Life IS a computer game - proof at last!
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dreamsharkSo, Karen and I are walking in the cemetery, the big one by the lakes. The sun is low in the sky over Lake Calhoun, gleaming off the granite gravestones and making picturesque shadows in the corners of the family mausoleums lined up along the hilltop. We approach the weird pyramid-shaped one, and ... what's that, reflecting the sunlight back from the little ledge by the door? Why, it's a couple of sets of keys! - deja vu - deja vu - deja vu - I haven't been playing computer adventure games for the past 8 years for nothing. I know what to do when I find a set of keys next to a mausoleum in a lonely cemetery! First, of course, we inspect them. Each keyring has a flat metal disk attached with a name scratched on it. "McKnight". What could that mean? Karen points to the next mausoleum; right over the door in raised granite letters is the word "McKnight." Okay, I recognize that as A Clue.
There are two keys on the keyring. The first one opens the padlock securing the heavy metal grating. Sloooowly I swing it open, while Karen keeps guard for hook-handed, hunch-backed graveyard guards. No good. The second key does not open the inner door. I surmise that there is probably a little trapdoor on the other side of the hill with a set of levers inside that must be thrown in a certain sequence to open the door. Typical. Oh, well. On to the next tomb. This key is much more satisfying - an ancient thing shaped like a typical skeleton key but stamped out of flat sheet iron. It slips right into the verdigris metal door - and opens it. We peek inside. It's smaller inside than it looks from the outside, with two imposing concrete coffin-like things, and a little stack of small boxes on a shelf near the ceiling. There's no doubt a secret door in the back, but we'll probably have to solve a puzzle in the first mausoleum to open the door in this one. I know how this stuff works.
It's dusty inside: looks like the housekeeping staff hasn't been very diligent. I wish I had pencil and paper so I could leave them a note. I'm torn between - "Less starch in the sheets, please," and "Need wakeup call Saturday at 9 pm." We discreetly shut the door again and continue on our way, keeping our eyes open for little trapdoors, or maybe a sliding block puzzle. Never did find the next puzzle - maybe next time.
There are two keys on the keyring. The first one opens the padlock securing the heavy metal grating. Sloooowly I swing it open, while Karen keeps guard for hook-handed, hunch-backed graveyard guards. No good. The second key does not open the inner door. I surmise that there is probably a little trapdoor on the other side of the hill with a set of levers inside that must be thrown in a certain sequence to open the door. Typical. Oh, well. On to the next tomb. This key is much more satisfying - an ancient thing shaped like a typical skeleton key but stamped out of flat sheet iron. It slips right into the verdigris metal door - and opens it. We peek inside. It's smaller inside than it looks from the outside, with two imposing concrete coffin-like things, and a little stack of small boxes on a shelf near the ceiling. There's no doubt a secret door in the back, but we'll probably have to solve a puzzle in the first mausoleum to open the door in this one. I know how this stuff works.
It's dusty inside: looks like the housekeeping staff hasn't been very diligent. I wish I had pencil and paper so I could leave them a note. I'm torn between - "Less starch in the sheets, please," and "Need wakeup call Saturday at 9 pm." We discreetly shut the door again and continue on our way, keeping our eyes open for little trapdoors, or maybe a sliding block puzzle. Never did find the next puzzle - maybe next time.
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Date: 2003-07-24 01:49 am (UTC)