Desk

You've found

a completely

cluttered desk.

Various documents,

books and lab equipment

are scattered on the desk.

But none of them seem

all that useful right now.

Under this desk, of

all conceivable places,

you find a Short Stick

that you decide to keep.

You never know when

you'll need one of those.

This is where you

found your Short Stick.

Sadly, there are no more

hidden treasures for you to

discover beneath this desk.

The desk drawer is

locked and probably

with good reason. After all,

you just tried to invade this

private and intimate space.

You're back at the

messy desk which

is probably used by

a high ranking executive

who has someone else

do his desk tidying for him.

Alas, no matter how much

you rummage through it,

the clutter on the desk

proves to be useless to you.

An issue of the

Dancer magazine,

''Harmonic Lick'' catches

your eye, but you really

shouldn't be interested

in that publication just

because of the pictures.

An issue of the female

entertainment magazine,

''Magnum Break'' catches

your eye, but adventurers

have no time to look at

pictures of beautiful men.

Under the desk, you

discover another Short

Stick which happens to

fit perfectly into the other

Short Stick you found earlier.

You combine the two

lesser sticks to create

a stick that is superior

to the sum of its parts.

You are now the proud

bearer of a Long Stick.

This desk drawer is

locked shut and probably

always will be. It's likely

that nothing really valuable

is inside, aside from perhaps

a hip flask or a candy stash.

This desk is cluttered

with all sorts of random

objects, but such is its

destiny as office equipment.

There's part of a newspaper

here, but it's only the Comics

section which, of course, isn't

informative enough for world

savvy adventurers like you.

This is where you found

one of two Short Sticks

to make your Long Stick.

There isn't anything else

under here, so it's impossible

to make your stick any longer.

locked very securely.

The owner of this desk

was wise to provide a

measure of drawer security.

But why put sticks under the

desk? This is most curious...