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[SERENITY NOW!!]

Darn kids!
Serenity now!

SERENITY NOW!! 

AS A TRUE FAN OF THIS SERIES I HAVE TO SAY.

Passwords? Arcade Mode? Director's Cut? Side Missions?

YOU MUST BE A MAN TO HANDLE ALL OF THOSE.

As I said in the "Awesome!" trailer from a while ago, I was putting all that extra development time to good use! 

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Ponch, if you have a walkthrough txt, please provide. The cow never sent me for a package, all the cow wants is me to pose and to do that, I have to give May, crayons(done) and canvas(no idea where to get one).

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If you unlocked the location of the Postal Bunker, then she sent you on the mission to fetch the package. That's the only thing that will unlock that location.

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Once you've helped Mailbot get his tank back up the hill, go back to the bunker, talk to the sentries on the roof, go inside, show your badge to the guy standing against the wall, and he'll let you in the vault. Once inside, talk to the guy with the eye patch, tell him you're here to pick up a package. He'll put it on the table. Take it back to the cow and give it to her. That will set up the transmitter.

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Try that and let me know if it works.

I'm not a fan of 8-tracks, but vinyl is certainly a must

Also, Ponch, I keep reading "PE3nch" as "Peanch", heh.

What's not to love about 8-tracks? No fast forwarding. No rewinding. No sir, you'll listen to whatever song is ready to play and you'll just have to wait until your favorite song comes around again. 8-tracks taught us the value of perseverance. Unlike today's youth and their iBerry's and the MyFace and the googles and such. Darn kids. Getting to listen to their favorite songs whenever they want... grumble grumble...

I can not find the crayons.

Did you try buying some at the General Store? When you do, Clem says he stopped carrying them because a certain group kept stealing them.

Hint:

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After he complains about the orphans stealing them, he tells you to go to the truck stop and steal from them for a change. To the car!

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Look around and talk to the new person you find there. What you'll need to make the trade should be pretty clear once you've spoken with her.

Thanks for playing. I hope that helps.

By the way, will we be releasing on vinyl?

Given the old school roots of AGS, I would say that's a must!  
(In fact, I'm holding out hope for an 8-track!)

Parts 5 and 6?  Milking this series a bit, aren't you?  Why not just wrap it all together into part 4 and be done with it, that way I don't need to keep rifling through passwords.

THINK OF THE PASSWORDS!  You'll killing me, man.

To be fair, Forever Friday was always bloated and overstuffed with shoddy puzzles and too much dialog. It's not like I didn't announce that from the outset. It only SEEMS more bloated because I'm taking so long to finish it, giving people more time to reflect on just how poorly made and generally slapped together my games are.

And a true dudebro doesn't complain when life throws some hardships (i.e. passwords) in is path. He just mans up and does what he has to do. You have to set an example for the younger dudebros like Ben304 and Dualnames. This world is tough and confusing. Now more than ever, it seems. They're looking to you, ProgZ.

Don't let them down.



:'(
(Cue sad music)



(Distant, echoing voice over: Don't let them down)

Fear not, Airborne. The next game comes out in December. I promise you I'll make that deadline. With any luck parts 5 and 6 will come out next year and the Forever Friday saga will finally come to an end.

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What package?  I already got there, and i got the pickle creek and pony ranch and mr.brown's farm.

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The cow sends you to the Postal Bunker to get a package for her. It's a large yellow rectangle (not the small brown box you find at the Amish farm).

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Talk to Cole, the guy standing inside the mail vault and he'll put it on the table for you. Take it and give it to the cow and you'll have another transmitter up. 

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I feel I'm closing in!

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I need a clue on where to look about that canvas that May needs. I got the crayons already. And i have the pickle, so all I need is the wild onions. Then cow will give me the onions, i'll give the items bla bla, get a burger, and see Eileen Delroy ()hopefully). And a clue on how to get on the postal bunker would be nice. Unless the first clue connects there, so I'm good.

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Postal Bunker

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Have you fixed Mailbot yet?

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If so, when you talk to him about the wreck, Prick will offer to go to Bobbi's place and get a tow truck.

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Of course, when you ask her, she'll say her tow truck is broken. She recommends looking for Farmer Brown and his big tractor. So start looking in places where he might go. And there's only place that everyone in town has to go... for all their shopping needs...

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Once you've met Farmer Brown, you can borrow the tractor and save Maibot. After that, just go back to the Postal Bunker and talk to the sentries again. They'll let you in just like they promised they would when you offered to go find Mailbot. Take the package to the cow and the rest should fall in place!

Hope that helps!

I have an idea! I may very well enter!

Check out those sweet trophies! Of course you should enter!

Anyhoo, here's my entry. I took the themes I most associate with the Wild West and incorporated them into something western-ish.
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Everyone in Watermark was looking for Tommy Camino. With a reward as generous as the one the Big Span Construction Company had posted, even those citizens who normally cast a blind eye at misdeeds had suddenly developed a deep, abiding love of the law. Not that anything would come of it. Tommy Camino was long gone; no one would ever see him again.

The foreman, Porter, had found his truck missing and nothing left of Tommy but a discarded set of coveralls, a welder's mask, and a few unreadable scraps of burnt telegram gone cold at the bottom of an ashtray.

When the stolen truck turned up in the nearby town of Watermark, grand theft auto was added to the charges listed on the freshly minted wanted posters, just below "theft of company payroll." Tommy Camino was a safe cracker, apparently.

"Should have robbed the company safe," Venn Cody though to himself, grimacing behind the goggles and the heavy dust mask. "Specially if Porter was gonna do it and pin it on me anyway."

Wrapped in the thick gloves, his hands gripped the handles more tightly.

Robbing the safe would have given him more options. No two ways about that. As it was, the money in the pocket of his leather jacket would be just enough to get him there. Maybe. The wad of company scrip he was still packing around would only be good for kindling.

Not that he was planning on making a fire and camping out in the open tonight.

The broken highway that stretched across the dusty, choking expanse of The Drift wasn't even safe enough for most men to travel in groups, and certainly never alone. Stopping here in anything less than convoy strength was suicide. Strange things stalked these lonely sands now. And the further into the desert the spindly black watchtowers pushed, the stranger the things that always followed their advance became.

"Didn't used to be like this, boy." So the Old Man claimed. How long dead now? Eight years? Ten?

Venn shifted his weight on the big, reliable Palomino. It wasn't an Indian, like the one he'd rode when the unnamed still roamed the busted highways, few and free, but it was a good bike all the same. It oughta be. He'd traded Porter's fine new truck for it.

Back then, in the days the Old Man loved to talk about so much, when he was sober enough that his words wouldn't spill out in a jumble of baby talk, the desert wasn't all cracked apart. The dust didn't roll like this. The sun kept it baked down or something. And the worst the desert could throw at a man were coyotes, scorpions, rattlesnakes, and the heat.

Venn shifted again. He'd have to pull over and piss soon.

"That world must have been something to see," Venn thought, recalling his dad's words. Beer in one hand. Cigarette in the other. And it wasn't neither one that killed him in the end. "Back when we were still in charge. Back before the big war in Europe. And the little war that followed, when they came down from the bright light and pushed us out to the edges like this."

Venn mused a moment longer on the world before his time and tales of the lands he would never see. Paris. The Somme. St Louis. Bygone places out of a fairy tale for those like Tommy that had grown up in the days after. Then with his free hand, he pulled the pistol from inside his jacket and checked to make sure that it was loaded.

Dangerous or not, he was going to have to pull over before he pissed all over the motorcycle.

"Remember: They always make that clicking, skittering sound before they pop up out of the sand."he told himself as he slowed the bike to a stop at side of the road and eased the kickstand down to the shattered blacktop. "And they usually hunt in threes."

He cocked the gun and left the engine running.

But I base all of my characters on Ponch, and he is Batman!

Shh! I don't want anyone to find out! You think it's easy being a middle aged crime fighter? My knees are SHOT, man! I don't need people hassling me while I'm slathering my legs in Icy Hot at stately Wayne Manor! 

Feel like me? Baby, you practically are me. You do more to promote the Barn Runner games in this community than I do!  

Anyhoo, in regards to the Mailbot puzzle:

Hint 1:
It's a math problem.

Hint 2:

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(a plus or minus b)  (divided or multiplied by c)  (plus or minus another set of numbers) == 18 )

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Hint 3:

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((4+2) (x 2)) + (5 + 1)) = 18

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Hint 4:
Picture of the solved puzzle

Of course, the chooser would have to make sure that the game is still downloadable and playable on e.g. Windows 7

Windows 7? Heresy! After the miserable experience that was Windows Vista, I'm sticking with XP until they pry it from my cold, dead hand!   8)

Trophies you say! Well, at last -- some incentive! I must sharpen my pencil, good sir!

Dual: Thanks, man! The puppet show is my favorite egg in the entire game. It was quite a bit of work to do just for an egg, so I'm glad someone found it! 

Stee: If I say so myself, of all the heroes of ancient myth and modern fiction named Prick, Prick Peckard is the greatest.

The game unfolds in an amazing way puzzle-design-wise. Way to go so far. I'm trying to rush to the finish and still fail. Which is great

Glad to see you haven't beaten it yet. It's so dispiriting to spend ages and ages working on a game only to watch people finish it in a single evening. This time around I was hoping that wouldn't happen. Good to see I finally made a game you couldn't beat on your lunch break! (And all I had to do was release it several years behind schedule! -- By that logic, I should still be playing Duke Nukem Forever in the retirement home!)

WonkE3th: That's the spirit! Tell life to piss off -- There's a new Barn Runner game! It's totally worth shirking your responsibilities!

Intense Degree: Job? What are you doing? Prioritizing things? Sheesh! Take a lesson from WonkE3th.

LUniqueDan: Are you telling me you got hooked on cigarettes just by looking at a badly drawn picture of some? My God! The media was right! Cigarettes are worse than Hitler!  :o

sauyadav: Indeed!

Ben: To be fair, weren't you already wearing them all the time anyway?

Wheeeeeee! \o/

That is all.

Thank you, sir! I'm glad you're excited. I'll have you know that Barn Runner 5-3 is a game so manly that just playing it will put hair on your chest (or on your hamster, as the case may be)