find a bus stop. If you find one check the schedules. If a bus for downtown is inbound, then wait for it and pay for a ticket with the remaining 100$. If not try to hitch a ride.

Once you arrive in downtown, ask for people the direction of the police station. If inquired as to what is the matter, say it is private matter.

Head for downtown. Try to find a bus stop. If you find one check the schedules. If a bus for downtown is inbound, then wait for it and pay for a ticket with the remaining 100$. If not try to hitch a ride.

Once you arrive in downtown, ask for people the direction of the police station. If inquired as to what is the matter, say it is private matter.

[Splitpersonality]

Pointless chat inside for Subotan:

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Find Problem Sleuth, Ace Dick and Pickle Inspector, and together go on an MS Paint Adventure to defeat the Mobster Kingpin

Fall in a more hard-boiled fashion.

I love that site.

Hi guys, adding my brain here. I'm a fan of tool but I don't have anything to say about Rosetta Stoned, no more than you guys have figured out thusfar at least. I'll keep wracking my brain :D

[Winston Hughes]

Speculation: Perhaps last night we tried to recreate the conditions in the song. The description of the climate and the mountains in the north would fit with Nevada (north of Area 51), and the loss of memory might be attributed to our having consumed a heroic quantity of hallucinogenic drugs.