A Moment of Reflection

A Moment of Reflection

You pull out the reflection of a map and take a moment to reflect on it.

It's becoming more and more transparent by the minute -- if you're going to follow it somewhere, you'd better do so in a hurry before it disappears completely.

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The Field of Strawberries

You follow the map to a delightful field of red, ripe strawberries. It seems to go on forever, but you're pretty sure it doesn't -- I mean, you'd probably remember if you had always been in a field of strawberries, right? Anyway, you wander through the fields, and after a while you get a little bored with the endless rows of berries, so you close your eyes to give them a rest.

Living may be easy with eyes closed, but walking sure isn't: you walk smack into a brick wall. Before you open your eyes, you hear a "Woooooaaaah!" followed by a "THUD" and a "SCHPLURT."

You open your eyes and see something that looks like a cross between an egg and a man, lying shattered on the ground in front of you. Don't worry, I'm sure that happened way before you got here. You see a little bowl full of custard next to the eggman's hand, and figure the best way to honor his memory would be to take it for yourself. You don't feel terribly guilty -- I mean, if the eggman was eating egg custard, that's more than a little creepy, and maybe he deserved to take a header off the wall.

You acquire an item: yellow matter custard

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The Caucus Racetrack

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The Croquet Grounds

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The Duchess' Cottage

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The Great Big Chessboard

ou follow the map to a huge sunny meadow, meticulously landscaped and criss-crossed with sparkling brooks that divide the grassy plain into sixty-four squares, some of which are occupied by people in dark-colored clothing who appear to be waiting patiently for something. As you approach the first rank of squares, marveling at the strange beauty of the scene, you accidentally bump into someone dressed as a bishop who was running to occupy the same square. They fall over backwards with a surprised squawk and vanish mysteriously when they hit the ground. Even mysteriouser, you feel a strange tingle throughout your body, and find that your clothes have changed into a bishop's outfit. Huh.

Standing at the first rank of the chessboard, you see a large golden chest sitting just on the opposite side of the eighth rank. I believe the first rule of adventuring is "Anything in a treasure chest is yours, if you can grab it."

To complete the puzzle: Play chess by moving pieces allowing the treasure to get to the other side of the board.

When other side of the board is reached: Trumpets blast a fanfare as you advance to the eighth rank. You kneel to open the golden treasure chest, and it melts and shifts in your hands, turning into an elegant golden tea-tray. There's only one cookie (or 'biscuit', as people who own tea-trays are wont to say) left, but it looks like a particularly tasty one.

You acquire an item: king cookie

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Put the map away

You fold the reflection of the map back up (backwards) and put it back in your sack.

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Occurs upon use of a reflection of a map.

Notes

• Choosing "Put the map away" does not consume the item.
• Does not consume an adventure.