Is it Schizoid Paranoia?

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Is it Schizoid Paranoia?

While enjoying a hike through the beautiful scenery of the tropical jungle, you -- not at all unexpectedly -- get lost.

Eventually, you stumble into a grove filled with exotic flowers, glowing with every color of the rainbow. The sight quite takes your breath away... although maybe that's actually due to the thick perfume in the air. You are, in fact, starting to feel a little dizzy.

You spot a hunched-over, slightly creepy-looking gardener, giggling to himself as he tends the flowers, and ask him what's going on. He cackles madly. "I am working to create a hybrid orchid that will cause a hypnotic trance in all that smell its intoxicating aroma! This orchid will be instrumental in my plot to become Master of Reality! Muah-ha-haaaa!"

"Why orchids?" you ask. "Wouldn't you get better results with poppies?"

"Poppies? Poppies!? POPPIES!?!" he shouts at you, quivering in an apoplectic rage. You magic yourself out of there, before this trip gets any longer or stranger.

AdventuresYou lose 3 Adventures.
Meat.gifYou spent 500 Meat.
You gain X Enchantedness.
Shorescrip.gifYou acquire an item: Shore Inc. Ship Trip Scrip
  • Prior to August 30, 2013:

While enjoying a hike through the beautiful scenery of the tropical jungle, you -- not at all unexpectedly -- get lost.

Eventually, you stumble into a grove filled with exotic flowers, glowing with every color of the rainbow. The sight quite takes your breath away... although maybe that's actually due to the thick perfume in the air. You are, in fact, starting to feel a little dizzy.

You spot a hunched-over, slightly creepy-looking gardener, giggling to himself as he tends the flowers, and ask him what's going on. He cackles madly. "I am working to create a hybrid orchid that will cause a hypnotic trance in all that smell its intoxicating aroma! This orchid will be instrumental in my plot to become Master of Reality! Muah-ha-haaaa!"

"Why orchids?" you ask. "Wouldn't you get better results with poppies?"

  • Normally:

"Poppies? Poppies!? POPPIES!?!" he shouts at you, quivering in an apoplectic rage. You wisely beat feet out of there, snagging one of the orchids on your way.

Troporchid.gifYou acquire an item: tropical orchid

"Poppies? Poppies!? POPPIES!?!" he shouts at you, quivering in an apoplectic rage. You wisely beat feet out of there, snagging a whole packet of orchid seeds on your way out.

Seeds.gifYou acquire an item: packet of orchid seeds

Occurs at Tropical Paradise Island Getaway.

Notes

  • This adventure changed as part of the August 30, 2013 revamp of The Shore, Inc. Travel Agency.
  • Previously, if you waited 30 turns in between shore trips, and chose the Island Getaway, this adventure would automatically be triggered.

References

  • Both the title and the line about poppies are a reference to The Existential Blues, by Tom "T-Bone" Stankus.
  • The trance-inducing properties of the orchids, combined with the suggestion of using poppies instead, is a reference to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which the Wicked Witch of the West uses a field of sleep-inducing poppies to attempt to capture Dorothy and her companions.
  • The line about becoming "Master of Reality" may refer to the Black Sabbath album of the same name, which featured a song called "Orchid".