Treasure Quest: The Key Gallery
by eli
Here you will find a memory and a riddle of each key that has appeared in your vision.
Agamemnon slew the beast; I saw the villain fall.
He swept me up upon his mount and took me to his hall.
I learned the ways of King and Court, was poised to take the throne;
My "friends" refused to let me choose this dad above my own.
Athenians in modern Greece have something for your shelf;
It's half about a brilliant man, and half about itself.
Comics help you find the way, but only when misspelled
Rustle up this complex set of theories built and felled.
Before Walter was Wendy, Rachel helped to make a disc,
with tech not so well-tempered, every take was quite a risk.
They took the work of JSB and Robert's Keys and Tools;
then switched it on, and laid it down. The output simply RULES.
There's a fiction author who writes Scifi with an M.
In his books, there's nothing scarce, yet each is quite the gem.
Twice he took a title from TS's Poetry;
Look within the Waste Land and you'll find what holds this key.
It's 1958. A Muncie boy, fresh-faced and bright,
walks right into the mailroom, under Waring's final flight.
The board thinks he's a patsy, and they plot their tiny bids,
But he's got something up his rolled-up sleeve, you know, for kids!
For one young boy in Mabase, another made-up place,
Love, she rides a Vespa and a Rickenbacker bass.
Chase the Mighty Pirate King, who knows where he might be;
Listen to The Pillows' sounds and seek the Iron Key!
To make its nature clearer to you, you who live in space:
if there were one dimension less, it'd be a different place.
It's by another A2, one of Queen Victoria's reign,
Find this book, but handle gently... lest you break your brain.
Once upon a time there was a boy without a stitch;
depending on the legend, he was poor, or he was rich.
The legends say the boy endeared himself to a whole nation,
by simply saying what he thought of war, through micturation.
The end is nigh! The FINAL KEY is all you have to claim;
A clue is at the end of the beginning of this game.
The Keys, the Gates, the codes, the points; they all come from a book;
If you're averse to spoilers then perhaps you shouldn't look.