so close!...but not quite...
[[try again->check front porch]]you enter the number in correctly! you see the box change and move. the more you look at it the louder a distant chime rings in your ears. the world around you start to dissipates as you squeeze your eyes shut.
when they open you see a familiar room and feel familar sheets...
[[was it really all a dream...?->Start]]dude...its literally 4 numbers...come on now...
[[try again->check front porch]]youre not very good with numbers are you...?
[[try again->check front porch]]you return to a place that looks very familiar, a strange locked box waiting on its doorstep. Your key no longer works. The street is unnervingly quiet. Every instinct tells you that the box is wrong, yet you quickly realize you cannot enter your house without opening it. The box has no visible lock, no seams, and no instructions, only a single Skeleton key hole...
[[Start]]Really? the door mat? Everyone knows not to hide anything under the door mat, thats the first place people look...
anyways! you turn up [[nothing->check front porch]]you rotate the box...its kinda heavy. have you been lifting weights? You go girl!
anyways, you rotate until you feel a keypad on the bottom of the box. its a six number key pad with the code requiring 4 numbers?
[[insert light sequence]]....
Comfy?
You done yet...?
[[take your time i guess...->check front porch]]you return home to find a strange locked box waiting on your doorstep. Your key no longer works. The street is unnervingly quiet. Every instinct tells you that the box is wrong, yet you quickly realize you cannot enter your house without opening it. The box has no visible lock, no seams, and no instructions, only a single Skeleton key hole.
[[check garden]]
[[check front porch]]
[[leave and walk away from it all...]]
(set: $key to 'false')you reach in the bushes and find...
oh? a scratch card? werent you looking for that last week? it won't help you with the box, but you put it in your pocket just in case.
[[check garden]]You walk up the steps past the strange box and look around your familiar porch. What do you do first?
[[Lift Door Mat]]
[[Sit on the Rocking Chair]]
[[inspect the porch light]]What a pretty garden! you made this? impressive... where do search first?
[[bushes]]
[[potted Plant]]
[[painted Rocks]]you enter the pattern of the flickering porch light...
you smart cookie! how'd you think of that?
what was it again?
[[2347]]
[[2743]]
[[3472]]
[[2437]]you insert the key found in the garden. huh? are you sure its the right key?
[[try again]]
[[Give up->Start]]you walk back to the box on your front porch. as far as you can see its small but built sturdy. no seams or rips, but a singular skeleton key hole in the front. what do you do?
(if: $key is 'true')[[insert skeleton Key from inventory]]
[[Rotate Box]]you look up at your two porch lights. one seems to shine brightly the other seems to be blinking...
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it blinks 2 times...
and then 4 times...
then 3 times...
then 7....
[[hmm, how strange....->inspect box]]
[[its probably nothing.->Start]]Really? no sense of adventure? You chose to walk away? okay then...
You walk away from your doorstep. You Keep walking and walking until [[the fog clears->Endless Loop Ending]]you lift up a few hand painted Rocks. you find a bunch of cute caterpillars!
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...now put them back where they belong...
[[check garden]]You lift the potted Plant...
you find a key! a skeleton shaped key...
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[[inspect box]]
[[check garden]]
(set: $key to 'true')"Loved and dearly missed. the world isnt the same with such a soul now gone from this Earth. Rest in peace..."
its an obituary? and the picture displayed on front looks like...a picture of you?
[[Death meets us all eventually->Start]]you hear a small click and the lid pops open with a cloud of dust. inside you find a singular paper. a pamplet of some sort?
[[read paper]]