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?
| Investigate the first urn |
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.
| You gain 40-60 Mysteriousness. |
| Check out the second one |
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!
 | You acquire an item: plus-sized phylactery |
Subsequent times:
Actually, I was just kidding -- that urn isn't there anymore. Remember? You broke it.
| See what's behind Urn #3 |
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. |
| Turn Away |
You turn away from the urns.
Occurs in the Defiled Niche.
References
- The title is a play on the phrase "earning your keep," which means working hard enough to earn what you are paid.
- 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 an insulting phrase that was popular in the 1980s, and was mentioned in movies like Explorers and Back to the Future. Ex-Lax is the brand name of a laxative (currently styled as "ex-lax").
- The "Urn #3" is a play off the old game-show gag of seeing a prize selected from behind one of three curtains.
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The Cyrpt Choice Adventures | ||||||
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| The Defiled Nook Skull, Skull, Skull |
The Defiled Niche Urning Your Keep |
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| Check behind the first one | 40-60 Cheek | Investigate the first urn | 40-60 Magicalness | ||||
| Look inside the second one | 200-300 Meat | Check out the second one | plus-sized phylactery (first time only) | ||||
| See what's under the third one | rusty bonesaw | See what's behind Urn #3 | 200-300 Meat | ||||
| Check the shiny object (rare) | debonair deboner | Turn Away | Skip adventure | ||||
| Leave the skulls alone | Skip adventure | ||||||
| The Defiled Cranny Death Rattlin' |
The Defiled Alcove Turn Your Head and Coffin | ||||||
| Open up the closed one | 200-300 Meat | Investigate the fancy coffin | 40-60 Strongness | ||||
| Crawl inside the open one | 40-50 HP & MP 20-30 each substat |
Check out the pine box | 200-300 Meat | ||||
| Dig through the rubble on the ground | can of Ghuol-B-Gone™ | Look in the wet one | half-rotten brain | ||||
| Leave them all be | Skip adventure | Leave the drawers alone | Skip adventure | ||||
| Open the rattling one | Fight swarm of ghuol whelps | ||||||
