Urning Your Keep

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Urning Your Keep

In the wall of this section of the Defiled Niche, you find three smaller niches. Each of those contains an even smaller niche, which in turn contains an urn.

The urns are basically identical. Do you feel like messing with any of them?

You lift the lid off of the urn, and see a tiny plaque on the underside -- it turns out these are the remains of Old Man McMurphy. You should've turned the urn!

You contemplate your mistake for a while, and while you're contemplating that, you contemplate all sorts of other important things, too.

First time:

As you reach for the urn to look inside it, you accidentally knock it out of its niche. Smooth move, Ex-Lax!

It hits the ground and shatters in a cloud of ash and pottery shards, revealing something hidden inside!

Plus-sized phylactery

You acquire an item: plus-sized phylactery

Subsequent times:

Actually, I was just kidding -- that urn isn't there anymore. Remember? You broke it.

As you pick up the urn to look behind it, you hear a click -- apparently the urn was sitting atop some sort of switch.

A sequence of eight tinny-sounding bells plays from somewhere as a panel slides open on the opposite wall, revealing a treasure chest.

You open the chest, and surprise! It's full of Meat!

You gain 200-300 Meat.

You turn away from the urns.

Occurs in the Defiled Niche.

[edit] References

• McMurphy's remains and "turn the urn" are references to the text adventure game, "McMurphy's Mansion". There was a puzzle in that game, that when decoded, informed the player to "turn the urn" to achieve a goal.
• The 'eight tinny bells' is a reference to the 'hidden area' jingle from The Legend of Zelda, as is the revealed treasure chest.
• "Smooth move, Ex-Lax" is one of the catchphrases of the aforementioned laxative brand.
• The "Urn #3" is a play off the old game-show gag of seeing a prize selected from behind one of three curtains.

	The Cyrpt Choice Adventures
	The Defiled Alcove Turn Your Head and Coffin			The Defiled Niche Urning Your Keep			The Defiled Nook Skull, Skull, Skull			The Defiled Cranny Go Slow Past the Drawers
	Investigate the fancy coffin	40-60 Strongness		Investigate the first urn	40-65 Wizardliness		Check behind the first one	40-60 Cheek		Open up the closed one	200-300 Meat
	Check out the pine box	200-300 Meat		Check out the second one	plus-sized phylactery (first time only)		Look inside the second one	200-300 Meat		Crawl inside the open one	40-50 HP & MP, 20-30 Fortitude, Chutzpah & Wizardliness
	Look in the wet one	half-rotten brain		See what's behind Urn #3	200-300 Meat		See what's under the third one	rusty bonesaw		Dig through the rubble on the ground	can of Ghuol-B-Gone™
	Leave them all be	Skip adventure		Turn Away	Skip adventure		Leave the skulls alone	Skip adventure		Leave the drawers alone	Skip adventure