Part 18: In which Alice encounters roadblocks and railways.
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I'm still cold from my swim; I'm going to try the nearest door and hope there's a fire inside.
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You'll need to eat a mushroom first.
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That was my last purple mushroom. It's the elixirs from now, I guess.
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Oh, this is the train station!
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Well, that means we have to turn back.
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Right, we-- what?
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Well, going forward would advance the plot. We need to check the side rooms to get the fat loot.
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...I wouldn't put it quite that way, but I suppose I'll regret not checking every nook and cranny. It's a pity I wasted a mushroom getting in here.
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No you didn't.
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I'm still cold from my swim, but for
no good reason I'm going to walk past the first door and try this one.
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Oh dear.
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No need to worry about the ferret; we can't get down there anyway. This looks like a way out from somewhere, so I'm guessing we have to backtrack at some point... but we can't go forward from here.
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That was my last purple--
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*rewind!*
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I'm still cold from my swim, so of course the
best thing for me to do is ignore
both doors and climb up this rope onto these surprisingly sturdy clouds.
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I feel
oddly nostalgic here.
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Which puts me close enough to
this door that I can easily fly up with my top hat.
Finally! Oh, thank goodness!
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Close the door. You might let in that bread-and-butter fly.
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Oh, I'm very sorry, mister...?
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The White Knight.
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Yay! I like the White Knight. He's one of the nicer folks in Looking-Glass Land.
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I'm sorry, bread-and-butter fly?
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That pest always leaves crumbs on my inventions. I wish someone would take it away. It's near the club.
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I remember seeing that; it's just a screen to the right from here.
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Would you like me to help you with that, then?
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How kind; but I always find it more useful to sing if I want to forget that dratted creature.
Farewell, mutton!
Fare well, lamb chops!
Hello, salads!
I'm a vegetarian now.
(To the tune of 'Good Night Ladies'.)
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Uh... didn't you
just say you wished someone would get rid of it?
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Excuse me. I have to talk to Humpty Dumpty. He can use his cravat over and over in the same room.
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And he left. He's a bit... scatter-brained.
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But his comment about the cravat intrigues me. Let's go get that bread-and-butterfly while we're up here.
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I'm going to warm myself for the fire a bit first.
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That fly will knock me down if I touch it.
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Fortunately, I don't have to.
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Whee! I like parasols.
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Somehow, that doesn't surprise me.
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It is a delicate bread-and-butterfly with wings that are thin slices of lightly buttered bread.
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Yoink!
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Did you... did you just stuff that in your pocket?
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Yes. Yes I did.
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Okay, just checking.
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Before I go down...
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...I'm going to check out this sign.
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It is a smoke signal that says: 'Ferrets save at First Looking-Glass Bank.'
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Odd.
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I guess if a ferret takes something, we won't have to go all the way back to Wonderland. That's good to know.
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Hopefully they won't take anything we need to
get to the bank.
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All right, let's see if we can persuade him to part with his cravat.
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What a curious shape for a creature and what's that funny yellow fungus on your head? Never mind. I'll call you a surkey.
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...of all the rude people I've met on this trip, you may very well be the rudest!
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(Whoa, she's turning red!)
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At least I know a cravat from a belt and a rope from a noodle.
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That doesn't make any sense! And I'm a girl, not a-- whatever you called me!
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You are what I say you are; and you are a surkey. That's short for simple turkey.
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That's it. I'm going to scramble this egg.
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Ack! Don't touch me. That fungus might be catching.
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Where is he? Where did he run to? I'll show
him some king's horses and--
Alice!
What?
...nothing.
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Whoa, I feel... I feel dizzy. It must be the stress. Oh, I forgot about the cravat! Now what do we do?
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Don't worry about it. My savestate senses tell me you don't have what you need to get it yet anyway. By the time we come back, I'm sure he'll have returned.
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Well, all right. The only other place left to go is farther to the right.
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Oh no.
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It's all right; it's just a short swim.
And you could stand to cool off anyway.
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What?
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Nothing.
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I thought you said this was a short swim!
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Just out to that buoy. I want to read the sign.
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4000 miles to America.
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4000 miles is
not a short swim!
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Which is why we're not going that way. You can head back now.
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Of all the--
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Let me start again.
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Oh no.
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Don't worry about it; it's one of those repeating water things. Which means the only place left to go is the train station.
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Well, all right. (Whoa. Deja vu.)
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I think I'll just stay small until I have to get bigger. I don't want to have to go all the way back to Wonderland for more mushrooms.
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Works for me. Looks like the only other exit is that arch.
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Huh. There's another open archway. I wonder where it leads?
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Another mirror portal?
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It's one-way or something; you can't enter it. I tried.
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When did you try? We just got here.
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Savestate senses.
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That doesn't make any sense.
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Don't worry about it.
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Hooray, I made it to the train! I wasn't expecting it to be this easy. Oh, but there's a sign; I'd better eat a mushroom so I can read it.
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And so you don't get stepped on by a passenger.
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Excursion train to the Crystal Palace.
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And it's even the right train. I can almost feel the weight of that crown now!
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Next time on Alice in Wonderland, we experience the wonder of rail transit!
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I hope it's safer than my last train ride.