The tarp that covered a bookcase-looking thing in fact covered a bookcase, who'da thunk it? There are various books here, leather bound in an assortment of dark colors. Titles are on the spine, but you don't pay much attention to read them.'
The tarp that covered the cabinet-looking thing in fact covered a grandfather clock, long stopped. You think you can see something attached to the pendulum.
Use the lantern to break open the grandfather clock
There's a perfectly fungible handle to open the pendulum door. These things are made to be opened, y'know.
But you're mighty pissed off right now, and breakin' shit's good for stress relief.
Well, the glass on the clock's broken now, and the battery cover for the lantern popped off. A 9-volt's hanging out of it. Smart-shop brand. No wonder the power drained so quickly.
You find no such book. The collection is full of familiar titles from classic adventure and speculative fiction stories in the public domain, published from 1850 to 1950.
In order to escape this room, I have to find the key, which according to the note I found in the clock--presumably left by whoever trapped me here--is behind the "Fourth Door." So far, the first door "Mercury Wells" has led me to [text illegible due to blacked out words]. The note left on the "Door" seems to indicate a cipher of some kind. I can only assume that it wants me to alter the "Door" some how to figure out how to find the "Second Door". There are only two things those numbers could refer to, with regards to the door... If I string the those numbered things--[blacked out] or [blacked out]--together, they should provide the "key" to the "Second Door"...
The following pages are blacked out past the point of legibility... Why wouldn't the person who did this just tear out the pages if they didn't want you to read them so badly?
Maybe you'll find out. You can tell this notebook's one of them key items, so you're hesitant to get rid of it.
So, based on what wasn't blacked out, how do you wish to proceed?
The numbers probably don't apply to the notebook, in that case.
>wrack your brain desperately
Whoever censored the notebook obviously didn't want the recipient to know what the author was talking about.
But you know that the "Door" is a book, and with books, chapters, and pages are numbered.
The Time Machine doesn't even have that many chapters, but the person who wrote in the notebook seemed sure there were two things that the numbers could refer to.
Your gut also tells you looking at other pages of The Time Machine won't help.
What could those numbers refer to if you only need to look at Page 80?
(That gets you, assuming i haven't miscounted which is quite possible, "no my think is worlders movement what grounders morlocks creatures" - or, depending on what you count as a word, "the absolutely most one to to the yet by could", or "convenient explanation it the had of had I that were", or "I Utopian I think led degeneration happened not the I".)
After finishing writing the words, you open your mini tablet, and open the app for DeadEye, the icon for which is an eye that slowly fades into transparency.
The app appears to be a camera app, but you notice slight glows appearing and disappearing in the image... When you look at your notebook, you notice red fingerprints on the cover, and a faint red line that leads out of the room coming from the item.
This could prove useful for finding an escape, but for now, you have to find a way out.
In any case, you seem to be one step away from finding the second door.
In order to escape this room, I have to find the key, which according to the note I found in the clock--presumably left by whoever trapped me here--is behind the "Fourth Door." So far, the first door "Mercury Wells" has led me to a copy of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine". The note left on the "Door" seems to indicate a cipher of some kind. I can only assume that it wants me to alter the "Door" some how to figure out how to find the "Second Door". There are only two things those numbers could refer to, with regards to the door... If I string the those numbered things--pages or words--together, they should provide the "key" to the "Second Door"...
And the first lines of the second page are now legible as well.
The words that the cipher has made available to me must have some kind of meaning.... They don't seem to form any meaningful sentence, and attempting all possible anagrams would be suicide. The solution must be simple, or else the creator of this puzzle would offer their victims no chase of escape. I must assume that was not their intention, though I still fear it may have been....
"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" was the second door. The clue for this one was much easier to decode, but harder to interpret. The number of the second "come" was 37... So far all of the puzzles have lead to elements, which were a reference to the author's name. (Mercury, Hg, H.G. Wells, Cesium, Cs, C.S. Lewis) I can only assume this clue is similar.
Check the bookcase for anything from L. Frank Baum.
The contract started on July, 15, 2001. July is 7, the digital root of 15 is 6, and the year is unnecessary. Leading to 76, which is the atomic number of Osmium.
Surely enough, a copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is on the shelf. You open to page 76...
The words Well Done are scrawled on the page, with the key attached to the page via a loop of scotch tape.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
You find no such book. The collection is full of familiar titles from classic adventure and speculative fiction stories in the public domain, published from 1850 to 1950.
27:41 remains, what next?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
You find a copy of The Time Machine.
You figure reading cover to cover is a good way to die, what page will you start on?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
None of the books have an author "R.B." however, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury catches your eye.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead