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<center>[[Heart of Very, Very Dark Darkness]]<br>
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After wandering around the Spooky Gravy Barrow for a while, you come to the entrance to a cave that's even darker than the Barrow, itself. It's so dark that there's no light in it at all. You might even go so far as to say that it's <i>completely</i> dark.
After wandering around the Spooky Gravy Barrow for a while, you come to the entrance to a cave that's even darker than the Barrow, itself. It's so dark that there's no light in it at all. You might even go so far as to say that it's <i>completely</i> dark.
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'''''Enter the cave'''''
{{button|Enter the cave}}


Without [[inexplicably glowing rock]]:<br>
*Without the [[inexplicably glowing rock]]:
'''Darker Than Dark'''<br>
{{choice|name=Darker Than Dark|image=darkness.gif|noline=y
[[image:darkness.gif]]<br>
|choice1name=Stumble around blindly|choice1=Lose all [[HP]], get [[Beaten Up]]
It is pitch black in here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.<br>
|choice2name=Leave the cave}}
*'''''Stumble around blindly'''''<br>
You have been eaten by a grue.<br>
<br> * * * You have died. * * *<br>
Your score is: <HP> out of <Main Stat Level>, in <Total Turns> moves.<br>
This gives you the rank of <Current Level Name>.<br>
Would you like to '''Restore, Restart, or Quit?'''<br>
*'''''Leave the cave'''''


You leave the darkness behind.You can no longer hear the rhythm of it's heart.
*With the [[inexplicably glowing rock]]:
<hr width=50%>
{{choice|name=How Depressing|image=handdoor1.gif|noline=y
|choice1name=Put your hand in the depression|choice1=With [[spooky glove]] equipped: [[On the Verge of a Dirge]]
|choice2name=Leave}}


With [[inexplicably glowing rock]]:<br>
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'''How Depressing'''<br>
{{button|Don't enter the cave}}
[[image:handdoor1.gif]]<br>
You cautiously enter the cave, holding your inexplicably glowing rock over your head. It lights the way (barely) through a tunnel, and illuminates (barely) a large stone door with a hand-shaped depression in it.<br>
*'''''Put your hand in the depression'''''
:*Without [[spooky glove]] equipped:<br>
You put your hand in the depression, but nothing seems to happen. And in this case, things are exactly as they seem -- nothing actually happens, either.
:*With [[spooky glove]] equipped:
'''On the Verge of a Dirge'''<br>
[[image:handdoor2.gif]]<br>
You put your spookily-gloved hand in the depression, and feel a slight vibration coming from the door. Without warning (though you pause briefly to consider exactly how a door could warn you about something,) the depression glows red hot, the glove smolders and then bursts into flames, and you yank your hand away with a scream. The door grinds open slowly.<br>


The door grinds slowly open.<br>
You leave the darkness behind.
 
*This option does not cost an adventure.
The door slowly grinds open.<br>
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Occurs at [[The Spooky Gravy Burrow]].
Slowly, the door grinds open.<br>
 
*'''''Enter the chamber'''''
 
:*Start combat with [[Felonia, Queen of the Spooky Gravy Fairies]]
 
*'''''Enter the chamber (No Other Possibility)'''''
 
:*Start combat with [[Felonia, Queen of the Spooky Gravy Fairies]]
 
*'''''Enter the chamber (Seriously).'''''
 
:*Start combat with [[Felonia, Queen of the Spooky Gravy Fairies]]


*'''''Leave'''''<br>
You leave the darkness behind. Because you don't believe in a thing called love.
<hr width=50%>
'''''Don't enter the cave'''''
*You leave the darkness behind.
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==Notes==
==Notes==
*Occurs in [[The Spooky Gravy Barrow]].
*Once completing [[How Depressing]], this adventure will skip both the glowing rock portion and [[How Depressing]], and go straight to [[On the Verge of a Dirge]].
*Once the glove bursts into flames, this adventure will skip both the glowing rock portion and the glove portion, and go straight to the 'enter the chamber' portion.
*Entering the cave costs one adventure, and attempting to trigger the depression costs another, and if you don't have the [[spooky glove]] equipped, you will have to waste two more adventures to get to [[Felonia, Queen of the Spooky Gravy Fairies|Felonia]]. Therefore, you should never enter the cave unless you're completely prepared ready to fight her.
*Getting eaten by a grue will cause [[Beaten Up]] and set your HP to zero.


==References==
==References==
*The name of this adventure is a play on the 1902 novella ''[[Wikipedia:Heart of Darkness|Heart of Darkness]]'' by [[Wikipedia:Joseph Conrad|Joseph Conrad]].
*The name of this adventure is a play on the 1902 novella ''[[Wikipedia:Heart of Darkness|Heart of Darkness]]'' by [[Wikipedia:Joseph Conrad|Joseph Conrad]].
*"You are likely to be eaten by a grue" and the message following it are a reference to the 1979 [[Wikipedia:Infocom|Infocom]] computer adventure game [[Wikipedia:Zork|Zork]], in which, if one attempted to proceed through a dark area without a light of some sort, one would see the message: "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a [[Wikipedia:Grue (monster)|grue]]."  If one persisted, one was generally eaten and promptly died.
*The line "it's ''completely'' dark" is a reference to the game [[Wikipedia:Perfect Dark|Perfect Dark]]
*The message received when leaving the darkness without fighting Felonia is a reference to the British rock band [[Wikipedia:The Darkness|The Darkness]], and their song "[[Wikipedia:I Believe in a Thing Called Love|I Believe in a Thing Called Love]]" from their 2003 album ''[[Wikipedia:Permission to Land|Permission to Land]]''.
*The three permutations of the door slowly grinding open alude to the [[Wikipedia:Colossal_Cave_Adventure#Maze_of_twisty_little_passages|maze of twisty little passages]] from the game [[Wikipedia:Colossal_Cave_Adventure|Colossal Cave Adventure]].
*The line "it's <i>completely</i> dark" is a reference to the game [[Wikipedia:Perfect Dark|Perfect Dark]]
 
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Latest revision as of 15:51, 5 December 2022

Heart of Very, Very Dark Darkness
Heart of Very, Very Dark Darkness

After wandering around the Spooky Gravy Barrow for a while, you come to the entrance to a cave that's even darker than the Barrow, itself. It's so dark that there's no light in it at all. You might even go so far as to say that it's completely dark.

What's it gonna be?

Enter the cave
Darker Than Dark
Darker Than Dark
  • Stumble around blindly: Lose all HP, get Beaten Up
  • Leave the cave
How Depressing
How Depressing
Don't enter the cave

You leave the darkness behind.

  • This option does not cost an adventure.

Occurs at The Spooky Gravy Burrow.

Notes

  • Once completing How Depressing, this adventure will skip both the glowing rock portion and How Depressing, and go straight to On the Verge of a Dirge.
  • Entering the cave costs one adventure, and attempting to trigger the depression costs another, and if you don't have the spooky glove equipped, you will have to waste two more adventures to get to Felonia. Therefore, you should never enter the cave unless you're completely prepared ready to fight her.

References

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