Just to help you out a bit Nancy, here are some things in the current room you could try
- Have a read of the ancient documents. Maybe there's something useful for you. Even if there isn't, maybe there's something useful for someone else you could tell them about to gain friends.
- Bite the bullet and climb into the alley way. Maybe you will find something there that you like.
- Talk to Pat Miyagi about anything you like. Maybe he knows things that could help you. Maybe he knows some ghost stories.
- Have a read of the scrolls. Some people have done so already. You will see some of them have recipes. Maybe Pat can tell you where to find the ingredients. You could try your hand at making a recipe, just for the fun of it.
- Have a look at the covered things. Maybe there's a reason they are both covered.
- Look around the room to find a power socket. You do need to charge up your ghost vacuum at some stage.
- If you post
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in the room you will see that there is a sun lamp for sale. Perhaps letting someone who is interested in vampires know about that might gain you a friend.
- Looking at items, sections of shelves you will see items that line up with other peoples stories. You might be be able to use what you learn just by picking things up, or looking that them. You may even be lucky enough to catch someone in a lie. Who knows.
- In the crystals for sale, there is an alien crystal for 100 dollars. Maybe you can steal it? Maybe that's a risk? Players can be arrested. But maybe getting arrested means you get to go find out what happened to Pooky.
Just post any actions you like in the thread. There are many many clues in the game, some for you, some for others. Do anything that seems like fun. Turn off light switches. Pull stuff. Break stuff. You may suffer some consequences for actions. But you also might find rewarding things that help you out. You are only limited by your own creativity here. As mods we will try to allow actions as much as we can.
You could even think of an action to try that us mods never expected, and we will do our best to adapt the story line around what you do. For example, you could now lock the window that everyone climbed out. Now they cannot get back through it. Why would you do that? I have no idea. You simply can do it. And that's where the fun of the game is.