8-Bit Realm (Retired)

The Inexplicable Door

The Inexplicable Door (also known as the 8-Bit Realm) is found in the The Distant Woods. It only appears if you have a continuum transfunctioner equipped, and is only accessible if you have 20 in your main stat. The pixellated monsters here all have 15 HP and don't drop any meat, but they are rich in pixels. All the monsters can drop up to three pixels. Players can bring pixels to the crackpot mystic at The Crackpot Mystic's Shed to have the pixels transformed into many useful items. Wearing the 8-Bit Finery will make you deal more damage to monsters in this area.

If your main stat is too low:

You try to open the inexplicable door, but can't seem to muster up the strength and/or wisdom and/or panache to do so.

You wander off in search of more appropriate things to do.

(You must have at least 20 Main Stat to adventure here.)

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Blooper -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: white pixel, white pixel, white pixel Meat Drop: 8-12 Monster Level: 25 • Substat Gain: 6.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 35 Monster Defense: 22 Hit Points: 15 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: None

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Bullet Bill -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: black pixel, black pixel, black pixel Meat Drop: 8-12 Monster Level: 25 • Substat Gain: 6.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 35 Monster Defense: 22 Hit Points: 15 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: None

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Buzzy Beetle -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: black pixel, red pixel, white pixel Meat Drop: 8-12 Monster Level: 20 • Substat Gain: 5 • Moxie for No Hit*: 30 Monster Defense: 18 Hit Points: 15 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: None

• Only appears after you have ascended. Before, you encounter Goombas instead.

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Goomba -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: black pixel, red pixel, white pixel Meat Drop: 8-12 Monster Level: 20 • Substat Gain: 5 • Moxie for No Hit*: 30 Monster Defense: 18 Hit Points: 15 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: None

• Only appears before you have ascended. All future incarnations encounter Buzzy Beetles in their place.

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Keese -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: blue pixel, blue pixel, blue pixel Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 25 • Substat Gain: 6.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 35 Monster Defense: 22 Hit Points: 15 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: None

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Koopa Troopa -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: black pixel, green pixel, white pixel Meat Drop: 8-12 Monster Level: 20 • Substat Gain: 5 • Moxie for No Hit*: 30 Monster Defense: 18 Hit Points: 15 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: None

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Octorok -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: red pixel, red pixel, red pixel Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 25 • Substat Gain: 6.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 35 Monster Defense: 22 Hit Points: 15 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: None

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Tektite -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: black pixel, blue pixel, white pixel Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 20 • Substat Gain: 5 • Moxie for No Hit*: 30 Monster Defense: 18 Hit Points: 15 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: None

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Zol -- (edit metadata)
	Item Drops: green pixel, green pixel, green pixel Meat Drop: None Monster Level: 25 • Substat Gain: 6.25 • Moxie for No Hit*: 35 Monster Defense: 22 Hit Points: 15 Initiative: 60 Elemental Alignment: None

References

• The monsters here all originate from games (more specifically, Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda) for the extremely popular 8-bit video game console, the NES.
• The Inexplicable Door's name itself refers to earlier (mostly 8-Bit) games that had a door outdoors that you had to enter to complete the level. These doors weren't attached to any building, and were thus inexplicable.
• The fact that you encounter Buzzy Beetles instead of Goombas after you ascend is a reference to the fact that, after beating Super Mario Brothers, you play a harder set of stages where all the goombas turn into buzzy beetles.
• There is a clever joke hidden inside your actual purpose being in this area. What you basically do is "pixel hunt", an expression commonly used in point-and-click adventures where the player often has to slowly comb the screen with the mouse pointer searching for the right pixel.