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He's got secret pockets of old smoke inside his body!

Medium

Then, whenever you get zeroed out, she'll have to spend the rest of her life avoiding perfume counters, tea rooms, and community gardens.

Easy

You'd be trapped here.

Trivial

Between that and the intercom, Hauzmann wasn't kidding about recent security upgrades.

Trivial

Hauzmann mentioned recent security upgrades. That'd be one of them.

Trivial

Quite the investments in security, between that door and the intercom.

Trivial

Quite the investment in security.

Trivial

That, and the intercom. The heartless man in the bar wasn't kidding about security upgrades.

Trivial

The heartless man mentioned recent security upgrades. That'd be one of them.

Easy

It's not about the canal. It's what's built around it.

Trivial

You could just leave it as is. Restraint's also a choice.

Medium

Up there, your heart beats twice as fast and half as hard.

Trivial

This could be where the engineer on the pylon saw the human-sized package...

Easy

One deep in the red.

Medium

Diameter in relation to structure... a rough capacity of twelve-to-fifteen litres per second.

Easy

Something's stopping the water from draining. Still, this is undeniably the first step.

Trivial

That worked. It's draining.

Easy

You could keep trying, but the smartest move is to rule out unknown variables.

Easy

There's a step missing. The lever, perhaps?

Easy

The mechanism's already in place. It's the water you should worry about now.

Trivial

With this you can drain the water in the canal outside and see if that mysterious door really exists.

Easy

Work this out and you should be able to drain the water outside.

Easy

Work justifies presence; any liquor is incidental.

Medium

If there are parallel you-s out there, then life becomes merely probabilistic. You cease to be 'you' and become nothing but a point somewhere in a graph of what you might be, but never are.

Easy

You want, therefore you are. Existence is confirmed by what it lacks.

Medium

Megatherium to the pygmy tree sloth of the weed you know.

Easy

You might've remained forever, had the occasion not arisen to unfreeze you.

Medium

That weight is called self-awareness. Without it you may float.

Challenging

Frail attempts to find importance in what is an inherently meaningless and chaotic existence.

Easy

RUMBA! Canned coffee, even a sip of which would have made your ancestors' hearts explode.

Medium

It comes with a neurochemical kick, a kind of anti-high that sinks you into a delectable depression.

Medium

Shadows are not a substance. And subatomic tunneling is a quantum event, not a lifestyle choice.

Formidable

That's easy: 10 months in a year, one moon every month, multiplied by 35... and we're in Tetartos now, so that brings us to...

Easy

Attempts have been made. Four decades in, the text sports large underlined paragraphs and a fair amount of marginalia.

Formidable

It's a technical report with occasional forays into experimental erotica.