One Nightstand (Ornate)

Choice adventure number: 84

One Nightstand

In the Haunted Bedroom, you encounter an ornately carved nightstand.

What would you like to do with it?

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Open the top drawer

In the top drawer of the nightstand, you find a stack of Meat. It's always weird to see old Meat, because it's a different color than new Meat, but, y'know, it spends just as well, so you're not complaining.

You gain 400−600 Meat.

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Open the bottom drawer

In the bottom drawer of this nightstand you find a hardcover book -- one of those long, dry fantasy novels. Y'know, the kind that read like a cross between a fairy tale, a history book, and the Bible?

You flip through it, absorbing some of the knowledge, but unable to resist skipping the boring parts (and the ten-page songs.)

You gain 50-200 Mysteriousness.

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Look behind the nightstand

• Before finding spectacles:

You look behind the nightstand, and find an old pair of glasses. They must've fallen back there and gotten lost.

You acquire an item: Lord Spookyraven's spectacles

• After finding spectacles:

There's nothing else back there -- you have thoroughly looted the booty the backside of this nightstand has to offer.

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Occurs at The Haunted Bedroom.

Notes

• Lord Spookyraven's spectacles are a one time drop.
• The actual stats gained from opening the bottom drawer will be equal to your unbuffed mainstat plus one, minus 0 to 6.

References

• The message about the old meat being different in color from the new meat may be a reference to the redesigned United States $10, $20, and $50 bank notes, which are different in color from the original notes. It may also be a play on the fact that meat (with a lower-case m) changes color when exposed to air while uncooked and when it decomposes.
• The fantasy novel in the bottom drawer could be almost anything, if it wasn't for the note about "ten-page songs" which clearly makes it be The Lord of the Rings.
• The title of this adventure is a pun on the phrase "one-night stand"
• The booty (in the third choice, after getting the spectacles) is a play on the backside of the night stand. Booty is typically the backside of a person.

	One Nightstand in The Haunted Bedroom
	Mahogany			Ornate			Rustic			Elegant			Simple
	Check the top drawer	half of a memo or old coin purse		Open the top drawer	400-600 Meat		Check the top drawer	50-200 Roguishness		Open the single drawer	Lady Spookyraven's finest gown		Look in the top drawer	old leather wallet
	Check the bottom drawer	Lose HP		Open the bottom drawer	50-200 Wizardliness		Check the bottom drawer	grouchy restless spirit or nothing		Break a leg (off of the nightstand)	elegant nightstick		Look in the bottom drawer	50-200 Muscleboundness
	Look under the nightstand	Spookyraven Manor Quest Item		Look behind the nightstand	Lord Spookyraven's spectacles		Investigate the jewelry	Fight remains of a jilted mistress		Use a ghost key	100 of each stat		Use a ghost key	200 Muscleboundness
	Use a ghost key	Gain meat		Look under the nightstand	disposable instant camera		Use a ghost key	200 Roguishness
				Use a ghost key	200 Wizardliness		Check under the nightstand (rare)	Engorged Sausages and You