[1225] Under A Killer Balloon: Into Darkness, Page 6
└ posted on Monday, 9 November 2020, by Novil
- Tourist info guy: A map costs three Sentinelese Sesterces.
- Sandy South: I only have U.S. dollars.
- Tourist info guy: That’s no problem. You can easily convert them.
- Sandy South: Great! Where? Here?!
- Tourist info guy: At the airport.
- Tourist info guy: I’d fork out a map for the golden egg of a flying platypus, though…
- Sandy South: Am I right to assume that I’ll have to collect a plethora of bizarre objects and solve intricate puzzles to get one?
- Tourist info guy: The one with the goat is a toughie.
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Nice Broken Sword reference.
Nice Zak McKracken reference. I really need to play through that, finally. The only problem is, my copy is for an Atari ST.
Does the one with the goat involve a cabbage which can’t be left with the goat, a wolf that can’t be left with the goat, a patch of fertile earth, which can’t be left with the cabbage, a primitive human, which will domesticate the wolf, and the Avatar, who will destroy the cabbage?
@ Ravyn:
Yes, but half of those things are on an out of control trolley.
Collect-a-thons can be such a headache.
I felt that facepalm.
As a player of the Sandra and Woo game (available on Steam!), it serves you right, Sandra.
Ravyn wrote:
Alternatively, does it involve a hall with three doors?
@ Ravyn:
This is the solution according to xkcd
@ rpr:
https://xkcd.com/1134/
@ Talmor:
nah, collect-a-thons are pretty chill, its puzzle-a-thons you should be aware of though
wow.
there is bazaar, and then there is BAZAAR!!!
Somehow, this makes too much sense.
@ Valkeiper2020:
I don’t think one booth counts as a bazaar, no matter how bizarre it is. (Sorry, but I couldn’t resist. )
@rpr @Centaur @Ravyn
I’m fairly certain it’s a reference to the “Infamous Goat Puzzle” From the 90’s game Broken Sword.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goat_Puzzle
Platypus!
Anything, as long it doesn’t require me Getting Over It
The trick with the goat is that it is actually a timing puzzle; you have to act at just the right moment to get it work.
reminds me of monkey island and Guybrush Threepwood the hero.
By the way, why does that excuse for a salesman not take the dollars and change it himself at the airport that is only a stone throw away from his village. Ah – the logic of games – or the nonsensical humor.
Oh dear Sandra… appears you’re stuck in another point and click style adventure, lol
Michael Weskamp wrote:
Dream Logic! When she wakes up, if she remembers any of it, she will have all the solutions for the game she was playing.
Sandra: Hmm, Infocom? Never heard of them. Let’s see. What? No graphics? What is a Zork anyway?
1. 1225: Merry Christmas, mmdd-date-users! (only 4503 more shopping days to DDMM Christmas!)
2. I bet the airport is right behind the merchant’s stall.
3. Platypus…did you coordinate with todays Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal?
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/easter-bunny
@ Michael Weskamp:
If the salesman leaves the booth, then the goat will eat the maps.
Offer him an echidna, Sandra.
At least he is honest.