Polo Tombstone

Polo Tombstone

As you're wandering around in the pet cemetery of the Haunted Conservatory, you catch a glimpse of a tombstone with a tiny alligator engraved on it.

"What a stylish tombstone!" you think to yourself, but then you think back to the passage from the Spookyraven Family History that you read in the Library, and an idea occurs to you.

You plunge your hand into the peat (or perhaps it's silt -- you never did learn the difference,) fish around for a while, and pull out exactly what you were looking for:

You acquire an item: Spookyraven gallery key

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Occurs at The Haunted Conservatory (one time adventure).

Notes

• Occurs only after reading The Fall of the House of Spookyraven, Chapter 2, Stephen and Elizabeth in The Haunted Library.
• Since the start of NS-13 this is no longer the first adventure in the Conservatory after reading the appropriate chapter.

References

• The title of this adventure refers to Lacoste, an apparel company famous for tennis shirts with a small green crocodile logo on them. Apparently, Jick mistook them for polo shirts.
• Silt is soil or rock derived granular material of a grain size larger than clay but smaller than sand. Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter. The two are not that similar.
• The first sentence in this adventure is a reference to the horror story "Pet Cemetary" by Stephen King, in which undead pets rise to torment their former owners.