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Miscellaneous => Forum Games => Topic started by: Robert on August 01, 2006, 04:52:25 PM
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I've adopted this game from another forum. The premise of the game is simple; someone posts a situation, describing the surroundings, what's happening and what player has on hand. The next poster has to post a solution using the items given. Here is an example:
Poster 1: You wake up in a paded, white room with a stray jacket on. You've been framed. The mental hospital is closed, meaning no one is inside save for you and the other loonies. The paded room is featureless except one door with a window on it that leads to a hallway. With in your grasp is a smoothed stone and an expired credit card. What do you do?
Poster 2: I use my legs to throw the stone at the window. I then pick up a glass shard with my foot and us it to cut open the stray jacket. All with my foot. Good thing I took those yoga lessons! I place the credit card between the crack in the door, which opens it. There, I escaped
Then poster 2 would post another situation.(also, you don't have to use all the items given to you.)
I'll start. You find yourself armpit deep in quicksand. The quicksand is in a deep pit. Your arms are still free. You have a clothes pin, a short peice of string(shorter than the pit) and some silly putty. What would you do?
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Oh boy, a thinking game!
After affixing the string to the wall with silly putty (a precautionary measure), I do what no person would ever do in quicksand: dive down. It's an urban setting, you see, and I believe there may be more than meets the eye. Using skills as a treasure hunter and free diver, I quickly find a cold spot, where the sand is moving and easier to move through. Behold! A concrete pipe through which I easily muscle my way through the cold current. In no time at all, I'm exiting through a storm drain grate and walking nonchalantly to my fancy apartment or something.
Now! You are trapped in the lavatory of a collapsing building! Wreckage, a circuit board, copper wire, a long piece of PVC pipe (you can't use that with hot water) are yours to use. Sadly, there are no ceiling vents (nice try, Bond). Try escaping this one, MacGyver.
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Noticing how sharp the copper wire is, I string it through the PVC pipe. This way, I safely harness myself while descending the outer wall--having tied the other end to a plumbing fixture.
It's 2 AM and you're in a vacuum store that closed 8 hours ago. You are quadraplegic and diabetic: You need an insulin shot within the next 30 minutes or you will most likely die. You have a broken table leg in your mouth.
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I use my mouth to turn on all the vaccums in the store to "blow". Hopefully, the vaccum's power will be enough to blow the door of it's hinges. Luckly the hospital is nextdoor to the vaccum shop. I roll my way towards it.
You wake up in your regular bed at 3am in the mourning. 50 ninjas with many weapons surround you, ready to kill you. You pinch yourself. No, this isn't a dreram. You're remorsing on how you never took those karate lessons. You have a pillow, a snow globe, some duct-tape and your stuffed bear. Try escaping this one.
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You hold the snowglobe in front of you while a ninja breaks a small hole in it. You throw the "snow" into the eyes of many ninjas and throw the snowglobe's remains into the pillowcase. You attach a rope of duct tape firmly to the pillowcase, making a mace. This is used to kill more ninjas, whose weapons you steal. Not really knowing how to use them, you dash into battle and somehow win.
You're in an abandoned gas station's food mart. The doors and windows are boarded up and everything has been removed from the store except a crate of Coke, a clock, a broken cell phone, and a can of cooking spray.
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What kind of clock? (You know why you need to specify when I post.)
EDIT: (Getting info. from BP on MSNM.) You get the cola and pour it on the clock. It starts to spark (perhaps), and you catch the cell phone on fire. Scoot it close to the boarded door and spray the cooking spray into the flames to catch the boards on fire...when they're weak enough you kick yourself out.
You wake up and find yourself enclosed in a coffin. You are running out of oxygen and will perish if you don't get free. You have your tie, digital watch, Axe Bodyspray, and some paper clips. How do you escape this one Mcgyver?
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(you didn't say If the coffin was buried) so I spray the spray on the boards, making them soft and wet, weakining them, then I use the watch and paper clips to chip my way out of the soft wood. Then I eat the tie because I'm hungry.
You find yourself stuck in a small room, all the walls are made of stone, but there is a door on one side, no windows or handles, made out of steel. But there is a large bomb that is ready to explode in 5 minutes, all you have is a sturdy board of thick plywood and a large couch, what do you do?
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Hehe. Well, I'll put the bomb right where the door's hinge meets the wall. This way, it's win-win: I don't know which is easier to blow up--a stone wall or a steel door. It's the former, I imagine, but I suppose that depends on how thick it is. I move the couch to the opposite end of the room, ideally into a corner, and flip it over using the plywood as a lever. Hiding underneath, I wait patiently.
You have been cemented into the backside of a newly-built mountain dam. There's a little breathing room for you, but your only free body parts are your head, neck, and right arm--sticking out uncomfortably from the cold wall. 3 feet away is an abandoned 2-year-old. Next to him stands an ostrich, and there are sunflower seeds scattered all around.
Within 30 days, inspectors will arrive to survey the locale--but until then, the only human contact is the abandoned toddler.
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Method1: If the ostrich lays an egg, I'll use it to crack the wall (since ostrich eggs or so hard) and escape.
Method2: If the ostrich dosen't lay an egg or it dosen't break the wall, I'll lure the ostrich with the seeds. Then I'll knock him unconsious. I'll set something on fire using friction on my hand. After cooking the ostrich, I will ration it and the seeds until the inspectors come.
You're in a stuck in a steel box that is slowly decending into the ocean. There is no escape. The box is also filling up with water. You have a pair of scissors(dull), a pen, an elastic band and some masking tape.
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There is no escape.
I lose. Well, if you want me to ignore that comment, I tape the scissors and pen together to make a stronger tool. The box was not noted as locked, so I pry it open with the scissors-pen.
You are in a plane. Snakes are everywhere. It's rude to go through the luggage of others, so all you have on hand is a Nintendo DS, an Arizona key chain, a bag of Nutter Butters, a black Sharpie, and a hideous purple shirt.
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Heh, neat thread.
Ok, I'd first combine the DS, Nutter Butters, and part of that shirt together, and draw on it with the Sharpie to form a crude, somewhat disprotortioned human decoy. The snakes should (hopefully) attack this decoy, because it reeks of Nutter Butters and has a hideous shirt on. Then, I use the keychain to pry one of those parachute/seat cushion things off and jump out of the plane with it. Hope it works.
You're in a room that's roughly 20 feet cubed in dimension. All the walls are shatterproof, bulletproof one way mirrors with no windows or vents or cracks or the like, except there's a locked door of a similar material on one of the walls. It's hidden in a way that you can't figure out which wall it's on. You also happen to be tied to a chair (which isn't bolted to anything, and isn't particulary heavy, so it can move around the room with some effort). There's a wooden table in one corner with the following items that you can reach on it:
Deck of cards (1), missing the 8 of hearts for some reason
Can of Diet Pepsi (1)
Package of balloons (1, package contains 50 balloons)
Trout (1, also smells really bad)
Paper (15 sheets)
Packet of Markers (1, contains 16 markers, although only black, red, and yellow actually work)
Alarm clock (1, set to go off in about 10 minutes)
There's also a couple assorted rocks on the floor, but the way you're tied to the chair, you can't reach those in your current position. 'course, since the walls are shatterproof, you can't just throw them at the walls and expect them to break.
You hear footsteps, but can't glean from which side of the room they're coming from.
Your move, McGyver.
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Heh, neat thread.
Thanks!
Hm... tough one. I think I got an idea. I'll lay on my side, and rub the rope on the sharp rocks until they snap. Then, I'll grab a card, feel the walls for the door, Then use the card as if it were a credit card; stick it through a crack in the door. Thus opening it.
You're on a plane. The plan is infested with, that's right, snakes! Since the snakes were unleashed, you have hiden in the bathroom. However, the snakes have invaded the bathroom you're hiding in. There's about 30 snakes in the bathroom, all of them came through the door. If move towards the door, the snakes will lunge at you. In the bathroom is an empty toilet paper roll, a toilet brush and a bar of soap. What would you do?
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I would stand on top of the toilet and use the brush to cripple the snakes. By elevating myself I'd be able to avoid them lashing at the bottom half of me, since the toilet tank would be in the way. When they were all unable to move, I'd find another area to hang out until the plane landed.
Put yourself in the following situation: You and your girlfriend are out for a Sunday drive. However, the road you normally take out to the country has landed you at the oceanside. There is no real beach, or civilization anywhere. All that exists is a pier that looks out onto the ocean. You park your car, an 18 year old Acura that runs great, to prevent further driving. Looking back you see the road appears to travel on forever. The turn you were supposed to turn at didn't exist--no traffic light or anything. Your girlfriend is scared.
All you have in the car is:
-a pencil
-an iPod
-a cell phone and charger but no signals in this area
-a map of the state of Ohio
-an ice scraper
-a math textbook
-a baseball bat
-$3.18 in change
-a tire pump
-only about an eighth of a tank of gas, not enough to get you back to where you started
-a chemistry textbook
-a lunchbag containing various items including corn, vinegar, milk, ham, and wine
Keep in mind there was nothing on this road, as it was in the country. No gas stations, malls, grocery stores, 7-Elevens, etc, and no farms either.
After parking the car you see a man in his 90s telling you he escaped a car crash in the 1960s in Ireland and is looking for the way back home. He has reportedly been to Canada and Australia since he was reported missing. He is carrying a backpack, contents unknown.
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I read through the chemistry book, with my knoledge, I create a cheap substitute for gas. And drive away.
You are in a cage, slowly sinking into a harbor with the help of a crane, you'll drown if no action is taken. all you have is a numb knife, (not strong enough to cut through the thick rope) and an old wood board.
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I'd throw the board at the control panel of the crane, hopefully stalling it and stopping the cage from lowering any farther. The knife is used as a very crude lockpick. I assume the cage is locked somehow. I assume.
After being sedated somehow, you wake up and find yourself in a thick, dense (about 8 inch thick walls) wooden crate that's been screwed shut. Since the effects of the sedative are still present, you're nowhere near strong enough to force the top of the crate off on your own power. You think this crate is on an airplane, and you're being shipped off to who-knows-where. There are a few airholes, each about an inch in diameter, on the top and sides of the crate; unfortunately, you discover your crate is in the middle of a multi-dimensional stack (as in, there are at least three other crates on all six sides of your crate) of several similar crates that are far too heavy to shove aside. Think of the ending of that one Indiana Jones movie with the Ark of the Covenant. The contents of the crate (and your pockets) are:
Packaging peanuts (essentially infinite)
$1.27 in U.S. coins of the following denominations: 4 quarters, 2 dimes, 1 nickel, 2 pennies
Swiss Army Knife (1, although all the "knife" attachments have been snapped off. You are left with the bottle opener and that useless thing that you use to dig under your fingernails)
Strings about 3 feet in length (several, let's say 30)
Bubble wrap (about 40 square feet, unpopped)
Granola bar (1/2, you ate the other half)
Safety pin (3)
You aren't sure what's in any of the other crates, but you hear a ticking noise, so you suspect one of them has a bomb, and thus you can't really afford to wait for the sedative to wear off. Through the rows of crates, you can also see a mouse in the distance. The floor of the airplane has a few pebbles, and the walls of the airplane have typical airplane safety gear (parachute and the like), but there's no doors in this section of the plane that you can access and the walls are solid metal. You also cannot reach anything outside the crate on your own, although if you can reach it with your stuff, go for it.
Your Move, McGyver.
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First tie all of the strings together, and tie one end to the army knife. Open up the can opener on the end of the knife. Use the bubble wrap to fashion a crude sling-shot, and use it to fire the knife, tied to the string, through an air hole and through the spaces between the crates toward an auto-inflatable raft on the plane wall. Hook the raft with the can opener, and drag it back towards you until it is at the base of your crate. Shove the chunk of granola bar through the air hole so it lands right on the pin to inflate the raft. The mouse will be atracted by the granola bar and will pull the raft pin in the process of eating it. The raft inflates rapidly, pushing the crates under you and knocking your crate over. Since you were on top of at least three other crates, it's a pretty long fall - far enough to knock your crate open. You survive uninjured, however, since you were surrounded by infinite packaging peanuts. Now go find the crate with the ticking sound. Luckily, it happens to be on the top of a stack. Even in your sedated state you're strong enough to climb the pile of crate knocked over by the raft, so you can get to the top of the crate with the bomb. Use the fingernail cleaner on your knife (recovered from the raft) to unscrew the top of the crate. Use the knife's can opener to disarm the bomb. Now you can relax and wait for the sedative to wear off...or can you? Take the bulk of the explosive out of the bomb (the bomb was probably strong enough to destroy the whole plane), leaving enough to blow out a good chunk of the plane wall. Reprogram the bomb to blow in one minute, put it at a side of the plane away from all the saftey equipment, and run behind all the crates. The bomb blows a huge hole in the side of the plane and the crates start blowing out. Grab a parachute, an inflatable raft, and any other useful supplies you see, and jump.
You're hand-cuffed to a solid steel chair on top of an old skyscraper which is about to be demolished. The demolition crew doesn't know you're up there and you can't scream loud enough to get anyone's attention. The chair is bolted down and is completely imobile. You're barefoot and the entire roof of the building is covered with shattered glass, a la Die Hard. There is a single door on the roof leading into the builing. It is on the other side of the roof, and it's locked. The building has fifty stories and is going to be imploded in two minutes. With your legs you can reach a full jar of peanut butter, a soft baseball cap, and a pillow. Just out of reach of your legs are a pair of perscription glasses (not yours, you have perfect vision) and a fire extinguisher. Far out of your reach are a bowling ball and a very confused cat.
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I grab the jar of peanut butter with my feet and open it up, then put some on my toe; I then catch the glasses on the sticky peanut butter. I then use the earpiece to pick the lock and, before I stand, drag the pillow over to me and get un it. I wear the cap to look cool, then grab the extinguisher. I turn it on, then use it as a rudimentary jetpack - first I get the cat, then use up the last of the fuel as the oillow scoots gently along the sea of glass. I get into the building, then down the stairs just as it explodes.
You are on an empty highway at night in the middle of nowhere in your broken-down car. You can't get out, because strange monsters are on the outside and slowly eating your car (a la Tremors). Inside your glove compartment is a toothpick, a length of wire, a lightbulb, a rubber band, a ham sandwich and an N64 RumblePak. Under the seat is a pack of half-used batteries and a chainsaw (with no gas). In addition, you are, for some reason, in a straightjacket. You have five minutes before the monsters eat your car. Go!
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Using my feet, I grab the chainsaw from under my seat. Again, using my feet, I use the chainsaw to cut open the staight jacket. Those yoga lessons really payed off, huh? Then, I throw the sandwich out of the window. When the monsters are distracted by the sandwich, I get out of my car and use the chainsaw to hack n' slash my way to victory! If the monsters eat my chainsaw, then I'll use the wire to choke the monsters.
You were at the zoo one day, looking a the lions. When suddenly, somone pushes you into the lion pit! There are 15 lions in the pit, each one extremely hungry. There is a locked door at the other end of the pit, which is the only way out. On the ground is a empty bucket, a nearly broken shovel, lion you-know-what and human bones. The key to the door is in a lion's mouth. What would you do?
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First, I pray to God that this works. Next, I cover myself in lion you-know-what. It is absolutely disgusting, and I'm probably whimpering in the process. I grab the nearly broken shovel threateningly. The lions hate my stench, so they don't come near me. I hit one right in the head with the shovel! It breaks in two, and the lion is just irritated. Oops. So now there is one lion going at me. I take a human bone, and, as he approaches me, jaws open, I shove it vertically in his mouth so that he can't bite through it. Acting quickly, I take the bucket and hit him many times over the head until he is unconscious. Hah hah! Next I reach into his mouth, which is still forced open by the bone, and grab the key! I race towards the door, and make it out alive.
Note: I still have the bucket, and I'm going to use it to beat up the guy who shoved me in.
You are in a room on the third floor of an apartment building. There are no windows leading outside. There is no light source within the room. There is a door across from you. Around the top of the door, there is a small glass window. The glass is too thick to break through. In that window, you see the shadow of stranger. He is peering in, trying to see you. You cannot pick out any of his facial features, though you know that this is the same, creepy guy who has been after you. Luckily, you had locked the door so he cannot get in, and since there is no light source within the room, he cannot see you. His purpose is unclear, but it seems as though he wants to get ya! You are very scared, and, sadly enough, don't have your medication with you. You are panicking, and you need it more than ever. You could pass out any second! You need to get out in a hurry, but the creepy guy is right there! Oh, if only this apartment building wasn't abandoned.
You look around the room. You find:
- A blanket. (Very thin, and molding).
- A rat. (Pretty big, and huddled up in the blanket... he looks pretty mean).
- A pair of broken reading glasses.
- A tin full of popcorn crumbs.
- A damp match.
- A rubber band.
The guy seems restless, and looks as though he'll wait forever! You feel as though you're blacking out. What will you do?
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There are a couple ways I can solve this,
1}I take the rubber band, open the door, pull back the rubber band, aim for his face and fire. As he's crying in pain, I'll run like the wind!
2}I'll grab the rat, open the door and throw the rat at him yelling "get 'em, spanky!" While the rat is fighting the person, I will run out of there faster than you can say "What the?!"
3}I'll grab the popcorn tin open the door and say to the person, " How about we stop this feud and have some popcorn?" We'll shake hands and walk into the sunset.
4}I'll wear the blanket over my head and gently pick up the rat, holding it as if it were a baby. After opening the door, I'll say to the person, "Could you spare the life of a poor mother and her starving child?" He'll thing I'm insane and decides that my life is pitiful enough already, and lets me go. When I'm out of his sight, I'll make a run for it.
You wake up chained to the bottem of a deep pit. The pit is to deep to climb out of with your hands. You can see your worst enemy at the top of the pit, beside a cement mixer. He plans to cement in the pit you are currently at the bottem of. Your two arms and and your legs are chained tightly to the ground. In your grasp, you have a match, a box of tissues and pen. Out of your reach is a fishing hook and broken handgun with no bullets in it. The pit will be cemented in 60 seconds. Go.
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First, I kick the hook into my hand and use it to pick the lock on the chains, freeing myself. Next, I take the pen, put the tissue on the pen and adhere it with my spit. Using my feet I kick the gun and hook into my hand and force the hook into the tip of the pen through the tissue. Next, I grab the match, strike it on the ground with my hand and throw it on the tissue, lighting it. I fire the flaming pen at the cement mixer, which causes it to explode. Then, using the fishing line like a grappling hook, I climb my way to safety. Approx. completion time: 53 seconds.
You are a cat on a hot tin roof; the only safe spot from the scorching heat is a small area of shade, which is slowly depleting. The only objects within the shade are an electrical outlet, a paperclip, a shoestring and a novelty plastic alligator, and just out of your reach in the heat is a Barry Manilow CD. You have a minute and a half before the heat makes you explode. Go.
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Unfolding the paperclip with my claws, I attach it to the shoe string. With my new grappling hook, I pull the Barry Manilow CD towards the shade--having got the paperclip right in the CD hole (cats have really good aim). I give the plastic alligator a kiss for good luck, and hop on the CD, sledding down the hot, tin roof like it's the middle of January. I don't have to worry about the landing, because I always land on my feet.
Scenario: You are trapped in a cage with the world's largest bear. You have a small chair and long hair. There are marbles everywhere, but you're running out of air... You start to think life isn't fair, but in the end you don't really care: You've gotta make it out of there.
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Quickly, I grab all the marbles in the cage. I give the bear some of the marbles, and together we play a friendly game of marbles together. Once we've become good friends, I'll ask the Bear to use his massive strengh to break me out of the cage. Problem solved.
You're trapped in a room. The room is very tall and is very wide. There are no doors, windows or any other exit out of the room. In the room, there is a gun with one bullet in it, a feather duster, 4 tennis balls and a wig. There is very little oxygen in the room, and if you don't escape soon, you will die. Go.
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Assuming the implied solution isn't suicide, here goes: First I take the bullet out of the chamber and insert the feather duster into the chamber, being sure to tie one of the feathers to the cocking spring. I jam the handle, protruding from the barrel of the gun, into a tennis ball and fire it at the wall. This creates smallish hole, which is then made bigger when the ball comes swinging back to the feather being tied to the inside of the gun. Now that I have oxygen coming from the hole I slowly chip away at the wall with the handle until I can fit through.
You are in an abandoned house on the third story with one window fifteen feet above you; on the other end of the room is a madman with a chainsaw blocking the only exit to the stairs. He said, four minutes ago, that you have seven minutes to escape before you kills you (you spent the four minutes crying). On the floor are a single marble, a Nerf gun with no ammo in it, a copy of Electronic Gaming Monthly, a rubber ladle, a very shallow puddle of saliva, the handle from a shotgun and a foot of rope. Now that you took all that time looking over the objects you have one minute. Wait for it...Go!
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I stuff the marble in the Nerf gun and shoot the window above me. Then I tie the rope to the shotgun handle to make a crude grappling hook and I throw it through the broken window and climb out.
You are curled up in a ball in a steel cage 3 by 3 by 3 feet, falling out of a plane. You have one minute until you hit the ground. In your pocket is a zippo lighter, winterfresh gum, and a pen and Kleenexes. Houdini couldn't escape this.
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Um, can you say bump? This was a cool topic, but it's from six months ago. Oh, and here's the solution: Jump out of the cage (you didn't say it was locked), open up the pen, chew the gum and get it all spit-covered, then stuff it in the hollow pen. Then, when you're really close to the ground, set the Kleenexes on fire with the lighter and stuff them into the pen, where the fire reacts with the gum and causes it to cumbust, creating a short burst of jet flame which slows your descent.
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Hey Glorb, don't get all like that when he did contribute to the topic, it doesn't count as a bump if you are actually on topic.
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Yeah, but it just seemed a little long. But never mind, you're right.
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You are curled up in a ball in a steel cage 3 by 3 by 3 feet, falling out of a plane. You have one minute until you hit the ground. In your pocket is a zippo lighter, winterfresh gum, and a pen and Kleenexes. Houdini couldn't escape this.
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i fall to my death and loose a life. I respawn the ground beside where i crashed and continnue on with my life.
You are in a small steel room with no doors or windows. in front of you is a paper clip , a piece of string, a chewed piece of gum, ten pieces of used kleenex, and a piece of paper with the url for the fungi forums on it. the room seems to be getting warmer by the minute, and you can hear a barney song in your ears. the song is impairing your thoughts, so you don know how to combine any objects unless the sound stops. And, you're hungry. and cant think anyway until you eat something. escape this one, macguyver!!!!!!!!!!11111!!!!!1
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Dude, check the dates before you post.