Typographical Clutter

Choice adventure number: 451

Typographical Clutter

You descend the slant of the greater-than sign, and find yourself in a crowded room, filled with all manner of alphanumeric characters and punctuation marks. Which one would you like to investigate?

The left parenthesis

The lower-case L

You walk up to investigate the L more closely, and abruptly notice that your wallet is lighter and that the L is gone. You throw a very stylish hissy-fit, then move on. lost 30 meat gained 13 sarcasm

The big apostrophe

You investigate the apostrophe, considering it from various angles, until you finally discover the angle at which you have to investigate it in order to knock it over and break it into a thousand pieces. Nice work.

On the bright side, it looks like there was a plus sign hidden inside the apostrophe, so that's a plus.

You acquire an item: plus sign

• If you already have the plus sign

You stare at the big apostrophe for a while. You can't figure out what it's for, so you just push it around for a while. It's surprisingly heavy.

You gain 10 Muscleboundness.

The lower-case E

You approach the lower-case E. You stare at it for a while, and suddenly find yourself unable to move. You gain 15 Wizardliness.

The upper-case Q

As you approach the Q, it touches you with its (insert the name of whatever you call the straight part of a capital Q here,) and disappears.

You notice the scenery beginning to change at random... acquire teleportitis