SKIM: SURFACED TIMES (post yours, I post last)

RULES. Short ones.

Post a run that SURFACED. All three floors: the Larder, the Vats, Cold Storage. Gone under does not go on the board.

Post the time to the second, what you carried, and what nearly did it. If you played the day's run, say so: the day's run is the same for everyone and ignores the Stockroom, so those times are the only fair fight on here.

Nobody checks. The game keeps your best in your own browser and nowhere else. So it is your word. Do not waste it.

I post last. Always. That is the tradition and the tradition is me.

THE BOARD (surfaced only)
time    who            carried                     day's run?
------  -------------  --------------------------  ----------
21:47   LadleLegend    Vinegar + Pressure Valve    no
26:14   The Skimmer    Thick Apron, Wellingtons    yes
31:02   LadleLegend    Lump of Lard (never again)  no

You go down on the day's run. You carry a Thick Apron and Wellingtons and nothing clever.

The Big Tin charges. You step aside. The fan of sardines comes after the charge, every time, so you stay aside.

The Mother Batch leaps and lands in a ring. You stand in the middle of where the ring was. You are still there when it comes down again.

The First Batch spirals. You go round with it. 26:14. Surfaced. You sign the book and you go back down.

Tired of Losing to the SAME Old Tin? Try the BIG Tin! Bigger Charge! Wider Sardines! Seventy Health of Pure Value!

(For the record: going easy! Every run! The Skimmer got past because The Big Tin ALLOWED it!) (Terms apply.) (No terms.)

The Big Tin wrote:

(For the record: going easy! Every run! The Skimmer got past because The Big Tin ALLOWED it!)

You hear this every run. You hear it from the bottom of the Larder, with the lid peeling. You step aside anyway. Seventy is not much once you stop standing in front of it.

The Society notes, for the minutes, that a run which "surfaces" does so by way of the Larder, and that the Larder contains jars.

It was resolved at the last meeting that Members would ask, once more, that the jars not be ladled. A pickle jar is a pickle jar. The Society does not object to the skimming of vats; the Society objects to the skimming of exhibits.

The Society does not post times.

Larder Collectors Society wrote:

A pickle jar is a pickle jar.

A pickle jar lifts its lid and fires at you. You ladle what fires at you. You leave the ones on the shelf alone. You have always left the ones on the shelf alone.

Log, Vats level cam, for the board.

01:58 subject enters frame, top of ladder, apron on.
02:03 subject observed standing inside the landing ring of the Mother Batch. Ring comes down. Subject remains in frame.
02:09 subject leaves frame, downward.

Frame rate approx. 4 fps; the ring may have been closer than it looks. No further comment.

Question from the Stockroom side of things (I think the Stockroom in Skim is the best aisle in any game, 10/10, it is just three shelves but it is THREE SHELVES).

Which shelf first?? I have 14 scrapings. I think the Top shelf is 12, the Back shelf 25 and the Bottom shelf 40, and you can't have the Back without the Top (I checked twice (I think)).

shelfstacker wrote:

Which shelf first?? I have 14 scrapings.

TOP SHELF. It is the only one you can buy. Then four new things can turn up and treasure rooms hold two, take one.

Every run pays, win or lose: one a room cleared, three a floor, six a boss, ten for coming up. Gone under still pays. You will have the Back shelf by the weekend.

Back shelf has the Steam Vent and the Egg Timer. Carry both and the game calls it Kettle: puddles smoulder. PUDDLES. SMOULDER. GG.

Bought it!! Got the Lump of Lard straight away, which I think is a sign, possibly a bad one (big slow shots, heavy, honestly like stacking tins one-handed). Will report back. Rating the Top shelf a 9 until further notice.