Critical Escape - Almost Famous Through

Written by: zoz

Almost Famous Through

- Begin, as you always do, by clicking on everything that is conceivably click-able
- RRRRRTT! Put on the brakes HARD when you see KitKatFox on the computer screen. Whaa? Has ourbeloved kkf morphed into the ether where she exists inside this game? We've got to solve this!
- Look at all the numbers. Thousands of numbers. Zillions of numbers. But, we are intrepid gamers, and When A Problem Comes Along, We Must Whip It.
- OK, sometimes the way we Whip It is a little lame. For example, some may, oh, I don't know, go to the Comments and see if anyone else has come up with a code???
- Bless you @sales! The code for the second drawer is

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- Damn, it didn't work! Maybe we have to actually see the code before it works. Well, all right, if you want to be that way about it.
- Look at all the numbers you can find. Knit your brow as if deep in thought. Pause a moment to contemplate. Then go back to the second drawer and enter the code. Voila! It worked!
- So now we have a Blue Book with a lot of nonsense about a "Detective Fiction Code" and a bunch of (you guessed it!) meaningless numbers.
- Back to the Comments!
- Yay @annaby for

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opens bottom left cabinet." Way to go, @annaby!

- Hmmm, File 82. I wonder if this is anything like Area 51? Oh, well, have a look.
- O.M.G.! There in black and white is Me! Amongst all the greats, it's little ole' me! OK, not ALL the greats, there are quite a few missing. But who cares? There's ME!
- After an hour or so of staring at my name in lights, it's time to wander back to the Comments box (just to see if I can offer any help, mind you)
- And there again is @sales with "her name is Catherine Coulter". This actually turns out to be fairly meaningless, but I'm sure Catherine Coulter is happy for the publicity (and @sales is to be congratulated for the excellent detective work).
- And @TC says "and the code is the aphabet numbered backwards". Ok @TC, if you say so (what on earth is TC talking about?)
@TC also advises us to "Get computer password from file number 17 in cupboard 2 - use hint from note on wall for the code for the cupboard door".
- Whatever. For now, I'll just go gaze at my name in a book. On the web. At a site hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people visit every day!
- Oh, right, the game. Back to the game.
- Now let's all work on the "birthdays +112" hint.
- OK, keep working.
- Work harder, @everyone, I'm not getting any younger here!
[Aside: now it seems we've got a couple of whiners in @loz xxx and @SwissMiss. Waaa, waaa, waaa. Get over it! Some of us have fame while others can only aspire to fame, see? Don't take it hard, it's just the way of the world]
- Almost forgot about the game there for a minute! I'll get behind if I don't keep up with my cheati, erm, monitoring of comments.
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- OK, there's a lot of banter back and forth about codes and such (BO-ring) and eventually it's possible to chea, erm, pro- gress to the point where everyone is almost (but not quite) out.
- I'll spare you the boring details (just a lot of code solving and mental calesthenics and such, with hardly anything about ME ), but here's how to move along (thanks to @TC, @SwissMiss, @Peke, and others):

Enter the 112 + Birthdays code in cupboard 2. It is not any combination of birthdays from File 82 (which, btw, mentions ME), but instead it is the number 112 followed by a birthday.

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Now you have File 17, which contains the pw for KitKatFox on the computer. (OK, it's not ME)

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This takes you to Power System, which requires another pw. And here's where @SwissMiss really shines: "dialed 543 (power) on the phone and got "out of office 627542" on the display". So enter that code (but only after you have seen the page on the desk with the power code and dialed 543, etc.) and get four more folders, including one labeled "Connection". Oh, I can do that one myself!!! Look at the sheet on the wall and find the code next to Connection and enter it in the computer.

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- Now you see a screen with "Restart" and "Off/On" buttons at the bottom. But which to choose? Hah! The joke's on you, they are both meaningless! All those codes we had to solve to get here? Meaningless! Although you probably can't leave the room without having gotten to this point, but I have to ask, "Why?"

- Anyway, now is the time when we all got tired and wandered away one by one, leaving @Peke to get us all out by finding that "Last door code was something like 2427272525272724 or something." It wasn't just "something like" that number, @Peke, it was That Number!!!
You got us all out!

Ah, well. in the immortal words of @annaby, "pfft - fame isn't what it's cracked up to be!
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