Take the Red Pill/Take the Blue Pill
In the center of this room sits a tiny table with a glass of water and two pills on it. Remember how your mother always told you not to take pills you find lying around in strange basements? No? You don't remember that? Good.
| Take the Red Pill |
You take the red pill, and reach out and touch a conveniently-placed mirror. The mirror turns into goo, which covers your entire body. Then you spend a few minutes scrubbing all of the mirror goo off your body. It's quite a workout.
| You gain X Fortitude. |
You leap down the stairs.
| Take the Blue Pill |
You take the blue pill, and feel a rumbling in your stomach. Then the rumbling moves over to your liver, before taking a quick detour through your appendix and bailing out your belly button. Thanks to the pill's impromptu anatomy lesson, you now understand the mystical ebb and flow of your intestines much better than you did before.
| You gain X Enchantedness. |
You leap down the stairs.
Occurs at Fernswarthy's Basement.
Notes
- Stats gained from this adventure are roughly equal to your mainstat.
References
- This entire adventure pays homage to the successful 1999 film The Matrix:
- The red and blue pills are taken directly from a scene where Neo must decide whether to discover what The Matrix really is or to forget about everything.
- The mirror "goo" plays on a scene where Neo touches a mirror after taking the red pill - the mirror turns to goo and slowly begins to cover his entire body.
- "Bailing out your belly button" refers to the tracking bug embedded in Neo by the Agents, which was subsequently removed through his belly button.
