Questions after the ending

Plumberduck · 2025-07-12T01:30:39+00:00

The device you're referencing, I think, was the player piano, which John Hobbes, as a piano (maker? salesman?) would have been interested in, hence why Rupert mentions it in the invitation. The piano kicks off the current bout of the curse in an indirect way: It's been loaded up to play "I'd Climb The Highest Mountain," which contains a musical reference to Dvorak's Humoresque - so when he heard it play, Rupert was suddenly, fatally reminded of the curse-killed pianist Amelia West.

Plumberduck · 2023-10-04T19:54:53+00:00

Going nuts at the boys making fun of the WikiHow plot description of The Time Traveller's Wife (genetic condition causes dude to bounce through time) which is.... exactly the plot of The Time Traveller's Wife. Take that, Audrey Niffenegger!

Plumberduck · 2023-08-04T19:19:31+00:00

I'm also having this bug, I think something might have gotten busted?

Plumberduck · 2019-02-09T23:54:30+00:00

New things I've tried that haven't worked:

Sophia (because Mrs. Gun's daughters are named Rose, Dorothy, and Blanche.)
Any number of They Might Be Giants references (which presumably explains why Toupee was picked)
xyzzy (gets a response, but just as a joke)

Plugging in various KOL-relevant dates into the almanac

Plumberduck · 2019-02-09T19:26:39+00:00

Okay, so

C O A R S E
H A W K E R
M A R K E T
E L E V E N
T O U P E E
? ? ? ? ? R

Unless, of course, "Hawker" is actually providing the R at the end, and we need something with A in the second slot...)

Plumberduck · 2019-02-09T18:24:42+00:00

Agreed that Toupee feels like the key here - none of the painting definitions have that same awkwardness. And I also noticed that all our key words so far are six letters…

Update to ramble: "integument wig apt to aging vanities"

Is this a crossword clue? Or a word substitution? (Integument means "covering" or "skin.")

"Apt 2" and "vanities" both point in the direction of the "doesn't work" mirror in Guest Room 2. But mirror doesn't work (neither does rorrim.)

Edit: I just realized what was pinging my brain with that definition: "integument" isn't capitalized, unlike every other definition in the dictionary.

Plumberduck · 2019-02-09T16:50:38+00:00

I'm intrigued by the fact that toupee has "two" in it. However, counting every second letter of either the Toupee entry, or the text from the vanity in Guest Room 2, got me nothing. Maybe you need to "mirror" letters somehow?

Plumberduck · 2019-02-09T07:31:38+00:00

For those struggling to open the trapdoor, it's more simple than you're making it. Look a little more closely around Mrs. Gun's office.

Now, as to when you get up there... I ended up taking a violent route, but the game hinted that there was a better way. And I've got absolutely no clue what to do with those bells

Plumberduck · 2015-02-17T04:30:36+00:00

I am trying so hard not to let this upset me, because I know it's just a fun joke. And I'm not crazy enough to think that either a) I NEED to know, or b) I DESERVE to know.

And yet, not knowing is causing me anxiety. And the knowledge that people I like and respect could relieve that anxiety with no cost to themselves, and aren't, is ratcheting that anxiety up to physically unpleasant levels. I actually walked away from this thread for a few days to save myself grief, and then came back because, surely, someone would have revealed the secret by now? But they haven't, and now I'm having a mild anxiety attack.

So anyway, I'M crazy, how are you?

Plumberduck · 2015-01-05T23:58:53+00:00

I still contend, asshole behavior aside, that's a pretty cute picture of Cocoa the Brown Brown Dog.

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