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An escape-room game inside an MMORPG?????

I seriously thought this was just going to be a basic side quest, but Mabinogi Mobile’s “Dreaming Inn” had me using my brain way longer than expected!!

At first, when I saw the quest name “Dreaming Inn,” I figured it’d just be a simple NPC errand and jumped in pretty casually~ 

but the further I got, the more I was like, “Wait... this is way more fun than I expected?”

It started off normal, but...

Once you pick up the quest, the inn NPC Flora asks you this:

“It has to be somewhere inside the inn... Could you help me look for it?”

And then suddenly it turns into a detective game?!

The NPC dialogue isn’t just flavor text!

While checking the rooms, I found a note.

“Big sis Flora, I put the scissors I borrowed in the wooden box next to the fireplace. Thanks as always.”

At first I really thought it was just ordinary everyday dialogue.

But nope—it turned out to be a key clue for solving the puzzle.

I totally glossed over it at first and had to come back and check again...😂

And then, on top of that, a dial lock puzzle shows up.

It was a 4-digit password puzzle,

and this was not the kind of thing you could solve by randomly guessing—you had to search all around the inn and piece together the clues.

You had to pay close attention to what the NPCs were saying,

and check objects one by one to figure out the numbers, so it felt completely different from a usual quest~!

And during the Dreaming Inn quest, puzzles like this pop up several times, so you really have to focus, focus, and focus again on every clue~

It definitely felt different from regular quests

Usually in MMORPG quests, you can just follow the path the game lays out for you and be done with it, right?

But the Dreaming Inn quest was the kind where you have to look around and think for yourself to keep progressing.

So instead of feeling like I was just following auto-progression,

“Could this be a clue too?”

“Should I check over here too?”

I naturally got more and more immersed.

By the time I finished it, it honestly felt less like I’d cleared one quest and more like I’d beaten a whole puzzle game.

And on top of that, the quest completion reward is seriously!!

This music box!!!! It’s so ridiculously cute, and playing a song you like on it is just pure healing~~

It was such a memorable quest that it genuinely made me hope they add more deduction-style quests like this in the future~