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It's important to know yourself.

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Are you Clever?
A clever person knows how to manipulate the environment to their own ends.
Are you Sturdy?
A sturdy person knows their strength, and trusts in their durability.
Are you Learned?
A learned person knows a wealth of information about many subjects.

What is it you do?

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Are you a Mentalist?
A mentalist shapes energy for many effects.
Are you an Alchemist?
An alchemist has mastered the alteration of matter.
Are you a Technologist?
A technologist creates devices to change the world.

You find yourself in a room. The air vibrates with a steady thumping that shakes the dust motes floating in the flickering, greyish light.
The tang of old metal and salt fills your nostrils. The floor is chilly, and gritty with flakes of rust. Broken rainbows glimmer in a pool of oil to your right.
Metal scrapes dully behind you. Thick chains are manacled around your wrists, and bolted to the wall.

You may want to check your Status, or Investigate further.

[micelus]

A Clever Alchemist we are.

check our status and investigate chains.

[Time Blossom]

Ditto on Clever Alchemist.

Double-ditto on checking our status and investigating the manacles. Hopefully they'll be loose enough for yonder oil to come in handy.

[klingon13524]

Learned Alchemist.

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You seem to recall that you have studied Alchemy, and were well known for your cleverness.
As to your status;

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You are currently Slightly Dehydrated and Slightly Hungry.
You have a Nauseating Headache.
You are wearing Antique Body-wraps on your torso, and Heavy Shackles on your wrists and ankles.

[Alternatecash]

((Sorry about the delay, my router crapped the bed and I was without internet.))

[micelus]

Try to remember why we're here.  Look around the room. Try moving.

[Alternatecash]

The effort of struggling to remember why you're here only worsens your headache, and you quickly desist.
Looking around you, you see that the room you are in is a four ell cube, with walls and floor comprised of dull metallic plates. The light comes from a fist-sized sphere hanging from the ceiling on a cable. There is a door on the right wall, with a barred window at about eye level, if you were standing.
Attempting to move, you first note that you are kneeling, your arms behind you with your wrists shackled to your ankles and the wall behind you. The chains creak stiffly as you test them, and you feel a few flakes of rust fall into your hands. A more vigorous motion sends pain shooting up your arms, but rewards you with a dull crack as the chains give way!

[micelus]

Keep shaking. Once free, pick up manacles and use as weapon. Look through window.

[Alternatecash]

As you shake your arms, the chains part, allowing you to stand. A few broken links dangle from the manacles around your wrists and ankles. Trying to twist them free, you catch glimpses of thick scar tissue underneath. Whatever the cuffs are made from, they're sterner stuff than the chains.
Walking over to the door, your legs cramp unpleasantly, but hold. The door and the frame around it are caked with rust and dull grime, but the bars of the window look sturdy. Peering through them, you can barely see another door like this one across an unlit corridor. Taking another inventory of the room you're in, you note that the light source is a globe hanging from a cable attached to a hook in the middle of the ceiling, hanging directly above a corroded grate in the floor.

Status;

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You are currently Slightly Dehydrated and Slightly Hungry.
You have a Nauseating Headache.
You are wearing Antique Body-wraps on your torso, and Heavy Shackles on your wrists and ankles.

Author's note;

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As there don't seem to be many people that know about this game, I'll be adding a link in my sig.

[micelus]

Pull at the cable. Search room for any secret exits. Try to listen for any sentient voice, or at the very least, an animal or machinery.

[Alternatecash]

The cable is just short enough that your fingertips brush the bottom on the globe. A thorough circuit of the room turns up an annoying lack of secret doors, but the floor-grate is rusted enough that you might be able to break it. The only sound you can hear is that dull thumping, but listening at the floor grate, you hear water quietly flowing.

Status;

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You are currently Fairly Dehydrated and Slightly Hungry.
You have a Nauseating Headache.
You are wearing Antique Body-wraps on your torso, and Heavy Shackles on your wrists and ankles.

[micelus]

Break the grate and run/crawl through the tunnel/sewer like a madman!

[Alternatecash]

Using the manacles as a bludgeon, you hammer at the frame of the grate, smashing the bolts holding it in place and fracturing the bars! With a little effort, you lug the grate out of its setting, leaving a hole to the space below.
You can see that the area is unlit but you estimate that the fall would be about two and a half ells, about as tall as you are with your arms over your head. You have no idea how deep the water is, but you brace yourself and drop down.
You splash down, landing poorly and falling to your knees, the water shockingly cold and as deep as your mid-calf. You are soaked to the skin, and your legs go numb quickly.
Having no other idea in mind than escape, you clumsily splash towards a strange greenish glow in the direction the water is flowing to.
It's quite dark down here, lit only by regular shafts of light from the grates above you and small clusters of what you recognize as Glowing Greycap, an edible mushroom. The dull thumping you heard above is louder here, under the quiet sound of the flowing water.

Status;

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You are currently Fairly Dehydrated and Slightly Hungry.
You have a Painful Headache.
You are Shivering with Cold.
You are Soaked to the Skin.
You are wearing Antique Body-wraps on your torso, and Heavy Shackles on your wrists and ankles.

[micelus]

Eat a quarter of the mushrooms. Keep the rest for a light and for later eating. Keep walking.