She's So Unusual (Herbs or Medicines)
As you push deeper into the violet fog, it starts to swirl and brighten, becoming more rainbow-hued and chaotic. Strange half-recognizable shapes appear in your peripheral vision, vanishing when you turn to look. The landscape sprouts trees that twist through impossible geometries, bearing antique telephones and a variety of squid as fruit.
You're looking around in bewilderment when a young girl with mismatched eyes and a long multicolored mohawk wanders up, with a large dog trailing behind her. She's holding a string tied to a fish, which floats beside her like a piscene balloon. She smiles at you and waves. "hEllO!"
"Uh... hi."
"yOu LooK loSt. WouLd you liKe a fiShY? hiS nAme is barNaBas."
"No," says the dog, "I'm Barnabas. You named the fish 'Byron von Messerschmidt'. And yesterday its name was 'Golfcart'."
"yEs! thaT is WhAt i meaNt."
As the girl begins to dance dreamily around the squid-and-telephone trees, Barnabas looks up at you. "Feel free to accept the fish, if you like -- you won't have to worry about feeding it, since it'll change into something else when you leave." He idly scratches his ear with a hind leg. "Something related to herbs or medicines, if my nose is accurate."
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You take the string, and wave goodbye as the girl dances away happily, with the dog following. As you watch, the fish inexplicably morphs into a small paper packet. How very odd.
![]() | You acquire an item: homeopathic healing powder |
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Occurs in the Violet Fog.
References
- She's So Unusual is the name of the debut album of Cyndi Lauper. The image used for his adventure is also named "cyndi.gif".
- This adventure also refers to Neil Gaiman's series The Sandman. Delirium is Dream's incoherent sister, who acquires a talking dog named Barnabas toward the end of the series. She also appears with mismatched eyes and multicolored hair. She carried a floating fish on a string at one time. While her speech in the comic was lettered in all-caps, the size of the letters fluctuated, as did the colors of the speech bubbles, and this is sometimes represented in text with odd capitalization.