ZooStuck

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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Buy 990 pounds of salt beef.

Ah, yes! Provisions will be essential for a successful journey. 990 pounds should be sufficient to make it all the way to Oregon, wherever that is.

"You don't have enough money," the in-game shopkeeper tells you. Bah! How insufferable! Does he not realize who you are?

Try and feed money into the machine to pay for the 990 pounds of salt beef

You are Lord Huffington, and if there's one thing you have plenty of, it's money! You reach into your wallet and attempt to shove coins and bills into every available slot in the machine to remedy your character's financial shortfall.

Somehow, it doesn't seem to be working. The insolent shopkeeper still you can't pay for all that beef.

Punch the machine.

Clearly, this means that the machine is malfunctioning! No wonder they called in that fire-breathing technician. But he's clearly no good at his job. You'll simply have to give the device a good hard smack to get it to accept your currency.

You take a swing and punch that shopkeeper right in his virtual face. There is now a large hole in the monitor, and the machine is still refusing your currency. You are very disappointed in how this company operates. When this event is over, you must make a point to call your accountants and purchase a controlling interest so you can show them the proper way to manage a business.

Disappointed, you settle for buying as much beef as the game permits. It is a bit difficult to play with that hole in the screen, but you will not be deterred. You continue, and your wagon sets out from this starting city and proceeds towards Oregon. You start galloping as fast as you can; you won't allow Lady Hopkins to get there before you!

> Crash into her wagon.

As it turns out, she wasn't that far ahead of you; her wagon happened to be in the blind spot created by the hole you punched in the monitor. Now both of your wagons are wrecked, and also on fire.

Wonderful. Now it appears you'll both have to get to Oregon on foot. While carrying a mere 980 pounds of salt beef and whatever supplies she foolishly spent her funds on.

Also, you're shivering and you think you smell burning. But those are secondary concerns.

The most important question is, how will you get to Oregon now?