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{{adventuretop|name=Action Elevator|image=elevator.gif|num=780}}
You enter the apartment building, and it seems like almost all of the residents have popped off to the roof for a smoke break. It's weird... they do that at really strangely regular intervals...

Anyway, you make it to the elevator without being attacked by any pygmies. Where would you like to go?

{{button|Go to the Thrice-Cursed Penthouse}}
''Without [[Thrice-Cursed]]'':
:You reach for the button to go to the penthouse, but the elevator senses that you are insufficiently cursed, and doesn't allow you to push it.
''With [[Thrice-Cursed]]'':
{{combat|name=ancient protector spirit (The Hidden Apartment Building)|noline=y}}
''After slaying the spirit'':
The penthouse is empty now.
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{{button|Go to the mezannine}}
You take the elevator to the mezzanine, and it turns out that you're a chump, because the mezzanine is cursed.
{{acquireEffect|effect=Once-Cursed|duration=10}}
''or, if you have Once-Cursed''
{{acquireEffect|effect=Once-Cursed|type=lose}}
{{acquireEffect|effect=Twice-Cursed|duration=10}}
''or, if you have Twice-Cursed''
{{acquireEffect|effect=Twice-Cursed|type=lose}}
{{acquireEffect|effect=Thrice-Cursed|duration=10}}
''or, if you have Thrice-Cursed''
{{acquireEffect|effect=Thrice-Cursed|duration=10}}
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{{button|Go down to the parking garage}}
You take the elevator to the parking garage, and find it empty save for a windowless white van, a cinder block, a can of red paint, and a bunch of dirty garbage.

Thinking quickly, you paint a crude red cross on the side of the van, point it out the garage exit toward the park, put the cinder block on the gas pedal, and turn it loose.

You watch it crash into the central fountain, and hear a cacophony of chanting and bickering as a massive group of pygmy witch lawyers bursts out of the nearby office building and loudly converges on it.
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*With [[candy cane sword cane]] equipped:
{{button|Climb on top of the elevator car}}
You use your candy cane sword to pry open the hatch on the top of the elevator. You climb into the shaft and shudder. Apparently the ''curse'' of the mezzanine has leaked into the elevator shaft. You quickly drop back into the elevator.
{{acquireEffect|effect=Once-Cursed|duration=10}}
''or, if you have Once-Cursed''
{{acquireEffect|effect=Once-Cursed|type=lose}}
{{acquireEffect|effect=Twice-Cursed|duration=10}}
''or, if you have Twice-Cursed''
{{acquireEffect|effect=Twice-Cursed|type=lose}}
{{acquireEffect|effect=Thrice-Cursed|duration=10}}
''or, if you have Thrice-Cursed''
{{acquireEffect|effect=Thrice-Cursed|duration=10}}
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{{button|Exit through the gift shop}}
Just kidding. What kind of apartment building has a gift shop? You exit through the front door.
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Occurs at [[The Hidden Apartment Building]]
==Notes==
*Going to the parking garage banishes [[pygmy witch lawyer]]s from the Office Building, but adds them to the Park.
*The "strangely regular intervals" are once every nine adventures.

==References==
*[[wikipedia:Elevator Action|Elevator Action]] is a classic arcade game.
*''[[wikipedia:Exit Through the Gift Shop|Exit Through the Gift Shop]]'' is a documentary film about the graffiti artist Banksy.
*The line about "taking the elevator to the mezzanine" and being a "chump" is a reference to "Super Bon Bon" by [[wikipedia:Soul Coughing|Soul Coughing]].