gondolaquest

GONDOLA stands in a rectangular room. Some time ago he wandered here somehow, by unclear means and for unclear reasons. Not that it matters, really. GONDOLA is used to wandering into strange new places.

As the old copypasta goes, GONDOLA embodies the Taoist principle of WU-WEI. Strictly speaking, he does affect things. He walks and fiddles and touches the hearts of all who encounter him. He is not, however, here to save the world.

What should Gondola do?
(Prefix commands with a > symbol)

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look around

@Seong:

look around

GONDOLA looks around and reveals the other side of the room for us. Thanks GONDOLA!

On one side of the room, pale blue light leaks in from a thick glass WINDOW. A bulky ARCADE MACHINE sits against an adjacent wall, facing what appears to be a SEALED PANEL on the checkered floor.
Where the walls are otherwise empty, they are adorned with various GONDOLA PAINTINGS, each signed by a certain SEONG.

(You can take a closer look at any of the things in this room)

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look at arcade machine :o

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Look out window

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@Seong:

Look out window

[ANIMATED]
panel3

It's beautiful.

@fiuf:

look at arcade machine :o

For some reason these COLORFUL BUTTONS seemed white whilst zoomed out. Weird!
A DVD logo bounces around the screen. GONDOLA stares at it for a bit. It almost hits a corner perfectly. Almost. Soooo close.

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Mash A repeatedly : D

@fiuf

Mash A repeatedly : D

[ANIMATED]
arcade_smash_a

Oops!!!!!!!!!

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awwww :c gondola took a permanent sightseeing trip

input the konami code (this will hopefully give us extra lives since ours is possibly about to waste away in a legless gondola craft)

reenter the menu and select option 4. GUI (Experimental) from the main menu

(for those who don't wish to deconstruct the gif here's the menu options)
Screen Shot 2022-06-16 at 13.01.33

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Look for legs outside window

@lilliesea

Look for legs outside window

feetfall

Yep, they're really gonedola.

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@smoe

input the konami code

GONDOLA doesn't know about any "Konami code."

reenter the menu and select option 4. GUI (Experimental) from the main menu

[ANIMATED]
open_gui

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Read ship manual

@Seong

Read ship manual

GONDOLA resists his temptation to examine the newly opened floor panel and instead visits the manual page [FULL TEXT ON GITHUB].

It looks long... (Maybe save the rest of the manual for later?)

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enter floor panel that says "2F"

@smoe

enter floor panel that says "2F"

Enter? The panel? But it looks solid? Maybe it's a trap door, or...

step_in

!!!

GONDOLA is understandably hesitant.

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print test page, read, then throw onto the panel

@smoe

print test page, read, then throw onto the panel

Huh. Ok.

chuck_fallin

CHUCK TESTPAGE sinks into the panel and disappears in a flash of light. Stray sparks linger in the surrounding air, giving GONDOLA a tingling sensation.

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JUMP into the panel

Let's-a go!

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