The Watch's Curse

The Watch's Curse
Region	Ocean City
Unlocked by	Uncursing the dangerous pocketwatch

In The Watch's Curse, you are a dinosaur in Uncle Murray's antique store. Jessica, Gabby, and Charles are in the room, but they each have an odd manner of speaking, pulled from different eras.

Find a way out of the room to meet an old man behind a large clock face. He tells you he is the end of time, and you are its beginning. He invites you to watch the death of our world and the birth of another.

When the curse is lifted, your uncursed pocketwatch upgrades to reduce the enemy's stats by 5 instead of 3.

Lifting the curse

• If you have 7 Muscle, you can break down a door and skip to the clock room.

Actions required to lift the curse:

• Try to open a door.
• Knock a chair over; gain 1 Dexterity.
• Knock the other chair over; gain 1 Dexterity.
• Eat the chess board.
• Flip the table (2 Dexterity); gain 1 Dexterity.
• Pull out Charles' desk drawers (3 Dexterity); gain 1 Dexterity.
• Open the phone desk drawer (3 Dexterity); it's locked, but you gain 1 Dexterity anyway.
• Eat Charles; talk to him.
• Talk to Charles again, make a promise, and shake hands (5 Dexterity); gain 1 Dexterity.
• Read a newspaper at Murray's desk (6 Dexterity); gain 1 Dexterity.
• Read a book at the bookshelf (6 Dexterity); gain 1 Dexterity.
• Add to the TO DO list (8 Dexterity); gain 1 Dexterity.
• Eat Jessica; talk to her.
• Sign your name for Jessica (9 Dexterity); gain 1 Dexterity.
• Open a door (10 Dexterity); enter a room with a large clock face and an old man.
• Speak with the old man, then walk with him to the clock face to lift the curse.

Other actions

• Eat the cat; she runs away.
• Check your messages, eat the phone, and/or eat the table.
• Eat Gabby; talk to her.
• Play chess (8 Dexterity); impossible.
• Pick the lock of the phone desk drawer (100 Dexterity); impossible.
• Unstitch the rug (200 Dexterity); impossible.
• A hidden achievement:

Hidden achievement
Pet the cat (7 Dexterity); gain 1 Dexterity. Tune the radio (11 Dexterity); get "The Hot 100" achievement. If you try to eat the cat, you'll be unable to pet her and miss the achievement.

Notes

• Even if you edit your save file to have 100 or 200 dexterity, your dexterity will be reset to its proper value. You cannot pick the lock or unstitch the rug.
• Similarly, if you edit the save file to unflip the table and/or chairs and un-eat the chess board, you can't play chess, even if your true dexterity is still 8.