On a Downtown Train (Factory District Shop)

Choice adventure number: 1308

On a Downtown Train

As you exit the monorail, a friendly voice announces, "First stop, Factory District! Exit here for empty buildings, seedy restaurants, and encounters with questionable characters!"

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Visit some empty buildings

You wander into an empty looking warehouse. Inside, a haggard looking man hands you a clipboard with directions for moving around some boxes. Lacking a better idea, you move the boxes as instructed.

When you're done, they hand you some meat and offer you your choice of any empty box for your trouble! Score!

You gain 195-210 Meat.

You acquire an item: box

Done with your monorail adventure you walk quickly back to town.

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You wander into an empty looking warehouse. Inside, a haggard looking man hands you a clipboard with directions for moving around some boxes. Lacking a better idea, you move the boxes as instructed.

When you're done, they hand you some meat and offer you your choice of any empty box for your trouble! Score!

You gain 195-210 Meat.

You acquire an item: nothing-in-the-box

Done with your monorail adventure you walk quickly back to town.

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You wander into an empty warehouse and find a pile of meat on the floor and a lonely cog.

You gain 195-210 Meat.

You acquire an item: cog

Done with your monorail adventure you walk quickly back to town.

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Wandering into an empty warehouse, you are handed a broom and a shovel, and told to get your lazy butt back to work. Once the floor is swept clean, you make off with your earnings.

You gain 195-210 Meat.

You acquire an item: Dust bunny

Done with your monorail adventure you walk quickly back to town.

Go to a seedy restaurant

You visit a seedy little bar built into the former offices of a shipping conglomerate. The crowd is pretty hip and trendy, and you learn about a great deal in wine! One of the patrons takes a shine to you and gives you a bottle to take home.

You acquire an item: two meat muck

Your downtown adventure complete, you jog back to town.

Encounter some questionable characters

You are hanging out with some questionable characters on a corner, when you hear sirens approaching. In your haste to get away, you rip open a locked door, revealing strength you didn't know you had!

You gain 10-300 Strengthliness.

Your downtown adventure complete, you jog back to town.

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You wander around for a while and eventually encounter a group of businessman punching each other in the face. They won't talk about what they are doing, but you join in and build up your toughness.

You gain 10-300 Strongness.

Your downtown adventure complete, you jog back to town.

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You are hanging out with some questionable characters on a corner, when you hear sirens approaching. As they approach, you wave your hand and announce, "These are not the questionable characters you are looking for." Apparently it works, as the cops wander off.

You gain 10-300 Magicalness.

Your downtown adventure complete, you jog back to town.

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You wander around for a while and eventually encounter some artists spray-painting mind-expanding slogans on a wall. You watch for a while and walk away enlightened.

You gain 10-300 Magicalness.

Your downtown adventure complete, you jog back to town.

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You wander around for a while and eventually encounter a gentleman hustling people with three-card monte. You watch for a while and learn some new tricks!

You gain 10-300 Sarcasm.

Your downtown adventure complete, you jog back to town.

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You are hanging out with some questionable characters on a corner, when you hear sirens approaching. You make like a tree and sneakily get out of there.

You gain 10-300 Cheek.

Your downtown adventure complete, you jog back to town.

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Occurs as a choice of On a Downtown Train at A Monorail Station.

Notes

• The "Visit some empty buildings" choice has roughly equal likelihood of yielding a box, nothing-in-the-box, cog, or Dust bunny.
• Stat gains seem to scale as ~2.2X+10 where X is your mainstat. There is no bias; the chances of getting mox, mys, or mus stats are all equally likely.

References

• This adventure's title references the chorus of "Downtown Train" by Tom Waits and popularized by Rod Stewart's 1989 hit recording.
• The encounter that involves businessmen punching each other and not talking about what they're doing refers to the first two rules of Fight Club.
• The encounter that involves waving your hand and declaring that they are not the suspicious people being looked for is a reference to Star Wars episode IV, where Obi-Wan Kenobi pulls off a similar deception to a pair of Storm Troopers.

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