You pound the padlock fruitlessly with your Dapper Top Hat.
This was a silly idea.
You proceed down the left passage, because up is for suckers.
After some thoroughly uninteresting trotting, you find yourself in a small chamber. It holds some kind of machine with a half-open control panel, a mysterious chest with a padlock, and some weird stupid toast-dropping game or something.
You regard all this with an air of dapper dignity.
You equip your Dapper Top Hat. It gives you +5 jauntiness.
It doesn’t help you decide which way to go, but it does afford you a level of
dignity as you ponder your decision.
