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| | *To answer my question, not load the mobile version of the page. Duh. --[[User:Misterstick|Misterstick]] ([[User talk:Misterstick|talk]]) 10:37, 4 April 2021 (UTC) | | *To answer my question, not load the mobile version of the page. Duh. --[[User:Misterstick|Misterstick]] ([[User talk:Misterstick|talk]]) 10:37, 4 April 2021 (UTC) |
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| − | Edit: Deleted comment. Sorry for the accidental spam. [[User talk:Quillathe Siannodel|<sup>{)|(}</sup>]][[User:Quillathe_Siannodel|Quill]][[User talk:Quillathe Siannodel|<sub>{)|(}</sub>]] 18:17, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
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| − | == Escape Station game ==
| + | Without information, nobody knows which part needs fixing. If anyone knows why this is incomplete, please post the reason here or, even better, in the incomplete tag. If nobody can provide a satisfactory answer, maybe we should consider removing the incomplete tag. '''Note that I am posting this exact same text on other comics of questionable incompleteness. It's not spamming, it's a conscious attempt to clean this category up.'''--[[User:Quillathe Siannodel|Quillathe Siannodel]] ([[User talk:Quillathe Siannodel|talk]]) 18:17, 6 April 2021 (UTC) |
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| − | Entering "START GAME" starts the game and gets the prompt "PLAY ESCAPE STATION? Y / N / OR ENTER CODE". From this point on the normal commands don't work. and the unkown command response is replaced by "INVALID COMMAND". Entering "N" cancel the game start ("ANOTHER TIME THEN"), I don't know what code(s) to enter. And entering "Y" starts the game ("YOU WAKE IN A WHITE BED IN A WHITE ROOM EXITS ARE OUT").
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| − | During the game it seems there are three game actions before the player drifts back to sleep and the station explodes, I haven't found commands that prevent station explosion, change the player status, prevent yawning or change the game score. The response on all game actions is followed by a yawming message and the text "EXITS ARE OUT"
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| − | Here are the commands I found so far :
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| − | * "HELP" -> "COMMON COMMANDS ARE LOOK INVENTORY OUT EXAMINE SOMETHING PRESS BUTTON GET SOMETHING FIRE SOMETHING QUIT" (does not count as a game action)
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| − | * "LOOK" -> "YOU ARE IN A WHITE BED IN A WHITE ROOM [..]"
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| − | *"LOOK" -> "YOU ARE IN A WHITE BED IN A WHITE ROOM [..]"
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| − | *"EXAMINE BED" -> "IT IS WHITE WARM AND COMFY YOU YAWN [..]"
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| − | *"OUT" -> "THE DOOR IS TOO FAR AWAY [..]"
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| − | *"GET UP" -> "YOU DO NOT SEE THAT HERE YOU ARE IN A WHITE BED IN A WHITE ROOM [..]"
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| − | *(at first game action) -> YOU ARE YAWNING
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| − | *(at second game action) -> YOU YAWN DEEPLY
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| − | *(at third game action)-> "YOU DRIFT BACK TO SLEEP A METEOR DESTROYS THE STATION YOU DIE WITH A SCORE OF 0 PLAY AGAIN Y / N"
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| − | List of interesting commands that didn't work : "LOOK [directions]", "INVENTORY", "INVENTORY OUT", "EXAMINE ROOM", "EXAMINE WALL", "PRESS BUTTON", "FIRE", "FIRE GUN".
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| − | [[User:Book|Book]] ([[User talk:Book|talk]]) 00:25, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
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| − | It looks like the the command SIT UP will progress you in the game with the response "YOU KICK THE BLANKETS AWAY AND CLAIM AN UNDESIRED VICTORY OVER SLEEP EXITS ARE OUT"--[[Special:Contributions/172.68.57.179|172.68.57.179]] 13:52, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
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| − | My current progress:
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| − | I pasted these helper scripts from the Scripts section above into the web console to make it easier to input stuff, this creates a text box below the comic:
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| − | <pre>BeepComic.hurryUp();
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| − | var input = comic.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createElement('input'), comic.nextSibling);
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| − | input.addEventListener("keydown", e => {
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| − | if (e.keyCode == 13) {
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| − | BeepComic.send(morse.encode(e.target.value));
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| − | e.target.value = '';
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| − | </pre>
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| − | SIT UP to get out of bed.
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| − | You can use LOOK to look around in places, EXAMINE <something> to take a closer look at stuff, GET <something> to take items, INVENTORY to check what you are carrying, HELP lists common commands. The LOOK command also lists you your exits, these are the places you can go to from your current position, just type in the place to go there (for example, OUT).
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| − | The game is a bit buggy, sometimes you get a save point with a password, if the game glitches out type QUIT and START GAME and enter that password. So far I've gotten "WAFFLEHOUSEFRIES", "GARBAGERAMAN" and "KRAFTDINNER".
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| − | Go OUT and enter the LIFT.
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| − | Go to the lab (PRESS YELLOW BUTTON in lift), GET the bottle from the table, OPEN BOX to receive a goo cannon, don't take the book as that will kill you as soon as you exit the lab.
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| − | Get back to the lift, go to the shuttle bay (brown button in lift), GET SONIC PULSER and LARGE BLUE LASER from the workbench, don't go in to the RIGHT lifepod as that kills you. You can enter the SHUTTLE, SIT COUCH to sit in the pilot's couch, EXAMINE DISPLAY, couldn't figure out anything else to do inside. Supposedly the shuttle's computer "accepts verbal commands", couldn't figure out any.
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| − | Get back to the lift, go to the cantina floor (purple button), immediately FIRE SONIC PULSER (or you die), enter CANTINA, FIRE SONIC PULSER again (or you die, probably), GET RUBBER BALL, EXAMINE TABLE, EXAMINE BODIES, GET BADGE. At this point you'll get the save point KRAFTDINNER (with a score of 35) upon exiting OUT of the cantina, and your INVENTORY should contain these items: A SONIC PULSER A LARGE BLUE LASER A RUBBER BALL A BADGE A BOTTLE AND A GOO CANNON.
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| − | Now you can access the red floor, but there's a deadly alien there, you can escape back into the LIFT, couldn't figure out what else you can do.
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| − | Firing the GOO CANNON or LARGE BLUE LASER insta-kills you everywhere I tried so far, including on the red floor with the alien (albeit with a different message). Maybe there's a way to read the book in the lab to learn how to use the goo cannon without dying?
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| − | You can OPEN BOTTLE to take the space pills in the inventory, but so far the game said that "this is not the time or place for space drugs" anywhere I tried.
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| − | The BLUE floor seems to be impassable, you can only get back into the lift.
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| − | The ORANGE floor kills you.
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| − | From here on I'm guessing you're supposed to either find a way to deal with the alien on the bridge on red floor, figure out how to open the blast doors of the left lifepod in the bay (brown floor), or figure out how to work the shuttle. Please post if you make more progress.
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| − | -[[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.96|162.158.92.96]] 11:30, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
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| − | : On the BLUE floor you can OPEN BOTTLE and you will see a message "YOU SWALLOW THE SPACE PILLS AND DISCARD THE BOTTLE YOUR EYES SWIM AND EARS POP" then you can progress into engineering and access a terminal.
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| − | On the terminal is a MICROPHONE and a note that says "AT TOGGLE POKER CANNON WITH COMMANDER TO BACK CHANGE SOON MODES" which I assume has something to do with the cantina. If you PRESS BUTTON, you will be prompted to "DISPENSE?", but entering a command will cancel the prompt. I don't know how to progress from here, if anyone has made further progress please post further information --[[User:BrightBlackHole|BrightBlackHole]] ([[User talk:BrightBlackHole|talk]]) 21:22, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
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| − | The page doesn't seem to work any longer due to some certificate error with the back-end CDN serving up the javascript files. --[[User:Tustin2121|Tustin2121]] ([[User talk:Tustin2121|talk]]) 17:29, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
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| − | I'm fairly sure that the maze is a reference to Nethack, a roguelike dungeon crawler. The Invocation Ritual, a step of proceeding towards the endgame, involves a bell, a candle, and a book, so this seems like a pretty deliberate reference. https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Invocation_ritual [[Special:Contributions/162.158.89.156|162.158.89.156]] 13:25, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
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| − | After you PRESS BUTTON, if you respond "YES" it will dispense an item which you will find is an EVA suit, now in your inventory. After you exit you'll get the code "GRILLEDCHEESEWITHBACON".
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| − | Afterwards you can return to the lift, wear the EVA suit and go to the orange floor. There you find a corridor with a tear in it, can't figure out yet what to do there... [[User:Boefjim|Boefjim]] ([[User talk:Boefjim|talk]]) 09:45, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
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| − | Done some further investigation, the note says to switch the goo cannon, so after WEAR EVA SUIT in the lift and going to the orange floor, you should TOGGLE GOO CANNON and FIRE GOO CANNON which fixes the tear.
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| − | You can then continue to SYSTEM DEFENSE where you PUSH SKELETON with a note called "THE OMEGA CODE", reading it seems to kill you in most situations so far. You can then PRESS BUTTON to active point defense. Leaving the orange floor will give you the code "KAREAGEDON" you can then safely go up to the red floor and FIRE GOO CANNON to kill the alien, which will give you the save code "PEIKINGRAVIOLI ".
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| − | On the red floor you can SIT ON COUCH and PRESS BUTTON to toggle shields, seems to have no influence as long as the system defense is also on. EXAMINE COUCH however says that the couch is lumpy and uncomfortable. I am suspecting there is some way to get an item from the couch but no idea what command to send to do so. [[User:Boefjim|Boefjim]] ([[User talk:Boefjim|talk]]) 10:39, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
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| − | Huh, you can SEARCH COUCH and you find a metal cube! It is "A DULL METAL CUBE WITH MARKINGS THAT READ STAYALIVE IFF TRANSPONDER MODEL 3235 DASH B". IFF here is presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identify_friend_or_foe ... so it will probably stop something else from attempting to kill you? [[User:Schoen|Schoen]] ([[User talk:Schoen|talk]]) 04:33, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
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| − | Speculation: if you turn off the shields while the system defense is on, it will eventually be safe(r) to leave the station in the shuttle, if you have the IFF transponder (because you won't bump into the shields, and the transponder will stop the system defense from shooting you). Maybe. Some current remaining mysteries:
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| − | (1) Could you do anything else in engineering apart from getting the EVA suit? Is there a way to break the safety glass? Is there a way to speak into the microphone? Once you've left engineering, you can't come back again (because you get dizzy but no longer have any pills).
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| − | (2) If you go back to your room (green level), it says that it's so white that you can't see anything. Is there a way to make it less white so that you potentially could see some object?
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| − | (3) Still wondering about the left escape pod door and/or the voice control for the shuttle on the brown level.
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| − | (4) What's the deal with finding an intact envelope?
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| − | (5) What's the deal with the pool of water in the laboratory and the laboratory notebook?
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| − | (6) Where can we usefully use the omega code, large blue laser, or rubber ball? They all seem pretty destructive in most contexts... [[User:Schoen|Schoen]] ([[User talk:Schoen|talk]]) 05:12, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
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| − | OK, I got something else (which may constitute victory!). From PEIKINGRAVIOLI, you can SIT ON COUCH, SEARCH COUCH, PRESS BUTTON (disabling the shields). If you then go back to your room (green level), you can GET WHITE ENVELOPE (you have to guess that it is there, since you can't see it). Then you can go to the shuttle bay (brown level), get in the shuttle, and READ ENVELOPE to the computer. You can then PRESS BUTTON and it then attempts to take you back through space to return your rented movie, and you escape from the station. (The cube from the couch on the red level is necessary in order not to be viewed as hostile while making your escape.) As we haven't apparently used the laser, omega code, rubber ball, or puddle, I wonder if there's more game content or subplots still to be found. [[User:Schoen|Schoen]] ([[User talk:Schoen|talk]]) 01:53, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
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| − | It seems that the comic is no longer interactive. It's been replaced by a GIF that simply alternates between checked and unchecked. The comic.js and morse.js files are still requested by the comic page, but return 404 errors. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.20|172.69.68.20]] 16:23, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
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