Item Catalog - Alphabetical Index
Babbalisk |
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| Description: | The babbalisk is a glowing reddish ball with six short spikes protruding from it in all directions. In between two of the spikes there appears to be a little door, which is closed. |
Bagloon |
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| Description: | The bagloon is a complicated-looking affair, with tubing and strange crystalline wires covering its exterior. It has two handles situated on one side, across from what appears to be a focusing mechanism of some sort. |
Bilge |
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| Description: | The bilge is a little green box with a button recessed into one side. |
| Push Button: | Advertisement: "Protect your belongings! Avoid worry! Forget about theft! Buy the X-gazax-bits factor-guaranteed FELAFEL today" |
Bork |
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| Description: | The bork is a perfectly smooth sphere about the size of a bowling ball. It seems unusually light for its size. |
| Think of: | ...The bork begins sending images into your mind of a dark subterranean corridor, a set of glowing coils, a large hopper, and a control panel...somehow the number 4 becomes imprinted on your brain. |
Bundle |
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| Description: | The bundle appears to be a little silver box with a long wire dangling out of one side and a switch built into the other. |
| Push Button: | Beams thoughts at you… First an image of a curved surface with millions of tiny lights. Then a set of four lights in a control console. Then a single one of the four lights which suddenly lights up. |
Cacapoo |
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| Description: | The cacapoo is a flexible green band of a sort of plastic-like substance |
Ceeveese |
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| Description: | This is a very useful tool. This shows you the coordinates of the location you are standing in. Corresponds to numbers on the maps. |
Cistle |
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| Description: | The cistle is made up of a series of small blue rings looping around to form a larger ring. Resting between two of the blue rings is a small blue button. |
| Push Button: | Creates a snuge |
Dampish |
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| Description: | The dampish is shaped like a ping-pong paddle except that near the joint between the handle and the flat part there is a small white button. |
| Push Button: | Creates a mongoo |
Dongle |
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| Description: | The dongle is a glowing purple sphere about the size of a baseball, with thousands of tiny little holes perforating its surface. Light seems to dance across the face of the dongle as you turn it this way and that. |
Drivel |
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| Description: | The drivel is a group of four boxes arranged in a square pattern with a small spacing between them. Thin transparent rods seem to be what holds the boxes together. There is a button on the underside of one of the boxes. |
| Push Button: |
See visions and hear explosions.. "CCOFFOGGNNORRAA GGALLAXXENNTTERR FFARRSSHHONN" |
Dweezle |
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| Description: | The dweezle consists of a solid hemispherical section of a milky-white color and a cube-like section attached to the hemisphere in the middle of its flat side. There appears to be a push-button on one side of the cube. |
| Push Button: |
Suddenly flashes brightly with light of strange, indefinable color (This seemed to destroy many items in the area!) |
Fashnork |
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| Description: | The fashnork has three arms coming out of a thin midsection, each arm terminating in a stub end. On one end of the midsection there is a glowing gold button. |
| Push Button: | Makes you completely invisible |
Felafel |
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| Description: | The felafel is a sort of thin hemisphere formed out of a very fine wire mesh. Near one end there is a tiny black box embedded in the mesh. |
Flingle |
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| Description: | The flingle is a round, flat solid with opaque gold faces but transparent edges. Something sparkling inside can be seen by peering through the edges. |
Fracas |
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| Description: | The fracas is a wide, metallic green disk, bowed out a little in the center, as though it were a section of a sphere. There seems to be a handle of some sort protruding from the middle of the concave side, formed of three rounded tetrahedra that meet in the center of the disk. |
Frakkle |
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| Description: | The frakkle is shaped like a smoothly worn pebble. It bears an inscription reading: "Eggs are forever" |
| Egg Chamber: | Putting a frakkle in the egg shaped chamber transports to Floor 2. |
Framus |
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| Description: | The framus is a bar of clear, cool crystalline material that seems to calm the nerves in your hand as you hold it. |
Gongo |
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| Description: | The gongo is an X-shaped object, about five inches from tip to tip. It feels strangely cold to the touch. |
Greeb |
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| Description: | The greeb is a long thin tube of some sort of thick metallic mesh, wound around itself in a spiral pattern. Iridescent patterns of light play over its surface. The ends of the tube are transparent, and a sparkling light of some kind can be seen inside. |
Gwingus |
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| Description: | The gwingus appears roughly spherical, with a slight speckled effect to its surface. It is a dull metallic silver in color, and it has a small blue pushbutton built into one end. |
| Push Button: | Wobbles around in your hands uncertainly for a moment and then lies still. |
Kootpod |
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| Description: | The kootpod appears to be made of five cylindrical pieces which come together in a central hub made of some kind of glass. Dimly through the glass you can see some kind of mechanism inside. The outer faces of the cylinders appear to glow most of the time. |
Kwish |
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| Description: | The kwish has three lobes protruding out from it symmetrically in all directions, as though it were formed by merging three tennis balls partway together. In the middle is a triangular hole, and on one side is a little button. |
| Push Button: |
Gives the code: 84 85 66 85 86 70 84 44 78 80 79 80 77 74 85 73 84 62 72 66 77 66 89 70 79 85 70 83...
This is an ASCII code. Subtract 1 from each: STATUES+MONOLITHS=GALAXENTER |
Mongoo |
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| Description: | The mongoo is a rod about an inch in diamter. It feels cold to the touch, even once you have been holding it for a while. |
Moolkoo |
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| Description: | The moolkoo is a yellow ovoid of a mysterious substance that doesn't seem to be quite entirely matter. Looking at it, you can't help but get the feeling that it is trying to communicate with you. |
Nabob |
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| Description: | The nabob is a spiral-shaped tube about three feet long. One end of the tube has a button built into it, while the other terminates in a metal plate that seems to glow most of the time. |
| Push Button: | Creates a gwingus |
Narn |
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| Description: | The narn appears to be a hodgepodge of miscellaneous elements, all held together by some sort of attractive force at the center. It seems to shoot out waves of some unknown type in all directions once every few seconds. |
| Think of: |
You feel a strange sensation in your head, as though something were trying to warn you of danger! A hazy image fights its way into your mind, a sort of
cylinder, with a cube of some indistinct material attached to one end. Then a sort of silvery sphere with an antenna on top jumps out at you, with a giant
open mouth! You feel a moment of sheer terror, and then the vision subsides. (This sounds like a quilbert) |
Narret |
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| Description: | The narret is a featureless gold sphere about the size of a basketball. It seems to weigh about ten pounds. |
| Think of: |
...Your mind feels suddenly burst open, as if an ethereal scalpel had just passed directly through your skull! You feel an alien presence probing around in your brain... thrusting here... poking there... You catch little wisps of thought from the presence: "where are they from?"... "do they know about the noodle and the drivel?"... "have they found the metastatic transfer chamber yet?"... "what color are the sparks?"... "is --" -- suddenly the thoughts are interrupted and you feel the presence depart as control of your brain is restored to you. (A noodle and a drivel make a snaack) |
Nebbish |
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| Description: | The nebbish looks like a set of three parallel transparent tubes held together by a sheet of red fire. A pistol-grip-type handle on the bottom allows for easy carrying of the device. |
Noodle |
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| Description: | The noodle is a foamy mass of blue goop that somehow manages to keep from coming apart or sticking to your skin. |
| Think of: | ...You sense the noodle beaming a vague mix of impressions at you of many different scenes, most of them strangely familiar, but no single impression is distinct enough for you to tell what it is. |
Nylarx |
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| Description: | The nylarx is shaped roughly spherically, but it has a jagged curve running almost all the way around the outside. It makes a little whirring noise, and occasionally something will bump around inside it as if trying to get out. |
Palt |
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| Description: | The palt is a pocket-sized piece of curved metal which tapers to a point at one end. It is bright blue. |
Quahog |
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| Description: | The quahog is a complicated collection of elements, all interconnected by glowing lines of energy. A spark shoots out of its interior from time to time. A glowing corona of ionized air surrounding it seems to always trap the sparks before they can do any damage. |
Quice |
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| Description: | The quice is a round furry thing. It would be difficult to say whether it is alive or not, just from looking at it. However, it feels warm to the touch, and it makes a whooshing sound every now and then. |
| Think of: |
...You begin to feel a sense of dreamy peace, as though floating out above the desert on a soft blue cloud... looking down, you see the city, and off to the southwest of it a diagonal row of four giant statues... then you notice a peculiar hidden trail in the desert, leading west from the statues a few miles... lazily following the trail with your eyes, you see it turn north for about twice as far as it went west, and then turn west again... and then perhaps north, or possibly east, or somewhere, who cares, it is all so restful here... the scene clears and you are back where you were, feeling considerably refreshed. This certainly seems to indicate the "Nofzinger" location. |
Quilbert |
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| Description: | The quilbert is a cylinder about a foot long, with a cube of some sort of spongy plastic attached to one end. As you tilt it back and forth, something sounds as though it is rolling around inside. |
Quorum |
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| Description: | The quorum is a round red box made of some hard, brittle substance. It has a large red button on one face, with a glowing gold ring around it. |
| Push Button: | "Does your voice not project as far as you would like? Are your friends always out of earshot when you need them? Consider investing in the Klong-Frenetix DONGLE, the subspace-powered, ion-free voice projection device with the exclusive Autoseek feature! Buy one this month only, and Klong-Frenetix will include a flatspace Automute bubble for free!" |
Ravus |
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| Description: | The ravus is shaped like two wide, thin boxes, sitting parallel, with a bar connecting them in the middle. The edges of the boxes are transparent, and a bright light of some kind can be seen sparkling inside. |
Rhubarb |
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| Description: | The rhubarb is a spongy ball of something resembling orange styrofoam. It is very light. |
| Think of: | ...You sense the rhubarb transmitting alien, alien thought patterns that are almost impossible to decipher... about all you seem to be able to pick up is something about a room with chromium plated walls, high, high up in a jet-black tower... |
Rommus |
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| Description: | The rommus is a flat black box with a button recessed into one end. It looks sort of beat up, as though nobody has had any use for it. |
| Push Button: |
You hear a voice saying "Help!" |
Ruckus |
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| Description: | The ruckus is a sort of flexible, mushy bag about the size and shape of a football. It looks a little scuffed up. |
Rukkle |
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| Description: | The rukkle is a small oblong piece of some kind of blue metal. The inscription on it says "Eggs are forever" |
| Egg Chamber: | Putting a rukkle in the egg shaped chamber transports to Floor 1. |
Scroom |
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| Description: | The scroom is a short, menacing-looking section of black tube, with a pistol-grip handle on one end and an antenna sticking partway out the other. Little red lights run up and down one side of the tube. |
Sepper |
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| Description: | The spper has two handles on one end, joined to a body that is roughly cone-shaped, tapering away to a dull point at the end away from the handles. It smells faintly of ozone. |
Snaack |
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| Description: | The snaack is a set of thick metal plates bolted together and supported by some sort of antigravity field so that it is possible to carry it. There is a button located in the middle of the plate on the front end. |
| Push Button: |
"North to dune is known to all, West to rune is where some fall, West again by two is where Those who then face north may dare Step two! And if they then step forth East five, and then go wand'ring north For three, too, one thing they must know Is which way after this to go." (Seems to indicate the "Blub" location) |
Snalt |
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| Description: | The snalt is a cube of cool clear crystalline material with a glowing green sphere embedded in its center. |
Snarp |
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| Description: | The snarp is a slender metallic ellipsoid with an inscription appearing along one side. The inscription reads: "Eggs are forever" |
| Egg Chamber: | Putting a snarp in the egg shaped chamber transports to Floor 3. |
Snuge |
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| Description: | The snuge is a sort of cube with little holes in one side and a button on the other side. It is bright red. |
| Push Button: |
You hear a voice saying "Attach me to a wigglesnort! Attach me to a wigglesnort!" (Attaching a snuge to a wigglesnort results in a dampish) |
Suvar |
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| Description: | The suvar is a cylindrical brown box with a gold stripe down one side. On one end there is a little switch of some kind, and on the other is a sort of horn-shaped aperture. |
| Push Switch: | Creates a wigglesnort |
Torkus |
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| Description: | The torkus is long and rectangular, and appears to be made of a clear, cool crystalline compound of some kind. |
Torrel |
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| Description: | The torrel looks a little like a grocery bag that has been inflated with air until somewhat round around the sides. It is made of a strange leathery material that feels cold to the touch. |
Tracton |
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| Description: | The tracton is made up of many filaments of a very thin, fine wire. The wire is composed of a cool, clear crystalline substance. |
Traset |
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| Description: | The traset is a collection of greenish-white cylinders apparently held together with a strong force field of some kind. The cylinders make a clanking sound as you move them around each other. |
Wapple |
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| Description: | The wapple consists of a blue toroid connected by a long thin wire to a switch. The wire is only partly solid in that it can pass through itself without getting tangled, but it cannot be stretched beyond a certain length. |
| Push Switch: |
Glows a deep purple and sings: "South from mesa fiven walks, Stumble I to rising sun, Then to find the Orb That Talks, South but one, and one, and one." |
Wigglesnort |
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| Description: | The wigglesnort is a small disk, sort of like a coin, except in the shape of a hexagon. |
Wongum |
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| Description: | The wongum appears to be an amorphous energy field of a light green color. It will not allow your hands to compress it beyond a certain point, but it does not have a definite shape either. Little flashes of light escape from it periodically. |
| Think of: | ...You seem to feel a sense of finality setting in, as though some irreversible process has just been set in motion. |
Wufflar |
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| Description: | The wufflar is a torus with a little red push-button protruding from the inside of the hole. |
| Push Button: | Creates a torkus |
Zarkon |
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| Description: | The zarkon is a dull black sphere about the size of a golf ball. It seems very heavy, and it even appears to be getting heavier all the time, although this is probably an illusion. |