Strandido - Crab-sposition

>Play it cool, be a smooth criminal. You know how it goes.

>The animal in his island certainly seem to unusualy proefficient at ommunication aren't they ? Or technologically savy for that matter. or genrally inteligent.

>you should introduce yourself to these fine avian gents and assure them of your goodwill (sell you may have to consume some of them for sustenance later but that's life for ya.)

>Pretend to be a bird and chat for a while.



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<a-bird-certainly> how do you do, fellow birds.
<PinkyBeak> OHAITHER
<FEATHERS> HEY ITS THAT GUY
<AceFeatherton> very well, i found some seeds
<a-bird-certainly> that sounds nice.
<AceFeatherton> oh they were great.
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> GREETINGS AGAIN CERTAINLY.
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> IT HAS BEEN MONTHS SINCE YOU LAST SQUAWKED.
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I HAD WORRIED THAT YOU HAD SUFFERED GRUESOME INJURY.
<a-bird-certainly> oh no, i just got busy with life things you know.
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I UNDERSTAND.
<TownyFaec> Oh yeah i getcha.
<TownyFaec> Like when your flying all casually like and then BAM!
<TownyFaec> Get caught by an falcon.
<a-bird-certainly> great constellations that sounds blighting aweful!
<TownyFaec> It was.
<TownyFaec> For my cousin.
<a-bird-certainly> oh sweet hitchinsons, are they okay?
<TownyFaec> He was never the same.
<TownyFaec> Becaus he was dead.
<Lzerbeek> RIPTHATGAI
<bird3> I no right

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<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> ANYWAY AS I WAS SAYING
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I DESTROYED ONE OF THE SILLY HUMAN METAL NONBIRDS
<a-bird-certainly> oh my trousers!
<TownyFaec> Bomb diggidy tel us more
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> GLADLY
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I WAS OUT ON MY REGULAR PATROLS
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> THE ONES BETWEEN MY BIHOURLY PREENING SESSIONS
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> YOU KNOW AS I DO
<bird3> yeah preening is da bes
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> IT IS
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> AFTER IM DONE HERE I SHALL COMMENCE AN EMERGENCY PREEN AND CLEAN
<COMMODROE_HAWKSLEY> THE WEATHER DID A NUMBER TO MY WELL GROOMED FEATHERS LET ME TELL YOU
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> SO I WAS THERE FLYING ABOUT AS MY MASTER INSTRUCTED
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> AND I SAW SOMETHING FLYING ABOVE
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I REFLECTED ON HOW THERE COULD NOT BE ANYTHING FLYING HIGHER THAN ME
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> AT LEAST NOTHING THAT HAD BEEN PERMITTED TO DO SO BY THE INDIVIDUAL IN CHARGE OF SUCH THINGS
<a-bird-certainly> and uh, who would that be?
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> THAT WOULD OF COURSE BE ME
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> COMMODORE SQUAWKERS HAWKSLEY MASTER OF THE AIR
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I CLIMBED RAPIDLY TOWARDS THE INTRUDER
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> AND OF COURSE IT WAS NO BIRD
<a-bird-certainly> oh dear!

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<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> THE MASTER PROCEEDED TO CONJURE A MOST MIGHTY STORM
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> AND SWIFTLY THEN DID I OPPERATE IN CONJUCTION
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> TO SUMMON FORTH A TERRIFIC BOLT OF LIGHTNING!
<a-bird-certainly> that was you!
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> OH YES INDEED
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I AM QUITE MAGNIFICENT AND POWERFUL
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> THOUGH NOT AS SUCH AS THE MASTER
<a-bird-certainly> oh my dear.
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THEM
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> THEIR PANIC AND RAGE WAS DELICIOUS
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I TOOK A SWIFT DIVE AGAINST THEM
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> AND SPLIT THEIR CRAFT IN TWO
<a-bird-certainly> oh goodness gosh!
<a-bird-certainly> do you know what happened to the pilot?
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I BELIEVE I SAW THEM ESCAPE WITH ONE OF THOSE FLOATY DOWN THINGS
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> IT MATTERS NOT OF COURSE
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> WITHOUT THEIR CRAFT THEY ARE NOW TRAPPED HERE
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> THE MASTERS TERRESTRIAL MINIONS WILL MAKE SHORT WORK OF THEM IM SURE
<a-bird-certainly> oh my josh

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Hello yes, Strandido is back. For now. Maybe for later WHO KNOWS.

>Tell those crustaceans to keep it down, you're trying to invade someone's privacy over here.
>Maybe do a little trolling. Just a little. To make sure you haven't lost your edge.

> Make a note to give that bird a good walloping for his vandalism.

>Do a little trolling



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<a-bird-certainly> wawawowee that all sounds distincly adventurous
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> INDEED.
<a-bird-certainly> so you fellow birdies and birdos I have some news.
<a-bird-certainly> hot takes from the vinyard which you find yourself curious towards.
<AceFeatherton> oooooh.
<FEATHERS> OWOWOWOWOWOWO
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I WAS JUST ABOUT TO LEAVE BUT I MUST HEAR THESE HOT TAKES.

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<a-bird-certainly> so any of you birds, like preening and cleaning?
<a-bird-certainly> i mean, of course you do, right?
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> ....YES
<a-bird-certainly> Well I have heard from a most eclectic assortment of professionals on that individuals might be related to a certain sort of rock-a-doodles if you're catching my persuasion.
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> ARE YOU SAYING
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> BIRDS THAT LIKE TO PREEN
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> ARE CHICKEN?
<a-bird-certainly> :?
<AceFeatherton> I think they might be.
<bird2> tht sems to be the implicton to meeeee
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> WELL I LOVE TO PREEN AND CLEAN AND I AM MOST CERTAINLY NOT ANY SORT OF COCK-A-MAY-ME COCK!
<a-bird-certainly> but I don't know man, have you checked.
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I CERTAINLY HAVE CHECKED, I AM A VICIOUS POWERFUL HAWK!!

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<a-bird-certainly> Why do have such a problem with this.
<AceFeatherton> Certainly you should stop.
<COMMODORE_ HAWKSLEY> WHAT?
<a-bird-certainly> What you have some sort of a problem with cluck-cluck-aroos?
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> WHAT NO WHAT
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> THERE IS NO PROBLEM AT ALL
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I AM NOT A CHICKEN THOUGH
<a-bird-certainly> those sound like what some sort of birdist would say.
<a-bird-certainly> are you a birdist hawksley?
<AceFeatherton> Please stop trying to rile them up certainly.
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I AM NOT
<a-bird-certainly> a birdist would say that.
<TownyFaec> uh uhhhu
<FEATHERS> :C
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> YOU ARE TREADING DANGEROUS GROUND CERTAINLY
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> YOUD BEST APOLOGIZE TO ME
<a-bird-certainly> why?
<a-bird-certianly> and about calling you a birdist or a Cockadoodle?
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> BECAUSE IF YOU DONT
<AceFeatherton> Hawksley calm down pleasse.
<FEATHERS> :CCCCC
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I WILL FIND YOU
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> I WILL DASH YOUR PATHETIC FRAME AGAINST THE ROCKS
<COMMODORE_HAWKSLEY> AND I WILL DEVOUR YOUR HEART
<a-bird-certainly> Well come on then.
<a-bird-certainly> Unless you're a...
<AceFeatherton> Don't!!
<a-bird-certainly> Chicken >:}

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You feel like you may have succeeded too well. If there can be such a thing.

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Well you're just going to ignore that problem for a later time, as you refocus your efforts on where you are in the present and where you've been for about three or four hourse maybe at your reconing. You admit you lost track a little because you were standing at that computer for what felt like years. Like one-and-a-half years if you had to pick a random ammount.
To review, you're stuck on an island, you're in a cave filled with techno-magickal weirdness, you have some crabs, You fought a definitely-hostile crab, and you lost a box you found on the beach. The way you see it, you could:
A. Look for that box of yours.
B. Explore this cave.
C. Find out why a random over-large crab was hostile to you (Which it was)
D. Or any other particular thing you can think of, you're not too married to any particular course of action.
You do suppose you'll have to do some work on Escaping At some point. Even though you were told that would be very difficult by the radio. Actually, there was a radio show, there was probably a person manning that show. As well as a witch, and a wizard... and skeletons.
You don't know what some of that was about, but it does give you some options.

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Reminder: While I haven't gotten around to fixing the forum version, the MSPFA version is all fixed up if you want to (re)read the adventure to help remember what you can/want to do.

> Investigate the differently colored bricks.

> Explore the cave... but definitely first find out why that crab was a big meanie to you.

>E: Remember what other letters you've got in your alphabet.

>Set the room back up to the way it was when you came in. Leaving someone's underwear lying about like that seems a tad bit rude.
>Explore the cave by checking out the bricked up wall

>Sure, sure. Solving the mysteries of your plight is a good goal to have, but let us not become a fanatical stick-in-the-mud which can only think of objectives and goals. Take some time to breath, frolic through the flowers sort-of-thing, you dig? All work and no play something-something.
>Your crustacean friends look to be having a good time. Join their game and bond with them. These are the only friends you need.
or
>Steal everything in this room that you can fit into your pockets. Everything you can't fit, spit on in sheer petulant defiance.

>Also maybe investigate the strnd.txt file that just popped up?

>Explore the cave

>E: Remember what other letters you've got in your alphabet.



Yes... and F, and also... abcdefG!! And and and and and

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okay look its been a while since you've had to actively think about your ABCs
GET OFF MY BACK.

>Set the room back up to the way it was when you came in. Leaving someone's underwear lying about like that seems a tad bit rude.



Okay but the things you appropriated are staying in your inventory where they obviously belong

>Also maybe investigate the strnd.txt file that just popped up?




You investigate the mysterious text file that appeared on the computer while you were busy making horrible life choices on the internet...
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Hello Lexxy (Do you call boys Lexxy... Whatever.)
Lexx my dude Its me ya boi, the wizard of the island, the one you probably heard about on the radio, yeah that me. I sent you this message with my FANTASTICAL WIZARD POWERS to cordially invite you to my abode at the center of the island. Yeah I know Im fantastic like that. Please come at your earliest convenience my dude Lexx.
-Yours cordially Seeabove the Wizard. O>O

Well thats all very intersting, and mildly creepy and all, but you've got some bricks to scrute.

>Investigate the differently colored bricks.



These bricks are definitely bricks... okay well, while you're certainly no sort of BRICK MASON or anything like that, you reckon that these here BRICKS are just standard issue fired housing bricks. You figure with sufficient STRENGTH or a SUITABLE TOOL you could tear these babies down no problem. Alas you lack either at the present moment.

>Explore the cave.



You decide you'll probably explore the cave. But before you do that you consult the INCREDIBLY CONFUSING MAP you found earlier... Well according to this, theres a passage deeper into these caves in the tunnel you entered earlier.

>...but definitely first find out why that crab was a big meanie to you.



You join in on your crab friends powow on the floor here. Using your tremendous abilities of CRAB DIPLOMANCY, you question your decabuds on why the MEDIUM ENEMY CRAB was not a MEDIUM BRO CRAB.
Your crab friends glance at each-other. Pinky reccomends you get some snacks because this is bit of a doozy. You say you're okay.

>Long Ago.



The CRAB KINGDOM was in peace and harmony. The BLUE CRABS and the RED CRABS lived side by side. Though the reds were larger and more brusque, and the blues smaller and more wily, they were aligned in their purpose and most importantly, in their love of their beloved CRAB QUEEN.

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The beautful VIRIDIAN QUEEN OF CRABKIND, no other could match the luster of her shell, nor the beauty of her claws, she was unsurpassed in all respects. All accross the Isle loved the Queen, not merely the SCUTTLING CRABS of the shore, but the GRACEFUL BIRDS of the sky, the DUTIFUL MICE, and even the DUPLICITOUS GECKOS. All the creatures of the Isle loved and paid her homage.

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But then, one horrid day, when all seemed terrible, the Queen vanished! Flummoxed by this events, CRAB accused CRAB, the REDS and the BLUES blamed each-other and terrible strife ensued.

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It was in this chaos that the CRIMSON USURPER came. Empowered by dark and mysterious forces, the CRIMSON USURPER took charge of the RED CRABS, and led them in driving the BLUE CRABS, and all the other crabs into exile.

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And that is the story of why the Red Crabs are such jerks. Pinkie conlcudes.

> So then whats the deal with green crabs?

>Holy shit, it's the queen!

>So are the other colors of crab just bunched under red and blue

>Applaud Pinkie's story telling abilities. You were engaged the whole time.
>Ask Pinkie if there's any connection between her and the crab queen. Is green a royal color?
>Suddenly you hear footsteps...