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by **Sarisberie** » Mon May 30, 2022 8:40 pm

In the middle of the night, I went downstairs only to discover something terrible… which I immediately made even worse by doing the thing I absolutely MUST NOT DO! What was it, what did I do, and why did I do it?

by **GalFisk** » Mon May 30, 2022 9:59 pm

Did you discover a grease fire? Which you poured water on? A regular fire? Which you let in more air to? Ants? Which you squished? Releasing the acid? Attracting revenge ants? A destructive animal? Which you startled? Or angered? Causing further destruction? Something slippery? Which you slipped on?

by **Sarisberie** » Mon May 30, 2022 11:58 pm

GalFisk wrote:Did you discover a grease fire? Which you poured water on? A regular fire? Which you let in more air to? Ants? Which you squished? No but OTRT Releasing the acid? Attracting revenge ants? A destructive animal? Which you startled? Or angered? Causing further destruction? Something slippery? yes Which you slipped on? but no... and no to the rest

by **GalFisk** » Tue May 31, 2022 11:51 am

Did you increase the terrible thing? Add something new to the terribleness? Did you discover something leaking? Overflowing? Something living? A substance? Is what one must not do common knowledge? Was anyone hurt? Anything damaged? Was the first terrible thing caused by you? Other human(s)? Animal(s)? Machine(s)?

by **Sarisberie** » Tue May 31, 2022 12:27 pm

GalFisk wrote:Did you increase the terrible thing? no Add something new to the terribleness? my action increased the terribleness Did you discover something leaking? Overflowing? Something living? yes A substance? this is also relevant Is what one must not do common knowledge? FA Was anyone hurt? Anything damaged? Was the first terrible thing caused by you? no Other human(s)? Animal(s)? this Machine(s)? & no to the rest

by **GalFisk** » Tue May 31, 2022 1:37 pm

Was the first terrible thing caused by one or more: Mammals? Fishes? Crabs? Insects? Mollusks? Reptiles? Pets? Wild animals? Farm animals? Animal droppings relevant? Urine? Snail slime? Other secretions? Blood? Other fluids? Was/were the animal(s) alive when you discovered the first terrible thing? Present? Doing anything relevant? Did you scare it/them? Injure? Kill?

by **Sarisberie** » Tue May 31, 2022 5:21 pm

GalFisk wrote:Was the first terrible thing caused by one or more: one Mammals? Fishes? Crabs? Insects? Mollusks? this Reptiles? Pets? Wild animals? Farm animals? Animal droppings relevant? Urine? Snail slime? yes, small -ish Other secretions? Blood? Other fluids? Was/were the animal(s) alive when you discovered the first terrible thing? yes Present? yes Doing anything relevant? Did you scare it/them? Injure? Kill? no to the rest

by **Sundowner64** » Tue May 31, 2022 7:22 pm

Did a snail enter your house? Did it do any damage apart from leaving behind a trail of slime?
Did you step on the snail? accidentally?
Did you take up the snail with bare hands?
Did you attempt to remove the snail slime from a surface?

by **Sarisberie** » Tue May 31, 2022 8:39 pm

Sundowner64 wrote:Did a snail enter your house? Yes, although it was a slug, not a snail. Did it do any damage apart from leaving behind a trail of slime? no
Did you step on the snail? accidentally? no
Did you take up the snail with bare hands? yes
Did you attempt to remove the snail slime from a surface? yes

by **GalFisk** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 6:10 am

Did your action cause: more slugs? More slime? More slipperiness? Was picking up the slug the mistake?

by **Sundowner64** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:35 am

Did you try to wash off the slime from your hands? (which, actually, is a futile attempt, better just let it dry, it will peel off itself)

by **Sarisberie** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 2:24 pm

GalFisk wrote:Did your action cause: more slugs? More slime? More slipperiness? Was picking up the slug the mistake? this

Sundowner64 wrote:Did you try to wash off the slime from your hands? yes (which, actually, is a futile attempt, yes better just let it dry, it will peel off itself) but not this

by **GalFisk** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 11:28 am

Is the slug's response to being picked up relevant? Relevant for how long you held it? In which way? Where you put it? How it came to be there in the first place? Where it came from? How big it was? Which species? Are any other slugs relevant? Any other animals? Any humans except you?

by **Sarisberie** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 3:35 pm

GalFisk wrote:Is the slug's response to being picked up relevant? no Relevant for how long you held it? briefly, but irrel In which way? Where you put it? back outside, but irrel How it came to be there in the first place? Where it came from? How big it was? Which species? Are any other slugs relevant? Any other animals? Any humans except you? no/irrel to all

by **JenBurdoo1** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 2:01 am

Did you accidentally introduce salt to the slug?

by **GalFisk** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:22 am

Relevant that you got slime on you? Was there relevantly slime on anything else? Such as the floor? Was the slug on the floor? Relevant?

by **Sarisberie** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:23 pm

GalFisk wrote:Relevant that you got slime on you? yes Was there relevantly slime on anything else? n/r Such as the floor? n/r Was the slug on the floor? yes Relevant?

by **GalFisk** » Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:27 pm

Did you make the slime worse? Get it on more of you than at first? Get it on anything else? Not get it off of you?

by **Sarisberie** » Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:41 pm

JenBurdoo1 wrote:Did you accidentally introduce salt to the slug? No

GalFisk wrote:Did you make the slime worse? Get it on more of you than at first? Get it on anything else? No to these Not get it off of you? This was a significant problem for me

by **GalFisk** » Wed Jun 08, 2022 8:34 am

Did you try to: wash it off? Wipe it off? Soak it? Use a substance on it? Such as soap?

by **Sarisberie** » Wed Jun 08, 2022 8:27 pm

GalFisk wrote:Did you try to: wash it off? Wipe it off? Soak it? Use a substance on it? Such as soap? This

by **GalFisk** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 1:13 pm

Did the soap make the slime worse? Fail to make it better?

by **Sarisberie** » Thu Jun 09, 2022 10:43 pm

GalFisk wrote:Did the soap make the slime worse? Fail to make it better? No, it very nicely cleaned the slime off my hand.

The remaining question is: Why did I pick up the slug in the first place?

by **Sundowner64** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 7:05 am

Was the slug on the floor? on a wall? on the ceiling? on a door? window? table? piece of furniture? in the sink?
Was it actually unnecessary to pick up the slug in order to get rid of it? was it on the way out of the house anyway? was it in the garbage can?

by **Sarisberie** » Fri Jun 10, 2022 4:07 pm

Sundowner64 wrote:Was the slug on the floor? this on a wall? on the ceiling? on a door? window? table? piece of furniture? in the sink?
Was it actually unnecessary to pick up the slug in order to get rid of it? Under 'normal' circs I would've got someone else to get rid of it was it on the way out of the house anyway? I dunno, it didn't tell me was it in the garbage can? no

by **JenBurdoo1** » Wed Jun 15, 2022 12:58 pm

Did you fail to recognize the slug? Perhaps by mistaking it for something else? If so, was this because of its color? Shape? Size?

by **Sarisberie** » Thu Jun 16, 2022 1:27 am

JenBurdoo1 wrote:Did you fail to recognize the slug? Yope Perhaps by mistaking it for something else? If so, was this because of its color? Shape? Size? no to the rest

by **Sundowner64** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 10:54 am

Did you think first the slug is something different? something even worse? a snake?
Did you think that there is still another bad thing going on? like: if the slug came in the door must have been open all the night?
Other animals relevant besides this slug?

by **Sarisberie** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 6:31 pm

Sundowner64 wrote:Did you think first the slug is something different? something even worse? a snake?
Did you think that there is still another bad thing going on? like: if the slug came in the door must have been open all the night? All no and BUWT
Other animals relevant besides this slug? no

by **GalFisk** » Sat Jun 18, 2022 1:32 pm

Did you fail to recognize some aspect of the slug? Such as it being alive? Being slimy?

by **JenBurdoo1** » Sun Jun 19, 2022 4:40 pm

Its species? Or nature? Such as it being a messier slug than you expected?

by **Sarisberie** » Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:54 pm

GalFisk wrote:Did you fail to recognize some aspect of the slug? Such as it being alive? Being slimy? no to all

by **Sarisberie** » Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:54 pm

JenBurdoo1 wrote:Its species? Or nature? Such as it being a messier slug than you expected?no to all

by **JenBurdoo1** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:13 pm

Was the slug camouflaged in some way? Did you have a similar toy or model slug? A pet?

by **Sarisberie** » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:25 pm

JenBurdoo1 wrote:Was the slug camouflaged in some way? Did you have a similar toy or model slug? A pet? All no and BUWT

by **Sundowner64** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:19 am

As per the puzzle statement:
the terrible thing = a slug entered your house?
the one thing that made it worse = you picked it up with your bare fingers?
still to find out = why you did do that?

Did you pick up the slug because there was nothing at hand to protect your fingers? like a piece of paper, a glove ..
Were you in a hurry?
Did you simply not think of the consequences?

by **GalFisk** » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:54 am

Was there relevant darkness? Shadows? Other things to hinder you from immediately seeing that it was a slug? Was the slug looking un-sluglike? Doing something un-sluglike?

by **trebor2** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:41 pm

Do slugs have defense mechanism that involves squirting more slime when threatened? Is this what happened? Did you have a misconception about how the slug would react to being picked up?

Did you think it was gonna start singing, “Too Bad”? (Possibly too Canadian of a reference; song by 80s Canadian band Doug and the Slugs. Maybe not worth making the joke at all, really. Oh well.)

by **Sarisberie** » Sat Jul 02, 2022 9:45 pm

Sundowner64 wrote:As per the puzzle statement:
the terrible thing = a slug entered your house? yes
the one thing that made it worse = you picked it up with your bare fingers? yes
still to find out = why you did do that? yes, and this is the only thing still to discover

Did you pick up the slug because there was nothing at hand to protect your fingers? like a piece of paper, a glove .. no/irrel
Were you in a hurry? no, although it all happened very quickly
Did you simply not think of the consequences? correct, explore...

GalFisk wrote:Was there relevant darkness? yope... there was a night-light, and I could see the slug pretty well Shadows? Other things to hinder you from immediately seeing that it was a slug? Was the slug looking un-sluglike? Doing something un-sluglike? no to the rest

trebor2 wrote:Do slugs have defense mechanism that involves squirting more slime when threatened? I have no idea, but irrel Is this what happened? Did you have a misconception about how the slug would react to being picked up? no

Did you think it was gonna start singing, “Too Bad”? (Possibly too Canadian of a reference; song by 80s Canadian band Doug and the Slugs. Maybe not worth making the joke at all, really. Oh well.)

by **JenBurdoo1** » Sat Jul 02, 2022 11:35 pm

Had it been morning, with the lights on, would you have done anything different? Outside?

Was your thought process: "Oh, a slug. I must pick it up." Or was there something between these two sentences?

by **Sarisberie** » Mon Jul 04, 2022 6:43 pm

JenBurdoo1 wrote:Had it been morning, with the lights on, would you have done anything different? then I would've avoided the slug completely Outside? irr

Was your thought process: "Oh, a slug. I must pick it up." no and FA Or was there something between these two sentences? irr

by **GalFisk** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 8:56 am

Did you mistake the slug for something else? If so, something alive? Inanimate? Relevant what surface it was on?

by **Sarisberie** » Tue Jul 05, 2022 3:56 pm

GalFisk wrote:Did you mistake the slug for something else? If so, something alive? Inanimate? Relevant what surface it was on? no to all

by **GalFisk** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 8:08 am

Did you pick ut up without thinking? Without looking? Were you sleepy? Sleepwalking?

by **Sarisberie** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:08 pm

GalFisk wrote:Did you pick ut up without thinking? yes Without looking? Were you sleepy? yes Sleepwalking? Yes!

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I’m terrified of slugs. I came down to use the bathroom whilst sleepwalking, and saw - by the tiny plug light - a slug on the floor. At first, I didn’t realise what it was and picked it up. I had to run to the front door, throw it outside, and then I realised I had slime stuck all over my fingers, which would NOT wash off under the hot tap. Eventually, I realised I needed to use soap. I spent the rest of the night shivering in my bed. If I hadn’t been sleepwalking, I wouldn’t’ve picked it up in the first place.

Well done to Galfisk for the solve, and to everyone else for taking part.