Welcome to The Shore, Inc.

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Choice adventure number: 793

Welcome to The Shore, Inc.

Welcome to The Shore, Inc., the finest travel agency in the Kingdom of Loathing. Our vacations are sure to be just the thing for a weary soul in need of rest and relaxation. Just select a package, pay up, and let us do the rest!

While on the Way of the Surprising Fist path, the following text is added:

Oh. Actually, you look... You look like you might be interested in our bargain option. It costs nothing, but it takes slightly longer, because you have to ride on one of our older ships, with the anim... with the carg... with the... with the other poor people.

While on the Zombie Slayer path, the following text appears instead:

The travel agent still seems rather perky and cheerful, for a zombie. "Booaaaaaaat?" she says, smiling at you. Well, for a loose definition of 'smile'.

"Trrraaaaaaaavuuuuullll."

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Distant Lands Dude Ranch Adventure

(Costs 3 Adventures and 500 Meat)

• Gives Muscle substat or anticheese, coconut shells, stick of dynamite, ten-leaf clover, or gingham blouse / rhinestone cowboy shirt (with Torso Awaregness)

Tropical Paradise Island Getaway

(Costs 3 Adventures and 500 Meat)

• Gives Mysticality substat or ice-cold six-packs, little paper umbrellas, valuable trinkets, tropical orchids, coconut bikini top / floral print shirt (with Torso Awaregness), or packet of orchid seeds (Bees Hate You runs).

Large Donkey Mountain Ski Resort

(Costs 3 Adventures and 500 Meat)

• Gives Moxie substat or abominable snowcones, barbed-wire fence, cast, ent ciders, magical ice cubes, or souvenir ski t-shirt (with Torso Awaregness)

Exit through the gift shop

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If you go to take any of the three trips once you have acquired some forged identification documents, you will be whisked away for a special, one time trip.

Covert Operations
	Item Drops: your father's MacGuffin diary

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The Shore, Inc. is located at the Desert Beach.

Notes

• Since The Shore, Inc. is a adventure.php location, you cannot visit it to get to the Shore Gift Shop if you are over drunk.
• Trophies
  • Taking 100 trips in one ascension allows you to buy the Little Boat Trophy.
  • Taking 1000 trips in one ascension allows you to buy the Big Boat Trophy
• One of few areas that can be adventured at with zero HP.
• Trying to take a trip when falling-down drunk gives the message:

"You're too drunk to go on vacation. Which makes sense, somehow. Trust me."

• Trying to take a trip while Half-Astral gives the message:

"What? Where? Huh?"

• Trying to take a trip with less than 500 Meat gives the message:

"You can't afford to go on a vacation."

• Trying to take a trip with less than 3 adventures remaining gives the message:

"You don't have enough Adventures left."

• On average, you will receive (0.45 * mainstat) substats per stat-gaining trip, regardless of which location you are visiting. That is, if you are a moxie class and you shore for muscle, your muscle stat gain is based on your (unbuffed) moxie.
• On average, you will receive a stat-gaining trip approximately 70% of the time.
• If you have Torso Awaregness, you will receive a shirt trip approximately 2% of the time.
• Tower combat items will always drop if at least 35 turns have been expended since the last shore trip which yielded a tower item. This counter is not set until the first shore trip of an ascension, which sets the counter to 35 regardless of which trip is received. This counter is reset if you happen to obtain another tower item before 35 adventures is up.
  • Covert Operations can override an otherwise guaranteed tower item drop.
• During a Way of the Surprising Fist path, taking a trip does not cost any meat, but takes 5 adventures instead of 3.

History

• Prior to the revamp on August 30, 2013, vacations were selected using radio buttons, and activated by pressing a button "Sail Away! (3)". There was a Frequent Traveler Program, which gave rewards once an ascension based on how many trips were taken this ascension.

  By the way, are you familiar with our Frequent Traveler Program? The more vacations you purchase from the Shore, Inc., the more goodies you'll get!

  • You have taken 5 trips so far. Congratulations! You've earned your first Frequent Traveler Reward!

  This reward was supposed to be a free trip to the Mysterious Island of Mystery, but we ran out of money. Luckily, we've got these fantastic boat plans for you! Just find some suitable wood, use these plans to build your boat, and you can sail there on your own!

  You acquire an item: dinghy plans

  • You have taken 12 trips so far. Congratulations! You've won a fabulous Meat Globe!

    You acquire an item: meat globe

  • You have taken 23 trips so far. Congratulations! You've won a groovy pair of fuzzy dice!

    You acquire an item: fuzzy dice

  • You have taken 32 trips so far. Congratulations! You've won a fabulous toaster!

    You acquire an item: cheap toaster

  • Sadly, you've already earned all of our Frequent Traveler Rewards.

References

• The text and number of adventures, "Sail Away! (3)", likely refers to the Enya song "Orinoco Flow" from her album Watermark. The song's chorus contains the phrase "Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away."
• The phrase "Exit through the gift shop" is a reference to the 2010 movie/documentary directed by Banksy in which an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempt to locate and befriend Banksy.