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alien2
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You wake up alone in a brightly illuminated white room, no clues whatsoever as to how you got there, except for a white oak flooring, with no windows, and one yellow door with no lock or door-knob. The milky white walls, that are out of the same material (and color) as the ceiling, feel like marble to the touch. You try to open the door, but to no avail. It is firmly closed.
When you press a mysteriously phallic protuberance, one out of four altogether, which suddenly appear on one wall, popping one by one, a malted milk tablet materializes from the same wall, two meters away from where you’re standing, and falls on the floor, a meter from the wall, setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. You press the very same mysteriously phallic protuberance, just to be sure, and another malted milk tablet falls on the same spot on the floor. Well, now at least you know that you won't starve to death, since this room is similar to a holodeck, or a giant replicator. You’re not very hungry at the moment, which is perfectly understandable, to lose your appetite considering the circumstances, though you didn’t have your breakfast yet.
So you decide to press another phallic protuberance, yet hardly at ease, neither w/o anxiety nor even w/o great fear. A toothbrush materializes, that is to say, it falls out of the wall on the other side of the room, so that the little hole or opening in the wall is only temporary and it lasts a few seconds. The toothbrush clatters to the floor. Well, it appears you won’t lose your teeth either, which can only be considered as good news. But you haven’t eaten yet, and you’re still anxious, trying not to panic, so you decide not to brush your teeth at the moment. It appears, we all have our bad habits.
You decide to press the 3rd phallic protuberance. It is then when an ordinary broom is released from an adjacent wall. If anything, and if you agree that cleanliness is next to godliness, this room won’t be a mess.
Lastly, you decide to press the 4th and final phallic protuberance. It is then when the door across opens pretty slowly, by making an eerie creaking sound. But it remains open for exactly three seconds before it closes abruptly and with a slam. You try several more times, by pressing the 4th phallic protuberance, apparently, the most important one, in order to try to escape the room, slowly starting to panic, running like a bat out of hell each time. But to no avail, since the door always closes in front of your nose, always lacking at least one more step. It is obvious that you are no Usain Bolt, unless, of course, you are, to whom this would be a piece of cake. But even if you were this sprinter, the cubic room would then be somewhat bigger and even you wouldn’t be able to leave the room by sprinting.
You start to despair and slowly lose hope, occasionally comforting yourself with a malted milk tablet, since it is better to be angry, fretting etc. on a full stomach, and, of course, you need all the energy you can muster if you insist on trying to somehow leave this accursed room. Being an imprisoned man, you’re engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, and objects at your disposal, which can be replicated as many times as you wish (even though the room is hardly the Kalpavriksha, because of the stated parameters), might just be the keys to your escape. Yes, there is a way to escape. Happy puzzling!
P.S. Inspired by the film “Symbol” (2009).
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Re: Symbol
« Reply #1 on: Mar 29th, 2024, 6:03am » |
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Clue (possible spoiler): Too bad that there is no toilet inside the room... Or, perhaps, that fact just might spark a lifesaving idea!
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