Take One Step Forward and You're a Better Person
While poking around one of the desks, you notice one of those little executive desk-toys with the swinging balls. You give it a nudge and watch it click for a bit... then one of the balls falls off its string, and rolls off the desk and across the floor. It knocks a little wooden wedge out from underneath the wheel of a small cart, which rolls across the room and bumps into a large filing cabinet, which must have been loaded rather top-heavily, as it teeters for a moment and then falls to the side, bumping another filing cabinet, which sets off a massive chain-reaction of filing cabinets toppling over like dominoes. The last one crashes into a desk, flipping an in-box laden with papers into the air. A file-folder lands near your feet -- it's labeled ピタゴラスイッチ, which you assume to be dwarvish for "you've just made a hell of a mess".
You quickly lift the cabinets back into place and restack all the papers before someone comes to investigate the noise. It's a pretty good workout.
| You 35 Strengthliness. |
Occurs at The Mine Foremens' Office.
References
- The word "ピタゴラスイッチ" is Japanese for PythagoraSwitch, a Japanese educational program which is known for regularly featuring Rube Goldberg machines, usually ending in a reveal and/or display of the show's logo.
- The adventure title references the "Algorithm March" from the same show.
