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[PrejudiceSucks]

Hmm... maybe not.

Anyway, I've written the intro to the game and some ideas of the first room (which is actually your front garden). I'm not sure about the shizzletastic value of it, but on the other hand, it is pretty... all right.

[A. J. Raffles]

Have you come up with any great ideas for puzzles yet?

[Sean]

I got one!

Find all the items required for his mother to knit him a new jumper... he gets to his mother and shes been abducted by thoose damn pesky aliens!

[A. J. Raffles]

No, Prejudice said he's not going to have aliens, but what about vicious fans of classical music instead?
Anyway, I don't think a non-shizzle person like John's mum would be able to knit a fo' shizzle jumper. You can only buy them at Fo' Shizzle Jumpers R Us, but they're bloody expensive.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Actually, I'm considering it being a 'last gift from dying granny' thing.

Also, John is now an unsuccessful rapper with a job as a cleaner at KFC. He comes from a broken home, his dad is an alcoholic, his mum is depressed. He also lives in Tang Hall, the arse-end of the A64 near York. I've been there (mercifully briefly) and there are rates and stuff on Tang Hall green...

Eugh...

No, I haven't really thought about puzzles yet.

[A. J. Raffles]

"Last gift from granny" is a great idea. Gran was surprisingly shizzly for her age, God rest her soul. She was the only one who would listen to John's rapping smilingly. Maybe because she was stone deaf...

[PrejudiceSucks]

Yeah. See... I am exceptionally talented

[A. J. Raffles]

How about making one of the puzzles knitting a new jumper yoursizzle? You can only do it if you helped an old lady with her shopping earlier on. She'll then teach you to knit and if you give a bowl of milk to her cat, she'll present you with some wool (great!). The old lady, I mean, not the cat.

Another puzzle could be to repair your broken radio (so you can listen to Himsizzle and annoy your mum).

[PrejudiceSucks]

All of these ideas are good, keep them coming. I'm starting coding tonight, but I might find a text program that concverts right into .z5 (and there are some) before I do.

Thanks for your help, especially miss (or mrs. , I know not which) Raffles.

Or alternatively

Big up my fo' shizzle frizzle, A to the J to the Raffizzle.

[A. J. Raffles]

John's mum was getting so desperate because of her son's bad taste in music that she has hidden his precioussss iPod. Naturally, he wants to steal it back. By overhearing a telephone conversation between her and her best friend (he quickly needs to hide in the wardrobe for that, but she might phone her best friend several times, so you get more than one chance), he gathers that she has wrapped it in extremely sticky flypaper, locked it inside one of those metal box thingies and dumped it into the *checks an atlas* Ouse (some local geography can't hurt ). The key she has hidden in the cat's litter box - "John will NEVER look there."
So in order to recover your fo' shizzle iPod you need to clean the cat's litter box, find the spot your mother has been nice enough to describe accurately to her best friend, recover the box, unlock it and avoid getting stuck on the sticky flypaper by wearing protective gloves (which you found in your dad's garden shed earlier on). When you have removed the flypaper, you'll find a note saying "You know you shouldn't be listening when I'm talking to Trish, young man. But if your Eyepot thingy is really all that important to you, I'll return it - if you ask nicely." (So the correct command to get it back will be ASK MUM NICELY.)

[PrejudiceSucks]

Actually, dumping it in the Foss would be WAY worse... bleh... you'd probably get some kind of cholera/tetnis cocktail if you went in there.

And ebola.

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, if that's what you want for our fo' shizzle hero...

[PrejudiceSucks]

Hmm a 'you die' thing is not too hard to do with rooms. Anyone taking a dip in the Foss dies. Immediately. Inescapably.

[A. J. Raffles]

Right, how about having to find a diving suit first, then?

[PrejudiceSucks]

Or going to the gym (children's section, obviously) and learning to jump better, so that you can leap from car to trolley to mound of dead fish to the other side (if you really needed to to get your KFC employee badge or something).

John can't swim, by the way, and he's actually scared of water, so a diving suit is out.

And a boat would get stuck there, it's like they laid down tank-traps made of rubbish to stop it. It's probably really a defence that they kept in World War 1 (when they thought that the Germans would invade York maybe) and forgot to remove. Seemingly, they don't mind a little community spirit in aiding to the defence either.