Your all-purpose adventure game kit

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This is the thread for your ideal inventory for any and every adventure game. What do you want to lug around to solve ridiculously convulted and illogical puzzles(sometimes involving puns)? Points go towards the multi-function utility of each item.

For example:

.357 magnum
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-shoot badguys
-crack nuts
-prop the bathroom door open
-scratch your back
-paperweight
-can barter for cigarettes in prison/POW camp
-can shoot that goddamn cat off that goddamn fence so you can get some fur to make a highly unconvincing fake moustache

You can ignore considerations of weight/encumberance, unless it gets quite silly. A full refridgerator/freezer combo = right out.

a dorm fridge = enh, okay.

You get the idea.

― kingfish, Sunday, 25 March 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

I'll start:

-leatherman/multi-tool/lock picks
(obv)

-crowbar
(ol' rusty does the job, every time)

-silver flask of highly flammable whisky
(can block bullets, get you drunk, get you cigarrettes, start fires, bribe guards, can be melted down into silver weapons to kill werewolves or republicans)

-inner tube (must have duck/animal head or its not fun enough)
http://www.designedtoat.com/clipart6/vac_01.gif

-basejumping parachute
http://www.web-insolite.com/inf/imagesinfos/johan-vervoort-saute-en-parachute-de-la-tour-eiffel-2.jpg

(esp. useful if you find yourself in a Sierra game, where folks tend to die by falling for some reason)

-German-English dictionary (mid-20th-C version preferred)
http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/06/0025229206.jpg

(good for wandering about Schloss Ritter or parachuting by cover of night into occupied Bavaria. Trust me on this.)

-rope w/ grappling hook
http://www.airsocom.com/acatalog/Ninja-Grappling-hook-5001-X300.jpg
(can grapple with rough issues, tie up boats, hang suspected collaborated, make a very small hammock, keep the car door from falling off, grab the bejeweled ring from its resting place in a 10-foot-deep sludge pond)

Actually, we should put a limit on this. Say, 10 things.

― kingfish, Sunday, 25 March 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

- pocket change
(so you don't have to put gum on a stick to get a quarter out of the sewer grate)

- GPS device
(makes mazes a breeze)

- directions for solving 15 and peg puzzles

― abanana, Sunday, 25 March 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

I think the crowbar is the must-have item.

― Z S, Sunday, 25 March 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

pocket lint

― tom, Sunday, 25 March 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

An easily read walkthrough with maps!

― kv_nol, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:29 (eighteen years ago)

i am adventure_game_kit!

― g-kit, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

pack of C4

destroy dwarf with C4
destroy maintenance droid with C4
destroy grue with C4
destroy locked door with C4
destroy wizard with

you get the idea

― Alan, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

only problem being modelling fuse wire/rope/etc is a PITA

― Alan, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

you never know when a little C4 will come in handy, amirite?

― g-kit, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

destroy only hope of communicating with the outside world with C4
destroy submarine with C4

ect

― Alan, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Adventure games don't have the proper "oh fuck it, just blow it up" approach to solving problems.

― kingfish, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

nucular bomb!

destroy cloud nine with nucular bomb
destroy relatively unpopulated suburb of LA with nucular bomb

― Alan, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

An adventure game of 'Boy and His Blob' would just require 10 bags of various flavors of jellybean. I like the jellybean approach to fighting & problem-solving. They also double as handy snacks.

― Abbott, Monday, 26 March 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

don't make me link to the z-machine version of tetris

― Alan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

a gravity gun
an AK
that's about all.

― Ste, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

special gun that can blow up doors you're not supposed to go into because oh no, a freakin' GRENADE is not enough to blow up a stupid wooden door in an old house.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

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