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>look up dental consonants limited
Dental Consonants Limited is the largest and most successful linguistic engineering firm on the island, directly employing 15,000 people — 8% of the citizens of Anglophone Atlantis or 18% of the workforce. Thanks to its overwhelming significance to the local economy, DCL enjoys significant privileges in terms of support for its espionage policies. DCL builds a wide variety of machines for linguistic efficacy, but its most publicized efforts are in the area of letter-insertion. The company was originally formed to work on T, D, and N-insertion.

Oops! I missed your post, Cicerone.

>wave s-remover at pans
We reset the device to s. There is a flash of cerulean light, and the pans turn into a pan. An omelet-sized skillet in cast iron.

>x full pack
The flag of Canada is sewn on the back.

>open it
We open the heavy pack, revealing an assortment of very short shorts, a broomstick skirt, flip-flops, bikini bottoms, various t-shirts, an anorak, a fat guidebook to Europe, a cheap camera, and a box of tampons.

A little recap now that we’ve achieved two of our current goals. I’ll also repost the map. 

>goals
Here’s what we think we need to do:
  Meet your colleague Slango at Counterfeit Monkey

[Remember that you can move towards your goal locations with GO TO…]

>i
We are equipped with the following essentials: a backpack, a flash drive, a monocle, a pan (really the smuggled plans in disguise), a roll, your S-remover, and a tub of restoration gel.

We are also carrying an apple, an arm, a clock, Guidebook to Anglophone Atlantis, a jotter, a letter, some members, and a pearl.

The flash drive is in the backpack, which is gaping wide open so everyone can see what’s inside.

>score
You have earned 14 points:
  1 point for using the letter-remover
  3 points for passing through the temporary barrier
  3 points for winning the gel
  3 points for retrieving the backpack
  1 point for using the gel
  3 points for opening the locker

You have not yet removed a, b, c, d, f, g, i, j, k, n, o, p, q, t, v, or z from anything.

The achievements you have accomplished so far include:

  Finished tutorial mode

Do we go straight for the Counterfeit Monkey or do we explore north of the park first?
My tendency is always on exploration first…

> down
> w
> n

Monumental Staircase
Once, the central hillock of the city was a fortified enclave, protected from the harbor and the peasant town by great walls. Now, however, the walls are mostly gone, except for a little spur that runs north from here. The walkways and tower are open to the public.

Meanwhile a staircase as wide as a street descends east from the town square toward the harbor.

An enormous blue and orange warning poster covers the wall alongside the staircase.

We can go north, south to Heritage Corner, southwest to Fair, east, and west to Park Center from here.

It doesn’t matter if anybody objects or not. You’ll see.

>x clock
It appears to be one of those archetypal alarm clocks that crows at sunrise and generally makes a nuisance of itself. It shows the time to be about half past ten.

>x poster
“WARNING: Have you seen these dangerous individuals? If so, avoid contact and report all interactions to the Bureau of Orthography.” Below, there’s a picture of several people. One of them is you, before your face got shuffled with mine. It’s funny that when we met, you mentioned you were a user of illegally modified language-tools, but you didn’t emphasize the grand larceny side so much.

Not to worry. I won’t turn you in. I can hardly afford to, can I?

>e

High Street, early afternoon
Hustle, bustle, dirt; ugly American chain shops; lots and lots of people. There seems to be a large organized protest in progress: protesters completely cram the sidewalk to the southeast.

The curb is lined with garbage.

To the west, the street turns into a monumental staircase leading to the old fortified area; a cross street heads southeast towards the main roundabout.

From a loudspeaker nearby comes the electronic sound of simulated bells ringing the hour after noon. It’s later than I thought. We’d better get a move on.

The game immediately answered your question about time.

>x protesters
Hundreds of people pack the sidewalk, wearing slogans and carrying angry signs.

You have a fleeting thought of your crew’s heroism.

>remember crew’s heroism
Galley
The scene is the kitchen aboard Slango’s yacht: smaller than the kitchen in a comfortable house, but carefully and elegantly fitted. Brock and Slango were standing around, Slango with a lemonade and Brock with a chilled vodka.

The fourth person on the scene was Rivka Coutinho, a prisoner you’d sprung from Atlantean custody. She’d been caught running an illicit Hebrew school while nominally a visiting foreign employee of DCL.

“To not being in Cold Storage,” said Rivka, lifting her own glass. She swallowed and her eyes watered a little.

Rivka had spent the previous seventeen years as an inanimate object in a Bureau warehouse.

“You’ll be with them soon,” Brock said. “But I took these for you.” Silently he passed across the table glossy prints of Rivka’s daughter and granddaughter — a child she had never met.

Then we’re back in the present.

>wave b-remover at garbage
We reset the device to b. There is a daffodil-yellow cloud, and the garbage turns into a garage. It is a small but well-furnished garage for minor tuneups and repairs. It even comes with a mechanic: a surprising touch, since letter-removers are usually legally prevented from creating living persons, but sometimes there are glitches if the people are not created directly. Alas, however, it doesn’t come with a car in residence.

The mechanic nods at us.

>wear monocle
Everything turns computer-monitor green when viewed through our right eye. And staring fixedly at anything will turn up its authenticity status.

Luhr28 - 19 March 2021 10:16 AM

Karlok - 19 March 2021 10:11 AM

The game immediately answered your question about time.

I know! 
Although I’m still in the dark whether each move takes time or it’s just noon because we arrived at High St.

When we started it was noon. Now it’s early afternoon. The clock you wanted to look at is your lock. (It’s currently late afternoon for me in my own playthrough.)