
Welcome to Suburban Adventure!

You are John Doe, the average child. You enjoy the things children like; television, candy, and adventure, and detest the things children detest; rules, school, and cooties. And today is the day you realize that there's a whole wide world outside your room for exploration!
Your namecard is a useful asset, one that every citizen of Verdant Valley gets. Embedded with a small microchip, it syncs with the chip in your head to show vital info. It accordians out to show a useful guide for the standard maps in place in the town;

You have no idea what an artifact is or why "corpse" is listed. As far as you're aware, Verdant Valley has neither.

You've recently moved from an apartment to a full-fledged house. Your room is on the second floor, and Dad's is on the first. So far your room lacks the comforts of your old one, and has moving boxes strewn about. There's an exclamation-point marked yellow box containing your belongings, and the staircase down is to your right. What do you do, adventurer?