the garden gate lock

{(if: (($x >= 8) and ($yankDoor is true)))[(set: $dial to (a: 0,0,0,0,0,0,0)) (set: $x to 1) The lock fails to open. There is a seagull on the hedge to your left, and (display:"wrongCombo") <p> You ignore the seagull and study the door and lock. Maybe you should try to [[open]] it again, just in case? Or you could give the [[lock]] another try.] (else: )[You are standing in front of a garden gate. It is tall and wooden, and there are old hedges to either side blocking your view of the garden beyond, but you can tell it's there anyway. The heady scent of flowers is on the wind; there is a wild soundscape of birds and breeze and buzzing bees encompassing a world just beyond the gate. If only you could get it [[open]]. <p> You try the [[lock]].]}

{(if: ($yankDoor is true) and ($locked is 1)) [You try to open the garden gate //again// without opening the lock first. The seagull on the hedge is still watching you, and [[starts telling you a terrible joke.]]] (else-if: ($yankDoor is false) and ($locked is 1)) [(set: $yankDoor to true) You try to open the garden gate, but it's securely fastened. [[A seagull, watching you from the hedge, starts laughing.|Introduction]] ] (else:)[ [[ You open the garden gate. ]] ]}

(set: $multipleTries to true)(print: $filler_text) {(live: 0.5) [ (if: $x is <= 7)[The lock is set to: (print: $dial))] (else:)[ (if: $dial's 1st is 6 and $dial's 2nd is 7 and $dial's 3rd is 1 and $dial's 4th is 8 and $dial's 5th is 4 and $dial's 6th is 2 and $dial's 7th is 6)[ (set: $locked to 0) (goto: "open")](else:)[ (goto: "Introduction")] ] ]} (display: "Dials")

...but before you can take a step inside, the seagull swoops down and drops a large orange on your head. (click: "a large orange on your head")[The orange has a jaunty little flag sticking out of it, on which reads the words: https://larusargentatus.neocities.org/zybzpinzziocznvgojxzvi (click: "zybzpinzziocznvgojxzvi")[You try to walk further into the garden, but the seagull is now blocking the path and threatening (if: $yankDoor is true)[more] terrible bird jokes. You decide to just copy/paste the link into the magical floating web browser beside you (damn, that orange really got you) and see what happens.]]

{ (set: $filler_text to "You hold the combination lock in your hand. It is a series of 7 wheels, numbered 1 to 9") (set: $locked to 1) (set: $x to 1) (set: $dial to (a:0,0,0,0,0,0,0)) (set: $multipleTries to false) (set: $yankDoor to false)}

<pre> (link-repeat: "One")[ (set: $dial's $x to 1) (set: $x to it +1)] (link-repeat: "Two")[ (set: $dial's $x to 2) (set: $x to it +1)] (link-repeat: "Three")[ (set: $dial's $x to 3) (set: $x to it +1)] (link-repeat: "Four")[ (set: $dial's $x to 4) (set: $x to it +1)] (link-repeat: "Five")[ (set: $dial's $x to 5) (set: $x to it +1)] (link-repeat: "Six")[ (set: $dial's $x to 6) (set: $x to it +1)] (link-repeat: "Seven")[ (set: $dial's $x to 7) (set: $x to it +1)] (link-repeat: "Eight")[ (set: $dial's $x to 8) (set: $x to it +1)] (link-repeat: "Nine")[ (set: $dial's $x to 9) (set: $x to it +1)]</pre>

(either: "it says, 'Maybe it's not time yet.'", "it says, 'Maybe there's a puzzle coming that will have the code.'", "it says, 'But isn't it fun to try.'","it starts to declaim the entirety of Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'.", "it looks at you with a beady eye and starts reciting 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.", "it starts to sing, off-key, a warbling ballad about the gallant ship The Dreadnaught.", "it says, 'I'm not a seagull, I'm a symbol to indicate the entering of an alternate, augmented reality for the purposes of narrative game play.'")

//(either:"Why do seagulls fly over the sea? Because if they flew over the bay, they’d be bagels.","What do you do if you see a flock of seagulls? You run. You run so far away.","Did you know the seagull was gods third attempt at creating the bird... The A-gull and B-gull weren't quite right.","I have a friend who does the best ever seagull impression. He can’t do the noise, he just nicks your chips and shits on your car.","What do you call a seagull that knows martial arts? Steven Seagull.","I saw a really big seagull today. It was easily big enough to be a D gull, but not quite big enough to be an eagle.","What do you call it when a seagull wants to do something by the end of the day in the water? A sea-goal.","What do you call a seagull that lives by the Bay? I don't know, but it won't shut up about the app it's developing.","Did you hear about the seagull who stole a sausage? It was a tern for the wurst.","What kind of crime are you committing when you attack a seagull? A featheral offense.","Which side of a seagull has the most feathers? The outside.","A scientist wanted the day to go faster, so he tied a clock to a seagull. Time flew.","Why did the oil covered seagull get sued? There can only be one goo gull.","A seagull and a tropical bird were playing on the computer. The seagull lost. Toucan play that game.","What creature came before the seagull? The beagle.","What do you call a seagull in Nebraska? Lost.","A man was arrested at the beach for feeding pot brownies to the seagulls. It was his third such arrest because, as he put it, 'I shall leave no tern unstoned.'", "What do you call a shoplifting seagull? A birdlar.")// [[Ignore the seagull.|Introduction]]