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Pick up Dr. Jones' hand. You never know when a hand of a Level 9 Technician would be useful!

Take the dead guys arm with you in case you need a hand later

By popular demand!



You feel disgusted with yourself.

Type in ID number on card to try and open up the floorboard.

That shaft appears to go a long way down. You doubt you're coming back up.

... and don't forget to close shack-door (to be safe from a surprise visit)

EEK. Sounds like you were just in time...

(Apologies if I can't get to all action requests...)

pull/turn body,

There are a bunch of scratches on his back.

examine the floorboards

On closer inspection, you find a trapdoor! How exciting!



There is another trapdoor under the first trapdoor, rendering the first one pointless. This one is locked, but has a keypad.

Check your mobile phone if you have signal here.

You have 4 bars, but something is blocking your phone access.

You lament the fact you have not upgraded your phone since 2002.

Read the papers,

The rest of the papers are financial reports and statements, you can see the floorboards beneath them now.

rummage through the corpses jacket,

A card was in the jacket pocket, nothing else.

anything to delay doing anything sensible like running back to the payphone.

You try and fail to touch your nose with your tongue.

It's starting to get light outside again.

Examine the shack to find ...

Well, this is unfortunate.

There are some papers in the shack. Oh, and a headless body.

There appears to be no food.

(TO BE CONTINUED...)

Go to that wooden shack by the roadside in the distance

You reach the shack, there appears to be no horses, carriages, or spaceships. Your chewing gum lost its taste long ago.

Hitch a ride with a truck driver who has a big mustache.

Try as you might, you can not conjure a truck driver to drive past, regardless of facial hair.

Wait for a passing motorist to pull over and see if they can tow my car to the nearest town/garage/gas station.

No one passes. Could be a while.

You're starting to get hungry.

Call the motoring organisation with a coin from your wallet

"Hello, is that the motoring organisation?"

"Speak up, I can't hear you."

"Oh sorry, I'm chewing gum. My car broke, can you help?"

"Sure, we'll send someone over. Can you tell us your loca-*BZZZZZT* I'm sorry, the area you are trying to reach is restricted. You need higher clearance. *DIAL TONE*"

"...Hello?"

You don't know what's in the shack yet. Looks like a fair walk away.

I kick the car and vent my frustration

Your knee hurts considerably and there is no effect on the car. You immediately regret your action.

Your car has broken down on the highway, at least 100 miles from the nearest town. There is a payphone next to you, and there appears to be a wooden shack by the roadside in the distance.

You are currently carrying: your wallet, a mobile phone (with no signal available), chewing gum, car key.

What do you do?

Perhaps the most amusing/infuriating part about this I've seen so far is this segment from Fox News which paints News of the World as the victim of this whole debacle.

If you're in warranty I recommend contacting them - my pen broke a couple of months back and I had it replaced with no problem, I was actually really pleased with the service.

NEXT: An abstract concept.

Off the top of my head:

Persepolis
Waltz With Bashir
Belleville Rendez-vous
The Illusionist

These are all films, mind, and with pretty serious subject matter (except Belleville Rendez-vous I suppose.)

ALSO most things by Studio Ghibli. They are suitable for children, but I get more out of them now than I would have back then I'd say.)

These are all fairly obvious choices, so cue some animation snob coming in and laughing derisively.

I think we are all missing the obvious explanation:

Ghosts.

(I lied about the authority thing.)

But yeah, a finish date would be good. Gives people time to prepare, but eliminates the whole "planning" thing that creative types have so much bother with.

BENJAMIN. Did you not SEE the part about my AUTHORITY.

I approve of this, and am using my authority to make this the "Release Something" thread:

Hey guys and guy-ettes.

I just announced that my webcomic, Perpendicular Universe is looking for some guest comics that I can throw up while I'm away, and I thought I'd highlight it here for all you crazy creative types!

Full details here!

Think of it as an opportunity to get some work out there outside your comfort zone - and if yours goes up, I will of course advertise your game/comic/tree surgeon business along with it!

Looking forward to what people come up with...!

A couple of people have already said they are DEFINITELY 100% FOR SURE doing one, but the more the merrier!