TEXTVENTURE - Wordplay to the EXTREME!

[Archem]

You put on your best PROBLEM SLEUTH face and adventure behind the WASHING MACHINE. Jinkies! There's a SWITCH behind it!

PRESS SWITCH (Y/N)?

[fruckert]

> N. SLEUTH around some more.

You put on your best PROBLEM SLEUTH face

[Archem]

You resist the temptation to press the SWITCH, and continue poking around the LAUNDROMAT. As you start to walk back into the main section of the LAUNDROMAT, one of the WASHING MACHINES finishes its cycle, and a loud, buzzing sound is emitted. This noisy, startling sound triggers your SPECIAL ABILITY - EXTREME CLUMSINESS. You jump, and land on a loose pile of CLOTHING. As your FOOT slips, you stumble forward, and trip over a BASKET. You fall, head-first, into an open DRYER. As you pull yourself out, you slip again on a pool of LIQUID DETERGENT. You fall backwards, and slam your head on the edge of a BENCH. As you lie in a pool of your own BLOOD, you hear the BELL at the FRONT DOOR ring, signaling someone entering. You BLACK OUT.

[fruckert]

//Well...****.

> NEXT

[Archem]

You regain consciousness in darkness. The LAUNDROMAT appears to be closed, but you have no idea how long it's been. The various MACHINES have ceased their activity, and the CLOTHING has vanished, probably dissolved from the filth-levels. It still smells like a LAUNDROMAT, but a lot more of the FLOOR seems visible. You can't believe that so many people came back for their CLOTHING, and yet nobody could stop to HELP you.

[Natako]

> Check your belongings to make sure no one has pilfered anything back from you.
> Wonder why the LAUNDROMAT was locked up with you still inside of it.
> Consider issuing a complaint to the LAUNDROMAT OWNER.

[fruckert]

> Develop phobia of loud buzzing sounds due to your traumatic experience.

[Archem]

You search yourself, and find that somebody has stolen your WALLET! Well, it wasn't yours, per se, but you found it first, dammit! Still, no great loss. You also find that your GOLD (PAINTED) WATCH is absent! What horrible fiend could have taken it? This is truly awful news! Or, rather, it would be, if you hadn't suddenly recalled that you traded it away to SKELLY. Still, you miss that WATCH. If you had it, you could check the TIME. Perhaps if you can find the MANAGER'S QUARTERS around this place, you could find a CLOCK (and file a COMPLAINT against this deathtrap they call a business). Speaking of deathtraps, that BUZZER nearly cost you your life!

SPECIAL ABILITY ACQUIRED: BUZZERPHOBIA

[fruckert]

> SEARCH for MANAGER'S QUARTERS

[Archem]

You take a LOOK around the dark and empty LAUNDROMAT, but you don't seem to be able to locate the MANAGER'S QUARTERS. How very unusual. All you can see are rows and rows of WASHING MACHINES and DRYERS.

[WarxePB]

> Start looting

[Archem]

You begin grabbing anything that isn't nailed down. By the time you're done, you have an empty bottle of DETERGENT, TWO (2) MISMATCHED SOCKS, a QUARTER, and, ironically, THREE (3) NAILS. You suppose this place isn't all that lootable.

[fruckert]

> Go press the goddamn button while feeling ashamed that you didn't do so in the first place.

> Something: Buzz.

[Archem]

You backtrack to the SWITCH you found, and give it a flick. Behind you, an out of order (or so it had been marked) WASHING MACHINE turns on. As you approach it to investigate, it emits a loud buzzing sound, scaring the hell out of you. As you curl into the fetal position, you see the WASHING MACHINE sink into the ground, revealing a SECRET ROOM. This is one high-tech LAUNDROMAT, that's for sure.

INVESTIGATE (Y/N)?

[fruckert]

> Y