Mon, May 27th 2024 12:43   Edited on Mon, May 27th 2024 12:44

Chapter 2: Corduroy

The Clue Crackers had a tough time parsing through this one. Unfortunately, it seems the red herring made everyone to turn this into a Lisa listing ritual. XD In the end, no one was actually familiar with the Lisa in question...  
could you please just stay put for once? wait or something for me instead of going? listen; I really care about you a lot. also, I kinda don't want to lose you. I will be sad unless I find you. most people don't think it really matters much. they think you could be replaced or forgotten. I could never ever ever ever forget you.  
-Lisa
  https://www.worldanvil.com/w/wordiwiki/a/hmm
 After a few clues and a prompt to line up the words in an eight-by-eight grid, Berrybrook/DreamCartographer finally indexed the first letters of each sequential word;   could
or
really
don't
unless
really
or
you


which spells out the word corduroy.   When entered into the password field, two videos were revealed: book readings of the original "Corduroy" story, and "A Pocket for Corduroy".   http://www.worldanvil.com/w/wordiwiki/a/hmm?passcode=corduroy  

  TL;DW?   These are children's books. In the first, a little girl named Lisa wanted to take home the adorable plush bear but was discouraged from doing so since he was missing a button on his overalls. At night, the bear comes to life in the department store, determined to roam the closed establishment in search of a button so that Lisa can come back and purchase him. After some misadventures and getting into trouble, he's found by the night guard and returned to his shelf, albeit without a button. Nevertheless, Lisa visits again in the morning and uses her savings to buy him anyway. It is discovered she is a seamstress and sews on a new button without a problem once they are safely home.   In the second book, Lisa and her mother visit the laundromat with Corduroy in tow. Overhearing mom asking Lisa to empty her pockets before washing, Corduroy realizes he doesn't have a pocket on his overalls and goes out searching for a pretty material to make one. Soon, he is lost amongst the clothes. Lisa and her mom have left him behind, but a kindly artist offers to wash his overalls. After they come out of the machine nice and dry, the man sits Corduroy down and hopes that his owners return for him, noting he should have some sort of nametag. The bear is then left in the closed, dark establishment embarking on more misadventures before ending up in what he believes to be a cage. Scared, tired, and sad, he manages to fall asleep. Thankfully, in the morning, Lisa and her mom come back to collect him. Lisa makes sure to create a cute purple pocket for the bear, putting in a card with his name on it.  

Chapter 2: Corduroy

  For this looser prompt, write anything about any of your characters that any of the events of this story spur you to. Take this as free inspiration, noting at the beginning of the piece which incident in the book the work you write was drawn from.   Feel free to write your story in first, second, or third person, past, present, or even future tense. Adhering to the prompt however you see fit, please stay within the PG-13 realm, adding spoiler tags and trigger warnings where applicable.   Though stories are not officially being judged, please check out the Feedback Shuffle on Discord if you would like to get critique on your entries. And, for these purposes, I advise you keep your entries around 300 to 500 words. (1,000 words, at most). THESE ARE NOT HARD LIMITS.   Feel free to write in a Google doc, WorldAnvil article, WorldAnvil Forums post, or just in your character's bunkers on Discord. However you want to do it. When done, post the link below so that everyone can know you entered this Chapter.   God bless and much success!
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