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097 Princess in a Box (60 picarats)

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was on TV the other night. I only saw the end half (from when they enter the secret tunnel) but I was reminded hoe much I liked Short Round as a kid.

maybe because he reminds me a bit of Luke Triton...

Maybe it's the fact as a kid you wish you could be the sidekick and go on an adventure with someone cool and smart who wears a distinctive hat...

Ok enough Layton/Indiana jones parallels for now. I don't want to turn this into a massive essay like last time

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AHOY LAYTON FANS

pls fill out my evil evil survey! I love stats and i love layton, so I want to hear from my fellow fans! feel free to skip any questions you want, and i'd greatly appreciate it if you reblogged for a larger audience! (no pressure though! /gen)

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Luke, my boy! This cute baby harp seal looks like a puzzle!

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Claire reproducing sounds so they can be added to a film call that Claire Foley oh wait...

Claire did something stupid call that Claire’s folly

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#that's so funny though. descole is gay and he pretends to be this guy's wife and in so doing pretends to love him#but when he doesn't respond well to it descole realizes oh he's gay too. um um um that wasn't supposed to happen#imagine descole having a one-sided crush on henry... oh my goddddd help what on earth

What if Henry starts to be attracted to Angela now it's Descole in disguise? And he starts having straight panic (reverse gay panic, however you call it). Like he catches 'Angela' undressing and is like... do I actually have feelings for this woman? What about Randall? And he feels so guilty and conflicted

No wonder he's so moody and weird during the game. The poor man is having a crisis of self.

The real question is does Henry still has a crush on Descole after the reveal?

i will never stop posting about this. what possessed this man to dress up as his little brother's best friend's girlfriend. what is wrong with him.

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He also has been shown to crash the car:

So yeah I'm surprised Chelmey still agrees to let him drive

i find it really funny that barton's the one driving when chelmey's always comparing him to a child. he puts his stupid toddler at the wheel because he's too busy sulking

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I like to think Henry and Angela sleep in separate beds and are completely chaste and platonic in private because they are actually just friends.

But unlike Don Paolo, Descole lacks the skill to truly imitate people and so I imagine he just assumed Angela and Henry were really married and in love so acted all lovey and touchy with Henry and he is just ??? what's come over Angela?

Like, Descole could have chosen to do some intel and work out what Angela is really like and saved himself the trouble. But he didn't.

Whether or not he enjoyed it is up in the air. It's funny either way.

i will never stop posting about this. what possessed this man to dress up as his little brother's best friend's girlfriend. what is wrong with him.

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Since @smile-files has been asking about puzzle theory, while I do really like @lutiaslayton's theory (and think it's surprisingly sound all things considered), I always used to imagine the puzzles people give out as like little jack-in-the-boxes or like those organ grinder things.

Like it's a box and you turn a crank and the music plays, and a paper or card or sign pops up to give you the rules of the puzzle and then you touch the front of the box and it opens to reveal the 'touch screen' part of the puzzle. Then you can answer as needed on some sort of block or card and slot it in to the box again to check it. Or for puzzles that are physical (eg matchstick ones) you get an actual set of matchsticks. Sliding puzzles are just blocks you physically move etc.

And there's a slot on one side to insert hintcoins and a card will pop out to give you the hint,

And when you get it right maybe the correct sign pops up from the top.

Puzzles given by people involving real things are probably just the actual thing though, like when you solve the map puzzle in CV or unlock Dr Schrader's door. Which of course causes issues with the hint coins (who is giving the hint? Is Layton just waiting for Luke to solve the puzzle and refusing to give him the answer even though the Dr might be dead?) Which is the main reason why I think I subscribed to puzzle theory since it is applicable in all cases.

My puzzle box idea only really works in CV since the puzzles are often just random and unrelated to the story, but later games make them much more story relevant. So I can imagine Bruno made a bunch of puzzle boxes and handed them out to the villagers, but it's hard to believe they are just everywhere (unless... the reason why everyone is weirdly obsessed with puzzles is because Bruno has been selling them worldwide...)

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when I went to get my Las Specter manual booklet, I found this in the case too:

Stupid counting puzzles… they’re not even really puzzles.

I think I kept it so that I wouldn’t need to suffer through the indignity of counting all the ones ever again

Funnily enough I replayed the game and didn’t remember this piece of paper was there and so I probably did indeed suffer through the indignity of counting all the ones again

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Quoth the Randall “Nevermore”

Professor layton bluesky rp has taught me that it’s Ledore and NOT Lenore

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Does anyone have a pdf of the last spectre manual (or just pictures) please and thank you 🙏

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Technically it’s the Australian version but since we got the US version of the game, it’s the same thing (and it also has London Life)

Does anyone have a pdf of the last spectre manual (or just pictures) please and thank you 🙏

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guys. i need your opinion of this. because i'm genuinely so confused now

what time period is the professor layton series in?? the prequel trilogy and the main trilogy. when are they supposed to be taking place

i could've sworn one of the games (though i forget which) mentions that someone's been to the moon already which would put them at least in the late 60s into the 70s going by our world's timeline... but i don't know maybe space travel was discovered earlier in this universe???

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I like the idea that when Desmond says "likewise" he's referring to Clive as an "accomplished fellow" too. I imagine he saw the mobile fortress and was thinking 'if only I had that back in Misthallery...'

EXTRA:

aaaand holy crap. After two weeks or so of work I finally finished the intro comic to this silly au. The next entries will definitely NOT be in color because that sucked. So hard. Thanks for reading ^^

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#i want leftie representation damn it

Isn't Randall left handed? Or ambidextrous?

(I remember this because I made one of those video things I do, using MM cutscenes and the song Good Graces and for one of the 'switch it up, like that, so fast' lines I used a scene of Randall swapping the hand he was holding his sword to his left hand.)

Admittedly, it might have been so he and Layton were just thrusting their swords together into the mummy thing and so the swords would be in the middle, but I like to think he's ambidextrous. I think he feels more "left-handed coded" than Layton. But perhaps I'm just saying that because Layton and Randall remind me a bit of me and my friend in high school who happened to be left handed.

Unrelated to the previous post do we have any scenes of Hershel writing something I want to know which hand is his dominant

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WHY IS IT SO COLD ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WAS 38 DEGREES TWO DAYS AGO WHAT!!!!