I appreciate the patience friends. It was honestly a horrible weekend but we press on.

Speaking of:

: Jamming your hand into your closest pocket, you feel... nothing. Of COURSE you wore your [item2=Professor New Magnetized Many-Pocket Pants]. Where are those sunglasses?? You pat around your various pockets until finally uncovering [item2=Totally Useful Black Sunglasses]. Slipping them on, you breathe a sigh of relief.

: Blinking wildly, you quickly hold up your hand to block the sunlight. What's that glittery thing? Wow -- your [item2=Black Pearl Single-Strand Bracelet] has never looked so luminous. You're definitely not regretting pairing it with your [item2=emotional nail polish] either.

: Disoriented, you grab wildly at the space ahead of you... until your hand lands on a figure you hadn't previously noticed. What happens next is a blur. You wake up much later in a [item2=Cabbage Planter Box]. Near you on the ground is a tiny glass bottle. Why does the [item2=Bottled Alien] keep calling you "Mama?"

: Thinking quickly, you rip your backpack off your back and tear at the zipper. Your heart leaps when your fingers brush vinyl. It takes mere seconds for you to whip out your [item2=spectrum umbrella] and settle into its blessed shade. Congratulations! You are the winner!

: Disoriented, you somehow manage to stumble back into the shadows. To your left is a bush full of [item2=booberries] -- your favorite! After popping a couple of berries into your mouth you begin to feel more normal. You take a minute to rest, fix your [item2=Basic Denim Cap], and are ready to continue your journey.

It sounds like you could use a vacation! So, you decide to head to Delphi and soak up the rays, enjoy the carnival and maybe partake in a little retail therapy. As you're waiting for your Tutani Watching boat tour, you're in the downtown area, where you see three cute boutiques. You only have time to check out one, so, where to go... where to go?

Do you go to the BOOK STORE?

Do you go to the BEAUTY SHOPPE?

DO you go to the JEWELRY OUTLET?

Book store!

aha! I'll sit this one out because book store is the only one I'd go to 😆 should still fill up no problem

💙

Beauty Shoppe? Pls?

Same.

And thank you,

I'll go to the jewelry outlet.

You smile, and head into the Bookstore. "You're our 500th customer!" A woman is shouting and throwing confetti in a wild arc. She hands you a gift bag, and you stumble out in a daze. As you're heading out for your tour, you open the bag and see... [item=Fun with History: Delphi] You clap your hands excitedly and rush though the doors of the beauty shoppe. "You're the lucky winner!" A too enthusiastic young man throws a lei around your neck, "It's a makeover for you!" You wave him off, be he promises it'll only take a few minutes, so you acquiesce and come out looking like a million sP! You sigh over the exquisite jewels in the show-window, and then enter, hoping that you can get a cool Delphi souvenir since your here. "Welcome to our shop," An elderly man smiles at you and hands you a raffle ticket. "If you come by after 5, we're having a raffle and a sale on all our crystal. But, feel free to look around!" You do, and see a couple of things in the crystal section that'd make a great gift, so you decide to come back, Later, sweaty and tired from your tour, you find the ticket in your pocket, and remember about the crystal sale. You walk in, and the raffle is still going on. You decide to check and see if you've won anything, and hand your ticket to an attendant. "Congratulations!" She says, and pulls forth a bag. "Hope you had a good time today, please stick around for the sale!" You find a quieter corner and look though your bag. Oh, how lovely!

Aight, you are presented with 3 boxes. The first is old and dusty and is labeled FRAGILE Claimed by

The second is an ornate Jewelry Box that whispers to you quietly.

The third box is dark and ominous and seems to be full of secrets.... Claimed by (i love your HA!!!!!)

I pick up the dusty box very carefully so as not to break any FRAGILE contents.

Secrets box, please!

Genteel bumping

Ornate Jewelry box

You carefully pick up the fragile box and inside you find-

You carefully unclasp the jewelry box and it starts to play a mysterious melody. It starts to make you drowsy so you quickly grab the contents and close it quickly. Inside you find-

You carefully open the and inside you find- CONGRATS YOU ARE THE WINNER! Please make the next set

Hello travelers!

Let me take you today to a busy travel hub, with various paths towards your next stop.

Door A is the loading tunnel to a fancy new jet from Blackmoon Corp that has figured out how to get the high-altitude stratospheric flight of a MiG-29 in a passenger plane.

Door B leads to a train platform with cross-country cars waiting, including dining and sleeping quarters.

Door C has an extensive selection of maps in front of it and a shop for camping equipment, for those who want to hike their way across the countryside.

For Door D, there is also a service hatch that has been left slightly ajar. It is the shortest path back to the entrance of this place for those who have changed their mind and want to stay home.

I want to go on the train, please! 💙

Door A please <3

Door D, I detest camping.

I'm gonna get us all moving along and pick door C to go camping.

As you reach the edge of the stratosphere, the flight attendant comes by and starts handling out and . "Free of charge, we might be up here for a while and will need some outside maintenance what with dealing with the alien invasion and wreaking terrible vengeance on them. But hey, you're up here and not down there, guess that makes you a WINNER!"

The train is great, the food is exquisite and the beds are soft. But you could swear that there are less passengers than there were when you got on, you haven't seen that woman in the for a while. She went behind the in that last car. She'll be back though, surely. There aren't any aliens in that train car and there have certainly been no flashes of weird light from the the usher takes out sometimes...

It's a beautiful day, like something off of a card made with items such as the and , plenty of people out and enjoying the time. Two people who've come out of the brush back along the way you came exchange greetings, and surely it's a trick of the light that gives one of them a greenish face the same color as a . Surely. Just normal humans out here, nothing suspicious at all...

Not one for motion-sickness or dirt and insects, hmmm? There is a sign back here that says 'authorized personnel only', but th back tunnel here is nicely air-conditioned with neutral lighting, and there's no one in sight to turn you back. You pass a break room along your way, with some books on the table. There's an and with a VERY crumpled to mark a section. THen there are voices further along the corridor, and with a bit of a guilty conscience you might try to duck out of sight under the table and have to catch the books as they almost fall. "What do you do to serve man?" One of the voices asks, and the other answers, "Orange sauce..."