Berkeley's Phantasmagoria

[Serela]

>Push instead

>You may as well be pushing a brick wall; nothing happens.

[Hello Purvis]

>Try knocking.
>Presuming this has no effect, check the door. Try looking for something to set the orb into, to see if that does anything for it.

[Serela]

>Try knocking.
>Presuming this has no effect, check the door. Try looking for something to set the orb into, to see if that does anything for it.

>You knock, but there isn't a response. Wait a moment; that knock didn't sound right. From the sound, you'd guess there isn't any open space behind this "door" at all.
>You don't find anything, but your previous observation seems to be insinuating this isn't the way into the house.

[Hello Purvis]

>Look around for a back door. Or failing that, a window to climb through.

[Serela]

>Look around for a back door. Or failing that, a window to climb through.

>You circle the house, and there is indeed a window. It's just barely too high for you to see inside, but from a distance, you can tell that it doesn't seem to be the kind of window that opens.

[Hello Purvis]

>Examine it more closely, to see if it has any doorlike properties; or hidden door like properties.

[Serela]

>Examine it more closely, to see if it has any doorlike properties; or hidden door like properties.

>If it does, it's really well disguised. But then again, the "door" at the front porch looked completely real as well.

[Kasu]

> Knock around the house until something sounds hollow behind the wall.

[Hello Purvis]

>Feel around the wall a bit, if it gives the sense of being splinter-prone, withdraw hands into jacket sleeves.
>If this reveals nothing, walk around the house knocking on the walls til something hollow comes up.

[Serela]

> Knock around the house until something sounds hollow behind the wall.

>Feel around the wall a bit, if it gives the sense of being splinter-prone, withdraw hands into jacket sleeves.
>If this reveals nothing, walk around the house knocking on the walls til something hollow comes up.

>The wall feels... woody. And very splinter-prone. You stop feeling it.
>Then, you walk around the house, knocking on the walls as you go, trying to find a hollow spot. You identify one under the window, and one in the middle of nowhere at the back of the house.

[Hello Purvis]

>Investigate the middle of nowhere spot.

[Serela]

>Investigate the middle of nowhere spot.

>It looks exactly like the rest of the wall, and there isn't any kind of detail to point you towards where it is, unlike the hollow spot beneath the window.

[Hello Purvis]

>Check the ground around it for distinguishing signs.
>Try to cheer self up; if it's this hard to get in, there can't have been many looters.
>Wave the orb around, see if anything happens.

[Serela]

>Check the ground around it for distinguishing signs.
>Try to cheer self up; if it's this hard to get in, there can't have been many looters.
>Wave the orb around, see if anything happens.

>Nothing!
>That's a good point. Although, how and why in the world did Azalea get this kind of security...?
>No dice.

[Hello Purvis]

>"Azalea, you suck!"
>Go orb wave the orb around the hollow spot near the window.
>If no dice, tap along the edges of it with the orb, to avoid splinters, and try to get an idea of how large the hollow is.

[Serela]

>"Azalea, you suck!"
>Go orb wave the orb around the hollow spot near the window.
>If no dice, tap along the edges of it with the orb, to avoid splinters, and try to get an idea of how large the hollow is.

>Oh, if only you knew! Waha~
>Frustratingly, nothing happens! You tap the wall with the orb and manage to find out that the hollow space is fairly door shaped/sized.

[Kasu]

> Give the area a kick.

[Serela]

> Give the area a kick.

>You give it a nice kick! It makes you feel better, but it doesn't really help much with the situation.

[Hello Purvis]

>Look really closely along the edges for any hint of a seam that would suggest a door.
>Try not to get any eye splinters.

[Serela]

>Look really closely along the edges for any hint of a seam that would suggest a door.
>Try not to get any eye splinters.

>You groan in frustration as your latest search gives no results.
>Man, that would really suck.

[Hello Purvis]

>Try to look in through that window; consider anything around that could be used for a stepstool if needed.
>Make mental note to bring a crowbar next time.

[Serela]

>Try to look in through that window; consider anything around that could be used for a stepstool if needed.
>Make mental note to bring a crowbar next time.

>It's too high, and there isn't anything for you to get a grip on to hoist yourself up! As for stepstools, all that's around is the stuff you've got with you.
>You're gonna feel like a criminal if you do that, but... well, you've gotta do what you gotta do, eh?

[Hello Purvis]

>Grumble imprecations, check the rest of the house exterior for unusual things.

[Serela]

>Grumble imprecations, check the rest of the house exterior for unusual things.

>You grumble unhappily and find absolutely nothing unusual about the house other then the fake door and hollow spots.

[Hello Purvis]

>"Azalea, you suck!"
>Go back to examining the fake door. Maybe there's some kind of trigger on it, or maybe some kind of note about a magic word to open the thing!
>Try not to get too hopeful.

[Serela]

>"Azalea, you suck!"
>Go back to examining the fake door. Maybe there's some kind of trigger on it, or maybe some kind of note about a magic word to open the thing!
>Try not to get too hopeful.

>You yell in frustration! Although, you've gotta admit, this security is amazing. But how the hell does SHE get in?!
>Fake door still looks like any old door, except that it doesn't move and doesn't sound like a door if you knock on it. You can't find anything about it.
>You get a feeling you're barking up the wrong tree.

[Hello Purvis]

>Sigh.
>Have a seat on the porch and ponder things. Take out the orb and examine it.
>"We're in this together, you and me. And if you want to get back to where you're supposed to go, you should help me out so we can get to it more quickly. She's taken you in here, right?"

[Serela]

>Sigh.
>Have a seat on the porch and ponder things. Take out the orb and examine it.
>"We're in this together, you and me. And if you want to get back to where you're supposed to go, you should help me out so we can get to it more quickly. She's taken you in here, right?"

>The smoke inside the Orb forms into a strange, yet familiar shape. But it's too smoky to tell what it is.

[Hello Purvis]

>Ponder for a moment. Consider if it looks like the not-quite-a-key that wossname had.

[Serela]

>Ponder for a moment. Consider if it looks like the not-quite-a-key that wossname had.

>Oh yeah, that's what it is! It definitely looks like the key-ish thing you got from Stella who got it from Azalea who lives in this house.