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Welcome to Escape This

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Podcast, a show that's

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a mix between tabletop

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roleplaying and escape room

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puzzles. This is the eighth room

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for this season, and it's the

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fourteenth season. These

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numbers are getting too big! That's been the

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theme of season 14. Numbers are too

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big. We get up to season 20 and then we halve

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everything. Ooh, yeah, we reboot it!

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We can reboot it and call it season one

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again. Just like Sim City

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or God of War. Every

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episode we play through an audio escape room,

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and usually we have guests come on to

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play through one of Danny's rooms, but occasionally

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we go the other way around, and a guest decides to

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bring their own escape room that Danny and I get to

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play. We're being very generous. This has very

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much been a one-on-one off-season. This season

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has been a bit one-on-one. Which hasn't been because I

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haven't been writing them. It's just because the

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writing and then our other

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scheduling and then recording dates have lined up

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in appalling ways. Yeah, and it's always fun

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to play through a guest room. This is

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true. I enjoy them a lot. I just

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want to savour them. I don't want to

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run out. There doesn't seem to be a

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risk of that, but I don't want to.

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I really like them. For this

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episode, we have a fan

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who's come in with their own room

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and they've said, I bet you this room is better than

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anything you've ever written. I think this

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is the greatest room and I'm challenging you by

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bringing it on the show. And that guest is

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Alice. Welcome to the show. Definitely. I'm

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going to change energies now and become really, really

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cocky to maintain that. Not at all, but thank

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you so much for having me. We're

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really glad that you're here. We're excited to play.

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I do have a two-word

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spoiler for the room

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thing. I don't. Which I want to

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say is Wizards garden.

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I think I've written dungeon in my notes, but that's wrong. So I'm

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going to cross that out and I'm going to put the word garden.

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I have to do a rapid rewrite if that was the

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case. That's all I know. I

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know nothing else about the setting. And

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I'm very excited. I do like, I'm intrigued by

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Wizards Garden. When we have people on

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the show, we always ask the same two questions.

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You're about to run an escape room for us, an audio

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escape room. What is your

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escape room experience? Sure. I've

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done, as best I can count between sort

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of 10 and a dozen escape rooms in

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different parts of Australia. I thought that

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window was going to be a lot bigger. No,

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10 to 12-ish. I did

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a play test of this game last night with

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my friend who I did our first ever escape

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room with. Aww. Which

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is lovely. So that was a lovely full circle moment. So

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my favorite escape room moment was in the first

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room I ever did. And I think maybe they

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have the bigger our heart moments because you've never experienced

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something before. But the very first little

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room within a room that we were in was

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in a shop front and had blackout curtains and

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it was all set up beautifully. But there's a

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tiny little crack between the curtains. And I remember

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in my head thinking, oh, this is

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so lovely, but geez, that's really broken the ambience,

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having that little crack. What a shame. Oh, well.

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And right at the end, after we got through all these

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different rooms and mazes, you got a set of binoculars and

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it turned out you had to run back to the

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same and through the tiny crack, look

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through across four lanes of traffic at a sign

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that they'd put up across the road of a

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number to open a safe. And

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I was just like, oh, my mind is

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blown. This was on purpose the whole time.

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So I was very much booked. I loved

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it. Amazing. Amazing. And there were

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a couple of rooms, there were just a couple in Sydney

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that managed to do things like

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that. Like there was one that we did that

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was up a couple of stores in the centre

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of the CBD. And at one

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point, you needed to use a

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street sign that was outside and down below.

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And that was part of an answer to

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something. That's fun. It

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was, oh. It's such a subtle thing. But the

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idea just like, and now what

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you thought the boundaries were, they're

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gone. We've shattered through them. Why

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don't you look outside? Oh, my God,

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it is amazing. It's a really

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cool feeling. It's so simple and

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there are loads of ways that escape

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rooms innovate and do things that you haven't

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seen before, but just one that's like, remember,

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you're just in a building. It

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shouldn't do that much. Especially because

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I then realised that I'd been really judgy

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in my head and that was in their

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plan the whole time. But then at the

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other end of the spectrum, the most recent

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escape room I did in an unnamed North

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Queensland town, so they don't get upset with

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me. We walked in and

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the fellow running, it was like, so what

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you need to know about this room is

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that on average, people need about 35 to

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40 hints to get through the room. Why?

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That's too many hints. So many hints.

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And just the look of absolute horror

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with my baby sister, who's a super pro-escape rumour,

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and my dad, who's got a really good logical brain.

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And we're like, this surely

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just means this is not a well-made

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room. And it was not a well-made

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room. And we asked for like 10

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hints, which was way less than the

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35, but we still felt like such

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failures. It was just a really terrible

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experience. Well, then the other element

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of this is you're going to run us an

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escape room that is also in a sort of

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tabletop role-playing style. Do you have

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any tabletop role-playing experience? I

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have done a grand total of

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one one shot. Oh,

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lovely. So my two

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younger sisters, my youngest sister is

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a really great GM and she really wanted

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me to come home over Christmas and play

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with her. So her crafty way of getting

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me to join in was with her regular

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group. They ran a one shot in

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which everyone played either cats or

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dogs as characters. I

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got to role-play as my own dog. And

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just every time, you know, an option came

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up, I thought, what would my dog do? And

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it was delightful and very wholesome. So it

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was enjoyable, but I'm not sure it's something

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I would do all the time. Well,

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I think with that being said, I think that's a really

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good point. I think we are ready. Danny, are you prepared?

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Yes. Danny, I have a task for you. Usually,

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in recent games that we played

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like this, because you like to draw every single

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thing when I write the word, it means that

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I'm done before you and I end up making

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all the decisions because I'm like, where should we

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go? Well, let's go over here while Danny's still

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drawing. And I feel bad because

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I end up having to lead

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it just because I'm not drawing. So I'm going

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to draw everything this time and you can make

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all the decisions. Interesting. And

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yet I feel like this is not the first time you

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have tried to put this on me. I'm trying it

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again. Please make every decision this time. I'll

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just help out. I feel like this is going to

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happen. This is just happening more and more. This is upsetting.

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Well, you've got to take charge.

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All right. I think we're ready to go. Such

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good drawing. Alice, would you like to... You can

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draw too. Oh. Just

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draw quick. Would you like to... Before we start,

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I actually have to ask you a question. Ooh.

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That is going to feel like 1700 steps

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removed from a wizard's garden, but it's very

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important. Sure. So between the two

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of you, what's your favourite type

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of bird? Ooh. What's

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a good bird? What about

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the Australian datas that live in the

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Narrowbean Lagoon? I mean, see, we're going with

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Narrowbean Lagoon. Pelicans? It's the pelicans for me without

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question. I love pelicans. Yeah. Let's

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lock down pelicans. Great. I was just

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writing Australian data, but I'm crossing it out and writing

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pelicans. Those birds suck. What are they

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doing with their long heads and their

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long necks? Starting again. They're

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just trying to make it rough. They're just terrible.

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Fanning their wings on logs. Like you're getting right

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back into the water. Why are you drying your

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wings, idiot? Meanwhile, one

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of the most recent times I was at the lake, I

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saw a pelican fight. It was awesome.

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Okay, fabulous. In that case, the

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other thing I'd like to say is to start off

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with, please don't draw a rectangle yet. I

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was really worried that you were going to tell me not to

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draw a pelican yet, but that's

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happening. I'm sorry. I'm

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not going to tell you the pelican whether it ends up where it needs to be, the

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risk that you can run. But for now, I will

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stop by. telling you a story and in due

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time I promise you can draw a pelican and

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I promise that you can draw a rectangle down

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the track. So if you're ready to go I'll

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start our story off. Your

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head is throbbing. You

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open your eyes. What happened? You

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cast your mind back. The

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wizard! Now your memory

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is hazy but you remember nimbly climbing

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a fence by the light of a

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pale crescent moon into his garden. It's

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known throughout the land as having the greatest

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collection of magical herbs and plants and

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you couldn't resist taking a look. Okay

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if you're honest you couldn't resist taking a

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look and you really needed some herbs to

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complete a potion you're working on. You

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only needed a few sprigs. Is that such a

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crime? Clearly the wizard

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thought so because while you're

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bending over to smell a lovely flower

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he swoops down from the sky like

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a giant crow and screamed in your

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face. Thief! Thief! Just like the others!

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I'll teach you a lesson. If

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you like my garden so much try being

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trapped in one forever. Then

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he hit you in the head with a jet of blinding

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light and you woke up here. Where

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are you? You feel yourself

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lying on a hard surface and when you

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go to swing your legs to sit up

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you find you are restrained by coiling rising

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angry green vines. You

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move more carefully and see that you are

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tied to an ornate garden bench with carvings

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along the top. Then you

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hear it a screeching crying

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voice mournfully shouting Wheeeeeeee!

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You tilt your head and shoulders and you see

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a pelican in a cage next to you. Wheeeeeeeeee!

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It shouts again. In a

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distance you think you can hear a tinkling sound. You

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tilt your head further around. You are

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clearly in a walled garden. In

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a distance you think you can see garden beds

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in a greenhouse but it's hard to see from

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a awkward angle. All you can really investigate

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right now is this bench. Shout

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in the pelican again. Yeah, I'm all up.

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The gophery, you mumble. How

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are you going to escape? So

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given that you can only access the bench

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right now, if you open image one, you

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can take a look at some of the carvings

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that you can reach on the bench. Oh no,

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hold on, I think that this is one of

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those occasions where Bill wants me to take the

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lead. So I would like to investigate

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these carvings on the bench, please. Great

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thought. Excellent instinct. Because if you touch the button, they

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were just going to squeeze you harder. Well. So

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if you want to look more closely at

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the bench, you'll find that it's cold and

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hard and appears to be made of stone.

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Along the top are a series of carved

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images and you can just reach those symbols

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as shown to you in image one. Yes,

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so for people at home, you can see this

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image in the show notes. It's a series of

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eight images, I would say. Sure. And

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the images seem to be a leaf,

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followed by a crown and scepter. On a

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pillow, by the way. Then

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a butterfly, then a big

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flame. Ball of fire.

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Goodness gracious. Snake. A snake. Two

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stars. They are two five-pointed

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stars. Egg. Egg.

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And heart. The heart.

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And in the background, again,

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the pelican shouts, Wheeee! Okay.

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Clearly, this pelican is

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a real baby child telling

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us to pay attention to the third one. Which

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is the butterfly. Which also has, yeah, like

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a butterfree. Like a butterfree. And it is number

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three. Everything's lining up. Do

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you want to see what happens if we touch the butterfly? Oh,

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I assumed that we were already touching all of these.

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But yeah, I guess does anything in

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particular happen if we run our hands over? If

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you run your hands across them, as if you

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were playing a piano back and forward, nothing happens.

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They don't feel like they have a specific pressing

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power, do they? Yeah, if we explicitly look at the

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butterfly, can we like, select the

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butterfly? You could poke the butterfly

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and pause for dramatic effect. Sure. And

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nothing will happen. Okay.

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In the background, the pelican says, Free! Ruby

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eats hargingly. Trying for

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help. Why is the pelican

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saying free? Free! Do

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any of these feel like they would indicate a letter

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R to you? Because we've definitely got fire and egg

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for an F and an E. Oh. The

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second one, or royalty? Fire, royal, egg, egg.

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Can we press fire, royal, egg, egg? You

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can indeed do that. Ay! Nice.

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And if you press them in that order

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after pressing the egg for the second time,

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the vines shrink away and seem to morph

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before your eyes into another

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bird. What is your second favourite bird? I

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guess now we've got to go data. No,

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no. Let's mix it up and let's go...

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What's a nice little bit? What about just

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a... What about a

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little bush turkey? Oh, bush turkeys

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are nice. A bush turkey. Apparently

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we just like grunting birds. The

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bush turkey that has transformed from

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those vines, it flies

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away. You are now

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free to do some more exploring.

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The pelican looks at you and very, very

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happily it says free. Then

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questioningly it says free? I

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think it wants to get free as

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well. I'm not surprised. I'm also

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glad that bush turkey flew away because oh boy can

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I not draw them. So you are now

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free to explore the rest of the garden. And

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at this point if you'd like to draw

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a picture, Bill, but not Danny apparently... Please

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don't let me draw a rectangle. I can draw a

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picture. Danny's allowed to draw.

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I'm just only allowed to draw quickly with

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words. So

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if you'd like to draw a rectangle which is longer on the

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north and south sides, the top and bottom

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and shorter on the east and west sides, and when

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you're ready, I will start

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to tell you about what you can see. If

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you stretch and begin to draw, you can draw a rectangle.

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taking your wider surroundings. You appear

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to be enclosed in a

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rectangular garden. Brick walls rise

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on all sides as far as you

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can see. They look unclinable. Your

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former prison of a bench sits in the

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southeast corner of the garden, the bottom right

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hand corner of your drawing, with

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the bird cage and the still screaming

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bird sitting next to you. To

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your left in the middle of the south wall is a small

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garden shed about the size of an outside toilet. Hanging on the

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outside of the shed is a wizard's robes. Immediately in

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front of the shed

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is a path which sweeps around to a garden

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bed filled with coloured mushrooms in the southwest

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corner of the garden. You

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can also hear a tingling

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jingly jangly sound from the northwest corner

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of the garden. There seems to be an array

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of wind chimes that are playing even though you

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can't feel any wind. Magic! And on either

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side of the wind chimes on the west and

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north walls are

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garden beds full of climbing plants covering about

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a third of the length of each wall.

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In the middle of the west wall of the garden you see a series

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of images of animals carved and painted onto the

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wall. In the northeast corner of the garden is

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a greenhouse. You can see the scrub turkey

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who was formerly the

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nasty vines perched on its

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roof. Near the middle of

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the garden but slightly off

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to the east side is a sundial. The garden is a

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garden bed with a large garden bed and on the other side is

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a sundial. Again

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near the middle but slightly to the west this time

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of the middle is a

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fountain. And

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last but not least on

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the centre of the east wall is

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an ornate gate with

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a scary gargoyle face. I love

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a gate with a face. It's

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a good classic kind of magical

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trope. If you want to get to a

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door, then you want the door itself to be like, Get

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out of here! We've all

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been conditioned by Alice in Wonderland. Yeah,

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Alice in Wonderland. For me

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it was playing Heroes Quest and getting to the Baba

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Yaga's gate, and it had a skull on

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top. It was like, You can't see

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Baba Yaga, you're gonna get me gems for

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my eyes! I

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think I remember you had a door

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called Doric Oaken Door, or something similar

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many many moons ago. He

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was delightful. He was a great fit part.

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If I was going to be in a

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movie of Escape This Podcast, I

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would like to be Doric Oaken Door, please. No, Sid. It's

16:46

always a good door. You've got to love a talking

16:48

door. That being said, I don't think I want to talk to

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the talking door. This one might not talk, you don't

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know. Hey, I'm in a wizard's garden, there's

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a door with a gargoyle. That's

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a talking door. So

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that's everything. So it's up to

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you to decide how you're going to escape. Where would

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you like to go first? Well,

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before going anywhere, did

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we have any success at stealing any of those

17:10

hubs and planets that we needed earlier on? Did

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he get to us before we even got in

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our pocket? I think he shook you out aggressively

17:17

as he was going into this new, slightly less

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cool garden. That makes sense. So

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no more. Took our wallet as well. Can

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I just say, before we get started, wizard's

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completely justified. We were stealing from

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him. From his garden.

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And what's he going to do, take us to the

17:32

normal police? Magic society doesn't work that way. You

17:35

catch them and you have to put them in your

17:37

own entrapment. Alternatively, maybe he was just trying to

17:39

help us. We clearly wanted to be in

17:41

a garden. He put us in a garden. You

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want to be in a garden and you want

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my herbs, do you? I'll cover you with so

17:48

many herbs, you have got to move as a

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gift to you. It's like that Simpson's moment. Oh, you want

17:52

to see the who, do you? Yeah. Well,

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what should we do? Let's take

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a look at Pelle King. cage obviously. Oh yeah, let's

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go to the pelican briefly. So

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the cage looks like it's made of brass with

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finely curling decorations over the bars.

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You can't see a keyhole to open it. The

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pelican inside looks miserable. It looks

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you directly in the eye, it

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pauses and it says

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free. What happens if

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we try free again on the bench? Can we go to

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the bench and just do it again? Maybe

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it'll free the next closest thing. I

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love that attempt and you do it with

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great hope in your heart and your soul

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but nothing else seems to happen. That bench,

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you're now getting a really boring vibe off.

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Alright, we crushed the bench. Mm-hmm.

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Okay, okay. Alright,

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yeah, give the pelican a

18:44

universal wait, just one moment,

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we're doing our best, let's

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try to stay calm for

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the moment. Hand gesture.

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You know that one? Yeah. Because pelicans

18:54

are quite big, so either in my imagination this

18:56

cage has now gotten bigger but instead I think

18:58

it's just squished in the cage and it's still

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really sad. This is a cage for like a

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cockatoo sized bird, the poor pelican. It's pretty miserable

19:05

but he trusts you. He looks like he was

19:07

trusting his eyes. So did you say it was

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a brass cage? Did you say it had markings on

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it? Yeah, like finely curling decorations

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all over the bars. Those decorations

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are beautiful but in an uninspiring

19:18

and non-specific fashion. And just

19:20

to get like the feeling

19:22

of you know when you have a new game

19:24

master, if we look at the bottom

19:27

of the cage kind of underneath around at

19:29

different angles, is there any new information we

19:31

get from a new perspective of cage examination?

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There is not. Okay.

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Lovely. Okay, are you

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feeling gate gargoyle or

19:39

going clockwise? Because obviously we

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have to go in a geographically sensible

19:44

manner. You do whatever you want. I'm

19:46

a clockwise person. I think we get to the

19:48

gate last and right now we go to the

19:50

outhouse with the robe hanging off it. Love it.

19:53

This has been a fascinating personality test.

19:55

So I've run this game about ten

19:57

times and people are either... It

20:00

feels like a measure of, are you goal-oriented and you're

20:02

like, I'm going to the gate. Why

20:04

are you exploring an inventory? I'm both

20:06

a valid in that third half. So

20:10

if you go to the shed slash

20:12

outhouse, it is a shed, but it's

20:14

about the size of the outhouse. Yep.

20:17

I forgot the word shed. It's

20:21

made of wood and it has a small keyhole in

20:23

the front. You cannot brute

20:26

force the door open. And

20:28

how about this robe that's hanging off it? Can I

20:30

give it a bit of a jostle? You

20:32

sure can. So the wizard's cloak or robe is hanging

20:34

on the outside of the garden shed. It

20:37

is royal purple with big yellow stars and

20:39

it looks big enough to wrap right around

20:41

you and drop nearly to the ground. Can

20:44

we dig through it? Does it have pockets?

20:47

It does have pockets. As you dig through

20:49

the pockets, you find a note. And

20:52

that note says the following. Blue

20:55

is blue. No matter how

20:57

little hue, in any

20:59

sense of the word, blue

21:02

is blue. And the word sense, S-E-N-S-E,

21:06

not any other version of that word, is

21:08

emphasized. I hope

21:10

you got more detail. I'll try. You know

21:13

what? I'll see. How well can

21:15

I remember right now? Blue is blue. No matter

21:19

how little hue or something like that? Something

21:21

about faintness. What's

21:23

the second line? Very close. No

21:26

matter how little hue. Yeah, yeah,

21:28

yeah. No matter how little hue

21:30

is, his name is still Hugh

21:33

Bluson. No matter how little

21:35

hue, in any

21:37

sense of the word, blue

21:40

is blue. Very good. Okay,

21:42

blue is blue. I have drawn a picture

21:44

of little hue. Hello, it's me,

21:46

little hue. Do you know that

21:49

blue is blue? That's my

21:51

job. The wizard hires me to tell people blue

21:53

is blue. Well,

21:56

this bodes well for our clockwise-iness because

21:58

the only colorful thing I- I remember

22:01

hearing about his mushrooms, which feel like they're next

22:03

on the track. Mmm, I do know that blue is blue.

22:05

But we should follow the winding path to get

22:07

there, right? The long and winding road that leads

22:09

to your mushrooms? Exactly. So

22:11

I watch my feet carefully to acknowledge the

22:13

path to see if there is... And we're wearing

22:15

the robe. Oh, we

22:18

are? Ah, when you put on the robe, that's very important. I

22:20

put on the robe. Because you look really

22:22

cool. Great. Now...

22:24

Then, boozled by both of you. I have a question. Is

22:27

purple blue? Mmm-hmm. Blue

22:29

is blue, is purple blue? We have

22:31

no information about what else may or may not be blue. There's

22:33

only a little bit of blue or blue hue, but blue

22:35

could be blue. That's interesting, but... It does have a

22:37

little bit of hue. It's

22:40

just red and blue. And blue is blue. I think

22:42

we should ask these questions when we get to

22:44

our point to input these questions. All right.

22:47

But at the moment, I want to travel to the mushrooms... Is

22:49

white blue... ...via the path,

22:52

while looking at the path, in case the

22:54

path is also interesting. That is a great

22:56

instinct. People have often missed the

22:58

path, so well done. The

23:01

path starts just in front of the shed and

23:03

heads to the mushrooms. It

23:05

is made of a series of steps in

23:07

rainbow colours, ordered like a rainbow, so Roy

23:09

G. Biz. Path

23:11

into those steps are the words, take

23:14

two steps back and one step

23:16

forward, and freedom will be your

23:18

reward. And I'm going

23:20

to send you an image that

23:22

shows this path. Let's

23:25

take a look at this thing. We sort

23:27

of boasted the last one,

23:29

didn't we? Yeah, we

23:31

can both do this one together. Okay, sure. Oh,

23:35

okay. The colours are not organised the way I

23:37

was visualising them. They are tiles that go in

23:39

order. Red

23:42

tile, then orange tile, then yellow, then green,

23:44

then blue, then indigo, then violet. Both

23:48

of which are blue, by the way, no matter

23:50

the hue. Then red, then orange, then yellow, then

23:52

green. Roy G. Biz, Roy G. Biz, Roy G.

23:54

Biz. And yeah, just sort

23:56

of spread amongst them like the words,

23:58

take two steps back. are written

24:00

over the first few tiles. Yes,

24:03

take two steps back and one step forward.

24:06

Almost every tile has text on it, except for

24:08

the last couple. Now the

24:10

issue is, you kind of want to start following

24:13

this advice and see maybe what

24:15

you spell out or something. Yeah. But you

24:17

can't take two steps back. At the beginning.

24:20

When you're not on the path yet. Oh

24:23

no. So... I'd

24:25

want freedom as a reward though, but

24:27

you're right. I'm not 100% certain where to

24:29

start. Not having a starting point is a bit tough,

24:32

because what if you just say, okay, why do we start

24:34

at Y? We go two steps back to R, so R

24:36

is the first letter, then O, and then... And then we're

24:38

out again. Two steps back and one step forward. I guess

24:40

maybe you go to V. It's a bit tough. Or

24:43

do we ignore the practical placement of it

24:45

and we just think of Roy G. Biv

24:48

going in in a constant

24:50

cycle. And so like its first

24:53

letter is two steps back from R. So it's

24:55

B... Wait, why B? No, sorry.

24:57

It's I, V. I see. Yeah,

25:02

so two steps back from R would be I, on

25:04

the cycle of Roy G. I'm with you. You can

25:07

imagine if you like, with the

25:09

limitations of using Microsoft Paint

25:11

that I'm definitely very good at, that this path

25:13

does sort of repeat that pattern over and over.

25:15

But I would suggest that while this is awesome

25:18

thinking, you don't need to get too distressed and

25:20

in the weeds about it just yet. Because as

25:22

you say, otherwise it would just be sort of

25:24

like moonwalking along the path, which while also being

25:27

a cloak. Exactly. It's not

25:29

getting you super far. Yep,

25:32

I'm already... My

25:34

various patterns that I'm getting so far, I'm just essentially

25:38

writing these letters backwards so I've got yours

25:40

so far. It's

25:42

not going well. It's not helpful. Also,

25:44

in general, Roy G. Biv, not great

25:46

letters for spelling out interesting words. I'm

25:48

not saying it can't be done, but

25:50

wow, you wouldn't want those to show

25:53

up on letters in your number. So, in the

25:55

first step, you do get Ivebegibyig. Whoa,

25:57

slow down. is

26:00

nothing. All right. Unless it frees the pelican when I

26:02

shout if but give me a. The pelican looks

26:04

at you and it says free. Walking

26:07

around in our confused circles I assume we

26:09

eventually can make our way to the mushrooms

26:12

and take a look at them. And while

26:14

I've mentioned that the paint that the pelican

26:16

is still saying free those that tingly jingly

26:18

jangly sounds also just assume it continues in

26:20

the background setting the scene beautifully. So when

26:22

you get the

26:25

mushrooms you see a small garden bed

26:27

filled with mushrooms around about 50 in

26:30

total but the exact number is not

26:32

important. A bunch of mushrooms. They

26:34

can be found in all the colors

26:36

of the rainbow. Feels

26:39

relevant. Ah we're

26:41

not spelling we're touching. Is

26:43

there... if

26:46

I started by like tapping an indigo

26:48

mushroom for example which is two steps

26:51

back from R. If

26:53

I just picked an arbitrary indigo mushroom would

26:55

anything happen if I... When you say pick do

26:57

you mean choose or do you mean choose? Choose. I don't mean

26:59

pick I mean like touch, prod, jostle.

27:01

It feels like a slightly spongy mushroom

27:04

that you would buy from the supermarket.

27:07

What if I took a bite? If

27:09

you take a bite nothing to

27:12

explain happens except you think it might take

27:14

better with a bit of time and stage or maybe with

27:16

some soy sauce. Okay the mushrooms

27:18

are colors. They're rainbow colors.

27:20

They're Roichi Biv colors. And there is a

27:23

thing of Roichi Biv interaction but nothing

27:25

yet. I don't feel like I have enough detail here. No

27:27

it certainly feels that... used

27:30

to calling it all the colors of

27:32

the rainbow certainly makes it feel related.

27:34

Mmm. But I'm not seeing the connection just

27:36

yet and we've got so much more to look at.

27:38

So let's keep looking. Let's keep looking. You want to...

27:41

I want to skip over the west wall and go

27:43

to these wind chimes. Lovely.

27:46

So the wind chimes seem to be made

27:48

of a mix of shells, sea glass and

27:50

pieces of shiny metal and some feathers for

27:52

Danny. They're hanging out of

27:54

reach maybe a meter or three feet

27:56

above your head and they are jingling

27:58

and jangling constantly. Alright,

28:01

I don't get anything out of those

28:03

immediately and... No. They

28:06

seem jostled enough that I shouldn't do, I

28:08

don't need to do extra jostling to get further information.

28:10

No, I think we just keep looking to something in Spark's

28:12

Choice. Okay. What about you?

28:15

What are you thinking? Well, we're near the creepers. Can

28:17

we check, I don't know if they're two

28:19

separate objects to check or just one, can we check the wall

28:23

climbing points? So the

28:25

garden bed on the west wall is

28:27

thriving. With creepers with different coloured

28:29

flowers, including light blue, cherry red, cream,

28:32

dark red, pink, dark blue and teal.

28:34

You don't need to run those colours

28:37

down. There were so many blues!

28:39

Yeah, but all the blues are blues, Danny, no

28:41

matter how little hue, in any sense

28:43

of the word, blue is blue. And

28:47

on the garden bed, you see some

28:49

carved text that reads, Counting

28:51

our days in prison makes us

28:53

feel blue. And

28:56

I'm going to send you an image of this

28:58

garden bed. Okay, great. Alright,

29:01

for people at home, you can see

29:04

this image. Oh, dang! But yeah, okay.

29:06

Do you want to describe what we're looking at, Danny? Alright,

29:08

so yeah, these plants are very

29:11

planty. We've been told what colour each of them are,

29:13

indeed, light blue, cherry red, etc. We

29:16

have the text at the bottom written on the

29:19

sort of box of the bed. Counting

29:22

our days in prison makes us feel blue.

29:25

There are little pluses on it, whether those

29:27

are important or just plant or box decorations

29:29

could be either way at this stage. But

29:32

the different vines as they are growing

29:34

up, the flowers on them are distinctly

29:36

shaped. Now, to

29:38

clarify, an important point in this image

29:40

is I had two friends playtest this

29:43

game who were colour blind. Fair. And

29:45

they were really struggling to keep up with what

29:48

shape was what. So the colours are important. The

29:50

shapes consider them flavour text, and that's also why

29:52

in writing up the top, the colours are written.

29:55

So this is to try to make it more

29:57

accessible, but so that I don't lead you down

29:59

a garden. garden path, the colours of the

30:01

flowers are important, the shapes not so

30:03

much. That is very reasonable

30:06

and helpful. Yeah,

30:08

light blue, red, creamy sort of yellow. Some

30:11

dark red. This is also helpful just because

30:13

of the mono that we are using and

30:15

the fact that we're looking at it from

30:17

different angles, the colours can vary. Like that's

30:20

very maroney from my angle. Then,

30:23

yep, pinky, purple, definitely dark blue.

30:25

And then some teal. It

30:27

all adds up. And we could

30:29

count them, but like the light blues, for

30:31

example, there are one, two, three,

30:34

four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,

30:36

twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,

30:38

twenty, twenty one, twenty two light blues. So

30:41

there are a lot of them. So

30:43

let's not count the blue one. Yeah. And I

30:45

don't think this is enough for me to know.

30:47

Like, yes, it is. What

30:49

is it? Oh, what is it? You can look at

30:51

it from maybe slightly further away.

30:54

Oh, they're Roman numerals. The

30:57

light blues are in an IX pattern. Yep. The

30:59

cherry red is an I. The

31:02

cream is a V. The dark

31:04

red is an X. The pink is a two.

31:06

That's two I's. The dark blue is a V

31:08

and the teal is a I. But

31:13

I bet you it's not five one. I bet

31:15

you that number is six.

31:17

You reckon? Because we're meant to consider

31:19

the blues together. So dark blue and

31:21

teal are one colour of blue. Interesting.

31:23

That's like an added possibly how we

31:25

interpret. So it's actually nine,

31:29

one, five, ten to six

31:31

or something. That's interesting. I was

31:33

just going by. Oh, I'll just write down the

31:35

blue ones. So I wrote down IX. I wrote

31:37

down V. I wrote down I. Perhaps.

31:40

I think it's more about blue

31:42

is always blue. So maybe you combine them together.

31:44

It could also mean that red is always red

31:46

as well. I don't know. So maybe the X,

31:49

the dark red and the pink should be considered

31:51

as twelve rather than ten than

31:53

two. Well, either way, write down all our options

31:55

and we'll see again where we want to find

31:57

an input to know what we want to get

31:59

from. this. But yeah, interesting.

32:02

Shall we have a look at the other garden bed? Oh, I'm relieved

32:04

I saw that. Yeah, that was a great catch. Let's look

32:06

at the one that I assume is not thriving quite so

32:08

much. Indeed. The Garden

32:10

Belt and Northwall is a similar size

32:12

and it appears to have very similar

32:14

plants, but they are all shriveled with

32:16

only the brown stems of the vines

32:18

remaining. There are no leaves and no

32:21

flowers, but the same text is repeated

32:23

on this garden bed and I'm

32:25

going to send you another image. Again,

32:28

for people you can see this image. Oh, oh

32:30

no, no, they are okay. They are the same sort.

32:32

We see the full stems. They're just with no flowers.

32:34

So again, it looks like an X, two eyes, a

32:36

V, an X and two eyes, but we don't know

32:38

the colors that should have been on them. So we

32:41

don't know how they connect. So it could be 12

32:43

or 10, 2 or like 11, 4, if you know

32:45

what I mean. XIIV.

32:48

We don't know how to break it up.

32:50

This is true. Based on color connection. Interesting.

32:53

These are not in the same order as

32:55

the other ones. Like that started with IXI.

32:57

This is XII. So there's

33:00

difference. There's not going to be a one-to-one mapping

33:02

of like color to anything. Again,

33:04

we might need more information, but it's

33:06

a, there's something here. Interesting.

33:09

Can you go back to the last one? I can go back to the

33:11

last one. One, two, three, four, five. Yeah.

33:13

Just because there are seven colors on

33:15

this one and on that next one

33:17

with its just stems, we've got seven

33:19

stems. If I counted right. XIIV,

33:23

XII. Oh,

33:25

that's true. So if they are the seven colors, they

33:27

might all be individual. Yeah. If they're originally planted

33:30

the same way. But we're not sure.

33:33

Intriguing. Cool. Again, I don't know what to do with this. So we should come

33:35

back and we have an idea of what to do. You're right. Plants

33:37

stress me out. So can

33:39

we go back to, I believe it was

33:41

the West wall where there was some imaging

33:43

on the wall. Animal images. So

33:46

when you look at those animal pictures on the

33:48

wall, you see 10 pictures of

33:50

pink and yellow animals painted and carved

33:53

into the wall. Each

33:55

has its name written underneath it and

33:57

the names seem to be nonsense words.

34:00

Again, I'm going to send you an image. So,

34:03

having a look at these animals.

34:05

Okay, so we have a bunch of

34:07

various animals. What would you even describe

34:09

the first one as? A unidragon corn?

34:11

That's a... yeah. It's

34:14

like a dragon but with feathered wings, which is

34:16

weird. I love it. Yeah,

34:18

very serpentine tail, but very

34:20

feathered wings. I can't quite see what's going

34:22

on with this head from my angle. It's

34:24

just a little dragon head. Okay. It's pink

34:27

and its name is Thirudidee. Lovely.

34:29

Broken up into Far-ru-di-di.

34:32

Yes, we've got hyphens between syllables

34:34

here. All syllaballically broken

34:37

up. Yeah,

34:40

so next one we've got a gold dragon.

34:44

Classic dragon dragon. The variety that has four

34:46

legs and no wings that I can see. It

34:48

looks like a Chinese dragon that's lost

34:50

its orb. Aww.

34:52

Where's my orb? The

34:54

lorulidae. It says La-ru-lidai. Then

34:56

we've got a classic

34:59

little fairy, all yellow. Yellow

35:01

fairy. Reaching out for a hug.

35:03

Called Fargulidai. Fagulidae. Fagulidae. There

35:06

is a pink fairy

35:08

sort of... Anime. Anime-looking

35:11

mermaid called La-ru-di-di. Then

35:13

we've got, oh, such a mad scorpion, but

35:16

it's just a scorpion. La-ru-lihi. La-ru-lihi.

35:19

Angry yellow scorpion. A

35:21

yellow moss called Fagulify.

35:25

Then a very happy spider,

35:27

which is Ligudihi. Then

35:29

a yellow starfish called Ligulie. Then

35:33

a happy pink snake, La-ru-di. Just

35:35

La-ru-di. Only three. Only three for the snake.

35:38

And then, and it doesn't have

35:40

legs. The snake has no legs.

35:42

I noticed that. And then a

35:45

yellow cartoon dragon called Feralidihi. Can't

35:48

believe that you didn't read the

35:50

last one before starting trying to

35:52

solve. I have been patient. I

35:54

wasn't. Wait. Okay, so what are you noticing? I saw

35:56

the snake. I just saw that there was a snake

35:59

which has no legs. and it was missing an

36:01

entire syllable. The first one that I

36:03

went with was presence of wings. So I'm just

36:05

trying to look at these and match them up

36:07

by characteristics, because we noticed there's a lot of

36:09

yellow ones, there's a lot of pink ones. Some

36:11

of them share characteristics. Look at all of the

36:13

ones with wings. And also, yeah, so

36:15

the first syllable for all of these

36:17

is either far or la. And

36:20

the far's all have wings and

36:22

the la's all don't. Yeah, so

36:25

these are. Match a syllable to its

36:27

characteristic. So it's wings. Far,

36:31

V, la. Where

36:34

far is yes and la is no. And

36:37

it seems like the last

36:39

one may have been

36:41

about legs, do

36:43

you reckon? Maybe. Because

36:45

the snake seems to be missing that specifically.

36:48

Oh yes, so the last syllable always ends with a

36:50

Y. The snake doesn't have that. So that seems like

36:52

the leg syllable. But it is interesting that

36:54

the last chunk, it's D-Y-E-Y-F-Y, or

36:59

H-Y-F, number of legs. Like D is

37:01

the fourth letter. Four

37:04

legs, fourth letter. And

37:06

the mermaid, which only has, I suppose, two

37:08

legs, tails don't count, has B-Y. Yeah,

37:12

yeah. Cool.

37:16

Although the fairy also has B, no, fairy has D-Y.

37:18

It's a B-Y, yeah, limbs. Yeah, so it's, and then

37:20

the F is the sixth letter and

37:22

that's on the moth. And

37:24

H is the eighth letter and I think it's five. So it's, last

37:27

one is number of legs. So

37:30

it's number transposed

37:32

to letter, followed by a Y,

37:34

it's legs. Okay, and the

37:36

next second syllable is, I

37:38

think always either rue or goo. It's

37:41

always either rue or goo. What differentiates

37:43

rue goo? It's not colour-based, because

37:46

the yellow dragon and the pink dragon, oh

37:48

no, they're both ruse. No, yeah, they're both ruse, which

37:50

they shouldn't be. So it's

37:52

not colour, it's not yellow is rue or anything. Is

37:56

it to do with eyes? No, no, I

37:58

don't think so. What's

38:00

another characteristic we've forgotten? Spine,

38:03

presence of a spine. Tail?

38:07

Presence of tail? Presence of tail.

38:10

What has a tail? Dragon has

38:12

a tail, they're a roo. Dragon has a tail, it's

38:14

a roo. Fairy no tail is a

38:16

goo. Mermaid as a tail

38:18

is a roo. Scorpion is a roo. Non-tailed

38:21

moth is a goo. Non-tailed spider is

38:23

a goo. Non-tailed... Starfish?

38:25

Starfish is a goo. Tail snake roo.

38:28

Tail dragon roo. Okay, so maybe that

38:30

looks like... And then colour's

38:32

gonna be the dee or lee. So

38:35

tail is roo,

38:38

the goo, where

38:40

roo is yes and goo is no. And

38:43

then, yeah, colour is... Lee

38:46

or dee. Yeah. So

38:48

colour... Pink

38:50

is dark and yellow is light. Yeah.

38:53

Lie equals Y. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.

38:56

Y equals Y. Lie, lie, lie, lie. Lie equals

38:58

P. Lie, lie, lie, lie,

39:00

lie. D equals P. Okay, so now... This is good.

39:02

If we need to describe an animal later on, we know how to do

39:04

it. We solve the animal... Someone's like, excuse me,

39:07

I'm the gargoyle that runs this gate. How

39:09

would you describe like a little pink mouse?

39:11

And you'd say, I know how to describe

39:13

a little pink mouse. A little pink mouse

39:15

would be... Give me a second. Hold on.

39:19

La roo dee

39:21

dia. Dia. D... Dia.

39:26

La roo dee dia. La roo dee dia is a little pink

39:28

mouse. And then he'd say, oh, thank you for

39:30

passing my test. I'll allow you to go to

39:32

the next garden like that. So when we need...

39:34

When that happens, that's how it's going to go.

39:36

Okay, great. La roo dee dia is a little pink

39:38

mouse. I knew that animals wouldn't let us down. Everyone

39:40

loves an animal. So we've solved the animal puzzle, but we

39:42

haven't found the animal input. We haven't found the animal question.

39:45

We know how to answer it, but we haven't... We

39:47

have an animal method. Okay.

39:49

What do you think? So much to look at, Dani.

39:52

Oh, no. Okay. Fountain.

39:55

Fountain. Quickly, fountain. Quickly.

39:57

Okay. With great speed.

40:00

is surrounded by a large pool which is

40:02

currently empty. No water is

40:04

flowing from it. In the

40:06

centre of the fountain is a statue of a

40:08

very serene looking woman holding her pointer or index

40:10

finger up in front of her mouth. I

40:14

guess I'll be quiet then. If

40:18

you're both being quiet that's awesome. My butt's going

40:20

to be very quiet. But,

40:22

in the distance there is some tinkling

40:25

and everyone around ends the funbies, the

40:27

pelican does encourage you to stay free.

40:29

There's constant noise. We

40:31

have to free a pelican and we

40:33

have to crush a wind chime underfoot. Okay.

40:37

Alright, uh, sundial. That's definitely an obstacle. What's

40:39

going on with that sundial? Okay,

40:44

the sundial appears to be made of a

40:46

light coloured stone while the gnomon, which is

40:48

the pointy bit that tells the time, is

40:51

silver. There are no numbers

40:53

on the outside of the sundial, just single

40:55

marks. But, tiled around the

40:57

edge of the sundial, if you look

40:59

really closely, you see in small writing,

41:02

I reveal my secret when

41:04

denied my purpose. Oh,

41:07

okay. I take the robe and I

41:09

throw it over it to

41:12

completely engulf it in darkness. Nice.

41:15

Excellent. As you do that, the

41:17

sundial collapses. Oh no,

41:20

I'm sorry. It

41:22

erodes away as if a million

41:24

years have passed by and leaves

41:26

behind a small key. And that

41:29

robe, well, it's about to do

41:31

something very interesting. What's your third favourite bird? Uh,

41:35

okay, we'll throw the data in. Okay. Okay,

41:38

the robe turns into a

41:40

data and slides up

41:42

to the roof to hang out with the bush

41:44

checking. Man, I'm glad we checked its pockets. Would

41:47

it have spat out the

41:50

poem at that point if

41:52

we hadn't? Alright, sweet.

41:54

We got a key. We had a lock thing. We

41:57

did the, uh, the, the small shed.

41:59

Yeah. Should we go and try to

42:01

do something with that? Or should we look at the greenhouse and the

42:03

gate first? Let's look at everything. Let's

42:05

get everything ticked off so we know what we're dealing with and

42:07

then we can deal with it. Great. All right.

42:09

Then the greenhouse was longingly up at

42:12

the Bush Turkey. It

42:14

looks down at you quizzically, which is how Bush

42:16

Turkeys always seem to look. Yeah. And

42:19

now it just holds its wings up. It's not actually wet,

42:21

but it's practicing for a time when it must be wet. And

42:25

how about the greenhouse itself? So

42:27

the greenhouse must be really humid inside.

42:29

The glass is all fogged up. You

42:31

can't see what's going on inside. OK.

42:34

There's no knock on the door.

42:37

But there is an image of

42:39

a muscular pink centaur. And

42:43

underneath the image, as you might be able

42:45

to guess, are the words, what is my

42:47

name? No, I'm going to send you an

42:50

image of him as a spoiler, although I

42:52

think you figured this out already. His

42:54

name is not Big Daddy, which seems to

42:56

be the main guess that people were giving

42:58

in playtest. All right. So

43:01

for people at home, you should be able to

43:03

see this Big Daddy centaur. Oh, my

43:05

God, that's bigger than the Big Daddy. I drew. This

43:08

centaur looks like a

43:11

very, very muscular centaur that would

43:14

appear in the Beatles movie Yellow

43:16

Submarine. I'll take your word for it.

43:18

He's got big yellow submarine energy. He

43:20

looks like if you took the centaur from

43:23

the start of the Disney Hercules movie and

43:26

you put him into yellow submarine, he'll end up

43:28

with this amazing guy. Well,

43:30

what is his name? Does he have

43:33

wings? He does not. So his

43:35

name begins with lah. Does

43:37

he have a tail? He does. It

43:40

continues with rue. Does

43:42

he have a colour? Yes.

43:44

Is it pink? It is more pink than

43:46

yellow. Then it looks like his next part

43:48

is D. But really, he's only half pink, so

43:50

you should only pick one of the letters. I'm going to go with

43:53

D. And then does he

43:55

have any legs? He has

43:57

six limbs. It is a limb counter.

43:59

Yeah, it is a limb. encounter and it

44:01

says ABCDEF. So

44:04

his name by my reckoning

44:07

is LaRudify. And

44:09

as you say LaRudify the greenhouse

44:11

door opens. He flexes a muscle,

44:13

winks and lets you enter the

44:15

greenhouse. Welcome to my

44:18

greenhouse. Dude, dude. LaRudify

44:21

is ready. Wonderful,

44:24

we have access to a greenhouse. Let's

44:26

do it. Let's enter. So

44:28

inside the greenhouse you see a shelf

44:30

with a variety of seeds and materials

44:32

to grow them in like potty mixed-scale

44:34

things. You also see

44:36

a workbench with four small hollows or

44:38

divots on the top. And

44:41

as you open the door you hear

44:44

a loud sneeze from somewhere near the

44:46

ground. I'm

44:50

not going to be able to resist looking at what the hell

44:52

just said achoo. Yeah, we've got to find the ground sneezer. So

44:55

where would you look down near the ground

44:57

to find whatever it means? We lie on our

44:59

stomach. We do? Yeah, so

45:01

we can get real low and we look around

45:03

under the bench, under the any other plant, anything

45:05

like that. Oh, well under the workbench,

45:07

under the shelf, that sort of thing. Well,

45:09

you nailed it in one because under the

45:12

workbench, oh my gosh, this is extra scary

45:14

because you're now lying and staring directly up

45:16

at it. There's a scary

45:18

witch's face. What? A massive

45:20

warty nose sticking out underneath

45:22

the table and carved

45:25

around the witch's face you read, I

45:28

sense what you cannot use

45:31

me or hear you'll say and

45:33

rot. And again, sense is

45:36

emphasised. This

45:38

witch can smell blue. That's

45:41

curious. Can we

45:43

remove the witch face or do we have to bring

45:45

things to the nose? You

45:47

can indeed. If you give it a good yoink, remove

45:49

the witch's nose and you're now carrying it around a

45:51

bit like a unicorn horn. Lovely.

45:54

Okay, so maybe she'll be

45:56

able to like smell on the dead flowers, like

45:58

flowers that used to be there. Oh,

46:00

she can smell blue. Something. Could

46:03

be right. Maybe she reacts to certain flowers in certain

46:05

ways so we can match them up. Yeah, we'll find

46:07

out. Yeah, but again, looking. But now,

46:09

let's hang out in the greenhouse. There's also some

46:11

seeds and the things needed to grow them, but

46:13

I wonder if we have to grow them in

46:15

the four divots of the bench. So can we

46:17

look at the bench first? Oh, I didn't think

46:19

of that. So the bench is a

46:21

regular wooden bench with four divots here.

46:24

That does indeed look like you could

46:26

grow some things in those divots. It's

46:28

a pot bench. Yeah.

46:32

What sort of seeds are our options on

46:34

this shelf? So you

46:36

can see four differently shaped

46:38

seeds and

46:40

four different growing mediums, but

46:43

there doesn't seem to be instructions sitting next to

46:45

them about what you might do with them. Okay.

46:49

Well, we ignore them for a while. Maybe someone will tell us.

46:52

Yep, that seems believable. Well,

46:54

there's only one more thing to look at, I think.

46:56

That we haven't looked at yet. I

46:59

think that's true. Which is the

47:01

gate, the thing that's going to give us the quest that

47:03

we actually need to do. That

47:05

makes sense. The thing that's going to tell us why we're here

47:07

and what the plan was to look at. I think that's going

47:09

to make quite clear why we're here, but

47:11

sure. We go to the gate and

47:14

we leave. The gate is

47:16

extremely imposing, so I understand why you've

47:18

left it until last. It's

47:21

unbelievably high and doesn't look climbable.

47:24

It is covered in nasty looking spikes that

47:26

you think would shred even the strongest rope

47:28

and certainly your hands. There's

47:30

no lock. In the

47:32

centre of the gate is the

47:34

ugliest gargoyle you've ever seen with

47:36

an angry beak and extraordinarily sharp

47:38

talons. When you approach,

47:40

you notice that his breath stinks. He

47:43

looks at you and chants the following

47:45

in the voice of the wizard. If

47:48

you can reveal to me men

47:51

who've lost their dignity, all

47:54

in number who've become, birds

47:56

entrapped in this garden. Also

48:01

days from start ensmered, reposing,

48:05

shut in and confined. Daring

48:08

soul you will have won the

48:10

right to leave when all is done.

48:13

Or if your count contains an

48:15

error, our feathered

48:17

friends keep you forever. Not

48:21

a super elegant poem but maybe goggles

48:23

aren't very good at writing poetry. Maybe

48:25

it's a bit of a, you know,

48:27

are they called vogons or vlogons in

48:29

the... Yeah, vogon poetry. Vogon poetry,

48:32

maybe it's a bit like that. If

48:34

you try to come closer or ask me questions, if

48:36

he says angrily at you and repeats its

48:38

terrible poem. And if you like I can

48:40

send you a copy of that poem. Please send us

48:42

a gloppy of the bone. I don't like the

48:45

idea of being trapped here forever because it seems

48:47

like our only option would be to be our

48:49

fourth favourite bird at this point. Don't

48:51

worry, I've been saving my real favourite bird the whole time and

48:53

it's been my back pocket. For when we get turned into a

48:55

bird. So

48:57

to recap, if you can reveal to me men

48:59

who've lost their dignity all in number have become

49:02

birds and trapped in this garden. In

49:04

addition also days from start

49:06

ensnared, reposing, shut in and

49:08

confined. Daring soul you will have won

49:10

the right to leave when all is done. Or

49:13

if your count contains an error, our feathered

49:15

friends keep you forever. So what

49:17

do we need here? Well it sounds like we're looking for

49:19

a number. One, people have

49:21

become birds. Yep. Two,

49:24

how many days have we

49:27

slash people been trapped here which seems

49:29

related to the flowers and their Roman

49:31

numerals? Yep. It

49:34

also says in addition so we might have to add things

49:36

up together. Okay so

49:38

what do we do now? Do you want to use the nose

49:40

on the flower stems? Oh I wanted to use the

49:42

key on the shed. Oh of course we have the key,

49:44

we never open the shed. I'd rather do that. Yeah yeah yeah

49:46

yeah. Let's open the shed. So if

49:48

you use the key from the sundial to open

49:51

the shed, you hear a clunk on the back

49:53

of the door as you open it. Clunk. And

49:56

inside the shed on the ground you see

49:58

a broom and a small coal. Is there

50:01

anything else, anything written on said broom in cauldron?

50:03

Can we inspect them further? Sure,

50:05

if you inspect them really closely, the broom just

50:07

looks like a broom. On the

50:09

bottom of the cauldron you see some

50:12

text that says Instacauldron. No fire required,

50:14

just add ingredients. And

50:16

in the background, again for fun,

50:19

the bird, the pelican in her

50:21

cage says free. And

50:23

those wind chimes keep jingly jingly chiming.

50:26

Yeah we gotta free this pelican so

50:28

it'll shut up. So what

50:30

do we do to free a pelican? It's in

50:32

a cage. You hit it with a broom, you

50:34

don't hit it with a broom. Yeah, the cage's

50:36

brass has markings that are

50:38

not descriptive enough to get like a, let

50:41

me tell you what these markings are, sort of a situation. Re-typing

50:44

free doesn't do anything. When

50:46

this doesn't have a cage smashing device. Yeah,

50:48

how do you silence wind chimes besides cutting

50:51

them down and lying them carefully on the

50:53

ground? Maybe that's the way we don't need it besides. Can

50:55

we take them down and lie them carefully on the ground so they

50:57

stop, oh they were too high. We have a broom. We've

50:59

got a broom, we've got a broom, we can knock them off. Does that get them

51:01

down? If I knock them off they'll

51:03

get them down. Okay. You do indeed,

51:05

take the broom over and it's the perfect nice tip

51:08

on the ground. Don't you put them on the ground. They're

51:12

blessedly silent. Now you've just got

51:14

a very sad, grumpy, noisy

51:16

pelican to deal with. And

51:20

I must confess, you

51:22

haven't followed your own grand tip

51:25

for this podcast. Oh.

51:28

Re-gaying. Well, let's usually check

51:30

the door, but didn't we just check the door? What counts

51:33

as a door? Oh, we just walked into the shed. What's

51:35

on the inside of the shed door? Yeah, that's fair. On

51:38

the inside of the shed door. I'm so

51:40

glad you had a look. You see a

51:42

potion bottle hanging from a book. It

51:44

is filled with sparkly liquid. The

51:46

label on the outside reads, freedom

51:49

potion. Oh. Mixed with four red

51:51

mushrooms, three blue mushrooms, and

51:53

two orange mushrooms. I can send you an

51:55

image of that if you like, but it's

51:57

pretty much as described. Can we just take

51:59

those? mushrooms from our mushroom garden, stick

52:01

them in the pot, mix this freedom potion

52:04

in. Sure, you can

52:06

give that a go. So hang on, I'm going to

52:08

send you the image just in case, just so I

52:10

don't get lost and distracted. And

52:13

can you tell me again exactly what you're

52:15

doing, please? We take the freedom potion,

52:17

we pour it into the instant cauldron.

52:20

Make sense. We go over to

52:23

our mushroom garden

52:25

and we pick four red mushrooms,

52:27

three blue mushrooms and two orange

52:29

mushrooms. And we also throw those

52:31

into the instant cauldron or

52:34

Danny would like not to do that. I

52:37

think we'll have a complicated when it tells us we're wrong. Yep. Because

52:40

we might be right. That's fair. This could

52:42

be an elaborate double block. But alas,

52:44

it is not this wizard does seem

52:46

rather main. And because as

52:48

you mix them all together, the sparks

52:50

disappear from the liquid and the potions

52:52

doesn't look quite right. How frustrating. Something

52:55

seems to be amiss with the instructions, but

52:57

you still have a little bit of freedom

52:59

potion left probably enough for one more attempt.

53:02

Well, I have another thought. Can

53:04

we for the red

53:06

one supplement violet

53:09

mushrooms, we could be two steps back

53:11

and one step forward on the rainbow

53:13

bridge intriguing. And then for the blue

53:15

ones, we substitute green mushrooms. And for

53:17

the oranges, we substitute red mushrooms. Did

53:20

say that that would lead to freedom, didn't

53:22

it? Yeah. Are you happy to do

53:24

that? Yeah, two steps back and one step forward

53:26

is basically one step back. So yeah,

53:28

I think I'm happy with that. So

53:30

wait, what did you say again? So

53:32

red goes to violet.

53:35

Okay, two steps back to indigo, then one

53:37

step forward to violet. Blue

53:40

goes to green, two steps back to yellow, one

53:42

step forward to green. And

53:45

the whatever yellow one was it? No,

53:47

orange. I can't remember the other. It

53:49

was orange in the instructions. It would

53:51

go to red, two steps backwards to

53:53

violet, one step forward to red. Okay.

53:55

So I think if we

53:57

swap them for those colors, it should work.

54:00

Alright, fabulous. As you

54:02

mix those new mushrooms in, oh,

54:05

tiny little fireworks fly out from the cauldron.

54:07

This potion looks like it's ready to grant some freedom.

54:09

What would you like to do with it? Drink

54:12

it ourselves and escape. You

54:14

start drinking it and as you do,

54:17

or you feel really queasy in the

54:19

stomach, and you just feel overwhelmed with

54:21

guilt, nothing else happens. Fine,

54:23

we free the pelican. Feed

54:26

it to the pelican, or drizzle it over the pelican.

54:28

We throw the bottle from here at

54:31

the pelican. Nudge it in. Like a

54:33

molar tough cocktail. Like a molar tough cocktail.

54:35

On the pelican. The poor pelican is covered

54:37

in glass but also freed in potion. And

54:39

as that happens, the cage opens and

54:42

the bird flies to the roof of the

54:44

greenhouse with its friends. Oh, it's

54:46

finally quiet. And as you do that,

54:48

the potion bottle twists and morphs into

54:50

your hands and it turns into your

54:54

fourth favourite bird. What?

54:56

What that is. Cucaburra? No.

54:58

No, you don't think? What about a...

55:00

How about canaries? A canary? Yeah. All

55:03

right, a canary. It turns into

55:05

a canary and the cauldron

55:07

shudders and collapses into the grass in

55:09

front of the cage. Beautiful,

55:11

and how? It's quiet.

55:14

We all shut up. We

55:16

shouldn't have introduced a canary to this

55:18

situation. Oh, so still. As

55:21

you stand very, very quietly, rather than

55:24

hunting for rabbits, all of a sudden

55:26

water starts flowing in the fountain again.

55:29

Does it stop if we make noise or does it

55:31

continue? Nah, she's pretty generous. She just needed a moment

55:33

of serenity. She's a bit like Louie's mum. She just

55:35

needed sort of 20 minutes and then she was fine

55:37

and could get on with her time. So

55:39

there is now water flowing. What do we need water

55:41

for? Possibly for growing stuff. Can we just pour onto

55:44

the plants that are sad? They weren't

55:46

really sad. You don't know how

55:48

magic plants go. I suppose that's true. Can

55:50

we take some water in a... In

55:53

a... And? Instant cauldron

55:55

and... Instant cauldron collapsed, unfortunately.

55:57

That was really frustrating and

55:59

inconvenient. Yeah, do we have

56:01

access to our pockets of little pots and

56:03

things like that? Do we have little pots and things like that?

56:05

I don't think there are any little pots. How do you

56:07

even do potting without pots? We probably do. They

56:10

were given in the bench. Yeah, we probably do need

56:12

it for the bench. Okay. That's where

56:14

we need the grass stuff. This is where we'll need the pelican. Aww,

56:17

we use the pelican. You've done

56:19

a great job exploring, but for one

56:21

more time there's another possibility in which

56:24

you haven't followed your own pet tip.

56:26

True. We haven't checked that out in the greenhouse.

56:28

Oh, you want to go back to the

56:31

greenhouse door as well? Worth a shot. It

56:33

was seen through the whole time. It was foggy. It was all

56:35

steamy, so you couldn't. Oh, it was all steamy. All right, let's

56:38

have a look at the door to

56:40

the Grand-Chise. So,

56:42

if you look at the back of

56:44

the door of the greenhouse, you see

56:46

a recipe card that says magical plant

56:48

growing rules. How to grow

56:51

plants with glowing flowers, chip-flavored

56:53

stems, chocolate flowers,

56:55

and brass bowl-shaped leaves.

56:58

And I'm going to send you an image. Dani,

57:00

would you like to read the magic plant growing

57:02

rules? Shall we take it line by line? Yeah,

57:05

sure. Great. You can

57:07

start. So, the first line is telling us

57:09

about different mediums that we can grow in,

57:12

I assume. Our options being

57:14

beach sand, pink shells, black glass

57:16

marbles, and purple crystals. The

57:18

seed shapes are heart, star,

57:21

spike, and triangle. And

57:23

powers are glowing flower, chip-flavored

57:25

stems, chocolate flowers, and brass

57:27

bowl-shaped leaves. Wonderful. There

57:29

are seven rules to follow. Here is the

57:32

first of all seven. The

57:34

multi-syllable seed shape, oh, it's

57:36

a logic puzzle, grows in

57:39

a multi-syllable coloured medium. Not

57:41

there. Now, do you interpret

57:44

that as a medium with a multi-syllable colour?

57:46

Yes. Okay. Number

57:49

two? The seed that grows in beach sand becomes a

57:51

glowing flower. Number three? The

57:53

seed that grows bowls doesn't grow in a

57:56

medium you'd be likely to find at the

57:58

beach. Number four? don't

58:00

grow in a medium that starts with P. Number

58:03

five, glass marbles grow some kind

58:06

of special flower. Six,

58:08

glass marbles and stars cooperate

58:11

to grow a plant. The

58:13

shape of the seed that grows in

58:15

beach sand doesn't start with an S.

58:18

Do we want to draw out one of those lovely

58:20

little grids? A little bit, a little bit. You know

58:22

how to draw those. One, two, three, four. It's been, I'm

58:24

a little bit rusty, but yeah. I

58:27

didn't know those grids existed when I made

58:29

this puzzle. And then afterwards I went, wow,

58:31

that would have been so much easier to

58:34

make the puzzle if I knew these grids

58:36

existed. You'd think

58:38

making these puzzles is horribly hard all the

58:40

time. It was really hard and I spent

58:42

a lot of time testing wondering if I

58:44

had sufficient information or not. Yep, it's very

58:47

difficult. All right, so Danny's made a

58:49

grid. For people who haven't done these before, you can do

58:51

these logic puzzles by just comparing everything against each other. In

58:54

this case, you do, there are three categories,

58:56

right? Each of four options.

58:58

There's four mediums, four shapes, four powers.

59:01

So you make a grid that is a 4x4

59:04

grid that would be like

59:07

mediums versus seeds. And

59:09

then to the right of it, you put another 4x4

59:12

grid, which would be powers

59:15

against seeds. And then below

59:17

the initial grid, you'd put a 4x4,

59:19

which is mediums versus powers, I

59:22

believe. So now, as you go,

59:24

everything compares to everything else. You

59:26

can sort of cross things off when they're not available and

59:29

it becomes a whole big thing. Danny

59:31

is currently creating said grid.

59:33

Low, chip,

59:36

shock, and brass. Okay,

59:39

grid, gridded. Can

59:41

we swap, can I use your pencil in case I make

59:43

horrible horrible mistakes? Please use this pencil. Thank you. Okay,

59:46

so let's go through these again. Well, if

59:48

we do take that to be the colour, it has to be in

59:50

purple crystals, right? That's

59:58

how I understand. Beach sand has

1:00:01

no colour. Pink shells is a one

1:00:03

syllable colour. Black glass marbles is a

1:00:05

one syllable colour. Purple crystals has a

1:00:07

multi-syllable colour. That feels right to me.

1:00:09

So I will mark that in my

1:00:11

grid. And when Dennis is marking the

1:00:13

grid, it basically means you tick off

1:00:16

like, triangle and

1:00:18

that medium, and then you cross all the other stuff.

1:00:20

The intersection of triangle and purple crystal, and then you

1:00:22

cross out all of the others that we have now

1:00:24

ruled out. Okay, the seed that grows

1:00:27

in beach sand becomes a

1:00:29

glowing flower. That's great. So

1:00:31

on the comparison from powers to seeds,

1:00:33

or for it to medium, you know that

1:00:36

beach sand equals glowing flower. The

1:00:38

seed that grows bold, so

1:00:40

that's brass, bold shaped leaves,

1:00:43

now it doesn't grow in a medium

1:00:46

you'd likely find at the beach.

1:00:48

Which means it doesn't grow in the beach sand

1:00:50

or the pink shells, but it could

1:00:53

grow in the black glass marbles or the

1:00:55

purple crystals. All right. That means it could

1:00:57

be the triangle seed if it grows in

1:00:59

purple crystals, because we know that that would

1:01:01

be triangle seed. Okay, heart shaped

1:01:03

seeds don't grow in a

1:01:05

medium that starts with P. Which

1:01:08

is pink shells and purple crystals. So they're

1:01:10

either, no shells. And we

1:01:12

already knew it doesn't grow in purple crystals because

1:01:14

we know that triangle grows in purple crystals. Ah,

1:01:17

glass marbles grow a special kind of

1:01:19

flower. So either glowing or chocolate, those

1:01:21

were the two flowers. Ah,

1:01:23

so we know that the black glass marble

1:01:26

as a medium connects

1:01:28

to glowing flower or

1:01:30

chocolate flower. It is definitely not brass

1:01:32

shaped, bold. It is not chip

1:01:34

flavoured stem. Right, because

1:01:36

I have it as not being

1:01:38

glowing either, because glowing was beach

1:01:41

sand. Which

1:01:43

means that I think it must be chocolate. You

1:01:46

think black glass marble must be chocolate flower? I think it

1:01:48

has to be. I love it. Glowing flower is beach

1:01:50

sand. Yeah. Glass

1:01:53

marbles and stars cooperate.

1:01:56

Does that mean that star goes in glass

1:01:59

marble? Is that what that means?

1:02:02

I reckon that's what it might mean. Yep, just

1:02:04

let me. Oh boy, I've

1:02:06

got some things to write up. So you

1:02:09

go with brass now. Right,

1:02:12

getting there. Grid almost

1:02:14

complete. And the final

1:02:16

clue, if you're ready for it. Please. The

1:02:19

shape of the seed that grows in

1:02:21

beach sand does not start with an

1:02:23

S. Great, because I currently have that as a heart. Wonderful.

1:02:27

Works perfectly. Okay, I've got

1:02:29

a grid. Danny has a fully

1:02:31

formed grid. I don't know why

1:02:33

I'm handing it to you. Yes, you can hand it to me. You can take

1:02:35

it back. For the grand announcement almost. Danny.

1:02:38

Well, hold on, what are we doing with this?

1:02:40

Are we now grabbing stuff and putting them together

1:02:42

and shoving them in divots? I think

1:02:44

we're grabbing stuff and putting them together and shoving them in

1:02:46

divots. Or do we just, like, are we

1:02:48

going with which ones we need at any given time?

1:02:51

Like right now it seems like you want some

1:02:53

water, so do we want them just the bowl-shaped

1:02:55

ones right now? Depends if you want

1:02:57

a snack as well. Good point. Let's

1:02:59

grow them all. Alright, one of each.

1:03:02

Yeah. Screw spatial possible limitations

1:03:04

of the future. Or divots, you'll be fine.

1:03:06

Okay, well in that case, in divot one,

1:03:08

I would like to

1:03:10

take some beach sand and

1:03:15

put in some heart-shaped seeds. Great.

1:03:18

Wait patiently for them to make

1:03:20

some glowing flowers. And

1:03:23

that happens. And now it's a

1:03:25

little bit like festoons on a back veranda in

1:03:27

Queensland. The whole place is a little bit more

1:03:29

atmospheric. Makes sense. In the

1:03:32

next one, I would like to take some of

1:03:34

the black-gloss marbles and put some star-shaped seeds into

1:03:36

them, expecting to be able

1:03:38

to eat some chocolate flowers. You

1:03:40

do now have plenty of chocolate. I'm not sure if birds

1:03:43

can eat chocolate. I know dogs can't, but you can eat

1:03:45

some chocolate if you like. Freaking. Wait,

1:03:48

have we been birds this entire time? No. We

1:03:51

will be. Well. If you get

1:03:53

things wrong. I'd like to. Do we

1:03:55

have any pink shells or do I need

1:03:57

to take them from the wind chimes outside?

1:04:00

There are pink shells sitting on the

1:04:02

shelf. Great. Well, I'll take

1:04:04

some of them and I'll put some little spiky

1:04:06

seeds in there. Not a fan of holding them,

1:04:09

but I'll do it because I would like some

1:04:11

chip stems. Fabulous. And

1:04:14

then at long last, the one that seems most important

1:04:16

to us at the moment, some purple crystal medium, and

1:04:19

I'd like to put in some triangle

1:04:21

seeds to get myself some bowl leaves.

1:04:24

And bowl leaves you get. So

1:04:26

suddenly you have vast bowls

1:04:29

about the size of large buckets.

1:04:32

Excellent. Nice. We fill the bowls

1:04:34

with chip-flavored stems and we eat

1:04:37

the chips. We just hang. Sounds

1:04:39

great. Okay, well, we have bowls of water. Do we

1:04:42

want to water the dead creeper? It seems like

1:04:44

you wanted to see it watering the dead

1:04:46

plants. I see that doesn't need to. Yeah,

1:04:48

give it a shot. Sure, absolutely. So as

1:04:50

you use those bowls to carry the water

1:04:53

from the now very happy-looking fountain over, almost

1:04:55

as if by magic because it's a wizard's

1:04:57

garden, suddenly flowers sprout and I'm

1:05:00

going to send you a new image.

1:05:02

Okay. New image.

1:05:04

The last image in fact, which

1:05:07

is hopefully an encouraging sign. All

1:05:09

right. People

1:05:12

can see this image yourselves, but we have

1:05:14

new flowers that have grown.

1:05:16

In a different order to the

1:05:18

last. So before we had those

1:05:21

blank stems that were XII VXII,

1:05:24

they are now a cream X, a

1:05:27

light blue I, a

1:05:29

dark blue IV, a

1:05:32

teal X, a dark

1:05:34

red I, and

1:05:36

a cherry red I. So we're missing a color

1:05:38

that was there before? The

1:05:41

last one had pink. Oh,

1:05:44

we don't have pink? Yeah.

1:05:47

Interesting. My initial thought

1:05:50

of stick all the blues

1:05:52

together and read them together feels less likely

1:05:54

now that we have II VX, which is

1:05:56

not really a number. So

1:05:59

it must be a number. mean perhaps we ignore

1:06:01

everything that isn't blue? Counting

1:06:03

our days in prison makes us feel blue.

1:06:06

Which was where I was at. We

1:06:09

still have this witch face. Hmm,

1:06:12

what do you know about blue? Well

1:06:14

there's in any sense of the word blue is

1:06:17

blue. So can we get some like blue

1:06:20

definitions from a witch who smells blue?

1:06:23

What do you want her to smell for

1:06:25

you? Smell the pink. Does

1:06:28

that have any blue in it? Sure,

1:06:30

so if you hold that nose

1:06:32

up to the pink she

1:06:35

smells... she's a big, snorty,

1:06:37

snuffly, slightly snorty filled smell

1:06:40

and she says mmm strawberries.

1:06:45

Oh, strawberries? Pink strawberries, that

1:06:47

makes sense. Okay hold

1:06:49

on, like let's do this methodically. We're on

1:06:51

the west wall. Okay. What if she smells

1:06:53

light blue? Strawberries.

1:06:57

What? Is she bad at

1:06:59

her job? What if she smells

1:07:02

red, cherry red? Blueberries.

1:07:05

What? You freak.

1:07:08

Okay hold on. Okay

1:07:10

what about cream? Strawberries.

1:07:15

Dark red? Strawberries.

1:07:19

All right we can skip the pink. Pink,

1:07:22

what was pink? Pink with strawberries. Okay. Uh

1:07:24

what about dark blue? Strawberries.

1:07:29

And teal? Strawberries.

1:07:32

Well I think we should ignore

1:07:34

those ones because they're still blue.

1:07:39

They might smell like strawberry but they're still blue.

1:07:43

Okay hold on. So far

1:07:45

the only one here was the single

1:07:47

eye from cherry red that smelled blue.

1:07:50

Yeah the cherry red thinks you're the only

1:07:52

one that smells blue and then there are

1:07:54

others that look blue exactly. Okay

1:07:56

in any sense. Thank you. Now

1:07:58

are these colours... Do those, those

1:08:00

on smalls carry

1:08:03

along to the north wall? Do they hold true for the north wall?

1:08:05

Do they also contain? They do indeed hold true for the

1:08:07

north wall. Okay, so on

1:08:09

the west wall, if we're reading left to right,

1:08:11

we would have I X

1:08:14

for light blue. Yep. I

1:08:17

for cherry red. Secret sneaky red. And

1:08:19

then nothing else but then dark

1:08:22

blue is V and teal

1:08:24

is I. Then on

1:08:26

the north wall, we

1:08:28

would have an I for light blue, an

1:08:31

IV for dark blue, an

1:08:33

X for teal, and

1:08:35

an I for cherry red, which is

1:08:38

technically blue in

1:08:40

one of the senses. So anything that is

1:08:42

any kind of blue, we have now collected together, and it is 9 1 5 1

1:08:44

1 4 10 1. Cool.

1:08:51

I'm assuming that everything that you said

1:08:53

there was correct. Yes, if

1:08:55

you can reveal to me men who've lost their dignity or

1:08:57

the number who've become birds and trapped in this garden. So

1:08:59

far, I see four of those. Four birds. Four

1:09:02

birds. Do you remember what birds they were? This

1:09:04

is just a bonus memory quiz at this point. Yeah, there's

1:09:06

a pelican. A bush turkey. A turkey. The

1:09:09

data. Australian data. And a canary.

1:09:12

And a canary. I love it. Great.

1:09:15

Bonus point. In addition, also days from

1:09:17

start in SNED. So do we add

1:09:19

all these days together? Well, let's see in

1:09:21

addition. Four plus nine plus one

1:09:23

plus five plus one plus one plus four plus

1:09:25

ten plus one. Boy, was that not the

1:09:27

order that I wrote them down in. That's

1:09:29

the correct order. Lucky addition doesn't

1:09:31

matter what order it's in. Why

1:09:33

did you start with four? That's the

1:09:35

number of birds. Oh, sorry. I thought

1:09:38

you were still just talking about the Roman numerals. No,

1:09:40

I was adding the birds at the start. So

1:09:43

we get the four birds, and then we move on to plants. So

1:09:47

13, then 14, then 19, then 20. You

1:09:52

look at me like I'm wrong. Again, I'm

1:09:54

still just not counting the birds yet. And

1:09:57

then 21, and then 24, and then 30. 34

1:10:00

and then 35. All the numbers we've got together seems to be 35.

1:10:03

I got 36! Hold on. 4 plus... Okay,

1:10:06

hold on. The numbers... The

1:10:08

numbers here are 9 plus 1. Plus

1:10:12

5 is 15. Plus 1 is

1:10:14

16. Yes.

1:10:19

Yes. Yes. Yeah,

1:10:22

it's 36 is all it has been. So,

1:10:27

36 is the birds plus all of

1:10:29

those numbers. Or if we say it in a more

1:10:31

poetic, birdly fashion, 4 and 32. Ooh!

1:10:35

1 score and 16. 1 score, 1 dozen.

1:10:41

We're going full French. And 4. Do

1:10:44

we go up to the gargoyle

1:10:47

and we say, hey gargoyle, the

1:10:50

answer is 1 score,

1:10:52

1 dozen. And

1:10:55

4. Assuming that we are not yet

1:10:57

birds. Assuming that we are not birds... If

1:10:59

you look at yourselves, you do not have feathers at this stage.

1:11:01

It is 1 score, 1 dozen and 4. Assuming

1:11:05

that means 36 because I can't keep track

1:11:07

very well. Nice. He

1:11:10

gnashes his beak and he laughs in

1:11:12

your face and he spews disgusting

1:11:14

smelling breath at you. He's

1:11:17

not just seeing hair! He's

1:11:19

showing you the instructions. You counted the

1:11:21

birds. Counted birds. You counted

1:11:23

the days in traps. We did. You

1:11:26

read his dumb, bad, awkward

1:11:28

poem multiple times and

1:11:31

he's laughing at you if he's wrong.

1:11:33

This wizard really does not seem very

1:11:35

reasonable. He was tricking me

1:11:37

before, I don't know. Yeah, I got

1:11:39

it. It's 37. Why

1:11:42

is it 37? You read

1:11:44

that poem. Okay, hold on. I'll read it

1:11:46

again. No, don't read the whole poem again. Oh.

1:11:49

Just the important parts. Men

1:11:52

who've lost their dignity. No, no,

1:11:54

the important parts. Birds and traps in this garden.

1:11:56

No, no, no, no. What are the important parts

1:11:58

of a poem? If men...

1:12:01

well... I'm a bird too the

1:12:03

first letter to be a bird. The first letters of

1:12:06

every line of every poem I turn

1:12:08

to gargoyle. You stupid, pointy, big gargoyle

1:12:10

vogon. And

1:12:12

I say, thirty seven, you

1:12:15

absolute loser. This is some

1:12:17

Del Toroquest book two riddle B.S.

1:12:19

The first line of every, of every line,

1:12:21

the first letter of every line says I'm

1:12:24

a bird too. The

1:12:26

gargoyle sighs with relief

1:12:29

and he melts into a beautiful bird

1:12:32

with gold and silver and copper flimies. He looks

1:12:34

kind of like a wedge-tailed eagle to me. It

1:12:37

flies up the roof of the greenhouse to

1:12:39

join its friends and they all fly away

1:12:41

together into the distance. The

1:12:43

gate swings open. As

1:12:46

you watch those beautiful birds you breathe out and

1:12:48

then oh, oh, oh my gosh, this is really,

1:12:50

oh hang on, they're turning into people and they're

1:12:52

falling from the sky and I'm on my own.

1:12:55

But, but oh no, that's okay. They think

1:12:57

you're a cover. They begin to run off,

1:12:59

a raft with no clothes into the distance.

1:13:01

You quickly avert your gaze and

1:13:04

you also walk out the

1:13:06

gate and stretch and sign the freedom. You've

1:13:09

to maybe pick plants from a local witch

1:13:12

next time and not mess with this really,

1:13:14

really rude, unfair wizard or perhaps you

1:13:16

could even join your local gardening society

1:13:18

and learn to grow your own. The end,

1:13:20

you escaped. Well done. Did

1:13:24

we put the witch anywhere? The witch

1:13:26

head? Oh, that was just a nose.

1:13:28

Doesn't deserve freedom. You're still holding on. I don't know.

1:13:31

It depends how it climbs your floor. We can put it back. Well, do

1:13:34

we just want to be back? She seems happy. Okay. One

1:13:37

must imagine that witch happy. We'll

1:13:41

prop her up on the fountain. I think that she and the

1:13:43

statue have a thing for each other. You drown the witch. Aww.

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