joshuaandClaude Opus 5.5
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Add ten new games (18 in total) and the engine features they need. Story: Dead Air, The Masquerade at Montague House, The Kalahari Expedition, The Alchemist's Vault, Submerged: Deep Lab Nereid, The Kestrel Bank Job. Games can now set their own hint penalty and a hard time limit, shown as a countdown; running out ends the game with the fail ending. Defuse: Tick Tock: Overtime. Manuals are now rulesets, so each game has its own solver. Adds indicator lights, per-level strike limits, and the Passwords, Morse Light and Say It Back modules. Sync: In Sync: Deep Cuts. Adds telepathy (typed word) and ranking rounds, and a per-round bar for the key. Labyrinth: The Drowned Catacombs and The Mirror Maze. Adds one-way gates, a relative (no compass) Explorer, a mirrored Navigator map, and mazes with a lantern count other than three. Validation now rejects a maze where a gate can leave the Explorer stuck. Difficulty runs from 1 to 5. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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id: deep-lab-nereid
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engine: story
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category: escape-room
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title: "Submerged: Deep Lab Nereid"
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tagline: 300 metres under the sea. The lab is flooding. The clock is literal.
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estimatedMinutes: 35
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difficulty: 4
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players: { min: 2, max: 2 }
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theme: { primary: "#0b4f6c", accent: "#20bf55", background: "#03111a", headingFont: "JetBrains Mono" }
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rules:
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hintPenaltySeconds: 180
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timeLimitMinutes: 40
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timeLimitLabel: "Water level" # show the countdown as a rising water gauge
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roles:
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A:
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name: Pilot
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blurb: You're in the control room. Panels, sonar, and the launch console.
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B:
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name: Diver
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blurb: You're in the wet lab. Pipe diagrams, tank labels, the station map, and a lot of water.
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intro: |
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**Deep Lab Nereid**, 300 m below the Agulhas Current. Your shift was supposed to be quiet.
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At 03:12, a pressure seal fails. Alarms. Red lights. Water pouring through the wet lab.
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The rest of the crew made it to the first escape pod. You two are on opposite sides of a sealed hatch.
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The second pod is your only way out. **The water gauge is your timer. When it hits the ceiling, it's over.**
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chapters:
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- id: ch1
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title: Pressure Valves
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narrative: |
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The hatch between you won't open while any pressure warning light is on.
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The Diver can reach five valves. Turning a valve flips some of the warning lights.
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clues:
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A:
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- id: a1-lights
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title: Pressure warning panel (control room)
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type: diagram
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body: |
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```
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LIGHT: L1 L2 L3 L4 L5
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STATE: ON ON ON off ON
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```
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HATCH RELEASE: requires ALL LIGHTS OFF.
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Valve entry: type the numbers of the valves to turn, smallest first. Each valve once only.
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B:
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- id: b1-pipes
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title: Valve wiring plate (wet lab wall)
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type: diagram
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body: |
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```
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VALVE 1 → flips L1, L2
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VALVE 2 → flips L2, L3, L5
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VALVE 3 → flips L1, L4
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VALVE 4 → flips L3, L4
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VALVE 5 → flips L4, L5
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```
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"Flip" = ON becomes off, off becomes ON. Turning a valve twice undoes it.
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lock:
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id: lock-valves
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prompt: Which valves do you turn?
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inputType: code
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format: Valve numbers, smallest first (e.g. 23)
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answers: ["145"]
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hints:
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- Try it on paper. Each valve flips its lights, and order doesn't matter.
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- L1 is ON. Only valves 1 and 3 touch L1, so you need exactly one of them.
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- "Valves 1, 4 and 5. Check: L1 flips once, L2 once, L3 once, L4 twice (back to off), L5 once."
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successText: |
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**Valves 1, 4, 5.** Every light dies. The hatch hisses open, and you can finally see each other.
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Ankle-deep water. Keep moving.
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keyName: Valve Key
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- id: ch2
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title: Breathing Gas
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narrative: |
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The pod's air tanks are empty. The lab's mixing rig can fill them, but the mix has to be exactly right.
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clues:
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A:
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- id: a2-spec
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title: Pod life-support spec (launch console)
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type: document
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body: |
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**Fill pod tank to 210 litres.**
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Oxygen content must be exactly **21%**.
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Mixer input: litres drawn from **Tank X**. The rest is topped up from Tank Y automatically.
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B:
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- id: b2-tanks
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title: Tank labels (wet lab)
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type: table
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body: |
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| Tank | Contents | Oxygen |
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|------|-------------------|--------|
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| X | Nitrox | 36% |
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| Y | Low-oxygen mix | 15% |
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| Z | Pure helium | 0% |
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*Tank Z is not connected to the mixer.*
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lock:
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id: lock-mix
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prompt: How many litres from Tank X?
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inputType: code
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format: Litres
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answers: ["60"]
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hints:
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- You need 21% of 210 litres to be oxygen. That's 44.1 litres of oxygen.
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- If x litres come from X, oxygen = 0.36x + 0.15(210 − x).
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- 0.21x = 44.1 − 31.5 = 12.6, so x = 60.
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successText: |
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**60 litres.** The mixer hums. The pod's oxygen gauge settles at 21.0%. Water is at your knees.
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keyName: Oxygen Key
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- id: ch3
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title: Find the Pod
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narrative: |
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The second pod broke loose from its dock in the quake and drifted. Its beacon is pinging.
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You need to steer the tether crawler to the right square of the seabed.
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clues:
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A:
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- id: a3-sonar
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title: Sonar contact (control room)
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type: report
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body: |
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```
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CONTACT: ESCAPE POD 2
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Leg 1: 300 m, bearing 090 (due east) from the lab
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Leg 2: 200 m, bearing 180 (due south) from the end of leg 1
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```
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B:
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- id: b3-chart
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title: Seabed chart (wet lab)
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type: map
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body: |
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```
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A B C D E F G H I J
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1 . . . . . . . . . .
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2 . . . . . . . . . .
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3 . . . . . . . . . .
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4 . . . . . . . . . .
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5 . . . . [N] . . . . .
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6 . . . . . . . . . .
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7 . . . . . . . . . .
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8 . . . . . . . . . .
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```
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[N] = Lab Nereid. Each square = **100 m**. North is up.
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lock:
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id: lock-grid
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prompt: Which chart square is the pod in?
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inputType: text
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format: e.g. B4
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answers: ["H7"]
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hints:
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- Start at the lab's square, E5.
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- 300 m east is three squares east. 200 m south is two squares down.
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- E → F → G → H, then 5 → 6 → 7. H7.
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successText: |
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**H7.** The crawler latches on and reels the pod in. It docks with a clunk you feel in your teeth.
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Water is at your waist.
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keyName: Sonar Key
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finale:
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type: escape
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prompt: The pod's launch console wants a code word, typed on the ancient intercom keypad.
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clues:
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A:
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- id: af-log
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title: Station commander's last log entry
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type: log
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body: |
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```
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LAUNCH WORD (typed on the intercom keypad, pauses between letters):
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555 · 4 · 3 · 66 · 55 · 9 · 222
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```
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*The intercom is not a normal phone keypad. The engineers rewired it. Ask the wet lab.*
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B:
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- id: bf-keypad
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title: Intercom keypad (wet lab wall)
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type: diagram
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body: |
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```
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┌──────┬──────┬───────┐
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│ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │
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│ │ QWE │ RTY │
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├──────┼──────┼───────┤
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│ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │
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│ UIO │ PAS │ DFG │
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├──────┼──────┼───────┤
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│ 7 │ 8 │ 9 │
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│ HJK │ LZX │ CVBNM │
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└──────┴──────┴───────┘
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```
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Press a key once for its first letter, twice for its second, and so on.
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lock:
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id: lock-launch
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prompt: Enter the launch word.
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inputType: text
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format: One word
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answers: ["SURFACE"]
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hints:
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- "555 means key 5 pressed three times."
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- Key 5 is P, A, S. Three presses = S.
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- S · U · R · F · A · C · E.
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successEnding: |
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**SURFACE.** The pod seals. A thump, a lurch, and you're rising, fast.
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Through the porthole, the dark turns blue, then green, then gold. You break the surface
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into the sunrise, holding hands and laughing like idiots.
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**You escaped!** 🌊🔑
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failEnding: |
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The water reaches the ceiling. The lights flicker out. (Don't worry, it's a game. Try again?)
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