The Curse of Kowhai Mall - Phase 6: Lost and Found- COMPLETE

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The Curse of Kowhai Mall

Location:

Lost and Found

Victoria enters the room, followed by Charlie

Room deadline

(expired on 2021-11-05 14:30:00)

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There is a dead body in the freezer. It appears to have the back of it's head caved in, and is wearing exercise equipment. There's no ID on the body, except that.... as you look, you are shocked to realise it's the body of Spiro.

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It's not carrying anything

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The server room is empty

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The cupboard of confiscation is currently empty.

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You both stand in the dark and walk along. Climb back out whenever you want.

The manhole leads away down to an area that seems to be above the railway tracks. You hear a muffled voice saying "Password" in a stately voice, and "Never Fold Two And Seven" from what sounds like an older man. Then the first voices repeats "Enter friend".

The manhole does not seem to lead anywhere. You can stay listening if you like.

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A trolley arrives.

Pretty certain this room was where your form was, but you can always get another from Sarah if you need. (Im not quite clear if it was this room or the Server Room, so Im checking. I;ll just say its here on the floor)

No secret doors, it seems the path is just there so you can overhear that password if you ever needed it.

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Through a convoluted path you arrive here:

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The trolley contains pretty much every key you are after. Locker 886 is open as is Locker 1936. All the others are shut

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Locker 69 is open, and full of cobwebs, but otherwise empty

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Also the same. Empty, abandoned.

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55, 9, 108 are empty

666 however.... is also boringly empty.

These are all empty

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911 is empty apart from a single button on the southernmost wall

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24601 has a button on its northern internal wall

812 has what appears to be a locked door on its westernmost wall, but no handle or keyhole.

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As you press the buttons together, the door in locker 812 makes a grinding noise, and it slowly opens. The air in the hidden container is putrid.

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The room seems to be full of junk. Boxes of smashed mirrors. Books from Amazon addressed to Merrick "How to grow garlic", "How to use holy water creatively", "Vampire Killing for Dummies", every page covered in Dark-Red-black ink. There is a box with smashed up night vision googles, with all of them broken. Bar one at the bottom of the box that looks ok. There are some very old skulls in here too. And a nice wooden stake, made of mahogany. It's engraved with the name "VanHelsing", and this has been crossed out crudely in vivid.

You can hear a muffled discussion through the wall. It sounds like a woman saying something about "I really wish the humans hadn't discovered that doorway, especially that bloody werewolf". It's followed by a male saying "I'll head into the laundromat in a few days and board it up".

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The book's text has been blacked out, and is unable to be read. It would seem they were intended for sale in Merricks store, but somehow never made it.

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I should probably mention locker 886 has a pentagram drawn on the floor at the present time. It's marked out with monopoly money, and red ink.

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The pentagram does nothing. The demon must be out of range.

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Talitha departs

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You get stopped at the train station by the conducter who isnt letting you on the tracks

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You arrive at the train, and start to climb down onto the tracks to go down the tunnel. The guard sees you and rushes over to stop you from walking down the tracks "Ye silly wee fulla”

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Well thats one way to do it. He gives chase, but then gives up. Two suicidal people in one phase

You arrive back in the lost and found. Its empty here, though there is a body on the floor

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Spiro’s body is on the floor, frozen

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Trolley B arrives. Trolley A is still in storage area

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The boxed body heads off to 69

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Its in the service room

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The orb is fine

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You pass over legerdemain store on tge way, you can see Ozob the magician. No sign of Victoria

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They are mostly false bottom boxes, where you can make something appear to disappear. There is a single security box with a key, where you could place a small object for safekeeping if you wanted.

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Books

David Copperfield Book
Paul Daniels Book
How to make stuff disappear
20 dollars each.

Magnets

There are some magnets here. 1 dollar each.

Magic Hats

There is a magic hat here for sale for 5.00. Probably used for making rabbits appear

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It seems that, if purchased, you can learn how to make items you are carrying disappear to safety, and reappear when need be.

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Ozob is happy to chat, and stops practising his tricks. He indicates that the reindeer was bought in here by management after they were worried about an incident a few weeks ago, where someone made a pentagram with 5 reindeer in the corners, and defaced the floor with lipstick.

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Ozob tells you can just push the thing out the door whenever you like. He never asked for it to be dumped in his store, and he would prefer it wasn't here.

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Step inside, and you will disappear! Put something inside it, and it will disappear.

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The magical clothing includes for sale a Magic Cape for 50.00 but its unclear what is so special about it.
The magic rings are rings that look entire but actually aren't, so you can appear to link them together mystically
The decks of cards are marked cards, with slightly different backs on every card, so that you can learn to tell what a card is from behind. 10 dollars per pack

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They are. They contain a laser system that causes the frogs to ribbit when something breaks the laser, as a way of announcing customers.

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"You would disappear, like that girl earlier tonight. Cats? What cats?

Oh that magician. Named himself after a razor blade, or so I heard"

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You appear in a mirror maze!

The yellow squares were places a player could change direction, and walk "north", "West" etc. That got too hard, too quick. Pick where you want to be. THe "T" represents a stick figure, ie You. The box of O disappearance is behind you.

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You go to a small area of mirror, and see yourself many, many times over.

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You end up seeing yourself multiple times over

Then you walk slowly, and painfully into mirrors until you end up finding a path into the fashion store.

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You emerge behind the sales desk, through a hidden door. You can exit this back to the maze at any point. The sales rep seems not to care you are in her zone.

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The plans on the floor are the schematics of a UFO.
David Copperfield sports a jacket with many many hidden pockets. (100 dollars)
Carmen Miranda is wearing a fruit hat - the fruit is probably wax
St George looks like his posing with a shield, only the shield is missing.

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No. It shows that there are 5 support systems, and a teleportation system mostly used for teleporting guns from a sealed storage unit on board. It would seem someone who understood hieroglyphics would be able to work out how to fly the UFO.

The mirrors in both changing rooms have been shattered. There is less glass than mirror frame, indicating someone took the biggest and sharpest pieces.

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Nothing left of interest on the Dummies unfortunately.
The jewelry is cheap rubbish, with same plastic looking blue and red crystals
The window doesnt open, but looks out on a deck, that seems to lead to some tables and a firepit near the cafe.
The lipstick is 1 dollar each

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Group is fine, time is short now anyway

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I meant for the phase deadline! Its a few hours away

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Room deadline

(expired on 2021-11-05 14:30:00)

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Done, you are back in the maze

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You find yourself in the Lost and Found, no idea how you got there

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(old image, box is gone)

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You drop into the laundromat: viewtopic.php?f=90&t=88142&p=13095850#p13095850