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Glancing around, you note that the walls here are covered with framed photographs -- mainly autographed celebrity headshots and tuxedo-and-evening-gown group photos from various formal events and holiday parties. The odd man out is a large oil painting, hanging on the rear wall above a small end-table with a silver tray on it.
Glancing around, you note that the walls here are covered with framed photographs -- mainly autographed celebrity headshots and tuxedo-and-evening-gown group photos from various formal events and holiday parties. The odd man out is a large oil painting, hanging on the rear wall above a small end-table with a silver tray on it.
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{{button|Examine the painting}}


 
*''If you do not have a [[jar of oil]]:''
{{button|[[He Is the Arm, and He Sounds Like This|Examine the painting]]}}
 
 
''If you do not have a [[jar of oil]]:''
 


The painting is very dark, but as you stare at it you gradually begin to be able to make out the details as your eyes adjust. It's a woodland scene, featuring a forest clearing at night. Twelve spindly, leafless sycamore saplings surround a small white-outlined pool of water. Or... is it water? That smoky, oily smell is stronger now.
The painting is very dark, but as you stare at it you gradually begin to be able to make out the details as your eyes adjust. It's a woodland scene, featuring a forest clearing at night. Twelve spindly, leafless sycamore saplings surround a small white-outlined pool of water. Or... is it water? That smoky, oily smell is stronger now.
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The music, perhaps? It's quieter, now -- more distant. As you listen, it slowly fades away. You push through the trees, trying to follow it, to catch up, but it's gone. You keep walking anyway, and eventually the forest underbrush thickens and straightens and resolves into the familiar pathways of the Overlook Lodge hedge maze.
The music, perhaps? It's quieter, now -- more distant. As you listen, it slowly fades away. You push through the trees, trying to follow it, to catch up, but it's gone. You keep walking anyway, and eventually the forest underbrush thickens and straightens and resolves into the familiar pathways of the Overlook Lodge hedge maze.


{{button|Return to the lobby}}
*''If you have a [[jar of oil]]:''
 
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''If you have a [[jar of oil]]:''
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The painting is very dark, but as you stare at it you gradually begin to be able to make out the details as your eyes adjust. It's a woodland scene, featuring a forest clearing at night. Twelve spindly, leafless sycamore saplings surround a small white-outlined pool of water. Or... is it water? That smoky, oily smell is stronger now.
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{{button|[[Lost in the Great Overlook Lodge|Return to the lobby]]}}
Something about that acrid, unpleasant smell seems familiar. You puzzle over it for a moment as you idly snap your fingers to the ever-present music.
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*Occurs after selecting "Follow the faint sound of music" at [[Lost in the Great Overlook Lodge]].
Of course -- the Oil Peak! You pull out that jar of oil you collected and unscrew the lid. The smell is like a punch in the face -- the same smell, like an engine on fire. You look at the painting again, then down at the table below it. A round silver tray rests atop it, and you're pretty sure what the ridiculous dream-logic of this place intends for you to do.
 
You carefully pour the oil into the tray, creating an unpleasant black mirror. Your reflection in it is dark -- perhaps even sinister? But before you can consider it further, the image fades, replaced with a reflection of bright red curtains. You look up, and find that the red curtains now cover the walls of the hallway. There is a part in them to your left, a smoky clarinet solo spilling out into the hall.
 
You push through the curtains into what must be one of the hotel ballrooms. The floor is tiled in black and white zig-zags, and scarlet drapes cover the walls. A number of people in black tuxedos and white evening gowns are milling about amongst white Greek statues and black leather armchairs. There is also, for some reason, a white horse standing motionless under a bright spotlight in the corner of the room.
 
{{button|Mingle}}


==Notes==
==References==
* Occurs after selecting "Follow the faint sound of music" at [[Lost in the Great Overlook Lodge]].
*The music in question is "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKBRyNNW3u0 Dance of the Dream Man]", track 9 on the ''[[Wikipedia:Music of Twin Peaks#Soundtrack from Twin Peaks|Soundtrack from Twin Peaks]]''.
*This adventure's title is a quotation from the famous backwards-speech dream sequence in the third episode of ''Twin Peaks''.

Latest revision as of 02:18, 24 March 2013

There's Always Music In the Air
There's Always Music In the Air

There's a faint whiff of music coming from somewhere far away, just on the edge of your hearing. You start down the hall in the direction you think it might be coming from, and end up playing a lengthy game of "hot and cold" -- walking first down one corridor, then up another.

Gradually, the music becomes louder and more distinct. Smoky clarinet. Double bass. Wire brushes on the drums. You can hear it all clearly now. But... where is it actually coming from? You're standing at a dead-end in the hallway, absentmindedly snapping your fingers in time to the jazzy tune; the music is definitely at its loudest here, but there's no band in sight, no speakers in the ceiling.

There is, however, a faint smell -- as faint as the music was at first. A dark, bitter smell, like scorched engine oil.

Glancing around, you note that the walls here are covered with framed photographs -- mainly autographed celebrity headshots and tuxedo-and-evening-gown group photos from various formal events and holiday parties. The odd man out is a large oil painting, hanging on the rear wall above a small end-table with a silver tray on it.

Examine the painting

The painting is very dark, but as you stare at it you gradually begin to be able to make out the details as your eyes adjust. It's a woodland scene, featuring a forest clearing at night. Twelve spindly, leafless sycamore saplings surround a small white-outlined pool of water. Or... is it water? That smoky, oily smell is stronger now.

The pool shimmers in the moonlight as you step forward to give it a closer look. It's definitely oil, or something like it. You wrinkle your nose at the burnt black odor as you kneel beside the pool and look in.

You can't see your reflection in it. The full moon is visible, and the faint outlines of the thin sycamore trees, but otherwise it's like looking into a hole in the ground.

Not wanting to get any closer, you stand and back away from the pool. As one of the leafless branches brushes your shoulder, it occurs to you that something is wrong here, but you aren't sure what.

The music, perhaps? It's quieter, now -- more distant. As you listen, it slowly fades away. You push through the trees, trying to follow it, to catch up, but it's gone. You keep walking anyway, and eventually the forest underbrush thickens and straightens and resolves into the familiar pathways of the Overlook Lodge hedge maze.

He Is the Arm, and He Sounds Like This
He Is the Arm, and He Sounds Like This
Return to the lobby

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