Obscurity Portal

iwgh - [Chat room and the Spell System]

lverona — 2025-03-03T07:45:56-04:00

I WANNA GO HOME Club I WANNA GO HOME Club or simply IWGH is an early Louigi Verona project, initially intended as playful commentary on the challenges of office work. With time the project grew into a sophisticated online text adventure, with puzzles, quests, an inventory of items, companion creatures and much more.

bolmes_platformer

lverona — 2025-02-22T14:45:55-04:00

The Adventures of Merlock Bolmes: THE MYSTERY AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE The Adventures of Merlock Bolmes: THE MYSTERY AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE is a platformer game based on an unpublished and possibly unwritten story of the same title. It is tedium class and may be considered one of the geekiest platformers ever created.

ken_stewart

lverona — 2025-02-21T18:28:12-04:00

Ken Stewart Ken Stewart is an investigative journalist who made his name covering the life of Bart Hufnagel. He was famously killed by a fork thrown out of Hufnagel's office on top of the Timewatch skyscraper. After a prolonged and much publicized investigation, many people were charged with the murder, but most notably the fork, which is currently incarcerated in a cupboard drawer somewhere.

fish_tomato_hustle - created

lverona — 2025-02-21T18:22:31-04:00

Fish Tomato Hustle The fish tomato hustle was an unproven scam perpetrated by Bart Hufnagel, where for a modest sum of $99 per month customers could order a box of fish tomatoes to their house. According to multiple accounts, none of the tomatoes tasted like fish. Hufnagel claimed that it is possible that some normal tomatoes could be part of the bundle. After a number of reviewers demonstrated that none of the boxes they'd received contained fish tomatoes, Hufnagel said that actually he meant…

fish_tomato

lverona — 2025-02-21T18:13:34-04:00

Fish tomato Fish tomato is a type of tomato that looks like a perfectly normal tomato, but tastes like fish. Such specimens are extremely rare, although there is not much demand for them anyway. (In)famously, fish tomatoes are liked by Bart Hufnagel. He also claims that he grows them on trees, although tomato plants are clearly vines. This became the core claim of Hufnagel's

bookology

lverona — 2025-02-21T18:09:39-04:00

Bookology Bookology is a discipline that studies the strange and obscure books authored by Louigi Verona. The books include not only actually written works, but also a list of unwritten novels. Fictional books are books that are referenced as finished books in works of fiction by Louigi, including on the pages of the Obscurity Portal itself.

incremental_fortress

lverona — 2025-02-21T12:25:41-04:00

Incremental Fortress Incremental Fortress is an obscure game developed by Louigi Verona and then played by who knows how many people. First public release was of version 0.3 on February 13, 2023, followed by version 0.4 and later a major release of version 0.5 on August 17, 2023. The game received mixed to negative reactions. Players disliked the messenger mechanic, as well as the Volcano Breathers mechanic with their reliance on the passage of real time.

general_public

lverona — 2025-02-21T10:45:24-04:00

General Public General public is anyone who has not read the Obscurity Portal. Members of the general public are not eligible for Obscurity Titles, and are rated at Level 0.

forgive_my_insistence_but_i_will_joke

lverona — 2025-02-21T10:44:49-04:00

Forgive My Insistence, But I Will Joke Forgive My Insistence, But I Will Joke is an unwritten collection of Louigi Verona jokes that he agreed not to publish after being sued by the Words Preservation Foundation. The book includes such distinguished jokes as: * Do you know what I'm thinking?

unwritten_novels

lverona — 2025-02-21T10:43:25-04:00

Unwritten books Unwritten books is a reference to a large and potentially infinite body of literature that has not been written, but has been somewhat referenced. Typically, an “unwritten novel” is voiced as an idea to be implemented in the future. Many such unwritten novels never see the light of day.

jar_and_donkey

lverona — 2025-02-21T10:08:54-04:00

Jar and Donkey Jar and Donkey is a pub in Alaska. It was first featured in a short story How People Become Gold Miners, and later appeared to be the location for monthly meetings of the Trousers Suppliers Guild. The pub is known for its miraculous ability to fit crowds of people in what seems to be very cramped space, as well as the ability to take oral requests, even if it means expending substantial resources in order to fulfill guests' wishes.

simplest_quest

lverona — 2025-02-21T09:08:13-04:00

World's Simplest Quest World's Simplest Quest is a party gag, invented by Louigi Verona. The game-master approaches a person and gives them a card, asking them to read it out loud. The card says: “World's Simplest Quest. Find a card with an Elephant.

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lverona — 2025-02-20T18:10:37-04:00

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lverona — 2025-02-20T16:17:37-04:00

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lverona — 2025-02-20T16:17:14-04:00

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lverona — 2025-02-20T16:15:22-04:00

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lverona — 2021-02-28T18:16:33-04:00

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lverona — 2021-02-28T18:16:33-04:00

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lverona — 2021-02-28T18:16:33-04:00

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lverona — 2021-02-28T18:16:33-04:00