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 |
You approach the left parenthesis and stare at it for a while without figuring out what it's for. You snag it and take it with you -- maybe you'll figure it out later.
 | You acquire an item: 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
If you earlier lost meat:
You walk up to investigate the L more closely, and... Hey! This is that L that stole your Meat earlier! You kick it over, recover your Meat (plus a bunch it apparently stole from other Adventurers!) and walk away with a moxious swagger.
You gain 635 Meat.
You gain 15 Roguishness.
| 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...
 | You acquire an effect: Teleportitis (duration: 5 Adventures) |
Occurs at The Enormous Greater-Than Sign.
References
- The lower-case L is really a leprechaun.
- The apostrophe is a statue.
- The lower-case E is most likely a floating eye.
- The Q is a Quantum Mechanic.
