Weekender: A Creepy Awful Orphanage & Kickin’ Ass In Rambo: The Board Game!
February 10, 2018 by warzan
We get stuck into another Weekender, the best couple of hours you'll spend learning about the tabletop gaming world!
Weekender Podcast Download
There are a few interviews for you to get stuck into today about some ace projects plus plenty more for you to sink your teeth into.
Warren Meets Mat - Battle Kiwi Terrain
First off we're checking out one of the mats from Deep Cut Studio which we've adorned with some of the amazing Battle Kiwi terrain which just so happens to be ace for some Star Wars gaming!
It would be wrong of us not to mention the awesome trees that you can get from 4Ground too which help add another layer of character to this table set-up.
Make sure to grab a Backstage Free Trial and check out John's Star Wars: Legion Table Build Series.
News
We get stuck into some of the news from this week...
- Chronicle X Renders - Check out what's new from the Archon Studio team.
- Stuffed Fables - We take a peek inside the box for the new Plaid Hat board game.
- 'Nam Rulebook Coming Soon - Battlefront takes us back into the jungle. Check out Oriskany's Article Series!
- Ream Beam's Funland - Some ace new MDF terrain which could be used in all manner of games.
- Awful Orphanage - We take a peek at one of the board layouts for this upcoming Kickstarter project.
What caught your eye from this week's selection?
Inside The Awful Orphanage
We talk with the team from Workhouse Games about their upcoming project, The Awful Orphanage. This game seems like it ticks all of the boxes for a great night in with friends...who you will promptly stab in the back.
Will you be keeping an eye out for more on this game?
Blackwater Gulch
We were lucky enough to get a look at some awesome new models for the 2nd Edition of Blackwater Gulch, now available over on their webstore...
...and this also gave way to a preview of a Kickstarter starting next week, Tuesday 13th 12:00 EST. This brings with it new monsters and creepy characters.
Kickstarter
We have two Kickstarters to look at today, the first of which is Rambo: The Board Game. We were lucky enough to get an interview with Everything Epic Games about the project which has a few days left.
Check out the Let's Play too!
As well as that we reckon you should check out Lighting & Bolt, a great asymmetrical board game for parents and their kids (and big kids of course) to get stuck into.
Competition - Win A Khador Colossal
We have the winners of the Mythos Competition to announce. So, if you hear your name make sure to Claim Your Prize!
You can also win yourself a Khador Colossal which makes either the Conquest or the Victor. All you have to do is Create Your Weirdest Steampunk Invention and drop it into the comments below.
Have a great weekend!
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Happy Weekend to All!
Happy weekend @longshotte
Happy weekend – at last feel like one of those weeks
Great news @rasmus hope it continues in that trajectory mate!
a star wars themed week sounds fantastic, can’t wait to see that. The Battle Kiwi terrain is absolutely lovely the sheer amount of modularity it gives looks really impressive I never backed it but it’s definitely on my wish list.
I had missed it too mate but it is lovely stuff.
I subscribed to beasts of war, saw the kickstarter this week, saw the endor items from battle kiwi and the rest is history. If it wasn’t fir beats of war, I’d have missed it. Morale of the story, subscribe to beasts backstage pass
Happy Weekend – My steampunk creation would be a paint rack. It would be a giant boiler and gear system, make a ton of noise and smoke just to shake all my paint pots at once for a few seconds. Id set it to a timing mechanism to do this twice day, just to keep my paints well mixed for eternity.
Ha ha fabulous as it’s actually useful!!!
Any contraption I would make would just have a primary use of striking fear into @dignity – which although good for my soul it has limited benefit for the rest of humanity 😉
“Star Wars is a state of mind” – @warzan 2018
🙂
lol one for a TShirt or headstone eh? Lol
Try telling the psyciatrist that as the orderlies tie the jacket arms behind your back!
lol
Oh my jahjah! Thanks for the feature on my BK terrain guys! So stoked, sitting here watching while working away on another weekend and this makes it all worth while. I mean once you’ve been in a Warren meets mat segment, what’s left to achieve?! Right enough grinning like a nutter, back to the show 😀
Any hints on what you might create next?? 🙂
Just need to scroll through this ridiculously long list of ‘gotta make that!’ while blindfolded and point the finger! Special requests may be entertained ; )
Send me the list and I’ll have my chubby (I mean muscle-bound) finger at the perfect next step 😉
Sounds like a plan, get that Rambo finger flexing!
I just had to hit pause on the Star Wars intro song, I couldn’t stop laughing 😀
Really looking forward to Legion! ^^
Star Wars doesn’t do guard rails. Remember the Death Star.
If you’re not in a sense of danger at all times you’re not prepared for war.
I can verify this from my own experience from being deployed. But you can’t stay that wound up all the time,and have to find a way to go about your business normally. Which is why High School is such a good training experience for working in a Death Star. 😉 😉 😛
Or robot chicken doing star wars.
It’s the Weekend!!
…and the film licenses keep coming. I’m not sayi g it about any particular games this week, but…
Have you ever been given a present to unwrap, you open it in front of your family and inside there’s a box of …
“You always keep going on about that film and how much you like it!” pipes up someone.
You try not to show too much disappointment on your face as you begin to reply, “Yes, but…”
Your voice trails off knowing that someone has really tried and you’re already thinking ‘do they have the receipt? Let’s hope they don’t want me to crack it open now!’
Sometimes the license isn’t everything… we’ve all been there with the T-shirts, the video-games, the box of dubious origins.
That Endor table looks legionary… sorry… I mean legendary!
It’s awesome
Woo-hoo… Saga 2 books just arrived in Saturday Post. The weekend’s looking up!
(Separate Saga2 forum thread just opened for more thoughts and discussion)
No podcast link?
Should be fixed now @nekomata thanks for the heads up
I wonder if people dissected and over analysed the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials back in the 30’s like they do today with films and TV shows?
Part of me thinks (or perhaps hopes) folks had more worthwhile things to do back then.
I’m not against the whole is it a worthwhile watch or not type critique but dear me some of the insane levels pieces of entertainment are being held to these days are mind boggling lol
Loved the show as ever, the site, and the community, but I have to disagree on this point.
I wrote most of this on a backstage post before, but the sentiment applies here. I’m a bit uncomfortable with what appears to be, a tiny bit of malice against people just for engaging in a past time they enjoy.
I do want to say I am a big fan of critique as fun, and as a thoughtful way to imagine how things might have been better and might be better in the future.
I think it was an episode of Frasier where Frasier posed the key question to his brother
“What is better than a perfect meal?”
to which the correct answer is of course…
“A perfect meal with one tiny flaw we can pick at all night”
A sentiment I have a lot of sympathy for. I love Star Wars, I’m a big fan of all the current Disney Canon, and I even liked quite a bit of the prequels. I think it’s also ok to break them down, look at the flaws and discuss them. Not to be nasty or derogatory about the creators (as much as it is possible to criticise and not do so). I am sure they worked hard, and thought about a lot of different things to try and get it right, and sometimes they made mistakes or made decisions I disagree with. It doesn’t mean they didn’t care about trying to get it right, or that they love Star Wars any less than I do.
I will say there is objective and subjective criticism. Insofar as I think it’s hard to argue that the majority of Star Wars films showed pretty amazing special effects for their day and age in all cases. I think that is objective, and reasonable to say. I would say from a special effects, dialogue, plot, acting and cinematography standpoint, Rogue One might be in those terms, the best star wars film ever made. However, subjectively I would say I don’t like it so much, because I love lightsabres the force and the Jedi, and it featured very little of that.
I think that is ok too. I guess I am trying to say, don’t hate people for pointing out what they would have done differently or improved about a film, but equally, don’t hate people who like it as well. Live and let live and all that 🙂
Two minuets in and I’m excited for star wars week also haha 😀
I apologise for the noob question but what’s behind not saying the word ” Legion ” ? It’s been on pre-order for an age, it’s not like we don’t know it’s on it’s way.
I can neither confirm or deny anything mate.
(Cough Disney Cough)
Ahhh, i completely understand sir 😉 .
Stempunk invention:
an extension onto the porch that requires visitors to enter before they pull the doorbell cord. This closes the entrance doors behind them, of course anyone with the correct token can use that to gain full entry. Anyone else you may now assess whether they are welcome or not, either through the talking tubes near where you tend to usually be disturbed from or through the hatch on the inner door.
Welcome guests can then be granted remote entry to the vestibule, couriers have hatches to deposit their consignment safely and released… but door to door salespeople and religion peddlers (who have ignored various warnings outside) are remotely plunged into the acid tank beneath to be dissolved before disposal.
Coal fired freezer.
Looking forward to Star Wars week.
As for the dissecting people, I don´t give a damn. Let them disect. Vivisect. I laugh at them. For instance, a few days ago I read The Walking Dead TV series wasn´t any more what it used to be, now it´s more like some sort of “Coronation Street” with zombies. 🙂
My steampunk device will be a semi-metallic mimetic schinkenbrotmaschine. That´ll be useful.
Thanks for the week-ender, great show as always.
Clockwork Gravedigger
(And part time henchman)
An building full of kids run by a sadist called Prendergast. Did one of the Awful Orphanage lads go to my primary school?
Also steampunk arse-kicking machine. There’s a lot of people in this world need one right now (and possibly my next conversion idea).
Ohh man that one appeals to me sooo much lol
I am literally losing the ability to form words these days for fear of inadvertently offending someone 🙁
The weirdest Steampunk machine actually existed and was used to treat female ‘hysteria’
https://mashable.com/2015/02/20/history-of-vibrators/
@dignity I think your look quite dignified using this device mate 😉
Steampunk invention. ‘Auto Bedtime Stair Climbing Slippers’, for when those 13 steps feel more like 130.
If you fit a steampunk satnav with directions home from the pub to the breezemount I reckon we can add it as an add-on to the bootcamps this year 😉
@warzan 25th of May is the big day for the UK release of Solo.
George Lucas himself said in STAR WARS he did want to explain how the Falcon flew, he just wanted it to fly. all about the rule of cool in STAR WARS.
i was a little worried when i first heard they were going to make Solo, but just stuck it on the back burner and concentrated on the films that were to come before it. got to say i’m genuinely getting excited now though. i think it’s going to be a super cool and stylish STAR WARS movie. i meen come on, have you seen how cool Lando is. the sound track and casting should be all you need to know that this is going to be COOL DADDY O.
did you guys hear the news about there being two STAR WARS TV shows in the works. one of which is being done by the Game of Thrones team once they finish that project. they sould like kids in a sweet shop and are super excited.
25th of May is cool too! 🙂 Right around a day we celebrate as family day (it’s just the day Andrea and Myself met, but we call it family day and try to take the kids somewhere cool to celebrate us all being together)
How about combine the 2 things from the weekender? Steam Punk Star Wars? Steam powered AT-ATs, and lightsabers that vent occasionally and scald your hand if you aren’t careful (Cue lots of videos where every 3-4 swings, the Jedi whelps and blows on his fingers)? I’d watch a steampunk reskin of Star Wars.
Warren, while I can understand not wanting to put your kids on the internet, I think it could be interesting to build a show around your family playing Stuffed Fables and other family games.
That would be one I would have to talk over with Andrea (and the kids too lol) mate 🙂
Rodney’s “Watched it Played” YouTube channel worked well for many years with his Andrea and Luke (children) as his play mates. Not been the same since Andrea headed off to University.
I suspect Warren’s family might have a different… ‘charm’… compared to Rodney’s well brought up and well behaved offspring? 😉
You suspect right 😉 lol
Happy Weekend
Electromagnetic Strife Enhancomatic Network – why fight your enemies when you can make them fight themselves
An automated steampunk barbers chair with a cut throat razor built in. 100% guaranteed to give you a smile from ear to ear or your money back.
My Steampunk invention wold be
A Steam powered backpack with arm mounted power washer and te dispenser, that can also help with an impacted bowel
For the the weirdest Steampunk machine…
‘The multi Cat stroking, conveyor belt system. Now with added Purr amplifier.’
Happy Weekend.
I love the look of Stuffed Fabels. It may now have made it to my very long list of things I want.
I also love this weeks competition concept, so I have to put something forward as its Steampunk.
All I could think of at first was something penny farthing related, or Homers makeup shotgun from the simpsons.
But in the spirit of Steampunk and fine gentleman’s facial hair maintenance, I present the Mutton Manager: Built from the finest brass and shaped to perfectly fit the jaw line of ‘Gibfaced’ peasants, to strong jawed pugilists. Inside the shaped casing is 15 rotational steam powered razors, fully adjustable to different styles to provide the finest and closest cuts to shape facial fuzz to Mutton perfection. Perfection to make even the most skilled barber with a razor wonder how steam bested him.
Fitted with the handheld power oven and steam converter tube, this device can be taken on the move for those emergency chops, chop. Needing only two rocks of coal to power or alternatively 68 grams of orphan hair. The Mutton Manager is the perfect affordable gift, now with only a 22% casualty rating. Note; only cuts to the 7 styles of modern mutton. Only 8 pound and 6 shilling.
Coming soon; The breakfast farthing, cook your eggs whilst you work those legs.
Happy Weekend. An awful RL week, so gaming distractions are welcome!
A clockwork and steam powered automaton airbrush. Steam power to work the air compression and clockwork for the fine controls. Stoke up the boiler, wind it up and let it at your unpainted minis, but watch out for overpressure on the steam system causing the ‘wash’ function to go haywire and redecorate your house.
A fantastic funny show guys love the Star wars week the new games coming out all look great
will John’s AT-AT be attending the SW week?
A Electrostatic Generator at the top of the house that acts as a first defense against intruders that always bug me when I’m painting. It also has the very helpful use of zapping unwanted bugs in the yard during the summer months. It will also have a telescopic antenna for broadcasting mind controlling radio waves to create my own army of worker drones of my Neighbors Muhahahahahaha
Finally a chance to sit down, relax and enjoy the weekender. Happy belated weekend all.
Excitement is building in the household, Fabled Realms bootcamp means I get to fangirl around @warzan all weekend.
I think it is obvious that the spirit animals would be:
Sam – Hamster He is the Samster after all
Warren – Mastodon
Ben – The Cougar Badger (can’t be furious and sexy any other way)
Justin – The Great Bearded Roof Owl (wisdom, because when you’re right you’re right)
After the bit about making Sam watch classic movies, Justin got a very thoughtful look on his face and held it for about five seconds. I can’t help but think that he was thinking about a Beasts of War movie review series. Justin’s got a good idea going there.
@warzan –>> AT-AT at Endor next to a tall docking tower like from Battle Kiwi
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Regarding my Steampunk Contraption:
I want a car with 6 wheels up front and two large ones in the rear with front of end the shape of the old 50s streamliner diesel train engine and the rear of a 50s looking rocket with large bulging motors showing on the side and 3 pipes on each side for the exhaust with a 50 caliber gun torrent on top so I can shoot cars out of my way as I had a very frustrating commuting week to work this week I need a quicker way to get to work 🙂
I WON!!! I can’t believe I won!!! Now I have to decide which factions to pick.
@jamjarst – congrats to both you and @bothi ! 😀
WOOOOT? I won 😀 That’s awesome.
And yeah @jamjarst I’m in the same pickle. I’ll definatley go for the Hidden Ones. And definatley not for those Cryptos guys. Now I “just” have to decide between Priory and Wildborn. It’ll probablby be Priory for the full Lovecraft-Style. But damn I just can’t decide. First world problems I guess 😀
I picked The Wildborn and The Order of the Enlightened path in the end.
Greatest show ever 🙂 (view not biased at all), lol but seriously was a good one!
My invention. ..The Bathgroom. You too can own this wonder of modern science in your home. Bring this technical marvel and life enhancing ease to your daily routine. Simply step into the Bathgroom, pull the large lever to activate the paste applicator, then rotate the twin valve positioners to align the front facial arm. Open wide*, release the pressure switch and let the high velocity piston powered arm brush those teeth to a pearly white finish!** These stewm driven time demand a faster pace, and the Bathgroom will have you ready to meet and greet in less than a minute***!
But wait, there is more to Dr. Keewee’s miraculous marvel ladies and gentleman! Upgrade to the deluxe version and with a swift pull on the wax pourer 5000’s activation chain, followed by using the third valve positioner (in combined conjuction with the previous 2), the Bathgroom will have your moustache curled and pointed to perfection!****
Coming Soon- The Loafer Soaper extension upgrade arm!
*any misalignment or movement during use may cause death or disfigurement.
**may cause excessive gum bleeding.
***operation requires adjacent engine room to be stoked prior to use. Allow 2 hours to achieve full power.
****recommend first removing and cleaning brush between standard and deluxe Bathgroom operations.
My invention is the steam powered hat raiser for the gentleman that wishes to be able to raise his hat as a greeting even if his hands are full or otherwise engaged.
Happy weekend guys!
Oh yes, a Star Wars week 🙂 !
I’d go for a Steam-powered tea-pouring automaton. It’s heating up water anyway
Any chance you could start printing time codes for when each section starts? Helpful when time is limited.
For a steampunk invention, I would recreate the spider from Wild Wild West and use it to collect the letter from the mail box at the end of my driveway.
Steampunk Invention….
A toenail clipping machine,
But be aware of its aim,
A snip too far is fatal …
For a steam punk invention how about a wearable (attaches to your top hat) automatic nose picking machine.
Idea just popped into my head for some strange reason
Steam powered mechanical nostril opener and booger picker.
Curious – why are we forced to watch (the entire show?) in order to get the proper competition rules down and learn the winners? Can these things just not be posted in the body of the page article?
My steam punk invention would be a be a windup clockwork monocle with the optional wink unit neatly clipped onto my flying helmet. Nothing worse than operating your dirigible and losing the ability to wink at ones foe!
My steampunk invention would be miniature painting brushes. Completely impractical huge and unwieldy. Normal brush bristles that through the power of steam move up down akin to a electric toothbrush. I can imagine a normal sized brush with a huge contraption stuck on the top with a huge pipe leading to a power generator. Not so bad as a base coat brush but try one of them as a fine detail!
Hmm steampunk bizarre machine, has to be a smartie colour sorter.
Or keeping with the Motherlands need steampunk snowman maker
Obviously Harlequins would run the Grimdark Themepark. Monofilament candy floss anyone?
Everyone in BoW but Warren would become a were- corgi.
Warren of course, become a were- chow chow.
I’ve been playing Stuffed Fables with my daughter this weekend, and I absolutely love it. I am just as exited and thrilled about the story, as my daughter is. And just as invested in my stuffy (Lumpy, cause who doesn’t love a blue elephant) as my daughter is in Flops. The fact that she’s busy shooting rubber bands at creepy crawlies while I whack them with a wooden spoon, is just hilarious and utterly terrifying at the same time. Who would have thought I would be so afraid to loose my stuffing. @warzan You’re gonna love this game!
Forgot to say…Thanks for another great weekender…off to the XLBS 🙂
Steam pogo stick, build the pressure up higher you go
A steampunk swiss army ladder.
After giving it some thought I have come up with an idea though I don`t know how weird it is. My idea for a steampunk invention is a steam powered de-humidifier. For some reason I find the idea of a machine intended to pull moisture out of the air being steam powered being so pointless that its funny. It is just so counter-productive and I don`t think that it would work very well, and yet somehow i can see some “genius” being very proud of making it. Well anyway that`s the best idea I’ve got.
Only one problem with the endor setup on the mat was that the trees were tiny for 28mm Endor. Remember that the trees there are gigantic…they used the California Redwoods for the filming and others shown there are even bigger.
My steam punk contraption is called the Steam Punker. It is a mechanical humanoid with three arms. One carries a huge box full of coal. Another has a blow torch. And the third has a shovel.
Once you have got it running you can then direct it to keep all of your other steam fuelled contraptions going too.
Steampunk Invention
Mobile Steam-powered Challenge Maker – Basically a tripod mounted on wheels with a large boiler in the centre. This is attached to a wooden arm that has a spinning wheel mounted on it. On the wheels is a single metal hand pinching a leather glove. The boiler is attached via a tube system to a small metal box that houses the spinning mechanism. The user merely has to wheel the contraption close to the person he/she wished to offer the challenge to, spin the wheel to release the pent up steam along the tubing, which spins the wheels, thereby whirling the glove issuing said challenge 🙂
My steampunk invention is Prof. Fantom’s Phantastic Steam Powered Backscratcher/Chicken Cooker. Originally meant to be a Chickened Powered Backscratcher the addition of the steam had a unexpected consequence of flash steaming the chicken to a perfect temperature. Unfortunately it is a better Chicken cooker than Backscratcher. Prof. Fantom continues to refine the invention to one day finally get that pesky itch in the middle of his back.
For a weird steampunk invention how about an automatic kitten launcher. When you need a distraction to get away or to line up a perfect shot on your opponent it launches kittens that your opponent either has an irresistible urge to cuddle/stomp thus giving you those critical few seconds.
Great show as always,
Steam Punk Invention you say…. Weird or odd you say….
Well Ladies And Gents allow me to present to you the TopTrim!
A revolutionary device to ease your lives and be the item in your household even your neighbour John would be Jealous of; and Yes that neighbour John.
And what is the Toptrim you ask? Ahh how astute, how profound of you to ask!
Its our newest nearly portable Ear and Nose hair Trimmer!
Just imagine how impressed your family will be to watch you getting in style for the perfect evening out as this steam powered device whips you into finer shape than any amount of plucking or pulling could ever do.
And easy; Folks you just drop two. Not four, not three, pray not even 2 and a half! Simply 2, lumps of coal into our most efficient steam boiler yet, and this mechanized 5 jointed 42 horse power arm comes to life and seeks out your unwanted hairs! It will give them no mercy!
In only a 5 minute sitting or less you too can be clean as a whistle, even the dog will be in awe of your sheer trimmed finish! Nothing looks or feels the way the TopTrim does.
And Yes I know you all are saying but how its just this 5 jointed limb powered by a little of mother earths heartiest and most abundant resource? How can it get the job done in 5 minutes? Dare I even say Less!?!
Well folks each joint of this wonderful device contains a blade as sharp as to pierce the very toughest of leather, and with its sheer mobility and strength you will never know what hit you!
Allow me to demonstrate! My assistant here Peter shall get himself a lovely trim. Peter my boy would you kindly take a seat here in front of our machine. Of course folks pay no mind to the lads many facial scars I can assure you they are utterly unrelated to our marvelous device!
I want a steampunk organ. Not only with steam whistles, but with engines producing a nightmarish, grunting sound, that can be played through the keyboard. A bit like this ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oym7B7YidKs ), but with engines instead of floppydisk drives. And of course we need some steam driven generators in there, so we can combine it with a Tesla coil register ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbLshnfu0wY ). I just want to play it and feel like the ultimate villain.
Aside from that: yeah, I want this kit badly. I have a conversion idea for a Victor that will probably be the craziest conversion I have ever done.
And that’s saying something.
The first Rambo movie was filmed in a small town in British Columbia, Canada called Hope, so Rambo blows up Hope 🙂
Anything for Khador…
Ever heard of the manipulator? Look it up, it was steam-powered. If I was actually inventing a steampunk invention it would probably be a time machine so I could go back to the past and show them how solar powered technology worked… Solar-Punk! Happy weekend.
The ideal steampunk invention? The Silent Steampowered Mother-in-Law Broomstick Retaliator Catapult.
Bit of a shame though that the Rambo interviewer was a bit on the bland side for my tastes
Steam powered roomba.
Great show again!
Folks have way too much time on their hands when they sit and pick apart someone else’s hard work, (making a movie is hard work). It’s always easier to criticize than to create!
Are the new chairs the same design as the old chairs?
Steampunk invention……..Mechanical Duplicator – Tabletop Terrian Tree maker =stream powered unit that started with a full size tree and uses built in saws, drills, and carving knives to produce tiny trees for your tabletop games. Drawback is an incredibly large amount of wood shavings and splinters. But you can use the waist products to keep the boiler going to make more tiny trees from large trees!
Invention: Time slowing glass spiral – It’s a very long spiral of glass, and if you have it somewhere, you can see what happened in the past. It’s like a security camera, but it doesn’t need a recording device, you can just look into it to see the past happenings.
My Steampunk Invention is a steampowered coal shoveler automata.
My steam punk creation Was a endless me habical device that loads amo on autobelinda assault gun, btw it can Also feed a firework canon so just giving him a pull it Will do all the work, like the marblemachine piano, jaja.
my invention would be a security mechanism located in a huge clocktower the size of a skyscraper, in which to acess you have to go to the very top and go to the clock mechanism, where you are greeted by the deafening sound of gears grinding constantly, there is a space across the building and is 5 meter wide of space, if you looked down you would see a fall to the bottom of the building, so far that you cant really make up the distance by just looking, is basically a deathsentence to fall,
next to the opening of the catwalk, you can see a table with dials and that has a small hole to put something the size of a pocket clock, that would be the key, you would have to put the minute, second, and hour clockhands into a certain position and then insert it on the hole, that would make the clocktower system to make appear many wood planks slowly forming a path to cross to the other side of the clocktower, where something of great value could be hidden inside…