Keep Oppo Problem Sleuth

"S65" (granthp) 08/05/2016 at 17:44 • Filed to: Problem Sleuth, Webcomic

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This is what being a hard boiled problem sleuth is all about. It’s about being a strong, silent type, oozing with confidence, charisma, and other fine qualities such as not being trapped in your own office. It’s about having a working phone. A real desk. Not one, but two steak dinners. And some hysterical broad on the line, yackin’ about some fella she’s got troubles with. It’s always the same thing with dames. You comfort yourself in your sublime fantasy by now and then saying things into the phone such as, “Now calm down a second, toots...” and “Hey, take it easy, sweetheart. I can barely understand a word you’re sayin’...” RING-RING. Your call is rudely interrupted by a ringing noise. It can’t be the phone, because you’re already on it!

You enter the SEQUENCE OF NUMERALS from the PIECE OF PAPER. The combination works! However, instead of opening the safe, the dial has simply popped open to reveal a keyhole. It looks like it requires a key that looks more like a house key or a car key, rather than one of those old fashioned looking keys which tend to be littered all over video games, and which you are quite sure you have never once seen lying around in your office. You don't need this PIECE OF PAPER anymore.

You unplug the false window, which is probably burning through electricity with its powerful fluorescent bulbs and strange spatial warping properties. You’re not made of money! The room goes dark.

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