The Moleross Place

The Moleross Place
Region	Gray County
Unlocked by	Chat with Oskaloosa Barnhill inside Jasper's Feed and Tack

The Molerosses vacated The Moleross Place a few days ago. Might have something to do with it being riddled with wormholes.

Quests

Finding the meteorite is going to take a journey through a mind-twisting labyrinth.

• Talk to the surveyor and take on the job.
• Enter the house and go up, then right, to the Dining Room.
• Turn off the lamp. (Your character now knows the wormholes respond to light.)
• Return to the Foyer, get close to the large wormhole, and try to break the light. You throw a rock, but the wormhole grabs it.
• Step through the wormhole into the kitchen, then throw a rock in from that end.

When you go back to the foyer now, the wormhole calms down, as long as you don't aim your flashlight at it. Stick to the wall and you can cross the room.

• Head upstairs, then to the right, and remove the length o' rope from the dresser with 6^ish Moxie. (With a shadow rope, you can skip this step.)
• Outside, tie the rope to the well.
• Descend into the well and enter the wormhole.
• With a crowbar, pry the boards off the window here. (This lets more light in and enlarges the room's wormholes.)

The door south from the Upper Landing is locked. You can unlock it with the cursed key, or you can:

• Lower the ladder to the attic, requiring 8^ish Muscle, 7^ish Moxie, and 6^ish Mysticality.
• Climb into the attic. Read the note above the crate. (Something about melting down a key in the kitchen.)
• Make your way to the kitchen (try the big foyer portal) and take the top wormhole, depositing you in the back yard.
• The key is in that pot the pig is occupying. Get the pig out with one of:
  • A bribe of at least 37 .
  • 6^ish Muscle.
  • Being a Pig Skinner.
• Now, with the burned Moleross key, return upstairs and unlock the door.

Enter the bathroom and step into the wormhole to your right, into the kids' bedroom.

• Fall into the wormhole on the right. Now that your character knows where it leads...
• Return to the kids' room (left, down, right).
• Either push the bookshelf with 8^ish Muscle, or:
  • Read the letter on the desk.
  • Search the bed for the Moleross letter, and read that.
  • Check the bookshelf and clear out the bricks.
  • Push the bookshelf.

It falls into the Primary Bathroom. Because you enlarged the wormholes there earlier, it falls again, landing in the Primary Bedroom and blocking a window.

• Jump down after the bookshelf (or just walk left, up, and right) into the Primary Bedroom.
• Close the shutters.
• Finally, you can take the Moleross meteorite.

Bring it to Oskaloosa so she can grab a piece of it. If you give it to the surveyor instead, don't worry; he'll leave a Moleross meteorite shard behind that you can take to Oskaloosa.

Interactions

Outside

• Find a noodle in the haystack.
• Use the theodolite to appraise the value of a bug and then inform the surveyor. You do not receive any value for this.
• Talk to the surveyor and agree to help in exchange for 10% of the evaluation. Get the Moleross key.
• After removing the meteorite, talk to him and let him survey the house. Due to the awful layout, he estimates a value of only 2000 Meat (10 less if you took a fuse from the phone).
• He offers 200 for your work, but you can tell him the layout is better with the wormholes.
• His new evaluation, if you give him the meteorite, is 5000, leaving 500 for you.
  • With 8^ish Moxie, haggle the evaluation up to 5500 . He shoots back with 5700.
  • Insist on 5500 and he goes up to 5800. Haggling is not this man's forte.
• If you take the 200 (or 199) offer, you keep the Moleross meteorite for yourself.
• If you take the higher offer (499 to 580) and give him the meteorite... well, that guy was probably a jerk anyway, don't worry about it.

In the Well

• With a length o' rope or shadow rope, you can descend into the well.
• A portal to the left side of the Primary Bathroom.

Out Back

• A fence to paint

First floor

These rooms are on the "first floor" while the wormholes are active. Some are actually on the second floor.

Foyer

• A portal to the Living Room.
• A large portal to the Kitchen.
• Find a telephone where you can call the dog pound or dad pound to get a fuse.
• Stairs up to the Upper Landing.

Living Room

• A chess board.
• A portal on the right side to the Dining Room.
• A portal on the close wall back to the Foyer.

Dining Room

• Find a gallon jug of bitters.
• A lamp you can turn off - unlocks the idea to throw rocks at the light in the Foyer.
• A portal in the center to out front.
• On the right, an overturned telegram machine:

AMMON DO NOT ABANDON HOUSE
STOP STAY ON THE PROPERTY LADDER
STOP THIS DIRECT ORDER FROM YOUR
PAPA STOP AKA THE MAIN MOLEROSS

Kitchen

• Left portal leads to right side of the Dining room.
• Center-upper portal leads to Out Back.
• Right portal leads back to Foyer.

Tiny Hallway

This room isn't accessible with the wormholes active. When they're inactive, it connects the Foyer to the left side of the Primary Bathroom.

Second floor

These rooms are on the "second floor" while the wormholes are active. Some are actually on the first floor.

Upper Landing

• Double jump with 8^ish Muscle, 7^ish Moxie, and 6^ish Mysticality to unlock a ladder to the Attic.

Primary Bedroom

• Find a spooky music box for Your Room.
• Find 5 in the desk.
• Find 5 {{meat)} and a smattering of business cards in the daystand.
• Read some magazines on urban planning in the dresser for 15 .

Attic

• Read a newspaper snippet for some lore.

Three months ago a meteorite struck this farmhouse, at which resided Ammon and Nabby Moleross, their sons Gardner and Little Honus, and the family dog Clifford. The Moleross' business greatly prospered immediately following this episode.

Bathroom

• A sink to splash some water on your face.
• Use the bathtub, destroying it in a paradox.

Bedroom

• Read a couple of letters Honus wrote.

Primary Bathroom

Fishing in the toilet
Limit	Once
Items	Möbius pipe
Must have a rod equipped

The right side of this room is accessible only with active wormholes. Enter via the south wormhole in the Bedroom.

• On the left side, a portal to/from the the Well.
• With a crowbar, pry the boards off the windows to let more light in.
• On the right side, a toilet. Fish in it for a Möbius pipe.

Tiny Hallway

This room isn't accessible with the wormholes active. When they're inactive, it connects to the Bathroom, Living Room, and Primary Bedroom.

Notes

Tiny Hallway

There is a third Tiny Hallway which isn't accessible at all. To reach it, edit your save file, find the "WAA_ID" line near the bottom, and change it to:

"WAA_ID": "wormhouse_hall3"

It connects the right side of the Primary Bathroom to the Dining Room. The Dining Room further leads to the Bedroom. None of these are accessible while the wormholes are inactive.

There's text for the closet door in the Bedroom: "It's a door to a closet. There's nothing in your size."

People

• A surveyor.

Gallery

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