You are a newly integrated player. Your stats remain at 1 in all areas, but you have 10 free stat points. Trapped in an escape room with only three ways out, you must make the right decision before the room is flooded. What will you do?
Difuculty: very hard(I will be surprised is someone can find MY solution soon, and impressed if you can make up a new solution!)
You regain consciousness with a sharp pain in your head. Your body aches, your clothes damp, and the cold stone you are lying on sends chills down your spine. a few larger loose stones stick into your back uncomfortably.
A faint memory flickers... falling. A long drop, a sharp impact, then nothing. You landed where you lay now.
You don't know how you survived, but you summed it up to the new system magic.
A system message appears.
WELCOME TO THE SINKING VAULT.
A little water began to slowly seep through the cracks in the floor and walls, as if to make a point.
YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES TO ESCAPE THE ROOM BEFORE ALL EXITS ARE SEALED AND IT BEGINS TO RAPIDLY FILL WITH WATER.
A loud clank echoes around the chambers, followed by a slow, grinding noise. The ground beneath you shudders. The sound of rushing water comes from below, though it doesn't immediately affect the room.
You glance at your status window.
Strength: 1
Agility: 1
Intelligence: 1
Constitution: 1
Wisdom: 1
Free stat points: 10
Looking around you notice three possible exits.
A locked steel door with a keypad lock. The buttons look old and a little corroded, but as far as you know, the mechanism still works. Throught little suits in the door you can see a clear path out. Far side if the room from you.
A vent in the rock ceiling. Narrow, but possible to climb. You don't know where it leads, but a faint glow from it suggests daylight. It's just out of your 'current' reach, even if you jump. In the centre of the room, you were about 6 metres from it.
A rusted iron gate. The bars are thick but cracked from rust. Small piles of rust sit on the floor at both sides of the gate. Through it you see a path out, but three metal spikes protrude at different angles, each impaling a skeleton to the ground. On the left hand wall, a little closer than the steel door.
You glance at back at the system interface, only 4 minutes remaining.
Challenger Notes:
For those who insist I never give enough info--
having stats at one just means you have your current abilities as a human (they dont play a role). Leveling your stat (e.g. strength) from 1 to 2 is NOT going to double it (strength). Imagine the average human has bas stats in all between 7 to 10. The system stats add to this but for the save if simplicity we will say all stats start at one.
No, I didn't make a mistake in my writing. If you think you found a flaw, you are wrong, but that's not unhelpful to you, it is more than likely a clue to what you need or need not do. This whole thing is very calculated.
There are many clues hidden in here to hint at what you need to do, you must use everything to your advantage.
Yes there is a 'correct' solution(while I have a solution, if you can find a true flaw in my game and can properly use that to escape a new way, then it also counts 100%). To escape not only do you need the right path, but you also need the right stats. But that's not it. If you go about it the wrong way, or don't use all you have, you will still drown. (I might or might not be making it sound more complicated than it really is just to get you thinking. So think carefully on this point too.)
Apologies for any typos, gramma errors, I hope it will still be understandable with them.
Best of luck! Sincerely, T. Conplex.
P.S.
I will reply to as many comments as I can, I will try especially hard if you got the answer right, but just know I can't reply to everything (if there are as many responses as last time). I will try my best to engage with you as you puzzle your way through it.
P.S.P.S.
I will probably be asleep for 8 or so hours after publishing, so don't expect replies immediately.
On that note. ENJOY!! AND GOOD LUCK!!